Results 8,201-8,220 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (19 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 352. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved additional posts in mental health services which have been filled to date this year; and when it is expected that any outstanding vacant posts will be filled. [54845/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (19 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a significant number of nursing posts in hospitals across Ireland have recently been advertised by the Health Service Executive to be filled by foreign nationals when thousands of nurses are graduating from colleges and universities in this State each year; the reason an extended period of training in theatre and critical care is not made...
- Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: What about legislation in the public interest? The Minister could have done it.
- Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: We did it with the banks.
- Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: There was no agreement with the banks. We forced them.
- Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: We heard 60,000.
- Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: From the lads who built them.
- Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: The Bill before us has major implications for the thousands of homeowners who have been or may be affected by pyrite damage. I must say at the outset that I am disappointed by the amount of time allocated to debate the Bill in the House, particularly that allocated for the next stage. The approach taken by the Government to the ordering of Dáil business this week is pretty shocking....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (18 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: 30. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 13 November 2013, the actions being taken and that will be taken to ensure that citizens requiring long-term residential care are provided with appropriate care and supports as expediently as possible. [53983/13]
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister has abrogated his responsibility.
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: I agree with many of Deputy Mick Wallace's comments. The Minister had an opportunity to bring in proper building control regulations but he has singularly failed to do that.
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: As with many other things, the Minister has flunked the challenge.
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: At the weekend the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, rightly said that much more housing is needed in the greater Dublin region and his comments included a caveat. He said: "The planning system will also be made less restrictive." A major programme of social housing in Dublin and throughout the country is urgently needed but the deplorable record of the Celtic tiger era is that the planning...
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: I refer to the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004. I understand the Taoiseach had discussions last week with Ms Antoinette Keegan of the Stardust Relatives and Victims Committee regarding the possibility of establishing a commission of investigation into the Stardust tragedy in 1981, given the problems with the outrageous failure of the Keane tribunal-----
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: -----and the problems with the Coffey report. When the Taoiseach was canvassing in my constituency during the last general election campaign with Deputy Terence Flanagan, he might have given people a commitment-----
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: -----or a promise that he would establish a commission of investigation. It is a legacy issue.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: Some legacy issues have been dealt with, and I commend those involved. This is a painful legacy issue-----
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: The Taoiseach wants to say something.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: The game plan is to sell the company to the private sector.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Tommy Broughan: It is about privatisation.