Results 7,881-7,900 of 11,024 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Deputy should not be looking for a climate Bill; he should be looking for a roof to be put over Ireland.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: There is a fair bit of it around Sandymount as well.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: We read in a newspaper today that an international firm has been hired by the Government to raise the ceiling on bankers' pay. As the Minister will know, bankers' pay was set at approximately €500,000 per annum. When the report is concluded, does the Government intend to bring legislation on this matter to the House?
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister think it will fall?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Sadly, third level students are now starting to find out about those. Since the June summit, the Government has also sought to add to the confusion surrounding the deal. It has tried to confuse the issue of promissory notes with the deal supposedly achieved in June.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I have a minute to put my supplementary question and the Ceann Comhairle might allow me to do so.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Is the Government still seeking a deal on Ireland's bank debt, as outlined in June? Is it holding out in the hope that the promissory note process under way well before June will somehow be resolved, as the interest issue was resolved? The Government will go on another lap of honour, and perhaps the Taoiseach will be on the front of Vanity Fair the next time.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister is part of the Government. It is about time it took responsibility
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Kicking Fianna Fáil helped you going into the election.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I was talking about this Government's actions.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Last June, following the statement issued at the end of the European Council meeting, the Taoiseach and Government colleagues trumpeted the outcome as being a game changer for this country. We were led to believe that the decision to allow for the direct recapitalisation of Spanish banks without placing the burden on the shoulders of the Spanish people had positive benefits for the Irish...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach is representing Ireland at the negotiating table in Brussels today. What is he seeking? In light of the statement of the three finance Ministers, is he asking for clarity concerning whether his understanding of the June summit is correct and still stands?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Is he asking for a timeline for the conclusion of a deal on Ireland's bank debt? If so, what is it that we are seeking in that regard?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I am glad that the Minister raised the Time magazine issue. Since June, the Taoiseach has spent more time on a lap of honour congratulating himself on having Ireland included in the text without making any real effort to work with the leaders of the other countries. He has not met a single leader in the intervening period.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I would have preferred it had he toured the capitals of Europe in an attempt to flesh out the deal instead of running around the world's media organisations in the hope that they might have a spare front page at a dead time of the year so that he might present it as a major achievement for Ireland. The Government was elected on a promise of burning bondholders and removing the burden of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome Ms Graham and Mr. Murphy and thank them for their presentation. This morning we have had the benefit of hearing observations by the transport sector, both private and public. The focus of the National Transport Authority, NTA, is on the consumer and the State. To that extent we have heard claims by both sides, some of them contradictory. The first one, the transfer of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Nolan for his presentation and welcome Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Leahy and Ms Flynn. The presentation sets out clearly what the company does, some of which is probably lost on the public on occasion. However, we are not here to talk about the company but to discuss whether it is better for the National Transport Authority to proceed with the direct award system or to go down the road...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The smaller bundles of routes will be managed in isolation and could be handled by three, four or five different companies. There will be regulatory issues surrounding the costs of checking fleets and other associated costs, and the State must carry out those. At present it only has to do that for one company, Bus Éireann. If there is a multiplicity of smaller bundles, there will be a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Mullins, who is a regular visitor to Leinster House, for his presentation. He keeps us well informed on the issues pertaining to his sector. Mr. Mullins's presentation was good in that it seeks to address some of the issues of concern. On London Bus, I was part of a transport committee in 2004 which visited London Bus, at which time we were told that while there were service...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Mr. Mullins might be very disappointed on that one.