Results 8,141-8,160 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: The 2009 EPA regulations, which I support, are for new build. They will not be required to deal with this problem, even though Fianna Fáil and Deputies Mattie McGrath and Michael Healy-Rae want to implement them. Deputy Ãamon à CuÃv regularly says there was no investment in rural Ireland to deal with water and wastewater matters. That might have been the case but not anymore. The...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy has now advocated the abandonment of the equalisation principle under the local government fund. He knows that when motor tax is paid into the fund, there is an equalisation measure to transfer resources from urban Ireland to rural Ireland to deliver local government services. Has he forgetten about this? There has been a massive transfer of resources from urban Ireland to rural...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: The principle is what the Deputy wants to abandon. He is saying this measure is about abandoning investment in rural Ireland.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: If the Deputy did not know about this-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: Do I have the floor?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: Leave the House.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: I know the information I have given to Deputy Eamon à CuÃv is not satisfactory to him, but Kilkenny people do not walk off the pitch. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand," put and declared carried.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: That is for sure.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: It is primary legislation.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: That is different.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: There is big interest in Tom's meeting.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: Where did I go?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: We got rid of them.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy is playing games all of the time.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: No. Those were the Deputy's regulations, as he knows well.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: I said-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: That is nonsense.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: And supported by Mattie and Michael.
- Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (25 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: School Traffic Wardens are employed by Local Authorities. Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each County and City Manager is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible. My Department has a delegated sanction, from the Department of Public Expenditure and...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (25 Jan 2012)
Phil Hogan: The project referred to in the Question is being held on the basis that the promoter has already received combined grant aid of â¬200,000 during the period 2010/2011 for other projects which is the limit of what is allowable under EU State Aid rules. State Aid refers to any aid granted by a Member State which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or...