Results 1,181-1,200 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: Two years.
- Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: Yes, that is a year and a half.
- Health and Safety Issues. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: That is not a fair comparison.
- Health and Safety Issues. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: The State has responsibility for inspecting and licensing mines.
- Health and Safety Issues. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: We posed this question previously and received the same reply in respect of it. A number of people sought legal advice on this matter in the interim and the answers provided to date, and repeated here, have been examined. The Mines and Quarries Act 1965 seems to clearly indicate a secondary liability issue in the context of the State, as licenser and inspector of the mines, having a duty of...
- Health and Safety Issues. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: I am not asking for a tribunal.
- Television Licence Fee. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: The Minister's initial response was unclear. Does he accept that if it costs more than â¬12 million to collect â¬200 million, the system is fundamentally flawed? Does he intend to continue to link the funding of public service broadcasting with the ownership of televisions? Does the Minister agree that the system whereby people have to go around the country knocking on people's doors,...
- Television Licence Fee. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: How much does it cost to collect that?
- Television Licence Fee. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: That is no reason.
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: This is a ministerial and Government commitment to have this completed and done by the end of this year. It will cost no money. It is about regulation and requiring all new buildings to have ducting in place to facilitate the kind of infrastructure we talked about earlier. Will this measure be completed by the end of the year?
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: This is the new utility. All new houses, as well as having water, power and sewerage, will have a new communications and entertainment infrastructure coming in and out. Would the Minister accept the industry has grown impatient with him and his Department regarding taking definite actions to facilitate competition and the roll-out of next-generation broadband? That the Minister has fudged...
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: That is no thanks to the Minister. It is demand led.
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: That is in spite of Government action.
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: Perhaps the Minister would itemise the Government action taken in this area. In my experience, industry people tell me they are rolling out broadband facilities and making investments, particularly in the mobile sector, but it is despite the lack of decision making on regulation or investment. One of the examples of that is that we spent â¬50 million on phase 2 of the metropolitan area...
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: How many of the 66 MANs are not lit up now in phase 2?
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: What has the Minister done?
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: They are all promises. That is the problem. The Minister has not delivered on any of them.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: The Deputy is referring to something that happened outside the House.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: On a point of informationââ
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Simon Coveney: On a point of order, I would like the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to ask the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, to withdraw the term fascist, which he used in the debate this eveningââ