Results 5,101-5,120 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy should read what it says.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: I do not agree with the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: I did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy should look at it himself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: I thought that the Deputy would give us credit for hitting every part of the roadmap that I outlined last January but I am not going to get into nitpicking about whether we hit it a week or two earlier or later. I have hit what I set out last January. The Deputy can tell the NGOs that too. I have hit every target on that roadmap. I am the first Minister for the Environment, Community and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: We will have a paper from the Commission on Rio+20 in March with a view to the Irish Presidency's bringing about Council conclusions in June. We will be fully engaged with the other member states to achieve that outcome. On Doha, the expectation before the conference was that it would be more of a holding operation with little progress arising from the discussions in Durban. Durban set out...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: We are giving the money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: The European Union is providing that much money for other countries.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: There is no slush fund for Tipperary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: Perhaps the Deputy can provide the necessary resources. He can see that I get into a lot of trouble and criticised on the costs of attending to do my work as Minister outside the jurisdiction. We have taken a deliberate decision in the Department to keep costs as low as possible given the current financial situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: It is much cheaper to stage them in Dublin Castle where the interpreting and other facilities required are in place. Those would have to be moved to Tipperary or Kilkenny for that matter. In reply to Deputy Noel Coonan, we are very conscious of the debate on the interaction between food security and the climate change agenda generally. There can be a conflict between the production of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: We have not yet reached the end of the year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: The Dáil is sitting next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: I am pleased to tell the Deputy that the year is not yet over and that there will be a Government meeting next Tuesday at which one of the issues debated will be the heads of the climate change Bill. I am sure the Deputy has noticed that I have stuck rigidly to what I set out in the road map last January and delivered on everything I said I would do. I do not expect things to be any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: I am not rewriting history, with which the Deputy had many problems. I know many of my colleagues in opposition did not like to be pigeonholed in terms of being against the protection of groundwater, but that is the position in which the Deputy put himself by way of the less than constructive approach adopted towards a very serious matter when we were before the European Court of Justice....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: I thank the Chairman and the members for the invitation to discuss Ireland's forthcoming Presidency of the European Union and the agenda for next Monday's meeting of the EU Environment Council in Brussels. In only 19 days from now, Ireland will be in the hot seat as we take over the Presidency of the European Union on 1 January, a date which will also mark the 40th anniversary of our...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: Then what is it doing?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Phil Hogan: Fianna Fáil in government reduced the minimum wage.