Results 5,001-5,020 of 10,962 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: The Deputy was trying to catch up with the Tánaiste.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: I suppose this is like those post offices that have been closed. There was no basis for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: RTE got out of that one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: We would be deeply worried if the Deputy did. We would have bigger problems than just a spat with RTE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: The Deputy should talk to his party Whip.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice has done fairly well himself in the past few weeks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice enjoyed his time with Hector in the middle of the by-election.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the delegation and thank those who made the presentations. In her final comment,Ms Doherty, the RTE chairperson, seemed to suggest that her invitation to appear at the committee was based on a presumption of bias. She stated clearly that such oversight would simply not tolerate political bias within the country’s primary public service media organisation. I support public...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: The Deputy used to understate them when he was in government, too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: That is very welcome because unfortunately the communications around this House about that decision, as the Senator has outlined, have shown RTE as the baddie on this one so I welcome the fact that Mr. Bakhurst and Ms Doherty have clarified that isue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: I was not asking specifically about how they are balanced on a daily basis, but within reason. I would not expect Mr. Bakhurst to try to do it daily.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Sometimes a panellist would have had a political affiliation but no longer be an active participant. His or her view does not always run parallel where the party is at right now. It is important that it is not just a box ticking-exercise also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: They often change significantly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: We know that Senators do a great deal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Michael McCarthy and I used to sit there.
- Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety Data (24 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: I am pleased the Minister has issued the clarification on where the penalty points might be obtained by a particular driver. Neither the statistics nor the report suggests that someone who is killed in a particular county is necessarily killed by someone from that county. The statistics can be over-interpreted.
- Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety Data (24 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: It is fair to say that it provides a good basis for risk profiling and it should feed into the RSA's approach to attempting to deal with the greatest risks. Where the level of penalty points issued is significantly below what the standard or mean average might be, enforcement in that county needs to be examined. When the correlation is done between an increase in deaths versus a reduced...
- Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety Data (24 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister will be familiar with the survey released today that demonstrates road users are more likely to lose their lives in counties where the fewest penalty points are issued. County Monaghan, for example, has one of the lowest rates of penalty point issuance in the State but it is had more fatal accidents than any other county, with 13 per 100,000. County Kerry has had relatively few...
- Topical Issue Debate: Garda Stations (24 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: While he is at it, he might find out whether the former Commissioner was sacked.
- European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Notwithstanding the concerns expressed by a number of colleagues about the comments from my leader regarding those who have been supportive of Russia's position in Ukraine, the Ukrainian people have on several occasions voted to be part of the European Union. They voted for EU association agreements in overwhelming numbers. It is clear that the democratic wish of the Ukrainian people is to...