Results 7,201-7,220 of 10,459 for speaker:Bertie Ahern
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: This legislation should be finalised and I will ask that it is brought back to the House.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The Bill is due this year.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: It will be brought forward this year.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: As the Deputy said, it fell off the wagon.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The Bill is due in the early part of this year, before the summer.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The summer ends on 1 August.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: As regards the Indecon report, I do not know the position. As far as I know, I have dealt with the other issue.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: As I understand the substantive issue, my officials talked to its legal representatives.
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: My Department has engaged the company concerned to undertake an independent analysis of the Irish Annuity Market. The analysis is being undertaken under the auspices of the Partnership Pensions Review Group which was established under the terms of Towards 2016. Following a public procurement process, involving use of the eTenders website and the notification of 9 companies, including 4 UK...
- Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The following statutory instruments were made by me and Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, in 2006: Statistics (National Employment Survey) Order, 2006. European Communities (Statistics) (National Employment Survey) Regulations, 2006. European Communities (Statistics) (Business Accounts Surveys) Regulations, 2006. Statistics (Business Accounts Surveys) Order, 2006. Statistics (Labour Costs...
- Written Answers — National Monuments: National Monuments (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The application in question is still under consideration in my Department. I expect that a decision will be made shortly.
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: While no consultants have been engaged, it is the case that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has been asked by the Government to develop a new comprehensive approach to public service review and to use this approach to assess the Irish Public Service. This approach will give us a holistic, system-wide assessment which includes a peer review element whereby...
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (6 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I travelled by commercial airline from Mumbai, India to London in January 2006 at the end of my official visit to India. This was the only commercial flight that I undertook in the course of my official duties in 2006.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: He is correcting the Deputy.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The Government is investing â¬10 million in Louth County Hospital in Dundalk, with two theatres and significant other facilities going in there. It is all very good for the patients and community in County Louth. There was no issue about 2002 and the Minister for Foreign Affairs was informing me of the fundraising committee set up two years ago. I acknowledge the â¬350,000 raised by the...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The CAT scanner will be operational next month.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I have no doubt the excellent report in this morning's newspaper will be repeated tomorrow with the same headline, giving the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: If we had not provided the â¬2 million for equipment or the â¬10 million for the new facilities, that would have been a reasonable argument. I acknowledge the work of the local fundraising committee that raised â¬350,000. Given that the Government paid fully for the CT scanner machine, the money raised has been used for ultrasound equipment. A CT scanner is a sophisticated and highly...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: If Deputies want to raise serious issues and are in any way interested in the patients in Dundalk, they should at least listen to the facts. If they are merely interested in playing tabloid headlines, that is all right too and there is no point in me answering. If Deputies want information for the people in County Louth, they should at least listen to the facts. The work was necessary. The...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Bertie Ahern: My colleagues on the Fianna Fáil backbenches are entitled, when they receive representations from interest groups, to report what those groups have said to them, and they did no more than that. They raised no criticism whatsoever of the Minister for Health and Children, me or the Minister for Finance, who outlined Government policy in this area. There is not a different viewpoint from the...