Results 1,881-1,900 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Is that not a disgraceful situation over which the Minister presides? Some 400 post offices are still not automated. The Minister must know the fundamental role played by post offices in rural Ireland. As the Irish Farmers' Journal stated in a recent article, the Minister has written the post mortem for rural Ireland in his failure to protect the post office network. Is it not time he...

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: And a fishing Green Paper last Sunday.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: What about the passports and the money transfers? There was a package.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: There are other services. It is only one of many.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: That is because they are desperate. Some 600 post offices have closed.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has halved the number.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: That may have been the case in 1997 but the Minister needs to check the latest figures.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: That is not correct. They want to automate their operations but were not allowed to do so.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: That is the Minister's role.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: What is the number?

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: What is the Minister's strategy? He has talked for a long time but will not give us a number.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I did.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: What does the Minister consider the optimum number that would be economically viable? What is his strategy for the post office network? Those are my questions. He is the Minister responsible for postal services.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: If the Government is re-elected there will be no post offices left.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Having regard to the importance of developing our natural resources to the optimum and the equal importance of ensuring we retain or regain some degree of independence in the provision of a vital resource such as gas, what lessons have been learned in regard to the planning, preparation and implementation of an operation such as this? Will the Minister indicate what plans he has to change...

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister sounds like someone who expects we will have more significant gas and oil finds.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: He did not seem to have that view several months ago and was, in comparison, rather negative about the prospect. How will this process operate in terms of the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act and the functions of An Bord Pleanála? In regard to the revised pipeline route, will the companies go straight to An Bord Pleanála, under the provisions of that Act, in terms...

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister never told us.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: It was a secret.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance.