Results 61-80 of 85 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Tommy Broughan

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...of recent years is different. The public will ask us why the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, has not resigned over the issue of long-stay elderly care. The public instinctively feels that the political head should be responsible. This goes outside the remit of this Bill. It does not specifically refer to the CER, although the Minister can direct it and the generating...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...not the Progressive Democrats wing but the Progressive Democrats heart of Fianna Fáil will hopefully submerge into oblivion in three or four months' time. Hopefully, the Fianna Fáil members who feel the same way will go the same way and we will have a different Government. One could say that EirGrid was set up in response to Brussels as a pretence that we are embarking on a particular...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...and our successors in decades to come an opportunity to review this important question. In the past I supported the Green Party Bill seeking annual reviews in the area of climate change and I feel this is a modest proposal. I welcome the Minister's attitude to amendment No. 49 and also to the Labour Party's amendment No. 54. I ask him to consider going the final mile on fuel poverty by...

Corrib Gas Field. (9 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...era. Such talks, if accompanied by a suspension of the works at Bellanaboy, would lead to the immediate end of the protest, as Dr. Garavan declared yesterday. It has been indicated to me that feelings have run so strongly that it might be wise to turn to some of the partners with experience in the field, such as Norway, to lead the discussion. I propose the involvement of, for example, a...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: While I feel it would be better to adopt the amendment, I will withdraw it.

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...that the Minister can lay down a higher level, but I suggest that to refer to the internal-external ratio would offer an additional power to a Minister for the future. Ordinary citizens would feel that having the oil here in the country is the most important issue. Basically, what I wanted to achieve through this amendment was for a sufficient ratio to be physically within the...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ..., Deputies Fahey and Dermot Ahern, have failed to pull back that ground. The Minister said on a number of occasions he would review the licensing terms, that he was preparing a review and that he feels there are reasons to take a more pro-active role on our oil and gas resources. Will there be any fruits of that review in the forthcoming budget or in anything the Minister does before the...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...companies. There appear to be central policy directions which the board must set and because of that the model I suggest would be best. However, I accept what the Minister has said. I still feel the gender requirement is a basic aspiration. While I understand the Minister's point, he should lay down a standard for the gender requirement in some kind of legislation to ensure that in...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (8 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...'s opinion, is concerned, by order assign to the Agency such additional functions connected with the functions assigned to it by or under this Act as the Minister considers appropriate. Again, I feel there is merit in Deputy Durkan's amendment, since we might be discussing the extension of functions. I have asked the Minister, in a subsequent Labour amendment, to examine the possibility...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (8 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...Dublin and Ireland very well, but discovered that the normal indexation relating to a State servant's pension is being abandoned in his case. The man is not receiving any pension increases and he feels bad about it. He is of the view that this issue, which falls under the remit of the Department of Transport, should be addressed. Where the operational freedom of the company would be...

Energy Resources: Motion. (7 Nov 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...to those who need assistance with their fuel bills. It is not just low-income families who are being pummelled by soaring fuel prices. Families with relatively comfortable incomes are also feeling the increasing pinch on household budgets as family fuel costs soar above €2,000. If one adds the various costs together, they are heading for €3,000. This issue was discussed when I was...

Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...difficulties of enabling exchanges and of getting broadband without changing numbers, and asked that the Minister, who leads this House in legislation on communications, take some action? Did he feel at that stage he had a responsibility to act in regard to the only independent Irish company in the market but failed to do so? Is the Minister concerned about the business models used by...

Energy Regulation. (30 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...Minister for Finance about excise, VAT and indirect taxation on electricity, gas and oil? Is he undertaking any such discussions in the context of the final budget of this Government? Many citizens feel there should be intense discussions about how to hold the price of energy in this difficult time. Has the Minister spoken to his United Kingdom counterpart on the problem with wholesale gas...

Postal Services. (9 Mar 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...and will have at least one post office. The residents of Clarehall and adjoining estates are happy to receive a postal service, which is to be welcomed. However, the residents of Priorswood parish feel badly let down by An Post. I was grateful to meet An Post's chief operations officer, Mr. Larry Donald, last Thursday in this building. He gave me a thorough briefing on the Priorswood...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (7 Feb 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...and relatives' families in the mid-1980s, there has always been a sense of injustice and lack of closure among the people of Coolock, Raheny and the adjoining districts that I represent. Those feelings have intensified in recent years. The book They Never Came Home by two distinguished young north-side journalists, Mr. Tony McCullagh and Mr. Neil Fetherstonhaugh, raised serious questions...

Energy Resources. (25 Jan 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...BGE and the CER? We have a massive reserve off the north-western coast at the Corrib field. It is projected to be able to meet approximately 60% of Irish needs for ten years at a minimum. Everybody feels we must get that gas ashore by agreement with local people as soon as possible. In that context, I understand the Minister has the final report of Advantica Consultants. Will the Minister...

Industrial Relations. (15 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: ...they welcomed the new workers when they arrived and assisted them with directions and so on around Dublin. However, anyone placed in a situation where his livelihood and family is threatened, might feel opposed to the introduction of foreign workers on those grounds. Mr. Jim Farrell of Roadstone PLC contacted me a few minutes ago and informed me that the new workers are paid Irish wage...

Regional Fisheries Boards (Postponement of Elections) Order 2005: Motion. (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: ...knowledge which has been built up over decades and generations about water catchment areas, water quality and, most importantly, fishery stocks will impact on the new centralised agency. There is a feeling among the inland fisheries community that there has not been sufficient consultation. The Minister of State said he would have this year for that, but it would have been a better...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: ...that will prevent a change of Government, but it may not work because many people are profoundly interested in the legislation before us. They might not agree with every line of it, however they feel it is a timely debate. The Green Party must be commended for bringing forward this Bill, one of the major elements of which, as I understand it, is to provoke a debate year-on-year in this...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: ...years. I do not have time to quote all the excerpts in this regard, but on our carbon emission targets and the likely 2010 targets, it is shocking that the European protection agency in Copenhagen feels that we are not addressing this problem seriously enough. Climate change has been obvious across the European Continent, especially in the past few years. The hottest years on record were...