Results 4,301-4,320 of 4,363 for speaker:Arthur Morgan

Employment Support Services. (13 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employment task forces her Department or the agencies responsible to it have been involved in since July 1997; if a cost-benefit evaluation of these task forces has been undertaken by her Department; and the number of jobs created as a result of these task forces in each case compared with the job...

Employment Support Services. (13 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: My question had three elements to it. The first related to the number of task forces and the Minister answered that. The second related to cost-benefit analyses, but the Minister did not answer that. The third related to the number of jobs created and that was not answered. In the Minister's reply there was an assertion which was made last year that the task forces were effective in providing...

Employment Support Services. (13 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I thank the Tánaiste for her offer to submit the relevant figures to me. I would appreciate it if I could see them. Does the Tánaiste intend to establish more task forces? I note that no task forces have been established in recent times. For how long does she envisage that the task forces that are still in operation will continue? Will they continue indefinitely? Are they likely to be wound up?

Employment Support Services. (13 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: We have had a few.

Social Partnership. (13 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Deputy McGrath should join the Progressive Democrats.

Maritime Security Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (13 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I seek leave to share time with Deputies Finian McGrath and Eamon Ryan.

Maritime Security Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (13 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The main terrorism that I have experienced in my life was at the hands of people in British Army uniforms, who were directed from Whitehall. It is unfortunate that, in the absence of the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, we do not have legislation here to banish those people from our country. I have a number of concerns about this Bill. I appreciate that there needs to be proper...

Written Answers — Fishing Licences: Fishing Licences (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proposals his Department will introduce to purchase the licences of draft and drift fishermen; the estimated cost of these proposals; the consequential effect of such proposals on salmon stocks; when such proposals will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12752/04]

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I support this amendment and welcome the opportunity we now have to stand back, re-examine the legislation and consider what is really needed in terms of putting in place a proper voting system. If the Minister wants to avoid further disaster, he will consider carefully the proposition on offering support put by a number of people, not least of whom is Deputy Allen. I, too, would offer...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The Minister made another commitment on Committee Stage also. In any event, we will let him consider that himself. The absence of a voter-verified paper audit trail and the failure to publish the source code represented fatal flaws in the proposed system of electronic voting. I hope we can start again, engage in consultation, solve this problem together and create what everybody wants,...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: We do not need Churchill.

Order of Business. (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: In light of the recommendation in the ninth progress report of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, following 17 months of consultations that legislation to abolish ground rents should be introduced, is such legislation a priority for the Government and when will it be brought forward?

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Order for Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I too support Deputy Gilmore's proposal to recommit this legislation to Committee Stage. The system we have debated and attempted to amend in the past few weeks is not now in place. It is effectively off the agenda having been totally and absolutely discredited. During the course of the Committee Stage debate on this Bill the Minister undertook that if this system collapsed or failed he would...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The only way to get this right is to begin again. That is clear from the comments of the commission.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The best message I could hear from the Government side of the House would be that the Minister was resigning, which is what he undertook to do on Committee Stage. Given that he will not do that and that the Taoiseach appears unwilling to dispatch him, we will have to carry on with this legislation. I support the motion from Deputy Gilmore that the Bill be recommitted because we are starting...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following urgent matters: the decision by the North Eastern Health Board to downgrade Louth County Hospital in Dundalk by ending consultant surgical services after 5 p.m. daily; the unnecessary and dangerous proposal to transfer patients to the already overcrowded Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; the necessity...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I wish to share time with Deputies Healy and Gormley. As all my party colleagues have stated in the course of this debate, Sinn Féin is opposed both to the timing and the substance of the proposed referendum. The issues I will address will include the process by which the proposed referendum was brought forward and the false claims from the Government that the decision to hold the referendum...

Written Answers — Computerisation Programme: Computerisation Programme (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the provision of computers for students at secondary level in this State is well below the OECD average; and the measures he proposes to take to remedy this situation. [9804/04]

Written Answers — School League Tables: School League Tables (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the consultations he has had in regard to changes he is considering to the ban on publishing school league tables. [9805/04]

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Sinn Féin supports this motion of no confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen. I thank the Green Party for the opportunity to address this Minister's record. The Minister is a deeply right wing free-marketeer with an anti-working class, individualistic and pro-privatisation agenda. His ideological position means that he can never be a...