Results 1,081-1,100 of 6,944 for speaker:Michael McNamara

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: I am largely in agreement with previous speakers, perhaps because of our common experience in developing the report on coastal communities and following our trip to Scotland, where we saw a fishing sector which had achieved the scale Bord Iascaigh Mhara would like to achieve but which also manages to sustain communities in a way that does not seem to be a priority for BIM. I am not from a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: The Commission's criticism was not of the structure or where the members come from but of the failure to deliver projects that provide employment in coastal areas. BIM can bring in whoever it wants from whatever community but it needs to deliver projects that create employment and sustainable development and there are very few of them along the Irish coastline.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: Is it done locally or in Ireland because they are two different things?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: While Donegal and Kerry are both in the Republic of Ireland Donegal is not local to Kerry in my understanding of local. If one is talking about developing or seeking to develop fish farms further in a particular area communities can legitimately ask why they were left out of this fish farm if it is going to be processed in another place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: I asked about temperature differences between Norway, Scotland and Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: That was not my question. I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: So, BIM has never been party to any meetings with any potential operators.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: At which the project was discussed.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (26 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how much revenue has been raised by speed checks up to 20 March 2015 at the Clare side of the Limerick Tunnel; how many traffic accidents took place in the Limerick Tunnel since it opened; if the speed checks comply with policing of traffic black spots; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12513/15]

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: How many public servants has Sinn Féin fired?

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: What is the Sinn Féin policy in the North?

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: How many public servants is Sinn Féin sacking?

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: As the Taoiseach may know, we have a disproportionately high level of cystic fibrosis in this country and everyone in this House or the wider society would know a family affected by cystic fibrosis. In the first half of 2012, the then Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, promised a health information Bill that would allow and regulate research into this and other diseases. He also promised a...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: Much of that has been provided by charities.

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: To pick up where Deputy Barry left off, with the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, the Government counter-motion stresses the fact the Government has no statutory role in setting interest rates. I believe this was stressed by the Minister last night, and I am sorry I was not present to hear him speak. Nor does the Minister really have any role with regard to the interest rates set...

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: It was always so. We have others who suggest that we do not need a banking sector at all and that we should go back to the Old Testament times of usury, where we bury our shekels, dig them up and find they are worth exactly the same amount of money a couple of hundred years later. I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for highlighting this issue. I wonder what solutions there are.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: The Government is now into its last year in office. Practically all of the reforms required of Ireland by EU-IMF bailout have been carried out, except those reforms which exclusively affect the most powerful in society, such as reform to increase the deterrent for corporate crime and reform of our legal profession. I accept that ordinary people in society are not in a position to bring...

Office of Fiscal Prosecution Bill 2015: First Stage (2 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: I move:That leave be granted to introduced a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of the Office of Fiscal Prosecution, to provide for the investigation and prosecution by the Office of Fiscal Prosecution of cases of certain offences and, for that purpose, to enable proceedings relating to such cases to be taken expeditiously, to provide for criminal and civil enforcement and...

Office of Fiscal Prosecution Bill 2015: First Stage (2 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: 531. To ask the Minister for Health if funding of €1 million for staff costs required to be met in order to open the new cystic fibrosis unit in University Hospital Limerick, which was built with funds raised by TLC4CF and other charities in the mid-west, will be provided in the 2016 Health Service Executive service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14292/15]