Results 15,461-15,480 of 19,445 for speaker:Brian Cowen
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: In the midst of a recession, we are doing everything necessary with or without the Opposition's support to make sure we get our public finances back in order, bring more competitiveness into the economy and see an export performance by this country that will get us back on the road to recovery.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: That is what we will do.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: With regard to the specific matter raised initially by Deputy Gilmore about SR Technics and hangar 6, a number of parties at the time SRT closed down - I said this yesterday - considered the proposal from the workers but it was not viable at the end of the day.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: It was not.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: There was a competition. Michael O'Leary and Ryanair for whatever reason, which is their own business, did not compete for the hangar, seek ownership of the hangar or seek a lease for it last September, even though they suggested they needed the hangar to go ahead with a heavy line maintenance operation. However, they never negotiated and they never contacted the DAA about that hangar....
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: That is the truth. If we are talking about getting the job done, we have hangars 3 and 4 to do the job. If Ryanair wants to build, as it has done at Prestwick Airport, we will do that as well and, therefore, it is not true to say we are indifferent to trying to protect or create jobs; quite the contrary. However, this or any Government cannot engage in breaking a licence agreement, for...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: These parties have made it clear that they require the property for this purpose. That is why they leased it.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: That is the situation. We must deal with the issue as it is rather than as others would like it to be. There are facilities available in Dublin Airport to do this job if there is a willingness on behalf of the promoter of the project to sit down and negotiate that through. That is what we can do. I agree with Deputy Gilmore jobs should be the issue. If that is the case, then alternative...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I have just explained to the Deputy three viable ways in which we are prepared to do it. The other party is saying it wants possession of a hangar in the leasehold interest of a rival company. I have explained how we can do this and how we should proceed but the suggestion by the Opposition is that we should forget about the law and it does not matter about agreements-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: Tear up the agreement. "You can do it" is the answer on the other side of the House.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: This is the sort of debate that people who care about jobs are supposed to take seriously.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: If I may proceed, a Cheann Comhairle-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I would like to continue. The Deputy has had three chances to make sense and he has not made sense yet.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: He has had three chances to make sense and he has not made sense yet.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: Whether he does it in a loud voice or a low one, the absence of content is obvious.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I have outlined to the House the means by which this problem can be solved. From what I am hearing in the supplementary questions, there is an acknowledgement that the Government is not in a position to break the law.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: It is not in a position to have bodies under its aegis induce a breach of contract.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: That is the situation.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: If people want to give an impression, as Deputy Kenny has tried to do, that it is only a matter of walking out to the airport-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: -----taking out Aer Lingus, putting in Ryanair and away we go, I am sorry, but the world is not like that.