Results 2,721-2,740 of 2,770 for speaker:Bernard Allen

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Hear, hear. We should not.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I apologise, a Cheann Comhairle, if my question has been asked as I was at a committee hearing. Is primary or secondary legislation necessary for the proposed introduction of electronic voting?

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: What answer was given?

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: My party will oppose this Bill. I will start by quoting from Fianna Fáil's election manifesto of 2002: "The surest way to cause unemployment and undermine the public finances would be to implement unsustainable spending plans or to try to return to the days of high taxation." Those of us who fought the 2002 general election against the Government knew that it could not be trusted to keep...

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: We need an extra hour.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The judgment remains the same. That is rubbish.

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Will the Minister of State answer a question?

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: As regards the 40 questions put to——

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Will the Minister of State yield for a question?

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Is he indicating that his officials are not yet in a position to answer the 40 questions put to them long before Christmas? Will the electronic voting system be launched tomorrow without having answers to questions posed by the experts?

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: We are all in favour of the system in principle but it was introduced——

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The machines to be used differ from those used in 2002.

Irish Blood Transfusion Service. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I thank the Chair for giving me an opportunity to raise this issue tonight. The Irish Medicines Board has warned that the blood screening irradiator which helps to prevent serious complications, or even death, at the Irish Blood Transfusion Service unit in Cork is faulty. The machine, which prevents a rare but sometimes fatal reaction in some patients who receive blood is in such poor...

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I am happy to speak on the Bill because the ongoing guillotining of Bills is making it increasingly difficult for the Opposition to speak on anything the Government does. The Bill allows for the changes to the European election constituencies to be ratified. I fully accept the findings of the commission and fully support the elimination of the dual mandate with regard to membership of the...

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Taoiseach skived off on Thursdays.

National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the national waste management plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on his plans to deal with toxic and nuclear waste. [2845/04]

National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I have heard enough to know the Minister is putting the cart before the horse. He is admitting in the Dáil that he expects local authorities to produce a waste management plan, yet no national waste management plan exists. Would the Minister agree that it is highly negligent to involve himself in very expensive advertising campaigns on television and radio, when people cannot implement the...

National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister spent most of the time speaking but I did not get an opportunity to ask supplementary questions. Surely the Minister cannot waffle out of the situation. That is ridiculous. I have one supplementary question. Where is he proposing to store the nuclear waste? He said in committee that four sites were being considered. Where are they?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Question 140: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the introduction of electronic voting for the European and local elections. [2846/04]

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: How can the Minister contemplate introducing this system without agreement from all parties in the House? How can he introduce a system that is changing fundamentally the way we run our democracy, by not introducing it through an electoral commission? How can the Minister contemplate introducing this system without key questions about the security of the system, including whether it is...