Results 1,521-1,540 of 2,450 for speaker:Kevin O'Keeffe
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: On the disability issue, I read recently that the Porsche car manufacturer wanted to access to the Chinese market. Porsche is obviously an expensive car brand. The company remodelled the car by extending the wheel base by a couple of inches because our Chinese friends like to be chauffeur-driven.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I would not either, but I came across it and it is a fact. Mr. O'Leary and Mr. Murphy raised the issue of access for people with a disability. It is becoming a big thing. We are being quoted EU directives and so forth. Surely to God the bus manufacturers are complying with these requests and directives. We are told the French love this and love that, and are ahead of us. Do French bus...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Is there any bus yet in operation which provides for compatibility?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I know. What point is Mr. O'Leary making about the existing level of access to buses for people with a disability?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I know
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: It was about the new specification-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: That is double Dutch to me. I come from the country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The previous delegates received as much attention and we are just finishing up. The committee will request the NTA to extend the public consultation process period in order that more people will be able to access it. That is the big issue that has come from this engagement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I thank the Chairman for arranging this meeting. I welcome the Minister. He has not been sitting on his hands but more has to be done. Incentives are being provided but they are not good enough. The Minister said he will bring forward the EU payments again. The payments have been brought forward in the past couple of years. If right was right in accounting, farmers should expect a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Very big profits.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Go raibh maith agat. I welcome the Minister and Mr. McRedmond. I missed the start of the meeting. I hope I will not repeat some of the issues that were raised earlier. We all acknowledge that post offices have closed before this year, before last year and under previous regimes. I was picking my brain to recall the post offices in my own area that closed 20 years ago. Most of them were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Mr. McRedmond must finish replying to our questions first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: If there is a grocery shop and a post office in the one building, must there be two people on site or can one person operate both?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The question I asked then-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: It has an impact if my post office is closing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: It is a busy time. I know that.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Applications (7 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36065/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a development at a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [36179/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a development at a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [36180/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Sep 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a development at a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [36181/18]