Results 421-440 of 1,319 for speaker:Paudge Connolly

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Could the family be briefed on it?

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: This is developing in a way that is distasteful to the family.

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if it is proposed to develop a native biomass or biofuel industry to enable in excess of 25 per cent of electricity and 10% of petrol and diesel requirements to be replaced and produced from arable crops such as elephant grass, oilseed rape, wheat and sugar beet; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (29 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the chronic shortage of neurologists to serve the approximately 500,000 persons with disabling neurological conditions; Ireland's total of 16 neurologists, or one per 250,000 people, the lowest in Europe, in contrast to the European norm of one per 40,000; the necessity to increase...

Foreign Adoptions. (28 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I acknowledge the efforts of the Department of Foreign Affairs. I also want to reassure the 87 applicants who have paid deposits——

Foreign Adoptions. (28 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The Irish-Vietnamese adoption agreement raises many issues which must be dealt with. It affects a small group of people but has a major impact on their lives. Effectively, there are two groups of people concerned about the recent media revelations, namely, those who have successfully completed their Vietnamese adoption, who are concerned about the validity of that adoption, and those...

Written Answers — Foreign Adoptions: Foreign Adoptions (27 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the Irish Vietnamese adoption application of persons (details supplied) in County Monaghan and other prospective adoptive parents who have paid considerable sums of money to a person who has been instructed by the Irish Adoption Board to desist from adoption facilitation; and if she will make a statement on...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (27 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the continuing delay by the Health Service Executive in releasing to the Walsh family the report into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Pat Joe Walsh at Monaghan General Hospital in October 2005; a report which has not been released to the family eight months later,...

Order of Business. (27 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The Government promised the House in October 2005 that it would be provided with a copy of the report into the death of Pat Joe Walsh. This report has been with the Health Service Executive for over six weeks.

Order of Business. (27 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The answer given was unsatisfactory. This report is now with the HSE.

Order of Business. (27 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The House should receive an answer to this question.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (22 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following urgent matter: the Irish adoption agreement with Vietnam under which the Irish Adoption Board, through the adoption mediation agency Helping Hands, permits the payment of US currency notes and US dollar bank drafts directly to the account of a named Vietnamese facilitator who, according to US court records,...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I propose to share time with Deputies Cowley, Finian McGrath and McHugh. I welcome the opportunity to support this motion on recycling and waste management. One of my main difficulties with a debate on recycling and waste management strategy is that all other alternatives were not tried first and our official policy is incineration. We spend €60 million to €90 million building...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Yes. We will not build a structure for €60 million or €90 million and leave it sitting idle. This is the major difficulty we have. When people are applying for planning permission for such incinerators, they are afraid or almost ashamed to call them incinerators. They want to call them power-producing plants or plants that will link into the ESB grid. The people of Monaghan find...

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I appreciate the time given to me. This is important legislation. Every week we learn from radio, television and newspapers the new death toll on our roads. We are almost hardened to the fact that road traffic deaths will occur. Road traffic fatalities occur on average more than once per day, an unacceptable rate. The only time the problem impacts on the public is when we hear the new monthly...

European Council: Statements. (21 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I wish to share time with Deputies Gormley and Ó Snodaigh.

European Council: Statements. (21 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: There have only been five enlargements in the history of the European Union, the most recent in May 2004 with the accession of ten new member states. The dynamic that has driven the Union since the collapse of the Berlin Wall appears to be weakening. The decision taken on 16 May 2006 to delay final judgment on both Bulgaria's and Romania's readiness to join in 2007 is another sign that...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (20 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of early retirement deals awarded to previous health board staff due to the demise of the former health boards and the formation of the Health Service Executive; the cost of such early retirement deals to the Exchequer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23550/06]

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: In view of the fact the liaison person appointed by the Government in charge of Irish Vietnamese adoptions was found to be a convicted criminal and payments were made to her in her own name——

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I would have thought it was appropriate. It is an extremely serious issue.