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Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: It was a little quicker than two years.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister for Social Protection is representing the Taoiseach today.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: It is taking the Minister a long time to answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: We have every faith in the Minister's capacity to attract his own audience. He need not feel intimidated.

Topical Issue Debate: Driver Licence Applications (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: I recognise the bona fides of the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, in this regard. I have no doubt that he has been in contact with the Road Safety Authority, that he is concerned and that he is receiving information similar to this from his constituents and people around the country, but I disagree vehemently with his acceptance that, in general terms, as the Minister of State put it, he is...

Topical Issue Debate: Driver Licence Applications (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: I understand the difficulty associated with incomplete applications, but that is not the issue I raise. I have great sympathy for any group of people who have to deal with the public on a daily basis because there will always be a number of cases in which documentation will be incomplete. I am talking about applications that are complete and where it still takes seven to eight weeks to turn...

Topical Issue Debate: Driver Licence Applications (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: I have great faith in the Minister of State, but I am deeply concerned about the impact this is having on the lives of so many.

Topical Issue Debate: Driver Licence Applications (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: I have no doubt about that, but we need more than concern; we need action. If it is an issue of resources or a requirement for the RSA to be provided with more funding from the State, that should happen in the short term. When this issue came before the transport committee, there was a discussion about the fact that the service would be self-financing. It should not, therefore, be a...

Topical Issue Debate: Driver Licence Applications (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: I recognise that the Minister of State is standing in for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. We have reached a crisis point in the issuing of driver licences. Last October responsibility transferred from local authorities to the National Driver Licensing Service, NDLS, under the auspices of the Road Safety Authority, RSA. At that stage it was clear that significant delays had...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: That is good oversight.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: We know where those opposite stand on the basis of the Blueshirts so.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: What is the relevance of this?

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: Is the Taoiseach undermining GSOC again?

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach is clearly annoyed about the Labour Party.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: Maybe he is the problem.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: No, it is a matter of record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Merger: Irish Sports Council and National Sports Campus Development Authority (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Merger: Irish Sports Council and National Sports Campus Development Authority (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: I agree with everything Mr. Mulvey said. On the letters of appointment, while what was suggested by him might be a way of overcoming the problem, should additional criteria in this regard not be set out in the legislation? I accept that the Minister can in issuing the warrant of appointment set out broadly the expectation. However, I am concerned that the issue that has arisen is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Merger: Irish Sports Council and National Sports Campus Development Authority (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: That is the dangerous one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Merger: Irish Sports Council and National Sports Campus Development Authority (19 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: It might be mine.