Results 3,601-3,620 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: It is not my problem if Deputies do not want to know the facts. As I said, there has been incorrect information in the newspapers, including one article on Element Six. I will put it to the Deputies who represent that constituency that they know full well-----
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: -----of my personal involvement with the chairman of the board and the chief executive officer, my personal involvement with Shannon Development and the new initiative in the sustaining of those jobs. We now have, as a consequence of that intervention, continued manufacturing, for example, in the Shannon free zone and, also as a consequence of that intervention, those workers coming back...
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: I heard what Deputy Kenny had to say about Dublin Airport, but I did not hear him talk about the needs of Aer Lingus and Aer Arann.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: People must remember that a considerable amount of effort, time and resources went into putting together Dublin Aerospace-----
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: -----where a number of people from SR Technics are now employed. The man who has taken over M50 Motors indicated to me that all his employees came from SR Technics. There are continued initiatives in dealing with the supports that are needed for SR Technics. Deputy Kenny also asked about Ryanair. The Deputy is articulating and emulating the way Mr. O'Leary does his business in the way he...
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: I have been working with Ryanair and the IDA since 26 February last year.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: We indicated to the company on 21 July that the DAA was at an advanced stage with another party about the use of hangar 6 and our suggestion was that the best way forward was for direct contact between the DAA and the company. The IDA, on my behalf, was willing to chair such a meeting. Following considerable correspondence, the company found it was not in a position to directly involve...
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: It is important to reiterate on the basis that Mr. O'Leary has a fixation with access to hangar 6 that I put the idea to Aer Lingus.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: I did that on the basis that people like Deputy Kenny would accuse me of inaction if I did not. On the basis of my conversation, and work with my colleague, the Minister for Transport, I assure people in north Dublin that I did ask. It was indicated to me that to sustain Aer Lingus and deal with the challenging issues in aviation it faces at present, and so it can consolidate its position,...
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: On that basis I was in a position to indicate to Mr. O'Leary in my meeting that there was not just a legal impediment in the matter but that it was imperative to the sustainability of Aer Lingus that it continue to have hangar 6. On that basis, I provided further opportunities for Ryanair in the configuration of existing hangars and offered two sites that are available in Dublin Airport....
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: We are being fair, reasonable,-----
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: -----and doing all we can but it is difficult to get across the situation that Aer Lingus has a lease for 20 years and that hangar 6 is imperative to the sustainability of the company.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: Deputy Kenny would be the first, as would his Deputies in north Dublin, if we did not allow the continuation of a viable Aer Lingus, a viable Ryanair and a viable Aer Arann in this country.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: They are all going through difficult times in aviation at present and we are still open, as I indicated to Mr. O'Leary at the meeting, to working through a number of alternative proposals and in which we are more than supportive of him if he wishes to have those 300 jobs that he wants.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: I am sure when Deputy Reilly was a little boy, the one thing his mother told him was-----
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: -----that I want does not get.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: So does this Government but we cannot do it on the basis of what cannot be delivered but we do have alternatives and I, the Minister for Transport and the representatives of State agencies are more than willing to support Ryanair and its requisite needs.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: I ask the Leader of the Opposition to withdraw his charge that the Minister for Defence committed perjury.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: This matter was dealt with, an explanation was given to the House through a personal statement and a substantive motion where the Deputy had an opportunity to say what he wanted and the matter has been dealt with by the House, the Members of this House and by this Government.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Mary Coughlan: No. Element 6 is in Shannon.