Results 861-880 of 2,017 for speaker:Anthony Lawlor

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rationale for Sanctioning Energy Price Increases: Discussion with Commission for Energy Regulation (11 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I wish to table an amendment on Report Stage to make it illegal to tamper with odometers.

Topical Issue Debate: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (12 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for allowing me to raise this issue. I am disappointed that the Minister for Social Protection is not present. She is detained elsewhere. I welcomed her announcement of a couple of weeks ago to the effect that people who were in receipt of social welfare payments and wanted to work during the Christmas period would easily be able to resume those...

Topical Issue Debate: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (12 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome that the Minister is willing to meet with the individual, but it is not an individual in this case but a company that recruits individuals for jobs in various other companies. The recruitment company has a problem recruiting individuals for jobs in companies it has on its books. The problem is that people are scared because it takes them so long to get back on the live register...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (12 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 86. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he willl provide details of the number of Industrial Development Agency visits to a business park (details supplied) in County Kildare particularly bearing in mind that it is a large National Asset Management Agency managed land bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53478/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (12 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update regarding the roll out of broadband to rural areas in County Kildare; when it is proposed to have full broadband coverage in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53489/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (12 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the upgrading of the sewerage treatment plant in Osberstown, Naas, County Kildare. [53479/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Licence Applications (12 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details regarding the granting of restricted gun licences; the guidelines provided to members of An Garda Síochána in determining if a rifle is classified as an assault rifle and therefore requires a restricted licence; his views that stricter enforcement of target shooting being restricted to approved ranges is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (12 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details with regard to maintaining the funding of local authorities in counties with high road usage. [53457/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (12 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Department will co-fund, with Kildare County Council, the upgrade of a junction (details supplied) in County Kildare; if it is possible to build a roundabout at the junction instead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53458/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Directives (17 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 105. To ask the Taoiseach the number of EU directives related to his Department that have yet to be transposed into Irish law despite the deadline date having passed; when is it proposed that these directives will be transposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53688/13]

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome Deputy Catherine Murphy's Bill. When the Deputy and I sat on Kildare County Council we dealt with a variety of development plans, material contraventions and planning issues as part of our work. One of the few times we differed was when I spoke passionately against Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which I thought was a ridiculous provision. I was the only one of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (19 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the upgrading of Osberstown interchange, County Kildare; the availability of funding for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54138/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (19 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the proposed by-pass for Sallins, County Kildare; the availability of funding for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54137/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Landfill Sites (19 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: 211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's budgetary plans for 2014 regarding the Kerdiffstown landfill remediation project; the plans going forward with regard to the recommendations of the remedial options report published in July 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54830/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Discussion with Chairman Designate (19 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the witnesses. Mr. Ryan has been here several times before in his previous role. I agree with other speakers on the idea of linking up both Enterprise Ireland and the IDA. We have a huge dependence on FDI coming from the USA. The Far East now seems to be a major hub, with huge potential, yet we do not have any inward investment coming in from China. That is a huge potential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Discussion with Chairman Designate (19 Dec 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: What is Mr. Ryan's viewpoint with regard to coming from an inside position? Will he become - he will forgive the expression - a gamekeeper of the poachers?

Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Jan 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I thank the Minister for his remarks. In 2012, I spoke to him and his Department about this issue, which was brought to my attention by www.cartell.ie. The Minister was quite positive about the Private Members' legislation I put forward and told me at the time that he was not opposing it. I am one of the lucky ones in that, as a result of the Minister's amendment, one Private Members' Bill...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: 504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the review of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which was published on 30 July 2013, has the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency provided a stand-alone analysis of the shared ownership scheme, including identification of the main difficulties and recommendations for mitigating...

Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jan 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: This Bill has been in the offing since the Finance Bill 2011 and it is a redrafting of the original 2012 Bill. I appreciate the work undertaken by the Minister in this regard. I come from an area which has two of the biggest race tracks in the country. There are two training establishments up the road and a stud farm across the road from my home. People regularly walking their greyhounds...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Administration (16 Jan 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. I have had it tabled for a good few weeks and I really appreciate it. I am disappointed the Minister for Education and Skills is not here but I appreciate that the Minister for State, Deputy Cannon, is here so he will have some understanding of what I am trying to say. All the Deputies in the constituency of Kildare North have been...