Results 961-980 of 9,753 for speaker:Terry Leyden
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: The Leader should come to Roscommon to see decentralisation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: Is the Leader for real?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: We might have a discussion on it in due course.
- Seanad: Telecommunications Services (Ducting and Cables) Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I welcome the Bill and will not delay its passage through the House because it is a very important Bill. Is this a retrospective provision? The ducting is there but there was no legislative authority to provide it through private property, which is the norm. I understand that the gas network would have had legislative authority to lay its...
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister to the House. I suppose he would prefer not to be here because this is not a happy situation. In 2011, the Government promised to deliver fibre broadband to 90% of homes by 2015 and the 2012 national broadband plan committed the Government to provide 100% broadband provision by 2020. In 2016, Fine Gael committed to provide high-speed broadband to at least 85% of...
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: I am sorry. I will ask that two microphones be put on if the Senator wants to hear me.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: Excuse me. I am giving the House a factual statement.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: The Minister can wait his turn. I will try to speak louder and get closer to the microphone. The Minister was a Minister in 2016 but he was not a Fine Gael Minister. I believe he was handed a very difficult task. The Minister accepted that task and, fair dues to him, he had high aspirations about what he could achieve. The Taoiseach at the time probably knew it was a hot potato, so to...
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: Talk about broadband, the Ministers are a broad band themselves. I did not even have time to make the point to the Minister. He scooted out of the room as fast as he could go. Like a rabbit out of a burrow, he left us here on our own.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: We will try. I do not know if I got to him before he left or whether I offended or insulted him. I did not set out to offend him. I was just trying to tell the truth.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: This dysfunctional Government does not get it. It cannot do anything. It cannot deliver. It is a typical situation in that everything it lays its hands on-----
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: I was in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in 1982 and we delivered automatic telephones throughout the length and breadth of this country. We installed approximately 100,000 a year at the time. It was a big operation but we got down to it. I find that a coalition Government and a Fianna Fáil Government have a different philosophy.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: Fianna Fáil has the business ability to get things done. The Minister is wandering around with a contract for another three or four years. Will it ever be signed?
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: It is like promising that electricity will be connected to every home by 2020 but pushing that deadline further down the line.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: To lose one contractor is unfortunate but to lose two is damn carelessness.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: Not only did he lose one; he lost two.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: He will be lucky if he does not lose the third one the way things are going because decisions are not being made in that regard. To give the Minister an idea of what happened in the past, when we were last in government, which is a while ago now, we provided broadband to 234,000 homes and businesses across the country. We met 100% of the target at that time, and we must remember that...
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: If the Government bought ducks, they would drown, the poor things.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: Fine Gael has been seven years in power and has absolutely failed.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Terry Leyden: The Senator was being provocative.