Results 761-780 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Vehicle Registration Issues (15 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: 224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way a tractor owner, who imported a tractor from the UK seven years ago and used it only for off road purposes and now wishes to sell it or use it on the road, can regularise the situation if they do not have a tax book or an Irish registration. [43154/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Pension Provisions (15 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: 294. To ask the Minister for Defence the reason the monthly payment date for retired army personnel pension is being changed from the 20th of each month to the 30th over a five month period; and if he has given consideration to the affect this will have on bank transaction dates such as mortgage repayments and/or other direct debit payments and considering the age profile of many of these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (15 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: 402. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a decision on their appeal for a medical card; and if he will expedite the matter [43155/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: I welcome members and guests. I apologise on behalf of our Chairman, Deputy Doyle, who is otherwise engaged. I have also received apologies from Senators Ó Domhnaill and O'Neill. I remind members and witnesses to put their mobile telephones on silent, as they interfere with the technology here. I welcome the witnesses, here to discuss a report entitled Little Fish, Big Impact. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: Unfortunately, a vote has been called. We will suspend the meeting until after the vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: I welcome everyone back and apologise for the delay. I invite Dr. Pikitch to recommence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: Thank you, Dr. Pikitch. I call Deputy Pringle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: Dr. Pikitch, is it okay to take questions from a few members together?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (22 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the word "allegedly" or a word with a similar meaning was not used in the templates for the anti-bullying procedures for primary and post-primary schools in circular 0045/2013 and if the principle of being innocent until proven guilty has been ignored when drawing up this circular and associated templates; if schools have any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (22 Oct 2013)

Pat Deering: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of money allocated and the total amount drawn down for prefab replacements, new build, and upgrade, refurbishment and extension to Carlow schools, both primary and post-primary, on a school-by-school basis for 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [44564/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: 293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any short to medium term plans to provide an Educate Together secondary school in Carlow. [46109/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: 572. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will have a decision on their invalidity appeal; and if she will expedite an answer. [46943/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: 786. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will make the necessary resources available to provide a dedicated phone line in both the Tullow and Carlow 24 hour Garda Stations for use by the pinpoint text alert system set up by many concerned communities. [46293/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: I welcome Mr. Cormac Cunningham and Mr. Ruairí Cunningham. As a long-suffering liquid milk producer in the South - I was one of the 2,000 hard-pressed producers for a long time - I find today's debate very interesting. I would like to ask a couple of straightforward questions. How much money has Strathroy Dairy invested in its processing plant over the last ten years? What is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: The point I was getting at was that there has been ongoing serious investment in processing plants in the South. They are planning for the Harvest 2020 initiative, the ending of quotas and so on. There does not seem to be the same type of investment elsewhere, in Strathroy Dairy and other processing plants in the North, although perhaps I am wrong to say that. That would lead to a rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: I asked about the herd size of farmers supplying Strathroy Dairy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: Is it fair to say that Strathroy Dairy is dealing more with the factory-type farmer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: I use that phrase because of the size involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: I am not questioning the quality. There is no question about that. My point is that where there is scale size, the bigger numbers one has, the better one is able to take a knock, literally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Pat Deering: Would some retailers regularly use Strathroy milk as a loss leader?