Results 441-460 of 2,343 for speaker:Michael Colreavy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: There is a fundamental misunderstanding. The workers expected and still think that the worker representatives on the board have a particular responsibility to represent the interests of workers in addition to the interests of the company because both, obviously, should be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: It needs a change in legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: We may need to look at the legislation.
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I join in the good wishes to the First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, following his illness. I hope he will make a full recovery. In April 2014 we brought forward the Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014 which was accepted on Second Stage. When will it be taken on Committee Stage? Why was there not a moratorium placed on planning applications for industrial...
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: -----or publication of new planning regulations for wind turbine developments being prepared by the Minister or the Department?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (26 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 384. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the commonage framework plan enacted in 2002 still applies; and if there are proposals for a new plan to be devised. [20097/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme Data (19 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 518. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of money awarded under the better energy homes scheme, since 2009. [19624/15]
- Independent Planning Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (12 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Planning is about more than policies and legislation. Some would say it is a sacred trust placed on people to help support the way we live today while maintaining a clean, safe and healthy environment for this and future generations. I will focus on planning for infrastructural development, particularly in the context of energy. Planning is part and parcel of developing energy policy in...
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I understood that when we agreed amendments Nos. 2 to 14, inclusive, that included the individual amendments within the group.
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: This is not my brief, but is it usual to have so many technical and drafting amendments on this Stage? The Bill has been through the Dáil and the Seanad.
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: It seems an extraordinarily large number of amendments.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (12 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 333. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will establish a multiple-agency task force, with responsibility to respond to recently announced job losses in County Sligo, by designing and implementing immediate supports for the retention and creation of jobs in the Sligo area. [18390/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (12 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 353. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the delay in processing payments under the agri-environment options scheme to farmers following a penalty review; whether the delays are being attributed to computer overload; and whether departmental staff are unable to confirm the number of weeks or months it will take to process these payments. [18391/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (12 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive payments. [18543/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (12 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 598. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government The better energy rating that must be applied to current social housing; and the better energy rating that must be applied to future social housing. [18558/15]
- Challenges Facing the European Union: Statements (7 May 2015)
Michael Colreavy: My colleagues will focus on different aspects of the challenges facing the EU while I will focus on TTIP and ISDS. The Government is claiming that 8,000 jobs could be created and GDP could increase by 1.1% through TTIP2. We have heard all the spin before. I recall all the jobs promised at the time of the Lisbon negotiations but these have yet to materialise for many in Ireland or across...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Do I have an exemption?
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Michael Colreavy: We will, as always, present the figures in our alternative budget.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Michael Colreavy: We do it every year in our alternative budget.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Michael Colreavy: We do that every year.