Results 14,681-14,700 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency: Motion (9 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: We will be there.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency: Motion (9 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy is very presumptuous.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency: Motion (9 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: He knows everything.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency: Motion (9 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: It is a five-year term.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency: Motion (9 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The Senator would never be partisan, would he?
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency: Motion (9 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: First, I thank Senator Whelan and his colleagues for this timely motion, as well as for their kind words on the work my Department has carried out over the past three years and which has been completed successfully. This praise of course must be shared more widely. I believe the links between environmentally-beneficial policies, sustainable growth and job creation are recognised centrally...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Library Services Provision (9 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The Public Library Strategy 2013-2017, entitled Opportunities for All, highlights the importance of library services and sets out the way forward for their continued delivery. Its recommendations include a review of the library service organisation and delivery in order to establish more effective and efficient public libraries in the context of local government reform and shared services. A...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Library Services Provision (9 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: Seeking efficiencies is not about a diminution of library services in County Leitrim. Let me give the fire service as an example. In Carlow-Kilkenny, Longford-Westmeath, Laois-Offaly or Sligo-Leitrim there is no need to have the higher paid echelons of staff structures in place. We want people to give a service to the general public on a day-to-day basis, we want to keep the services open...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (10 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The funding scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector aims to provide multi-annual funding to national organisations towards core costs associated with the provision of services. A new round of funding was advertised for applications earlier this year. I asked Pobal to undertake an assessment of the applications received, given that organisation's...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (10 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 119, 123 and 124 together. The funding scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector aims to provide multi-annual funding to national organisations towards core costs associated with the provision of services. A new round of funding was advertised for applications earlier this year. I asked Pobal to undertake an assessment...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (10 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The funding scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector aims to provide multi-annual funding to national organisations towards core costs associated with the provision of services. A new round of funding was advertised for applications earlier this year. I asked Pobal to undertake an assessment of the applications received, given that organisation's...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (10 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The funding scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector aims to provide multi-annual funding to national organisations towards core costs associated with the provision of services. A new round of funding was advertised for applications earlier this year. I asked Pobal to undertake an assessment of the applications received, given that organisation's...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (10 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: From 1 January 2014 to 4 July 2014, the latest date for which information is available, the appointments set out in the following table were made to the Boards of State Bodies under the aegis of my Department. Agency/Board Name of Appointee Date of Appointment An Bord Pleanála Mr. Conall Boland (Deputy Chairperson) 01/01/2014 (Reappointed) - Mr. Gerry Grimes 01/07/2014 (Reappointed)...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Statutory Instruments (10 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The information requested is set out in the following table. All Statutory Instruments are available to view on Statutory Instrument Title Reference (SI Number) Electoral Act 1992 (Section 165) Regulations 2014 S.I. No. 204 of 2014 Local Government Reform Act 2014 (Commencement Of Certain Provisions) (No. 3) Order 2014 S.I. No. 214 of 2014 Local Government Reform Act 2014 (2014...
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The purpose of the Bill before the House today is to provide that the Clerk Assistant of the Dáil will perform the functions of the Clerk of the Dáil under the electoral Acts whenever the post of Clerk of the Dáil is vacant or the Clerk is not available through illness, absence or other cause. The Bill provides likewise in...
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy will miss me.
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: There are a good few Northern accents around the place.
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: Surely it is good for democracy that the Government has a majority. Is that not democracy?
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: The people said "No" to the abolition of the Seanad.
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)
Phil Hogan: We will have 159 Independent Deputies next time.