Results 821-840 of 5,939 for speaker:Frank Feighan
- Written Answers — Electricity Transmission: Electricity Transmission (19 Feb 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 698: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide assurances that a study (details supplied) will include all projects planned or in progress and that the ESB in future will have to submit costing for underground options as part of an environmental impact statement and that commission will be open to submissions from effected groups. [6841/08]
- Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2008)
Frank Feighan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2008. We have been waiting a long time for the Bill. To understand how immigration affects many people of diverse nationalities, it would be useful to consider the experience of the Irish diaspora. Every Member of this House has been affected by emigration. Since the famine, Irish people have emigrated to...
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (21 Feb 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for naturalisation on humanitarian grounds for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [7315/08]
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (21 Feb 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the proposed move of the Cental Fisheries Board to Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim will take place under the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7314/08]
- Broadband Services: Motion (26 Feb 2008)
Frank Feighan: I support this motion. Is the Minister satisfied that broadband penetration has been a success throughout the country? Broadband is three times slower but far more expensive here than in other EU states. I live three miles from the nearest centre and accessing broadband through a landline was costing me almost â¬200 per month. Eventually, I got mobile broadband and the cost is down to...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 Feb 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason school transport charges have increased for students in junior cycle from â¬33 to â¬46 per term and for students in senior cycle from â¬51 to â¬71 per term in the middle of the school year; if her attention has been drawn to the financial strain this is putting on many families; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 Feb 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason transport is not provided for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon despite the fact that assurances were given to parents in this region. [8657/08]
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (4 Mar 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will amend the law on the matter of theatre licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9056/08]
- Written Answers — Probation and Welfare Service: Probation and Welfare Service (4 Mar 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the budgetary allocation for the Probation and Welfare Service each year for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9051/08]
- Park and Ride Facilities. (6 Mar 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding available from his Department for the provision of park and ride facilities for commuters; the amount requested for such facilities each year to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9704/08]
- Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (13 Mar 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will clarify and develop his proposals for additional business sponsorship of the arts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10949/08]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Mar 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim who is an inpatient in St. Patrick's Hospital, Carrick-on-Shannon has not succeeded in getting transferred to a Health Service Executive home in Mohill despite the fact they are at the top of the waiting list since mid-2007. [11145/08]
- Written Answers — Rural Renewal Scheme: Rural Renewal Scheme (13 Mar 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 205: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason an inspection has not been carried out for a grant under the rural renewal scheme on the home of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11144/08]
- Unemployment Rate: Motion (2 Apr 2008)
Frank Feighan: I also commend this Private Members' motion to the House. The fact that the largest ever increases in the number of people on the live register were recorded in January and February of this year signals that a crisis is looming. The construction boom of the past seven or eight years has come to an end and that is causing great problems in rural areas. The live register figures would be...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure or give an undertaking to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon that their next appointment for surgery in St. James Hospital, gynaecology department will be kept. [11293/08]
- Written Answers — Rural Renewal Scheme: Rural Renewal Scheme (2 Apr 2008)
Frank Feighan: Question 941: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason an inspection has not been carried out for a grant under the rural renewal scheme on the home of persons (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11292/08]
- Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)
Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House and making a logical and informative speech. It can be difficult to get the message across, at local, national and European level, during referendum campaigns. I suppose that is the challenge we all face over the coming weeks. We will have to get the message across by transmitting the relevant facts without being seen to dictate to...
- Schools Building Projects. (9 Apr 2008)
Frank Feighan: That is not the answer to my question. I asked how many e-mails and letters the Department had received to date regarding the case of a new community post-primary school in Ballinamore, and if the Minister would make a statement on the matter. We all know what is happening to this school. Ballinamore has a problem in that there are three school buildings with students commuting along the...
- Schools Building Projects. (9 Apr 2008)
Frank Feighan: Will the Minister state on the record that this school will be delivered in the coming weeks under her new programme?
- Schools Building Projects. (9 Apr 2008)
Frank Feighan: We have been waiting for 20 years.