Results 961-980 of 2,335 for speaker:Tom Neville

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: 215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request mobile phone operators to provide mobile phone coverage in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27298/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: 216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request mobile phone operators to provide mobile phone coverage in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27299/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (21 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if matters raised in correspondence from persons (details supplied) will receive a reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27365/18]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Southern Observatory Membership: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: I have read the findings in the report, which are alarming and startling. We had a discussion on 22 February 2017 when the witness appeared before the committee, and I read that report last night. The need to integrate 17 IT systems was mentioned. Many topics have been discussed already, so I am not going to discuss that issue again. It was said that there was no electronic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: The report said post and fax, and that there was no electronic communication. The idea of a paperless office has been around for the last 15 years. Would it not have been common sense to use email where there were no other systems in place? We would then at least have an electronic record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: How would Tusla and An Garda Síochána communicate, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: The kernel of my question is around accountability. When one sends an email there is a record of who it was sent by, so there is a trace of information and communication, which leads to accountability. In the same way, I hope that the new IT system, which has a log-in, will show the person who has entered information or data, as it does in any other enterprise or resource management system....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: I agree with some of what Mr. Gibson is saying but I disagree with him on some points too. It is way behind the eight ball in respect of technical use. Laptops are around since God knows when.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: I cannot understand how email was not used ahead of post or fax as an interim or stop-gap measure when it is an electronic form of communication and there is an accountability chain at the end of it. That is all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: Could Mr. Gibson furnish the committee with an end-to-end document on recruitment showing how the other stakeholders come in, the dotted lines to the other parts of the public service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: Does Tusla engage outside agencies when it comes to recruitment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: Are they reactive agencies or headhunter types?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: I am talking about a recruitment agency. Does Tusla actually headhunt?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or the local authority determines the works in lieu policy for local authorities. [26947/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (20 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: 189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte can be compensated to plant small areas of forestry on its lands by farmers and landowners that require their lands after felling trees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27050/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy 2018-2021: Engagement with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (19 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: I have some broader macro-type questions. We know that Brexit is coming down the tracks and is a threat. However, my questions follow from questions such as that which Deputy Kelleher asked about our economy, how we react and the fact that every time we have reacted in the past, we did so from a position of weakness. When the crash happened, we reacted. Our competitiveness was being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy 2018-2021: Engagement with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (19 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: My question was more on the ideal resources. Singapore and Japan were mentioned. They comprise just a drop in the ocean in Asia. If Dr. Quinn cannot answer my question, I understand. It might be too broad. Over the next three to five years, what will be the ideal resources required to grow the market, to really take on Asia and to put the focus on that region of the world?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy 2018-2021: Engagement with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (19 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: It is exponential.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy 2018-2021: Engagement with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (19 Jun 2018)

Tom Neville: That is what I mean. Some of them do not even know where Ireland is or that it exists.