Results 601-620 of 4,404 for speaker:Liz McManus

Broadcasting Services. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the budget set for 2010 to fund the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland; the budget for the period of its establishment in 2009; the cost to the authority of outsourcing work in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the way he will address the lack of public scrutiny in view of the scrutiny measures in the Broadcasting Act 2009;...

Broadcasting Services. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: I hope the Minister gives me the information on the additional cost of outsourcing work by the Broadcasting Authority. This is a central issue. Does the Minister not accept that it is absolutely outrageous for him to tell us now that the budget for 2010 will be €7.6 million, even though throughout the debate on the legislation he tried to dampen our concerns about increased costs? In the...

Broadcasting Services. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: They have exploded.

Broadcasting Services. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: The Minister is still in denial; he has been in denial from the beginning of the debate on this issue. The Minister knows that the way to organise efficiencies is to have one regulator to replace ComReg and the Broadcasting Authority. We now have a broadcasting authority with a budget of €7.6 million. That is the reality. Nothing else matters and nothing the Minister says in honeyed...

Broadcasting Services. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: I do not know what that means. The Minister must explain it because it does not make any sense. Money comes in from the Exchequer. The budget was €6.238 million. There is now a €1.5 million shortfall and the Exchequer is not paying for it. The BAI is in existence and has costs. It is only a new body so how can it have cash flow?

Broadcasting Services. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: Who is paying for it then?

Broadcasting Services. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: It is for last year. I see.

Broadcasting Services. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: The final figure, therefore, is €7.6 million plus €1.5 million.

Electricity Generation. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: A long-term approach has certainly been adopted up to now, particularly in view of the fact that it has taken two years to transfer responsibility for this matter from one Department to another. Does the Minister not accept that the type of goodwill to which he refers already exists? I do not imagine that any Member would oppose the possibility of his again coming before the committee. The...

Alternative Energy Projects. (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: I am surprised that this question was not answered by the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan; perhaps he is away on other business. The Minister of State has made the introduction of geothermal legislation a priority. He certainly talked the talk when he attended a meeting of the Oireachtas committee. There is considerable disappointment now because developers who want to engage in...

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: A whole section of the renewed programme for Government deals with reform of the system of public service appointments. Will this section be removed from the programme for Government in light of the behaviour of the Green Party Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, in terms of his approach to making a very lucrative appointment? I want to make it clear that I have no problem with the particular...

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: What is clearly at issue is the Minister's slippage in standards.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: It must, for the ordinary decent Fianna Fáil Minister, be deeply embarrassing.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: Others might even feel green with envy.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: The Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, when in the position now held by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, had the decency to provide a proper selection process to fill a vacant and lucrative post in the energy regulatory body.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: No.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: I am entitled to ask about the renewed programme for Government. Is an unsolicited phone call to an individual to attend a quiet fireside chat with the Minister in question-----

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: -----in regard to a job the way public appointments should be made? I depend on Fianna Fáil on this.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: I believe they have concerns and would not get away with what the Green Party Minister has gotten away with. Is this section of the renewed programme for Government to be retained and acted upon or will it now be taken out and quietly buried?

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Liz McManus: It is stated as part of the legislative programme that all promotions will be run by an independent committee.