Results 7,601-7,620 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: The Ministers have been in office for three years.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: I wish to share time with Deputy Timmy Dooley.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: The storms of recent weeks have, as the Minister rightly said, inflicted massive damage on homes, commercial property, farmland and infrastructure. The Government's support and response must be adequate. I am glad to hear the Minister raise the issue of transferring information between the Government, the OPW and the insurance industry in regard to outstanding insurance claims in order to...
- Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: Will the Taoiseach inform the House exactly when we will have a housing Bill to address the crisis evident throughout the country, specifically referred to by Deputy Durkan in respect of Kildare but which is evident in other counties as well? I got a call last week from my housing officer in Offaly. He asked me not to proceed with any more representations in respect of housing because he...
- Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: I have heard that before.
- Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: The Government knows about €2 billion in savings but cannot quantify them.
- Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: It is a runaway train that the Government will not quantify the €2 billion in savings it has admitted to having.
- Valuation Bill 2014: First Stage (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Valuation Act 2001 to make provision whereby all sports clubs and sporting organisations shall only be liable to be charged property rates on that part of the premises of the sports club or organisation which is licenced to sell alcoholic beverages and to provide for related matters.The purpose of the Bill is to...
- Valuation Bill 2014: First Stage (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: Mr. Tierney is telling us €2 billion over seven years. I simply want to know how he established that figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: Deputy Murphy commented that this was a new area the company is working in, despite the fact that it is a monopoly. Have many of the staff taken on had experience working in the water sector in the past?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: I picked up on another point from Mr. McGowan's presentation. He said the regulator would receive submissions and that there was a window between April and June. By June the CER expects to publish what the costs are expected to be at the doors. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: When will Irish Water make submissions to the CER outlining its costs, targets, plans of expenditure and so forth to allow the CER to digest the data and, ultimately, set a price for water? When will Irish Water make that submission to the CER?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: I would have thought the CER might have got to that information before now, considering Mr. Tierney is talking about vague plans of 25 years and 40 years down the line, but that is for another day. Does the CER have any costs in respect of consultancy fees?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: So €234,000 was spent in respect of water?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: A total of €5 million was spent in respect of other areas. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: I tabled a parliamentary question seeking data on consultancy fees incurred by the CER in recent years. Last year in the area of electricity the figure was €2.6 million, in the area of gas it was almost €1 million, in petroleum it was €1.5 million and in water it was €300,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: Will the commissioner address the question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: No; I am with the regulator now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Barry Cowen: No. Uisce Éireann has to come back to me on it.