Results 41-60 of 85 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Tommy Broughan

Air Services. (17 Dec 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...issues of that policy is the State Airports Act 2004. Will that now be repealed having regard to the separation of Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports? There seems to be some row-back on this and a feeling that on economic grounds it should not proceed. What is the Minister's view? On a related point regarding the investment we have made in the three national airports, is it not the case...

Departmental Agencies. (17 Dec 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...a few days ago, speaks on any issue to do with transport on policy grounds irrespective of whether it relates to an agency. The 30th Dáil was supposed to be a reforming Dáil. Deputy O'Dowd feels the same as I do. We were supposed to have a reformed Dáil whereby answers on all transport issues in broad policy could be obtained through the Minister. Has this Minister any objection in...

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) (No. 2) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...will have a limited impact. Many constituents and motorists across the country had been ahead of the game in purchasing lower emissions vehicles before this legislation was introduced and they feel hard done by as they were left paying a higher rate than a new lower emissions car registered after 1 July 2008. There have been other suggestions that given the scale of reduction in transport...

Road Safety. (12 Nov 2008)

Tommy Broughan: No one in this House feels it is marvellous that already we have 249 deaths on our roads and will probably reach the 500 mark.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...-teacher ratio and most of the children will learn in classes of well over 30 next year. The same will apply in the Cathaoirleach's constituency of Cork North-Central and throughout the State. We feel a little let down. Before last year's general election the INTO general secretary, Mr. John Carr, was dancing around on a platform with the former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...would now have the courage to vote against this Bill. It is a bad Bill. It was thought out, if you like, on the back of a beer mat and following people reading what trendy commentators perhaps feel is the only way forward in the current circumstances. It is based on a vacuum of knowledge in terms of what action could be taken at this particular time. For example, I asked the Minister's...

Road Network. (1 Oct 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...the many horror stories coming to myself and other public representatives and spokespersons not the norm for many people using the system? Does the Minister understand the sense of injustice people feel that at least 5%, and possibly a much higher number, of the 100,000 users per day will not be able to be fined or charged because they are foreign drivers, due to the difficulty of tracing...

Dublin Port Tunnel. (1 Oct 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...swift, independent report on safety issues, given the grave public concerns. Following the "Prime Time" programme, for example, people said they would not travel through the tunnel as they did not feel it was safe. The NRA's chief executive, Mr. Fred Barry, has reassured me that all the news on "Prime Time" was old news, but is it old news? Can we be absolutely certain that the tunnel...

Dublin Port Tunnel (25 Sep 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...been open since its formal opening, their lives have not been in danger when passing through it. I am disappointed that the Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, is not here this evening as I feel he has shirked this responsibility again and again. Like Deputy O'Dowd, I was involved in an earlier "Prime Time" investigation and the Minister refused to report on the matter to this...

Air Services. (10 Jul 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...and all aspects of safety at Dublin Airport? Was he aware of this, anticipating this and ensuring the safety of travellers? Do we need fundamental changes in the system? I understand controllers feel they are effectively blind part of the time because the transmission which gives the blip on the screen is late or does not appear exactly as the aircraft is approaching and transmitting the...

Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Report Stage (2 Jul 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...which I hope will include my party, will try to do so and secure full accountability. The Minister should break with the undemocratic regime that developed over recent years and allowed agencies to feel they are laws unto themselves and can do whatever they want. There was criticism of a State agency other than the Dublin transport authority today with regard to financial problems. We...

Climate Change and Energy Security: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: My feeling at the time, certainly in respect of the Minister's party leader, Deputy Gormley, was that he was gravely concerned about it because he felt it would reduce the importance of convincing people of the need to change their habits in regard to energy use. He has significantly modified what was his position in the past.

Road Safety: Motion (16 Oct 2007)

Tommy Broughan: ...in Cork last night. The nation was dismayed yesterday and today at the report of the inquest into the horrific crash on the M7 in March. A young woman, Kate Moyles, tragically died and we all feel desperately sorry for her parents and her sister. It is too commonplace now to read on a daily and weekly basis in local and national media of road collisions that leave people dead or...

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: ...". It was difficult to find somewhere in the Bill in which to include this amendment. I am not sure to what extent I have been successful in finding an appropriate place. There is a general feeling in the industry that the Electronic Communications Appeals Panel, ECAP, which was established under a statutory instrument or regulations is being used by the incumbent to try to defer the...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: ...calling for consultation with relevant trade unions on both sides of the Border and representatives of electricity consumers could also be a mechanism for ensuring this will be the case. Consumers feel far removed from consideration, as the Minister of State saw when he attended meetings of the Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when Mr. Tom Reeves and his colleagues...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (13 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: ...that it will run out at some stage, whether it be in five or 25 years' time. Accordingly, it must be managed very carefully. The Minister of State introduced this amendment at the 11th hour. I feel, and I am sure the other Opposition parties — the Labour Party, Fine Gael, the Green Party and Sinn Féin — will agree that it is very difficult to respond to an amendment we only received...

Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: ...advise directly the members of the advisory forum. We met the Foyle fishermen while carrying out the preparatory work for this Bill and these amendments arose from the fact that there was a strong feeling among the stakeholders on Lough Foyle, in Greencastle and other ports in Inishowen that there had not been sufficient consultation regarding the Bill. The key stakeholders, including, we...

Stardust Disaster. (1 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: ...northside journalists, Neil Fetherstonhaugh and Tony McCullough. There was the famous "Prime Time Investigates" programme. Many representatives like me have received additional information and we feel that it is time this matter was brought to a just conclusion.

Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries Bill 2006: Second Stage (14 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...the Crown Estate and the Crown's claims to the seabed in the two loughs or have we gone past that following the British-Irish Agreement? What is the position? Many local people in Donegal feel it is invidious that we be engaged in a recognition of the British claim. Second, there has been much local disquiet, in particular, about the oyster fishery. People who have had long-standing...

Joyriding Offences. (15 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...leaders, including our local Garda inspector, Mr. Dónal Waters, and Dublin city area manager, Mr. Declan Wallace. The report is commendable because it is based on the views, experiences and feelings of local residents and of some young people who participate in the activity, not just the views of an expert group coming to tell a local community how things are when they have no real idea...