Results 861-880 of 939 for speaker:Noel Treacy
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: We had to come into office to abolish the annuities and give fair play to the farmers.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: Fine Gael suspended the farm modernisation scheme.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: It then abolished the scheme.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: Fine Gael caused Irish farmers to lose a huge amount of money when it suspended the farm modernisation scheme.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: We had to come back into office and renegotiate it.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: Can the Chair protect my rights in this House?
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: I am telling the truth.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: When Fine Gael was in office, the super levy was challenged.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: Fine Gael told the farmers of Ireland that it was nervous about the situation. It agreed a super levy and imposed it on Irish farmers.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: It almost put the farmers out of business again. What did Fine Gael do the last time it was in office, with the Labour Party? It put a preservation order on this country's bogs. You denied farmers the right to cut turf. Now you are trying to change that again.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: They started it.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: I seek the protection of the Chair.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: That is one thing you never did, Paul.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: We are familiar with Deputy Connaughton's record.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: I am addressing the amendment to the motion. We have spent over â¬500 million on this scheme. It is unfair to mislead the farmers of this country by saying that the closing date for the scheme can be extended. It has been clearly negotiated by the Minister. It is impossible to change the closing date. We must make it clear that the scheme will terminate on 31 December. The cash will be...
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: We will continue to support our farming communities, which are the grass roots and the bedrock of rural Ireland.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: We have always supported them and we will continue to do so.
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Noel Treacy: I listened to a fair bit of it from Deputy Creed.
- Broadcasting Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2008)
Noel Treacy: Is cúis áthais dom é cuidiú leis an dÃospóireacht seo a leathnú arÃs. Mar a bhà á rá agam an lá cheana, is Bille an-tábhachtach é an Bille Craolacháin 2008. In reflecting on the broadcasting legislation before us, it is important to look back at the history of broadcasting in Ireland, its contribution to our community and whether we are being served by the State broadcasting...
- Broadcasting Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2008)
Noel Treacy: A Government representative is brought onto a panel on either radio or television where all the other panel members hold opposite views. That situation is distorting the balance. It is time for us as a Parliament to ensure that whatever we do we fulfil the constitutional duty of equality, fairness and balance in the interests of our citizens. That is very important. I remember going onto...