Results 4,641-4,660 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 Oct 2016)

Barry Cowen: 395. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [28214/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (29 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 198. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [27839/16]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: Fianna Fáil supports the passage of the Bill to Committee Stage. As has been said, the main purpose is to give effect to one of the core planning-reform recommendations of the Mahon tribunal, that being the establishment of an independent office of planning regulator to oversee and assess decision making and the process in planning authorities. In the short life of this Government...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: They are currently.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: Perhaps not, but I assure the Deputy that, if he checks with them, the public do not want an election at this stage.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: I stand over the commitment given to the people. I recognise the decision they made, convoluted as it was. As well as we did, we did not win the election. Nobody won it. There was no clear majority, but the House made a decision thereafter to put in place a Government to deal with many issues, including water service provision.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: My party and I stand over this. That is the commitment we gave to the public and we will stand before them again and ask for their deliberation and to accept the consequences, irrespective of what they may be. We will have achieved some result and given value to their votes, something Sinn Féin cannot say about the motion it has put before the House today.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: I come back to the point I made. It is the prerogative of Sinn Féin to bring forward whatever motion it sees fit, based on the support it has received, the commitment it has made or its understanding of how the democratic process works in this House. It has come back out from under its rock because it went under a rock when a Government needed to be formed and there were real decisions...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: We will clear the stage for it, no problem. It can strut its stuff and flatter to deceive because that is all it has ever done. I have never seen anything else and would expect nothing less from it.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: On the U-turn and Kama Sutra references made by a Sinn Féin contributor, I recall Deputy Eoin O'Broin recommending the establishment of a commission to examine the issue of water charges. Now that we have such a commission, Sinn Féin wants it to be abolished. I also recall that the view of Sinn Féin was that there be no refund for those who had paid water charges under the...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: We know who our partners are.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to outline his plans to publish guidance to residential developers for the revised social provision Part V process. [27660/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to set down the number of staff working in An Bord Pleanála and the operating budget for the body in each year from 2008 to date in 2016. [27661/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide evidence for the statement made to Westmeath County Council by the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Damien English (details supplied). [27662/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 185. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [27585/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 187. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [27596/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 537. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the status of the case of a person (details supplied) including when the person will expect an appointment. [26439/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 596. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) including when they will receive an appointment. [26620/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 597. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) including when they will receive an appointment. [26621/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 631. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment with the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin. [26769/16]