Results 3,061-3,080 of 4,085 for speaker:Dan Boyle

Rural Transport Services. (30 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister will not be surprised to learn that I do not share his optimism in respect of his initiatives pertaining to rural transport. Would he accept that his much-vaunted initiative on the western rail corridor actually concerns a western rail hallway? It does not come close to being a corridor, which would extend from Cork to Sligo. Currently, given the continuation of a radial system...

Rural Transport Services. (30 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: The line has not been closed.

Rural Transport Services. (30 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: The rails are gone but the line is still in existence. Planning permission has been given to build on it.

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: The second report on this country's compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been placed before the House. Will there be a debate on its content?

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: Will the report submitted to the European Environment Agency on Ireland's lamentable performance in terms of environmental protection be considered in the House?

Consultancy Contracts. (30 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: Given that the Book of Estimates submitted in recent weeks indicates less money in each category on consultancy expenditure for every Department, does the Government expect to make less use of consultancies in the coming year? Is this recognition that there has been an overuse of consultancies in the past? Given that parliamentary questions have been answered to the effect that since 1998,...

Consultancy Contracts. (30 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: I am getting to the Department of the Taoiseach.

Consultancy Contracts. (30 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: There have been 3,000 consultancies in general by the Government. The Taoiseach has indicated earlier that we will be supplied with tables to indicate how that applies specifically to his Department. We have not been given the answers as regards overall cost. Without the House having the tables directly before us, will the Taoiseach at least tell us beforehand the number of consultancies that...

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 41: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Irish Heritage Trust will have the authority to declare heritage properties inalienable. [36673/05]

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 117: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has met with the Department of Social and Family Affairs to discuss the use of PPS numbers in compiling the electoral register [30981/05]

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: We will be able to take it.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: They are the Minister's figures — utter fiction.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister will be relegated.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: Bring in Roy Keane.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: It is a question of the bottom line.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister is an environmentalist and the Taoiseach is a socialist.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: On the Minister's own record.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Deputy should name one achievement in this area. All the indicators suggest we are bottom of the league, and the Minister is responsible.

Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31: Irish Ferries Dispute. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister knows he can approach the matter from that perspective.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Dan Boyle: Environmental justice rarely goes hand in hand with social and economic justice. In this profligate, wasteful world those who have benefitted from this planet living beyond its environmental means have tended to be — internationally and within our own society — those who have what we unfairly define as wealth. Those who have suffered as a result of our wasteful environmental policies are...