Results 8,261-8,280 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: No, on the second issue.
- Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The Cabinet has not yet received the report on it.
- Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I cannot say at this time, but I will find out and let the Deputy know.
- Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: We have no date for publication of that Bill.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: On behalf of the Government, I thank Deputy O'Dea for the observations he made, which we welcome. We will probably have information about the bond auction before the end of business, and if I receive the information, I will convey it to the House. These figures are disappointing. The Government views unemployment as its number one priority and we believe these figures are far too high. We...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I agree it is being effectively tackled but, sadly, none of us anticipated the scale of the problem left behind by the previous Government.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: There remains a major problem of consumer debt in this economy. That includes personal debt, mortgage debt and the rest of it. It has taken us longer than we would have liked to get to the insolvency legislation that my colleague the Minister for Justice and Equality has launched in the House. The length of time required for Second Stage speeches is an indication of the complexity of the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I am glad the Sinn Féin Party met with the troika. I hope its members continue to meet such people; it might detach them from the voodoo economics they spout in here. The reality is no family, no small business and no country can run a permanent budget deficit. The cycle must be balanced over a period of time. Unfortunately, because the tax base of this country was destroyed when the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: It was a planned surplus, which had never happened before, and we will do it again if we get the opportunity. In the meantime we will look at all the issues that are on the table, but this is the second week in July and the budget will be delivered in December. All of the special adviser salaries are a fraction of what they were, in both amount and numbers, compared to the previous...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: First of all, I will take no lecture from a party in this House whose military wing visited two and half decades of austerity on this island.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The House may be interested to know the NTMA sold three-month bonds this morning at a 1.8% yield, less than the expected 2% yield.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The Deputies cannot even accept good news, God love them. They are really pathetic.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I accept what Deputy Boyd Barrett said about the crisis in housing. It is one of the most extraordinary contradictions of our times that on the one hand we have people who cannot afford to buy a house, who are on rent supplement in privately owned houses, and at the same time we have acres of ghost estates. When the history of this period is written from a distance of objectivity, people...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: It would not make economic or social sense to divert scarce capital resources into a new local authority house building programme. We have a surplus of houses, irrespective of the ownership. We should look at getting effective, efficient use from what is there already.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: In many respects, that is a matter that must be dealt with, and the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, will be able to do so in due course. In the next six years 70,000 young people, most of whom are alive today, will come into the education system and we must prioritise capital-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: -----to build the extra capacity-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: -----in the areas of the country where there are population increases. We have limited capital resources and a surplus of empty houses. Let us sort out the ownership by all means, but in the meantime we must use the scarce capital resources we have to meet a rising demand that nobody denies. We will have a total of 70,000 additional pupils - 45,000 extra pupils in the primary school system...
- Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: It is proposed to take No. 15, European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill 2011 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. 5, Personal Insolvency Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to adjourn at 2.30 p.m. today, if not previously concluded; No. 16, Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad] - Order for...
- Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The matter is being dealt with but I cannot discuss the matter on the Order of Business.
- Written Answers — Bullying in Schools: Bullying in Schools (4 Jul 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy is aware, the Anti-Bullying Forum, which was held on Thursday 17th May, brought together a range of experts, support groups and representatives of the schools sector including parents and students. I was very pleased to open this important Forum and to provide an opportunity to explore with all the relevant stakeholders how best to tackle bullying in schools and to consider what...