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Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister of State is aware from amendments I made on Committee Stage and issues I raised on Second Stage that I am in total agreement with the principle at play in Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan's amendment. There are potential issues regarding competition but I support the spirit of what is advocated. The taxi business should be a full-time operation and taxi drivers should expect to be...

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I support the amendment and agree that the requirement regarding licensing and insurance should be set out in a categoric way in the legislation. There is concern among taxi drivers that the nature of the business lends itself to an unregulated element. To clarify one point made by Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett, deregulation was not, as such, a decision by a previous Government but had more...

Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach will be aware that the number of people killed on our roads this year, for the first time in ten years, has seen a steady increase. This is very worrying, as the Taoiseach will admit, and the chairman of the Road Safety Authority has made his views known on that publicly in his condemnation of the way in which the Minister for Justice and Equality has engaged in regard to his...

Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: In that context, when does the Government intend to bring forward the road traffic (No. 3) Bill, which deals with the mutual recognition of penalty points, North and South?

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach has obliterated all of the others.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: To convince them. Ministers do not have much to say.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: That was then; this is now. The Taoiseach is going back to the past.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach was bidding at every auction.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach is not happy with himself.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Adams has also made families struggle.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: That is due to emigration.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: That is why the Government amended legislation to make it easier for repossessions.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I am just helping the Taoiseach in answering the question.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Will the Taoiseach confirm that? Is it that he does not know?

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The only solution is eviction and repossession.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: We are not in Croke Park now on the sideline.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Is Deputy Reilly still giving out the medical cards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Framework on Market Access and Financial Transparency of Ports: Discussion with Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: As Ms Lally gave such an outstanding overview we have no questions.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (2 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: 11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia; his views on the human rights legislation currently in place in the Russian Federation; the actions has he taken to raise these concerns with his Russian counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41195/13]

Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Fianna Fáil broadly welcomes the Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill and will support its provisions. It will also be bringing forward amendments to strengthen road traffic legislation even further. Our amendments would crack down on hit and run drivers by introducing tougher penalties and extending the powers of arrest of gardaí. I will outline these provisions on Committee Stage. They...