Results 1,121-1,140 of 10,962 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2010)
Timmy Dooley: At what cost?
- Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)
Timmy Dooley: The Deputy should go again this week.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)
Timmy Dooley: The Deputy should tell us where we would be.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)
Timmy Dooley: That is a sensitive issue.
- Civil Liability (Good Samaritans and Volunteers) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: I wish to share time with Deputies O'Connor, Cuffe, Blaney and Conlon.
- Civil Liability (Good Samaritans and Volunteers) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this Private Members' Bill which, as other speakers have indicated, seeks to implement recommendations brought forward by the Law Reform Commission. The focus of the Bill is the civil liability of good samaritans and volunteers. I understand it arises out of concerns that Deputies opposite, in particular Deputy Timmins, raised on a...
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: Members opposite would know all about that.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: The only farce is the Deputy.
- Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: That is outrageous; it is rubbish.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that this is a Labour Party initiative but it is recognised as an issue of fundamental importance by all sides. There is a difference of opinion about how to proceed. On the basis of legal advice provided, the Government has no choice but to vote against the proposal. However, there should be no misunderstanding of the concern that resides on this side of the House. We all know...
- General Practitioner Education. (10 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy John Moloney, to the House to give details of the Government's recent announcement to increase the number of general practitioner, GP, places in the medical school system, a long overdue decision. It is a correct decision to increase the level of training for GPs when finances are available at the earliest...
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: The Ceann Comhairle does not want an apology.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: They are the real issues.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: That is a first.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: Perception is what Fine Gael is good at.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. For a long time I have believed that tourism is a vital cog in the economy of the country. Now more than ever it can play a very significant role in the realisation and re-establishment of a level of economic activity in our country. It can be the stimulus for which we are crying out. It can be the capacity to attract foreign...
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: The reality is that over the past five to seven years we got extremely good at selling to ourselves in many respects within the economy and none more so than in tourism. An amount of short breaks are sold and marketed from one end of the country to the other to fill hotels developed on the basis of tax incentives, some of which I supported at the time. However, I must say that the focus is...
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: -----but it is losing money for the economy.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Breen is buying into this notion. He spoke about calling Michael O'Leary's bluff on the travel tax-----
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Timmy Dooley: -----and that he would return all of these services. However, Michael O'Leary clearly stated that instead of the 2 million passengers he would deliver 1.2 million passengers if the tax was removed and the charge he currently pays was reduced by half. At present he is paying very little and half of very little is next to nothing.