Results 761-780 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Older people are suffering this morning. The leader of the Labour Party asked a perfectly legitimate question to the Tánaiste on this bitterly cold morning.

Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is it intended to bring the Bord Gáis Éireann Bill and the Natural Gas Bill forward at an early date, given that we have heard alarming reports from the UK about its gas supplies for the coming winter? We are depending for 80% to 85% of our gas on imports. Is this a priority for the Government, given that the powers of the regulator almost certainly need to be strengthened?

Road Traffic Regulations. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, the Minister and the Minister of State for agreeing to allow me to substitute for Deputy Shortall who could not be in the House today. The Minister of State has said he is giving consideration to a regulation on statutory weight and maximum height. His predecessor, Deputy McDaid, told the Labour Party, in answer to a parliamentary question three or four...

Road Traffic Regulations. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Will the Minister of State ask the new director of traffic, and I presume there will be a new director of traffic, to bring this issue forward urgently?

Road Traffic Regulations. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I referred to the drawing up of regulations and that Deputy McDaid, the former Minister of State, said he would do so.

Road Traffic Regulations. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: What of our European colleagues?

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is it a fact that the 2003 strategic rail review set out four policy options for the development of rail freight? Is it also the case that throughout the time the Minister has been in the Department he steadfastly refused to set out which of the policy options he favours? Is it also a fact that less than 2.5% of the country's freight is transported by rail, even though rail freight is four...

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I asked five difficult questions.

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I am talking about the Minister.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: It is 25 years in Fianna Fáil language.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: God be with the days when we had Fianna Fáil Deputies from the west with some backbone.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Ministers of State, Deputies de Valera and Killeen, would run out on to the plinth and stand up for the region but now they have been silenced.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: They have been incarcerated in State cars.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister referred to the feasibility study in Transport 21 for important access routes to Shannon. When will that be completed?

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is there a timeframe for it?

Road Safety. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: What is the timeframe for the amendments? This is an unsatisfactory way to do business. Why did not the Minister not come up with a major safety authority Bill in the first instance? Why must this Government always introduce a Bill and then radically change it? In April, the Minister appointed a chief executive officer designate of what was then to be the driver testing standards authority....

Road Safety. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: We had asked for it before then as well.

Air Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is the Minister saying he will not undertake the economic impact assessment requested by my colleague, Deputy O'Sullivan, and instead will prepare a regional plan for the future in conjunction with the Departments of Arts, Sport and Tourism and Enterprise, Trade and Employment? Will that take into account the necessity to compensate for the jobs and business that may be lost following the...

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: How can the Minister know that?

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: How does the Minister know that? He does not seem to have a strategy. Is anyone looking at a situation where subsidies might be beneficial, given the overall cost benefit to the economy? How does the Minister know? He is simply shaking his head and saying it is not possible. After Christmas, the ports, which are part of the portfolio for which I have responsibility in the Labour Party, will...