Results 681-700 of 2,770 for speaker:Bernard Allen
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: On a point of order, will the Chair investigate the situation wherein I cannot get information sought through a parliamentary question?
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: I raised the matter yesterday. I was told I could raise it on the adjournment. I was refused the adjournment. That is the answer I received yesterday.
- The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: While I welcome this debate, two hours is insufficient time to discuss the issue of undocumented Irish immigrants in the United States. My slot has suddenly been cut from 15 to seven minutes because of the level of demand to speak on the matter. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs earlier in the year I raised the treatment meted out to some undocumented Irish people when...
- Official Engagements. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his recent attendance at the UN World Summit in New York; if he will further report on the failure to reach agreement on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27215/05]
- Official Engagements. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: There was not a mention of the issue I raised in my question, namely, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the failure to reach agreement thereon. I offer my sympathy to the Minister because of the fact the summit was such a disappointment, despite his best efforts as a special envoy for Kofi Annan. The opportunity of a generation has been squandered because there was no...
- Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: The Minister is behaving like a political bootboy. I am surprised at him.
- Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: The Minister is acting like a political bootboy. He is supposed to be in the diplomatic area.
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans for the decentralisation of Development Cooperation Ireland; his views on the potential for disruption and loss of staff arising from these plans; his further views on the way in which decentralisation may impact upon the coordination or effectiveness of overseas development aid spending; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: If I am reading the Minister of State's figures properly the situation appears to have worsened since his last answer in June. He said then that 21 applications had been made from within the directorate to the Central Applications Facility, which indicated that about 17% of the staff had taken up the offer of decentralisation, which is a minuscule level. Now he says there are 26, but six of...
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: So the Minister of State does not know where he is going.
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: What about principal officers and senior officials?
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: Were they from within the directorate?
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: I read it from the Minister of State's reply on 2 June.
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: What about the principal officers and specialists?
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: Out of how many?
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: I ask the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, to give way as I have another question to ask.
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: Is any risk assessment being carried out as regards the move?
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: Will the Minister of State make the risk assessment available?
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: Will the risk assessment be made available?
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Bernard Allen: I am asking a simple question. Will the Minister of State make the risk assessment available?