Results 741-760 of 1,310 for speaker:Shane McEntee
- Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (17 Jun 2008)
Shane McEntee: Question 699: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when guidelines for the preparation of a road safety plan outside schools will be available to enable schools to prepare their own plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23047/08]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (17 Jun 2008)
Shane McEntee: Question 700: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the concerns he has that buses involved in the school transport scheme might not be roadworthy even after they have passed his Department's annual roadworthiness test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23069/08]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (17 Jun 2008)
Shane McEntee: Question 701: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of warnings issued for safety breaches by Bus Ãireann's mobile school bus inspectors under the school transport scheme; the number of contracts terminated for safety breaches since 2004 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23070/08]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (17 Jun 2008)
Shane McEntee: Question 702: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he first engaged an international agency to carry out mechanical checks on Bus Ãireann and private buses involved in the school bus scheme; the number of checks carried out each year since 2004 to date in 2008; the number reported to be in breach of safety standards; the corrective action taken for those buses found to be in...
- Road Safety. (17 Jun 2008)
Shane McEntee: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to introduce a new drink driving limit and associated penalties in order to remove the uncertainty caused by recent press reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23697/08]
- Road Safety. (17 Jun 2008)
Shane McEntee: Any road safety measures introduced by the Minister, Deputy Dempsey, and the Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern, will get the full support of Fine Gael. I would like to comment on a distasteful report in a newspaper last Monday week. It seems that someone wanted to ascertain the response to the idea that drink drivers be given administrative penalties instead of being put off the road, in...
- Road Safety. (17 Jun 2008)
Shane McEntee: I welcome the Minister of State's final comment that, at the end of the day, none of us wants to be the bad boys but we want to ensure our roads are safer. I welcome the idea that everyone should be brought together on this issue. I ask that the Minister of State confirm again that it is his intention to bring interested parties together, including the Road Safety Authority, to debate this...
- Public Service Reform. (4 Jun 2008)
Shane McEntee: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has ruled any recommendations in or out from the OECD report on public service reform which has been passed to a new committee for consideration. [21913/08]
- Written Answers — Public Order Offences: Public Order Offences (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his vision in respect of tackling antisocial behaviour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21150/08]
- Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to deal with so called joy riding and the boy racer culture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21184/08]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: I compliment Deputy Brian Hayes on introducing this motion, which is crucial. I hope that in four years' time the parents and teachers of Ireland will recognise the work he is doing on their behalf and that what happened last year will never happen again. I have a list of schools before me, including those in Moynalty, Julianstown and Rathfeigh, which were promised in March last year that...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: That increase in class size is the issue. I am glad the Minister is back in the Chamber.
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: I missed the Minister. I am not allowed show him a picture of a school but he might come to County Meath and sort out the mess left by his predecessor in the county. It is not class size but the provision of classes that is the issue in the county. We want schools. All school projects in the county have been put on the long finger now that the general election is over. The Minister would...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: ââ-or told untruths. Now that the general election is over the projects are no further advanced. However, class size is an issue. The money spent on providing prefabs would be better spent on borrowing capital on which interest could be paid to provide proper school buildings in which pupils could be taught properly rather than having to go from prefab to prefab for classes. If the...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: She left no schools and no teachers. She was a disaster and ran out of the job.
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: Stick to the motion.
- Order of Business. (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: On the issue of the Electricity Bill, it was made quite clear two weeks ago at a presentation to the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources that there is a new mechanism for transferring electricity and that a company called IMERA is in a positionââ
- Order of Business. (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: ââto provide underground cabling in this country for the same price as over-ground cabling.
- Order of Business. (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: Will the Taoiseach be instructing the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources toââ
- Order of Business. (28 May 2008)
Shane McEntee: ââorder EirGrid to look at this new way of transferring electricity?