Results 6,741-6,760 of 11,024 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Therefore, the Tánaiste agrees with the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Is the Tánaiste saying the recovery is based on those decisions?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Are we responsible for the recovery?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Is the Tánaiste thanking us for the recovery?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Fund Issues (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if he expects payments to be made in 2013 from the credit union fund established to facilitate the restructuring of the sector; if he expects additional funds will be required over and above those already allocated; his plans for the future of the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41453/13]
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (2 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I rise to support this amendment, or more specifically, the spirit of the amendment. It is vitally important that in our efforts to regulate the industry in a fair and consistent manner we do not forget about providing for those with disabilities and ensuring there is adequate provision of suitably adapted vehicles to meet their needs. That issue was taken into consideration previously when...
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (2 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Is that an indication of fallibility?
- 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.