Results 2,361-2,380 of 19,445 for speaker:Brian Cowen
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: A bit of fairness, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: I told the Deputy last week that there is no date for the second Bill he mentioned. We are hoping to deal this year with the first Bill he mentioned.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: There is no promised legislation in this area.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: Action, rather than legislation, was promised.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: About what?
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: No.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: To be helpful to the Deputy, I remind him that a review group has been established to examine these issues generally, drawing on the work of the Law Reform Commission. The review group is due to produce its recommendations on these issues over the summer. In fairness to the Deputy, it is true that our bankruptcy laws and legal processes may need to be modernised. We will see what the...
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: The geothermal Bill will probably be published later this year. Discussions on the climate change Bill are continuing. The Cabinet sub-committee on that issue will meet shortly. We will bring forward the legislation as soon as the issues are resolved and dealt with.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: We expect that the patronage Bill should be published in this session.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: Correct. I think that is the position.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: It was hoped that the Bill would be published in this session, but we will have to wait and see. The workload is piling up as we wait for legislation to be completed. It is due in this session.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: Yes. I understand that the changes mentioned by Mr. Kane this morning relate to next February. We will need time to consider these issues.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: The Government intends to introduce the legislation in question in this session.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: Yes. The intention is to complete it in this session. We need the co-operation of all Deputies in that regard.
- Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: Making predictions can be difficult in any situation. The work which has been done by the committee is being considered by the Government and Ministers and will be considered by the Cabinet committee. Reports have been issued in the past few weeks and debates have taken place. We are trying to bring forward legislation before the end of the session. We are working on these issues,...
- Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: The best way of getting up-to-date information on individual aspects of the programme for Government is through the line Ministers who have primary responsibility for driving them. I say this as a general remark because there is no point in using Taoiseach's Questions as a means of covering all these areas in a compendium fashion. In regard to the carbon tax, schemes are in place from...
- Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: As the Deputy will be aware, financial issues arise in regard to some of the health aspects but a question to the relevant Minister will produce detailed information. On the question of public bodies, we are investigating prospective reforms, including for example the TELAC system for public appointments. We are trying to bring more structure to the filling of panels of people who are...
- Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: The intention is to enhance the TELAC procedures to deal with public service reform issues and provide greater mobility for senior public servants, as well as to increase choice in respect of these appointments. I also have ideas for board procedures, whereby public service reforms can be progressed on the basis of a management board across the service.
- Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: There is a dynamic in health policy to try to move the hospital based system, the traditional way in which we have provided care in the past apart from the general practitioner system, into the community to a much greater extent. That is fundamentally what we are trying to do. One also has a much greater degree of day case surgery than was the case ten, 15 or 20 years ago because current...
- Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)
Brian Cowen: Let me make the point about the health issue again. The co-location issue is about re-designating private beds in public hospitals into public beds and in turn providing private beds co-located with the public hospital facility as the best way of working together and keeping consultants all on site. That is about the re-designation of private beds. The issue the Deputy is raising is...