Results 9,121-9,140 of 11,050 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. There seems to be no end to the challenges and unexpected shocks to the worldwide economy over the past three years. When this debate was initiated last week, there appeared to be an air of calm in Europe and especially in the eurozone. An accommodation had been reached on the Greek situation. The Greek debt problem had...
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Yes, but he indicated that he had not spoken with the ECB about it.
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: However, today's interjection by the Taoiseach stated it was clear from his perspective that there was no opportunity to do that. I would accept it if the Minister for Finance, in isolation, put on the record his desire to talk to the ECB and challenge it with regard to a policy of reducing the commitment to senior bondholders at Anglo Irish Bank, for all the right reasons. There is...
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: -----but two people have put forward very different views of our position in the negotiations.
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: I have no problem with the principle of negotiation, but it was clear the Government was starting from a point at which it knew it had no chance, which the Taoiseach pretty much admitted today. I ask the Minister of State to read the blacks.
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: He clearly said it was not possible.
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: My charge is that the Minister for Finance - this is a political charge, so the Deputies will have to take it in context - was trying to create an air of achievement about the Government's first 100 days in office. It had become a hostage to its commitment at an early stage that it would do a hell of a lot more in 100 days. Nobody expected it to. We realise it is not a sprint. Resolving...
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: However, I have little doubt that the notes I have prepared will raise their heads again on some future occasion.
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Would this be Italy or Spain?
- Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: I cannot believe the Deputy is not smiling.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Why did the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, go to New York on day 99 and make comments to the contrary?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Buttimer spent a fair bit of time looking at the media.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)
Timmy Dooley: That was more than six months ago.
- Written Answers — Judicial Appointments: Judicial Appointments (25 Oct 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the judicial council; if it will have a role in judicial appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31114/11]
- Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (25 Oct 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Question 367: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 20 July 2011, if the Dun na RÃ estate in County Clare has been granted funding to carry out work to finish the estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31154/11]
- Written Answers — Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Amendments (25 Oct 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Question 522: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she plans to hold a referendum on the substantive issue relating to the rights of the child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31012/11]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Question 647: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Irish Aviation Authority is not complying with the directive stated in the letter dated 15 December 2008, from a person (details supplied) which states that with effect from 1 January 2009, employers must discharge their existing responsibility to allow PRSI relief at source on the social welfare benefit...
- Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach will not be in a hurry to have a presidential election again.
- Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Over the course of the weekend, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport indicated he was about to review the State Airports Act. He talked about the privatisation or the potential lease of airports at Shannon and Cork. The notion of privatisation of those airports or the lease arrangement of those airports is not contained in the State Airports Act. Is it proposed to introduce...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Was Deputy Durkan not part of it?