Results 6,861-6,880 of 10,977 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The economy is bouncing along the bottom despite the Minister for Finance's claim that it was about to take off like a rocket. How does the Government intend to take people off of social protection and create 75,000 jobs?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (18 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: 311. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm the current status of the proposed legislation for the special position of retained fire fighters with regard to social welfare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36001/13]
- Council of the European Union (Lithuanian Presidency): Motion (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Fianna Fáil will be supporting this motion. At the outset, I extend my best wishes to the Lithuanian Government and the Lithuanian people on taking up the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time. As the Tánaiste is aware from his experience over the past six months, it is a great honour to lead the Council of the European Union. It is also a great...
- Council of the European Union (Lithuanian Presidency): Motion (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Our two countries have much in common, including our size, our history of struggling towards independence and our peripheral geographical location on the European continent. It was apt that Lithuania joined the European Union under the successful Irish Presidency of the European Union in 2004, when ten new member states from central and eastern Europe joined in the largest expansion of the...
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Is it likely that it will be published before the beginning of the next session?
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Is it a priority for the Government?
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I am asking whether it is a priority.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Is it a priority?
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Legislation has been promised for some time on the transfer of responsibility for diversity of media ownership, including mergers and acquisitions, from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Can the Taoiseach update us on the status of that? When he is doing so he might also tell us a little bit about the axis of...
- Tributes to Staff Member (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Someone could have done without those angles last week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Roads Authority: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Where does Mr. Barry see the cliff? If the money is not available, when will there be a significant deterioration to the extent that it will impact on the capacity of the road to carry the traffic and therefore lead ultimately to a road safety hazard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Roads Authority: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Is Mr. Barry getting a positive sense that the markets are amenable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Roads Authority: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The NRA got that for a while.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Roads Authority: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Barry for his presentation. I thank him and Mr. O'Neill for being here. I also thank Mr. Barry for his ongoing assistance to the committee. He is one of those public servants who is always available to take a call and he provides information both directly and through parliamentary questions. Public servants are often criticised in this House and outside it, but Mr. Barry is...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with reference to the recent changes to the Common Agricultural Policy, if horticulture as a sector of agriculture under the Act have admittance to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35632/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (17 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: 234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will indicate when the horticultural industry can avail of the Common Agricultural Policy scheme; when applications will be open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35633/13]
- Private Members' Business - Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (16 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Deputy Wallace for introducing this detailed Bill, the principles of which I broadly welcome. There are just under 13,500 members of An Garda Síochána working to keep the peace across this country. Their hard work and dedication down through the decades has kept the country safe from the scourge of criminality, the threat to usurp the democratic stability and security of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (16 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for the comprehensive reply. I accept the point that it is not necessarily within the Minister’s gift to resolve the matter but he is a significant shareholder. I worked out that he has approximately an 18% responsibility through his shareholding in Aer Lingus and a 27% responsibility through his relationship with the DAA. Therefore, the Minister has a 45%...
- Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (16 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the fact the Minister is in the Chamber to discuss this matter. The plans by Aer Lingus and its unions to plug the €780 million hole in the pension scheme have been rejected by the Pensions Board. In May, following six months of talks, the Labour Court recommended a deal involving payments from Aer Lingus and the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, totalling almost €200...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Timmy Dooley: He can get the new Clerk to deliver that.