Results 5,821-5,840 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (26 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: 231. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the water conservation payment registration will commence; when and the way payment will issue; the estimated administrative cost of the scheme; if additional staff will be required to administer the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20619/15]
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: What has the Government done in the past four years?
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister for his response. Make no mistake about it, a resolution most definitely has to be found. I believe, despite the Minister's rhetoric, he and the Government just do not get it. He talks about job creation and action plans for jobs when everybody on the doors we are knocking on in that constituency and many others do not see any recovery.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: The Department of Finance made a submission to the Low Pay Commission some weeks ago. Does the Minister know what it did? He can check it out, look it up and read it, if he wishes. It acknowledged that there is a two-tier recovery taking place in the country. That is the Department for which the golden boy, the Minister for Finance, supposedly the real brain behind the Government, has...
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: The Government never accepted that there was a need for adequate and proper scrutiny of the legislation that accompanied its set up. As I stated, there is no local political accountability. Counsellors, who have the best interests of the localities in which they reside and where they have the privilege to represent those people, like the people themselves, have been cut adrift by this...
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: The Government just does not get it and it is not capable of getting it because they do not know how to cut a deal. They do not know how to deal with the issues that are there.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: I am asking the Minister now-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: If Deputy Mattie McGrath does not mind, I will do it myself.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: Will the Government revisit the legislation and address the grave difficulties that rural Ireland is facing because of the discrepancies that exist in the legislation?
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: People need hope.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: They need to see an effort being made to address the mistakes made heretofore.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: I was not.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: I was elected to this Dáil, no other one. That is my responsibility, the same as everyone else here. The Minister should grow up and realise what he is doing here is wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: So the Government can cut them adrift now.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: Because I was here. The Minister held it on a day when we were sitting.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: On a Wednesday when the Minister have a majority of 60 or 70 here in the Chamber.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: I do.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: In Tullamore, we removed obstacles. The local authorities did.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: Will the Ceann Comhairle remind the Minister I was elected to this Dáil and no other, and I have a responsibility to those who elected me to ask questions about this Dáil?
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: The Government will get its answer on Friday.