Results 9,521-9,540 of 11,050 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: What about the Labour Party?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Nor any Opposition Member.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: I wish to share time with Deputy McGuinness. I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. The legislation has been much discussed and it formed a central plank of the policy of change the Government sought to spin to the public during the election campaign. Sadly, this is a bit of a fudge. The establishment of the Department is a solution to a political problem, one which arose...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: To some extent I was taken by Deputy Barry's right wing rhetoric. He referred to the necessity for change, how change would be forced through and that people need to be moved aside. I remind him that he is part of a Government that involves the Labour Party.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: If they could not even manage to decide who would be the Minister for Finance at the outset of the negotiations it is highly unlikely that they would be able to instil that across the 340,000 staff who work in the public sector. It is not an easy job to introduce change. I caution the Government on taking a high-handed approach or using bully-boy tactics to pursue its agenda. I hope that...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Indeed. Deputy O'Dowd would be familiar with that.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Certainly not.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: The fact that the Bill has been brought to the House in a rushed manner to resolve the political concerns of the Government parties-----
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: We were because we knew the proposal was not properly planned. I refer to the fact that a White Paper was not published and that the parties had not talked about it in advance of the election.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: It did not form part of the proposals of either party prior to the election. It emerged late in the plans for the programme for Government. It was clearly about resolving the difficulty of the coalition partners on who would become Minister for Finance. Neither side was prepared to capitulate which resulted in the confused Bill before the House. While the desire to deal with public sector...
- Sports Capital Programme (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: A degree of confusion may have arisen in respect of this question. I understand it was originally put to the Taoiseach before being transferred to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. I am happy to withdraw it on the basis that the Minister may not have received the information necessary to respond.
- Sports Capital Programme (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: The question relates to an issue raised with the Taoiseach during the course of a debate in this House but his Office referred it to the Minister's Department.
- Sport and Recreational Development (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: The problem is that the Minister of State has switched sides.
- Air Services (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister stated consultants were assisting him with that work. What is the nature of their work?
- Air Services (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Although I understand the necessity to validate the airlines' numbers because fact and fiction often intersperse, is the airport authority not capable of carrying out the analysis? Is it necessary to hire external professionals to carry out that work?
- National Car Test (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister referred to a consortium composed of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Automobile Association which carries out a consistency audit on equipment in the centres operated by Applus. A much greater level of information seems to be coming from motorists who believe that it is possible to pass a test in one location and not in another, not necessarily through any corrupt practice but...
- Rural Transport Scheme (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Like Deputy Griffin, I support the Minister of State's efforts in this regard. I urge him to ensure he does not give consideration to the provisions of the McCarthy report, which previously sought to retract the funding provided for this transport initiative, which provides exceptionally good value for money. The east Clare accessible transport group, which started in my area and has now...
- Sports Capital Programme (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister of State has me confused, but that might not be difficult on that aspect of it. Some â¬35 million was allocated in the Estimates for 2011. When does the Minister of State propose to bring a programme of funding to the market, as it were?
- Sports Capital Programme (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: I have every belief in the Minister of State. I know it is something he wants to get on with - spending money.
- Tourism Promotion (1 Jun 2011)
Timmy Dooley: Question 25: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he will outline in further detail the proposal in the jobs initiative that the Dublin Airport Authority will rebate substantial levels of airport charges to airlines in return for additional passengers. [13861/11]