Results 10,021-10,040 of 11,894 for speaker:Niall Collins
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be issued as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28462/12]
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: We did.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: Deputy Dowds just made the point for Deputy Calleary. Well done. The Labour Party was involved.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: There was a member of the Labour Party.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: He is back to active politics.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: He is less known now.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: When was he released?
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: What about standing on the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange with Denis O'Brien?
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: The Minister is wasting a lot of time waffling around in circles.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: We know the timeline. The Minister should tell us what he is doing about it.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: That is the speech the Minister of State gave last night.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. In summary, the debate has been quite a useful exercise in which Members have engaged over the last two evenings-----
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: -----in a discussion on planning. It intrigues me to observe how Labour Party Members in particular are quite uncomfortable when discussing planning. I will go into further detail in a few minutes.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: I have described what the Minister of State published yesterday as a whitewash and I do so for the following reasons. She has come up with 12 recommendations and I will provide a flavour of some of them. She mentions material contraventions and consolidation of the planning Acts. She refers to reminding local authorities of the need to review policies regularly, to communication, to...
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: The executives of local authorities should be doing this each day of the week. The point is that a number of complaints were made that had a degree of substance and coming up with 12 recommendations and asking someone independent to implement recommendations-----
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: -----when an independent person should be holding such inquiries. That is the point.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: She has consistently sought-----
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: -----to get away from the fact that there were inquiries ready to go.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: Letters of appointment were ready to issue and all the Minister of State had to do was to push the green button in this regard. There has been a consistent theme in this debate, namely, a policy of the parties in government to try continually to rubbish the Green Party and to rubbish John Gormley-----
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: -----in respect of planning policy. If there is anything one can say about John Gormley and the Green Party, it is that they have high standards in respect of planning policy. This charge has been led by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, who has just happened to leave the Chamber.