Results 861-880 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Food Industry (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister of State for reaffirming what the Taoiseach said on the floor of the House yesterday on behalf of the Government that this will be acted upon. When I talk about other Departments and authorities responsibility, I am mindful of the professional commitment made as early as yesterday by the company. Its commitment to its community and excellence will be maintained. I am...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Food Industry (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: I am glad of this opportunity to offer my commiserations and sympathies, and those of my constituents, to Glenisk, the Cleary family, their staff and their suppliers, as a result of the devastating blow inflicted on them by a major fire at the plant on Monday. I thank the staff for ensuring that everybody got out safely and the emergency services for the quick response and the manner in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [46890/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: I thank the previous speakers and the Secretary General for making himself available to the committee in the hope that we can bring this to a conclusion, notwithstanding the vote that took place in the Dáil some weeks ago. Mr. Fraser stated that a memo was circulated the Friday before the Cabinet meeting, outlining the detail of the upcoming appointment, without mentioning the names....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: Then on the day in question, namely, the day of the Cabinet meeting, the reason why people were blindsided was because it was only then that the names were brought forward. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: When the Minister for Foreign Affairs appeared before the committee, I asked him, at one stage, if an error had been made in the Cabinet memo, or what detail was in it that caused people to be blindsided. He said: This was, by the way, in the Cabinet memo, but it was not spotted by some people. I have the page from the Cabinet memo in front of me, which mentioned a special envoy for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: He did himself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: I respect that. The Secretary General is giving the factual details.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: I respect, appreciate and understand that and Mr. Fraser is bringing the factual detail of the issue to bear to this committee, which I wholeheartedly accept. Perhaps I am missing something and perhaps the Minister clarified this on the second day he came before the committee but he definitely gave me the impression, when he answered that question in the quotation I have given to Mr. Fraser,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: I accept that the Secretary General has clarified that the first memo had no names.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: The memo that came on the day of the meeting had the names brought personally by the Minister but the Minister gave the impression to this committee that the first memo had the names on it. He said that these were not spotted by some people, as if some people were wrong for claiming that they were blindsided, to be quite honest. Somebody else may respond to that and I do not expect the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (23 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: Notwithstanding the debt of gratitude we owe front-line workers, healthcare workers especially, I wish to raise, as my colleague has done, the issue and the plight of the ambulance services. There are serious concerns, worries and fears in my community and constituency as a result of incidents relating to ambulance services. Reports from crews and patients around the country over the past...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (23 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: I appreciate the Minister of State's response. Looking over it and listening to what was contained in it, I would respectfully say that the dynamic deployment mechanism, as well thought out and well considered as it may have been, does not appear to be having the desired impact or results one would have expected initially. It is as a result of that and the frustrations and the morale within...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (23 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: -----such that engagement is seen to result in improvement.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: I wish to raise the matter of the Housing for All document and the commitments contained therein. A section of the document refers to a planning reform Bill that may come before the House. I am particularly conscious of a proposal I put forward earlier this year, the purpose of which was to find a means by which a time limit on the decision-making process of An Bord Pleanála would be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies in counties Offaly and Laois that have registered under the business resumption support scheme. [44797/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (21 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment of the current state of the public finances. [44798/21]

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: The appointment by the Cabinet and the subsequent withdrawal of Katherine Zappone as an envoy has been an unseemly controversy. The fact that the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Cabinet approved the appointment, some of whom, yes, were blindsided but, apparently, oblivious to the political implications, is, to say the very least of it, strange. The envoy appointment fiasco...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Sep 2021)

Barry Cowen: 646. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment with the orthopaedic clinic, Midland Regional Hospital, Tulllamore. [43496/21]