Results 6,881-6,900 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche
- Election Management System. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: The Deputy should remember there are many contentions on both sides. In fact, in submissions attached to the report, many extreme statements are made on issues. There are different views among the specialists in this area. A VVAT is not universally regarded as a sine qua non of any voting system.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: They are very careful readers.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: This is a fine report which was produced in exemplary fashion. It is a good example of the expediency that should attach to these types of issues. On 27 January 2005, the Taoiseach directed that arrangements be made to implement, as appropriate, the recommendations of the Quigley report. I understand that advice to all Departments in regard to the main recommendations of the report will be...
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: It is an excellent report and the conclusions which it reaches have not been portrayed accurately in the somewhat brusque and politically apposite summary that Deputy McCormack has produced. Regarding the reappointment of the consultant in question, I have made it clear form the outset that my preference is to rely on the Department's press office and other departmental resources....
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: It is a hypothetical consideration as to what I would do in those circumstances.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: Deputy McCormack is entitled to ask and I am entitled to answer in the manner I consider appropriate. This is a hypothetical scenario about which I am not willing to speculate. I do not know what the situation was at the time. However, I know that Mr. Quigley's report puts a somewhat different snas on the issues than that suggested by Deputy McCormack. I draw the Deputy's attention to what is...
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: I have indicated neither because I did not know the state of play in the Department at that time.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: It is an entirely fatuous questionââ
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: No, it is an entirely fatuous question. I have indicated my position on several occasions.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: I am not he.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: I will only resign if I do something that deserves resignation.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: The requirement for a thermal treatment facility was formally identified in Dublin's regional waste management plan which was adopted by the four Dublin local authorities in the late 1990s. In the context of the southern and eastern regional operational programme of the national development plan, my Department has provided Cohesion Fund assistance towards the planning of the Dublin region...
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: As I said to the Deputy, the incinerator project needs to go through a planning process.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: Obviously if it gets the green light in the planning process, it can proceed, but if it does not, then we will be back to the drawing board. I made this point in my reply to the Deputy. I cannot predict the decisions of various independent boards on this project and I am sure the Deputy is not asking me to put myself in a position where I could be seen to influence those views. However, those...
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: The Deputy can indeed take it. The planning process needs to be followed. I do not intend to intervene in or interfere with what is an independent planning process. I am sure the Deputy is not asking me to interfere with a decision which will be made by the local authorities in this city and county.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: That is a very fair question. With regard to whether this project will be covered by the strategic infrastructure Bill, I understand that it is the intention of Dublin City Council, as the co-ordinator in the project, to submit it for processing under existing legislation. To save the Deputy asking a further supplementary question, it would be my wish that it should proceed under existing...
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: That does not arise. The strategic infrastructure Bill is complex legislation which will take some time to enact. I understand it is intended to proceed with this project under existing legislation. I have made it clear that would be my wish.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: That would not be a fair assumption to make from the response I have given. I have been quite precise as to my wishes. With the help of the House I anticipate that the critical infrastructure Bill will get a relatively speedy passage. We accept that it will take time to process this particular project under existing legislation. However, if the project is in process, it is under the existing...
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: The Deputy has been around for a long time and he must know that he should not believe everything he reads, regardless of how good the newspapers in this country are.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Dick Roche: There has been no insistence. I have given a number of interviews on this issue and made my view clear. It will take some time for the strategic infrastructure Bill to be passed. This project is in process at the moment. My view isââ