Results 3,441-3,460 of 11,015 for speaker:Timmy Dooley

Priority Questions: National Mitigation Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: My reading is they will be 6% to 11% below 2005 levels. As we are supposed to have a 20% reduction on 2005 levels, we will be significantly below that figure, if my numbers are correct. I do not buy the contention that the fines will be somewhat small and irrelevant; they will be significant. It will depend on the cost of carbon credits, but fines may, of course, be very significant. It...

Priority Questions: National Mitigation Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: If the Minister is to make any meaningful progress towards reaching our targets, we need a plan and action. I get where the Government is when it speaks about the mitigation plans being an organic document.

Priority Questions: National Mitigation Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Both. The Minister knows the decisions he must take in order to move the public. It requires much greater incentivisation to move people into electric vehicles, which will to some extent address some of our issues. We are way behind in the deep retrofitting of homes on the heating side. We may miss our target for the use of renewables in the electricity sector. There is still a very...

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: If he has all the information and knows what the price is and that the companies have the capacity to roll it out, how in God's name has the Minister found himself involved in such an intricate and open-ended scheme and that he cannot ask his own people to give us a beginning and an end in terms of the process? While the process remains open-ended, the Minister knows full well that it...

Priority Questions: National Mitigation Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on concerns that the national mitigation strategy will fail to reduce Ireland's carbon emissions sufficiently resulting in significant fines from the European Union and dangerous weather change worldwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42134/17]

Priority Questions: National Mitigation Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: There are serious concerns that Ireland's national mitigation strategy will fail to reduce Ireland's carbon emissions sufficiently resulting in significant fines from the European Union and dangerous weather changes around the globe. Will the Minister enlighten us on where he is at on that particular strategy?

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister said that SIRO informed him just before close of business last week that it was not going to participate in this bid contract. The dogs in the street have known for the past six months that SIRO was not going to bid for this. That should have been no surprise to the Minister. Folklore has it that he was on bended knee to SIRO to remain in the race because he wanted to have at...

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: -----or 542,000 who are no closer to having broadband. We have all sorts of experts and the Minister has identified them. Do we have a project management expert as part of that? The Minister listed an array of what he has at his disposal. Surely there is a project manager. Every project manager that I have met requires, as per project management 101, a start date and a finish date....

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I would be happy to let the same question from all three of us be answered.

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: There is no point in myself and the Deputy standing up and repeating the same question. We can use that time for something else.

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Take two. As the Minister is well aware, there is very significant concern, particularly throughout the vast tracts of rural Ireland, about the proposed closures of post offices. People fear that mass closures are imminent. I ask the Minister to outline the plans of An Post and of the Government with regard to the maintenance of the post office network.

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: That strategic review has been completed for some time now. An Post, through various different guises, has begun a process of closing post offices. Some are closing because, quite frankly, the level of transactions based on the current business model is not enough to sustain the employment of a postmaster or postmistress. They just cannot make ends meet and are being forced out by stealth....

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that Deputy Naughten supported the Kerr report prior to becoming Minister but I have not heard him offer much support for that report since taking office. He is now overlaying the NewEra agency and we have had the McKinsey review. We need decisions and the Minister knows what those decisions involve. We need to decide how many post offices we want and how widespread the network...

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I would prefer to be on the programme on a Saturday night.

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the procurement status of the national broadband plan; the date by which all premises in the country will have access to broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42101/17]

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to address concerns that wholesale closures of post offices are imminent; his further plans for the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42100/17]

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: A procurement process has been under way for some time around the national broadband plan. The national broadband plan has been in the offing since 2012. At this stage, could the Minister give us some indication as to the date on which every premises in the country will be connected and can he give us some idea of a date when, or even within a range within which, the contractor might begin...

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I do not have the Order Paper in front of me. If that is what the Ceann Comhairle says, I agree.

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Very good.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Tyre Disposal (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to address concerns that the proposed environmental levy on tyres will push consumers to procure tyres from outside of the State; the level of engagement he has had with the tyre industry, particularly in the Border counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41901/17]