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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: In any event he is not here so I will not pursue the question of his shareholding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Barrington for his frankness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: My colleague, Deputy O'Donnell asked Mr. Brogan about Stobart Air's plans in terms of Shannon. While it has pulled out of Shannon, what plans does it have, or does it envisage all roads leading to Dublin and all flights operating out of Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: All flights will be from Dublin to other regional airports.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: Does Mr. Brogan view Shannon as a regional airport?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: I do not wish to take away from Mr. Kavanagh’s happy announcement. He told us he would receive share options, which is standard in the airline business. I congratulate him on that. He is to receive share options that are only triggered by performance at some point in the future but if this deal goes through there will be no Aer Lingus shares traded in the future because it will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: Would they be shares in IAG?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: Starting from Mr. Kavanagh’s appointment as CEO-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: How can Mr. Kavanagh get options in shares that will not exist if this deal goes through?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: It could be to Mr. Kavanagh’s financial detriment. That would tell an interesting story but I am just asking.
- Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: I welcome the Minister's commitment on the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012. It is considerably more than I managed to obtain earlier this month from the Department of Justice and Equality. To help persons with intellectual disabilities is a key plank of the Government's policy and the Assisted Decision-making (Capacity) Bill 2013 passed Second Stage and then disappeared into...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Safety (24 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: 616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider relaxing the regime with regard to L-plate drivers, to allow them to travel unaccompanied, within a 20 km radius of their residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7678/15]
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Michael McNamara: The Minister mentioned GLAS plus for people in hen harrier areas. Will people in designated areas be subject to the same maximum number of hectares on which they can claim as those who are not in designated areas? The Minister also said he had investigated putting it over €7,000 but had not received permission to do so. Could he clarify from whom, or from which institution? I...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Michael McNamara: Only if it is passed on to the farmers.
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: I might take more time to speak tomorrow but I will move the adjournment of the debate in two minutes. I commend the Minister on bringing the legislation before the House, not before time I suppose. Critics of the legislation are very worried about the effect it will have on the family or what they envisage a family to be. It is quite clear at this stage that what they envisage a family to...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation Office (26 Feb 2015)
Michael McNamara: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average length of time taken by the Valuation Office to issue a valuation certificate; if that time period has increased during the 31st Dáil; if this represents a satisfactory level of public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8508/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (3 Mar 2015)
Michael McNamara: 599. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated to the Lough Derg stimulus fund in 2014, 2015 and 2016; the funds allocated to local authorities in counties Clare, Galway and Tipperary in 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8890/15]
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2015: First Stage (5 Mar 2015)
Michael McNamara: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to define human life protected during pregnancy and to permit termination of pregnancy in situations where a foetus has a fatal abnormality such that it has no prospect of life after birth.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2015: First Stage (5 Mar 2015)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to seek leave to introduce this Bill. It is important to point out that it is difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile the views expressed by members of the Government on Second Stage of the Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013, which was introduced by Deputy Clare Daly, with the arguments...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2015: First Stage (5 Mar 2015)
Michael McNamara: These claims grow legs, the Bills become unconstitutional and suddenly they are killed off for reasons of political expediency in the name of unconstitutionality. That is a danger that we need-----