Results 15,421-15,440 of 19,445 for speaker:Brian Cowen
- Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: The answer is yes.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: The Minister for Health and Children has responsibility for the implementation of the Misuse of Drugs Acts. The legislation being prepared at the moment will introduce controls similar to those recently introduced in the UK on a range of substances that are on sale in head shops. This secondary legislation will be brought forward as quickly as possible, and I will bring the point made by...
- Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I will find out. I do not know.
- Written Answers — Ministerial Orders: Ministerial Orders (16 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: No fees or charges are set down by me by way of Ministerial Order for the provision of goods or services to persons or businesses.
- Written Answers — Ministerial Orders: Ministerial Orders (16 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: No charges are levied by my Department or agencies under the aegis of my Department in respect of the provision of goods or services to persons or businesses.
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (16 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) is the only agency currently under the aegis of my Department. It is an umbrella body for i) the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), ii) the National Economic and Social Forum (NESF), and iii) the National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP). NESDO and its constituent bodies (the NESC, NESF and NCPP), have played...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: It may be news to Deputy Kenny that neither Governments nor State bodies can act unlawfully.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: The Government, as owner of DAA, is like any other shareholder in that it cannot direct a company in which it owns shares to breach a contract. To do so would amount to inducing a breach of contract and would be unlawful and render the Government liable to damages to Aer Lingus for all losses suffered. Let us put a few facts on the table.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: The licence agreement is a binding contractual agreement for which a competition was held. It was contracted in November. Ryanair did not compete to take the hangar which it contends will play such a part in creating these jobs. We can create the 300 jobs at Dublin Airport. Hangar three, which is similar to the one in Prestwick, is available. We can build a facility similar to the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: Hangar four, which can accommodate four narrow bodied aircraft at one time, is vacant. Hangar six is the 24,000 sq. m. facility held under licence by Aer Lingus, which requires it for its wide bodied aircraft.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: No other hangar in Dublin Airport can take wide bodied aircraft. All the other hangars can take the aircraft in question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: These are the facts. If 6,000 sq. m. is required at Prestwick to create half the jobs, as Ryanair outlined last week, is it too much too assume that a similar floor area would be suitable to create the remaining jobs here? Two hangars are available at present for this work. Given that hangars one and two were subject to negotiation between Ryanair and DAA, it is not a case of the airline...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: These are the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I make it clear that this Government is anxious to facilitate, in every way we possibly can, the provision of those jobs for Dublin Airport. Two hangars are available at present and we are prepared to build another one. However, hangar six, which is 24,000 sq. m. or four times the size of the facility in Prestwick, is under licence to another company. DAA has a commercial mandate and those...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I am sorry, but I have seen the licence agreement. The Deputy might not have seen it. Twenty four months notice has to be given, not 12.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: It was signed between the DAA and Aer Lingus because they are the parties to the agreement.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: Let us have the facts of the situation. The facts are as I have set them out.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: We want to deal with this matter. We want to proceed to work with Ryanair, but a landlord cannot eject a tenant where there is no breach of contract on the basis of a licensed agreement signed in November 2009.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: This is a serious matter.