Results 64,001-64,020 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, line 32, after "person" to insert "or group". We discussed this matter on Committee Stage. I merely tabled the amendment to provide for the possibility that the definition would cover a group as well as a person. The explanation given on Committee Stage seemed satisfactory. However, we resubmitted a number of amendments, including this one, in accordance...
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, line 8, after "Minister" to insert "and approved by the Oireachtas". The amendment deals with a theme that is a favourite hobby horse of mine. It has governed my life since I was elected to the House. I have great pleasure, therefore, in speaking to the amendment. Unfortunately, we tend to presume there will be Oireachtas approval, on the basis of...
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: This goes to show that if one beats one's head off the wall often enough, eventually one will bore a hole in the wall. I thank the Minister for acknowledging this requirement. It is hugely important that we recognise the role of the Oireachtas, a sovereign parliament as opposed to, for instance, an assembly. We can all recognise that at least there is some role for the Houses of Parliament...
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: He did, actually.
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: This is the reason.
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: The Taoiseach should say something about the matter.
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: This highly important legislation, which has wide-reaching consequences, has been rushed through each Stage from the time it was introduced to the House and is about to be rushed through another. This is not the way to go about business or to legislate. Having regard to the historical lessons they have learned, Members should not proceed with a guillotine for this Bill either.
- Fisheries Protection. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: It will be a rolling maul.
- Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the extent to which he expects or intends micro-generation to play a part in meeting electricity requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11556/07]
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: I do not know about that.
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: We do not get much information from the Taoiseach as it is.
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: What about the costs?
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: The distinction is the same as that between Superman and Clark Kent.
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Question No. 10.
- Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: It may be joint commemoration.
- Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, arising from his proposals as set out in the Government's White Paper on energy with particular reference to the ESB, the national grid or other electricity producers, it is intended to purchase or lease the network from the ESB; if he has had discussions on the potential cost; if he has quantified the...
- Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: In the Minister's reply, he did not refer specifically to whether he, his Department or the Government intend to privatise the generating capacity of the ESB. Has he discussed that matter with the ESB and its group of unions? In his discussions with them, to what extent has he discussed the grid's stability in the context of the separation announced in the White Paper, given that the ESB...
- Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Spin is not rare nowadays.
- Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.