Results 1-20 of 45 for cowen speaker:Tommy Broughan

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Unfortunately for the Members opposite, the current Government's era, which has been the era of good time Charlie, Deputy Cowen and the Taoiseach, is coming to an end.

Order of Business (11 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Deputy Cowen is the Minister.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, can write in The Irish Times about this matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: As Deputy Cowen is not yet present, we will move to Question No. 2 and come back to No. 1.

Other Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I understand Deputy Cowen is taking Question No. 6.

Private Rented Accommodation (18 Oct 2011)

Tommy Broughan: During the lifetime of the previous Dáil, I asked two former Taoisigh, Mr. Brian Cowen and Mr. Bertie Ahern, to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate what happened at Priory Hall and elsewhere in the North Fringe district as a result of the use of building materials containing high levels of pyrite. Will the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government establish...

Maritime Safety Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: In the run-in from September to Christmas to the budget of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, will the Minister be prepared to support local authorities, such as the one in my constituency, Fingal County Council, that request funding to implement the by-laws in respect of certain craft? Will the Minister and the Department support them in administering that because we are talking about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Data (17 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: .... The Minister mentioned a number of sites in my constituency of Dublin Bay North. For years we asked the Government of which the Minister was a part, and the Government of which Deputy Cowen's party was a constituent part, for funding to build ordinary bricks and mortar houses on those sites but they would not give us the money. That is the reality. The production of homes by the...

Live Register. (14 May 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...has had an increase of 48% and Carlow has had an increase of 44%. Some of these places are in the constituencies of Fianna Fáil Ministers. These are astonishing figures in this downturn and the Cowen recession we are possibly entering. Does the Minister have any intention of undertaking strong locally targeted initiatives with FÁS in areas such as Portlaoise, Portarlington and the...

Public Transport. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...to employ staff. The new staff, particularly employees with less than one year's service, were caught when he reversed gear due to the lower passenger numbers, which owes to the recession, the Cowen depression or whatever we want to call it. Was the Minister not aware of what was occurring in recent years in both companies? Knowing is one of his statutory duties.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, made little reference to this yesterday. This may be the Government's last budget. On what is perhaps the key issue facing humanity, the need to secure and sustain energy supply, the Minister for Finance had little or nothing to say. The budget contributed nothing to the issues of energy policy and climate change; there was merely a sense of flat...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: ...Party refer to the necessity for more carbon taxes. Of course he was in government previously. He propped up two Fianna Fáil taoisigh for a lengthy period – I am referring to Mr. Ahern and Mr. Cowen. During that time we had a major energy poverty problem but we did not see it being addressed then. Yet he is calling for new impositions in terms of the carbon taxation. Such...

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (14 May 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...for 10% plus of their income and basic foodstuffs account for approximately 30% to 40% of it. Does the Minister not agree a dire situation is developing? We have, perhaps, just entered the Cowen recession where people are desperately trying to make ends meet. In my constituency, and probably in the Minister's, the Saturdays of May are ones on which young children make their first...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Second Stage. (22 Jun 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...energy awareness credentials and proactiveness in this area, although in his press statements and presentations he was mostly recycling the announcements made by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, in the budget six months ago. The Minister, Deputy Dempsey, is now only belatedly getting around to publishing a Green Paper on the future of our energy needs in the dog days of this...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I echo the very thoughtful comments of Deputy Cowen. I commend Deputy Catherine Murphy for proposing this amendment which probably should have been proposed in another section, section 4 perhaps, because it is a fundamental aspect of the costing for Irish Water and of the future income and expenditure of local authorities. I refer to new developments in the constituency I am proud to...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...place in the next year or two. However, they could easily be delayed by the Government through the tendering and other processes. I acknowledge there are grave external factors relating to the "Cowen recession", as I have called it for some months. I accept, for example, that the sub-prime crisis in the United States has had a grave effect on international liquidity. I recognise too...

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...them to put in place the structures that will retain the vast bulk of those jobs. Can the Minister offer his support in this regard this evening? Earlier today, I asked the Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, and the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Mary Coughlan, whether the Tánaiste would contact Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum, who is the Emir of Dubai and the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...fringe a strategic development zone to ensure some basic level of consultation with residents and citizens of Dublin Bay North. I specifically remember doing so with a former Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowen, and a former Minister, Mr. John Gormley. On my own proposal as a Dublin city councillor in 2005, then city manager Mr. John Fitzgerald finally established the north fringe forum, which...

Topical Issue Matters (13 Dec 2011)

Tommy Broughan: ...need to review the distribution of the licence fee for independent broadcasters; (16) Deputy Clare Daly - the payment of pensions to former employees of De Beers - Element Six; (17) Deputy Barry Cowen - the need to clarify the criteria to be used to assess the viability of community employment schemes, and the future of those schemes; and (18) Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Joan Collins...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance (3 Jul 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...similar to 2009, however? We had two budgets that year during the crash. The former Deputy and Minister for Finance, the late Brian Lenihan, along with the former Deputy and then Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, had to come into the Dáil twice. Surely we will need an emergency Brexit budget now as well. The Minister has been going back and forth on some of the elements of what spending...