Results 741-760 of 1,416 for speaker:Tony Gregory

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: Question 5: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the potential for electoral fraud arising from the large-scale inaccuracies in the electoral register, all voters will be required to produce identification before being permitted to cast their vote. [16791/06]

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: Exempt the elderly.

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: I do not know what the aim of this flexibility is. Did the Minister have in mind the flexibility to personate someone? Anyone, regardless of age, must produce identification when he or she wishes to collect a pension, access a post office account or obtain a residential parking disc from a local authority. Regardless of the transaction they are engaged in, people require identification, and...

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: The issue of who was involved in this activity was well covered by the Sunday Independent a few years ago.

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: Does the Minister not accept that my request is really an appeal to make the democratic process secure? If the Minister issues an instruction that anyone presenting himself or herself to vote must bring along a piece of identification, be it a passport, pension book or utility bill, it will not cause delay. If this message is disseminated, people will not turn up without identification. They...

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: I am asking the Minister whether he is aware that he is allowing——

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: Does the Minister not accept that under the present system, he is overseeing a situation where there is no deterrent against mass personation, yet three or four votes can elect a Member of this House?

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: A total of 75% of people will not require identification and will not be challenged in the polling station. Anyone who is challenged can simply walk away.

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: Nonsense.

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: Yes.

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: The Minister is a disgrace.

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: That remains my view.

Election Management System. (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: I am not here to keep my views to myself.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: I understand the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, regards this motion in the names of Independent Deputies to be the worst motion to come before this House. Coming from the Minister, I regard this as a compliment.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: The general public throughout the country would regard the worst proposal to come before this House in recent times to be electronic voting machines, which came originally from the Minister. I will not call it a brainchild as it may be a misuse of terms. In the context of this debate on the sell-out of this country's natural resources by Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats, I condemn...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: It has also been facilitated by the general failure to focus attention on this vital national issue. The media should be included in this blame. Since November 2004 we have the unpardonable case where a licence granted to Providence Resources, headed by the billionaire Sir Anthony O'Reilly, means the company can now benefit from a 20% stake while all the exploration costs are covered by Exxon...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: Under the terms given by Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats to the multinationals, once the multinational gets the exploration licence, it effectively owns any gas or oil found.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: This motion, moved by the Independent Deputies, is putting the case that this scandal has gone too far.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: It is gone past the time to say stop. We demand a total freeze on the issuing of any further exploration licences. We demand the establishment of a publicly owned gas and oil exploration and recovery agency, independent of the multinational gas and oil conglomerates. We demand the recognition of the fundamental principle that the oil and gas resources off our coast belong to the Irish people...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 May 2006)

Tony Gregory: Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to ensure that a social worker's service be made available to patients in the psychiatric ward in the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16496/06]