Results 1,101-1,120 of 2,770 for speaker:Bernard Allen

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (30 Mar 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance the preparations which have taken place regarding a replacement for the national development plan; and the way in which the inputs will be cobbled into a coherent programme. [12524/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Mar 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the circumstances as to the way in which access to a building construction site through Health Service Executive land at Shanakiel, Cork has been granted to a building developer especially in view of concern for psychiatric patients who have to walk through what is now a road frequented by heavy...

Written Answers — Computerisation Programme: Computerisation Programme (30 Mar 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a full statement on the ongoing problems with the computer system in the tax offices here. [12685/06]

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will demand a United Nations investigation into the manner in which moneys set aside for reconstruction work in Iraq have been spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13298/06]

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: I asked if the Minister for Foreign Affairs would press for a UN investigation into the misappropriation of funds. Instead the Minister spent four minutes before addressing the misappropriation of 363 tonnes of 100 dollar bills imported into Iraq since the lifting of sanctions on 22 May 2003. There is a black hole of accountability in this matter with no monitoring of spending. The...

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Yet UN Resolution No. 1483 failed to do so.

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister says he is a great friend of President Bush and the US Administration, but has he asked the President where all the money has gone from Iraq? Where have the 363 tonnes of hundred dollar bills that were shipped to Iraq gone? There were enough banknotes to pay for the Pentagon four times over but where has that money gone? Will the Minister get real and accept that the...

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the contact being made with the US Administration on behalf of the undocumented Irish in the United States of America; the efforts being undertaken to urge support for key elements of the Kennedy-McCain Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13299/06]

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister spoke about consensus and reconciliation and I agree almost totally with his analysis that the Senate faces a major task in addressing the report of the judiciary committee. I fear, however, that it may get through the Senate before the Easter recess but the House of Representatives will be the main stumbling block. I hope what emerges from the process will reflect the efforts of...

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is engaging in the politics of desperation.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Self-praise is no praise.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: I know what it is all about.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister should not hide any other party's light.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister may be a political animal but there should be united purpose and the sort of rubbish that someone in the Department may have written and the Minister may not have seen——

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: It was ill-timed, ill-conceived and inappropriate. It has degraded the Minister and his Department.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister spoke about political patronage which is untrue.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: How many quangos has the Minister set up?

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister has changed the name of one body three times.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is engaging in the politics of desperation. He is a disgrace.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is rewriting My Fight for Irish Freedom.