Results 7,461-7,480 of 10,459 for speaker:Bertie Ahern

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Bill is to bring coherence to half a dozen organisations, working together.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It is needed not for the Dublin area but nationally. An examination is under way with regard to having the ports under the Department of Transport. The two relevant Ministers are to bring forward proposals on this issue.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Bill that was listed for some years will not go ahead. The proposals in the Bill are not sufficient, and it is not considered to be useful or workable. The Minister stated yesterday that changes will be required to get all of the transport organisations working together to implement a plan of the scale proposed based on what has been happening for the past five or six years. Whether these...

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The legislation is due this session.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The tribunal of inquiries Bill is due this session. To respond to the Deputy's other point, if I state that a matter will be brought to the House and then, in a parliamentary question unrelated to what I was asked, I actually bring the information to the House——

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The House agreed motions and the terms of reference. We are not talking about changing those terms of reference; that is where the House would be consulted. However, I brought the information to the House, which was the proper way to proceed.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The repayment scheme for charges for publicly funded residential long stay care Bill is due at the end of this year.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I have clarified for the Deputy the procedures involved. The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission is not provided for in the Book of Estimates. When the debate takes place on the Estimates, it will be excluded from it. If the House wishes to find a way to have a debate on that matter, it will have to be through some separate process. It could occur if the Whips examined it.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The legislation was removed from the Order Paper.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I have requested that it be examined. The reason it was held up was that the Departments of Education and Science and Health and Children were examining the establishment of a pre-employment consultancy service on this matter. However, it has not been possible to do this due to the North-South Ministerial Council not operating. I have requested that some other way of setting it up be examined.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I will bring the Deputy's views to the Minister's attention.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The legislation in question is very extensive. I do not believe it will be ready before the Christmas break. Heads were approved some time ago but it is a large Bill.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The legislation is nearly ready. However, I cannot say if it will be ready for Christmas.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: No legislation is promised at this stage.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: There is no legislation listed for this area.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform will bring forward proposals in the coming weeks on an inquiry into child abuse in the Dublin diocese. We have already stated a national audit must take place in other dioceses. The Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Brian Lenihan, is writing to diocesan authorities on this matter.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: We invested greatly across a range of areas through the national development plan, the results of which can be seen throughout the country. It is true that items in the national development plan are not completed. Those items are included in this plan because we want to see the intercity rail routes completed. We put together a coherent plan based on the best professionalism of all the...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Now the agencies are delivering because they have money and the economy is good. As one of my colleagues said yesterday, the Government is not into wasting money by doubling the national debt or spending money——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The great success of the parties opposite——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: ——was they spent practically all our resources. About 28% or 29% of the entire resources of the country was used to service the national debt. Deputy Burton knows because she was appalled at that.