Results 6,021-6,040 of 13,210 for speaker:Pat Gallagher
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I have no control over that. The Deputy must conclude.
- Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Minister, without interruption, please.
- Topical Issue Debate: Orthodontic Services (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: We have no choice but to suspend.
- Topical Issue Debate: Orthodontic Services (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The purpose of this debate is to make the Deputy's case to the Minister for Health. It is not the Deputy's fault. As we have been waiting for approximately four minutes, I recommend that we suspend for ten minutes. No one will lose out.
- Topical Issue Debate: Orthodontic Services (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Topical Issue Matters (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - to discuss restructuring the Citizens Information service and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service; (2) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd - to discuss the availability of tonsillectomy services in Our Lady of...
- Other Questions: Rural Broadband Scheme (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I would like to be seen to be positive. Eir is providing fibre broadband of excellent quality and with excellent speeds for homes in rural areas. However, there are areas where there are gaps. I ask the Minster to speak to eir to see if there is a possibility of bridging these gaps in the meantime. I have some very practical examples, although I cannot give them to the Minister now. I do...
- Other Questions: Rural Broadband Scheme (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his strategy for dealing with households in County Donegal which form part of the national broadband strategy specifically under the rural broadband scheme; the timeframe by which all households in the county will be connected to high-speed broadband as part of the rural broadband scheme; the number of households...
- Other Questions: Rural Broadband Scheme (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I ask the Minister the practical implications of the decision by a company to withdraw from the procurement process last month. Will there be a long knock-on effect as a result? I am being parochial in thinking of my county and the implications for Donegal. It is a very rural county; parts of it have the lowest population density in all of Europe. Perhaps the Minister might give us some...
- Other Questions: Rural Broadband Scheme (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I do not have to impress upon the Minister, as a Deputy from rural Ireland, the urgency and necessity of this. It is vitally important to my county from an economic, social and cultural viewpoint and will contribute greatly to the development of the area. Children in doing their homework are trying to access information. People working in high tech companies can now work from home and...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (14 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: 49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to provide a report on the achievements and successes of the mobile telephone and broadband task force recommendations to date; the further recommendations he plans to implement; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the nationwide experience is that mobile telephone signals are deteriorating and...
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: That concludes the debate.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: In accordance with Standing Order 70(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Thursday, 15 February 2018.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: We now move on to the Government slot. I call the Minister of State at the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy John Halligan.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I can only call those who are present.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Yes.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Fianna Fáil has ten minutes. I call Deputy Dara Calleary who is sharing time with Deputies Margaret Murphy O'Mahony, Eugene Murphy and Robert Troy.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Deputy has exceeded his time. We will move to the Fianna Fáil slot.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Pat Gallagher: That will be a lesson to the Deputy not to do so the next time he speaks.