Results 1,061-1,080 of 4,571 for speaker:Trevor Sargent
- Cabinet Committees. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: I hope the Ceann Comhairle will consider that my question is in order. To take 45 minutes to ask the Taoiseach when the committee last met is not a good use of parliamentary time. The limitations on party leaders or anyone else asking the Taoiseach a question are so strict that we are forced to ask questions about when the committee last met. I ask the Ceann Comhairle to bear in mind that we...
- Cabinet Committees. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: I also ask about equality as it relates to people with disabilities because 16% of the complaints made to the Equality Authority were from people with disability. Such facts indicate that the Cabinet committee on social inclusion and drugs needs to meet more regularly and needs to be more public and more effective in responding to these growing problems.
- Northern Ireland Issues. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in London with the DUP leader, the Rev. Ian Paisley on 15 June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21057/05]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in London with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, on 15 June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21058/05]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any recent discussion with the Alliance Party; when he next intends to have contacts with the Alliance Party; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22340/05]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's benchmarks on assessing any future IRA or loyalist paramilitary commitments or actions in terms of genuine progress in the peace process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22341/05]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: The joint communiqué contains a number of items, but the one with which I am concerned states the Irish Government raised its concerns regarding the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. Has the Taoiseach proceeded to discuss the possibility of a court case in the European Court of Human Rights with the Attorney General and what progress has been made in that regard? Does the Taoiseach have any...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach has not told anything like the full story in so far as investigations indicate. Does he believe in the basic wisdom that justice delayed is justice denied? On that basis will he explain to the House whether he finds it satisfactory that when the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy O'Donoghue, received the report of the Carty investigation, over nine...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: And the Government.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: The former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy O'Donoghue, told the House on 23 May 2001: "The investigation by Assistant Commissioner Carty was completed and presented to me and, in turn, to the DPP." The Minister implied that he had received the Carty report, not just Deputy Commissioner Conroy's synopsis of it, before passing it on. Even if it was only a synopsis, the...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: Legal advice of a political nature, I would argue, in terms of the Government. Not to ask for that is, in itself, an irresponsible lack of action. Does the Taoiseach not accept that on the back of that delay by the then Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, the Attorney General was involved in prosecuting criminal cases in which we now know the State to have been in the wrong? Is the Taoiseach not...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach should apologise.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: There was a delay.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, the fact that a large construction company, Glenman Corporation, which has Government contracts to build council houses in Ballymun, Fortunestown B and other places, has failed to meet its payment obligations to more than a dozen other companies which have...
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: The Ceann Comhairle will be aware that it is also standard practice to oppose the taking or lumping together of items as if they are of no consequence. He should take into account that the Green Party does not regard it as satisfactory to take No. 14, which has just come back from committee. This item is a significant defence motion which must be considered and our giving it the nod takes for...
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: The Green Party once again opposes the guillotining of the Disability Bill. It asks the Ceann Comhairle and the Government to have regard to the significant meeting that took place last night in Limerick and the ongoing strength of feeling around the country, not least because the Minister has indicated that he believes in the virtues of inequality. It is absolutely essential that we go back...
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: Is the Government contemplating any amendment to the prompt payments legislation?
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: The diplomatic relations and immunities amendment Bill is on the minds of people, particularly since the husband of Ingrid Betancourt, the presidential candidate in Colombia, is in the Public Gallery. She had been in captivity for over 40 months and is one of thousands in that situation.
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: Is that a matter on which the Government will allow statements? Will the legislation be published to allow us to debate such matters?
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (28 Jun 2005)
Trevor Sargent: Question 117: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the possibility that Ireland may be in breach of the habitats directive unless a comprehensive national hare survey is undertaken; and if, in the meantime, he will cease licensing the capture of wild hares for any purpose, including coursing. [17399/05]