Results 3,341-3,360 of 11,015 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the implementation status of the national broadband plan; and the date by which the contract for the State intervention area will be awarded. [49412/17]
- Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: The regular update from the Minister to this House relates to where we are at in the procurement process of the national broadband plan. He will be well aware that the programme for Government, to which he is a signatory, and of which he is a significant beneficiary as a Minister, sets out a commitment to have an agreement in place to sign off with a contractor for the project in June 2017....
- Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister's response is as ridiculous as if José Mourinho, when asked about the performance of Manchester United, were to respond by telling us how Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool are doing. I asked the Minister to outline on numerous occasions in this House where the Government is at in respect of the national broadband plan in providing high-speed broadband to those 542,000...
- Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: We thought it would be done.
- Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: I do not know if the Minister's constituency office is as inundated as is mine with people who are concerned about the issue. I am sure it is but I do not intend to offer such a solution to anybody. I refer in particular to families where children come home at the weekend from college or with secondary schoolchildren. I do not want to say that they should toddle off to the community centre...
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: I do not think the Chairman can do that during priority questions.
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: I do not think the Chairman can group them.
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: I do not think you can group priority questions.
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: Through the Chair and on a point of order, to save the Deputy, I will just protect my corner first and then let him protect his. My understanding is that a priority question cannot be grouped. We are entitled to our time. If the Deputy has a similar question he is entitled to pursue it with the Minister. I have been around the House a while and I may be wrong on this, which is why I seek...
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: Can I propose a suspension of the House until we examine the facts?
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: Will I get my final round as well?
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: Will the Minister be straight with the House? I am not suggesting that the Minister is not normally but I think he could on this occasion. He speaks about the money and what it will do. There is a series of events that will have to take place, and the provision of ten digital gateways on a pilot basis will not use up €30 million. The Minister should come clean and talk about the...
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the implementation status of the Kerr report and the date by which the strategic plan for the network will be published. [49411/17]
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister will be aware of the report which Bobby Kerr was commissioned to write with the Government's blessing and possibly its financial support, with the acquiescence of the postmasters and with An Post. Bobby Kerr wrote a comprehensive report which was aimed at securing the future of the post office network. When the report was published, it was strongly supported in this House and...
- Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: The question seeks to establish the Minister's vision for the future of the post office network. The Bobby Kerr report set out an action plan that did that to secure the future of the post office network. The only thing on which the Minister could be complimented is his knee-jerk reaction to An Post's calls for increased funds. On this occasion the €30 million of Government...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: I would have thought an email that included the name McCabe would have required attention.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: I think the subject required an answer.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: That is what the lads are paying €5 million for.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: What?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Timmy Dooley: Right.