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World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Motion (17 Apr 2008)

Timmy Dooley: It is difficult to follow a passionate speech like Deputy Brady's but I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. Like him, I represent a rural constituency. I was brought up on a small family farm in east Clare and I am well aware of the concerns and issues of farmers regarding this deal. I am fully aware of the issues and difficulties associated with the Mandelson...

World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Motion (17 Apr 2008)

Timmy Dooley: One of the most recent contributions was from a prepared script and she was castigated about her contribution to the debate. However, it must have been written in advance of the debate like the old retort to the budget. That is not helpful but that may only be the position of one or two Opposition Members. As others have said, we need to come together in a cohesive way and support the...

World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Motion (17 Apr 2008)

Timmy Dooley: The WTO trading system has been helpful to Ireland and it continues to work. However, the proposed changes are extremely troubling and the Minister and the Government have rightly set their stall firmly against them. That is why I find it difficult to accept the notion put forward by the Opposition that the Minister has done nothing. She has shown in various statements, including her...

World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Motion (17 Apr 2008)

Timmy Dooley: This is a lot of rubbish.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Apr 2008)

Timmy Dooley: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to provide a new dialysis facility at Limerick Regional Hospital. [12984/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Apr 2008)

Timmy Dooley: Question 718: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the technical inspection for a primary school (details supplied) in County Clare. [11433/08]

Capitation Grants: Motion (11 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: There was sunshine the day I visited.

Capitation Grants: Motion (11 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: It will be happy when it gets its new classroom.

Health Services (11 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to participate in this important debate. Towards the end of last week I was approached by a friend who works within the health sector who advised me that the HSE has or is about to remove the planned upgrade at the Mid West Regional Hospital at Ennis from the national development plan of the HSE's capital works programme for 2007-11. I wish to establish if this...

Health Services (11 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: I will not accept the HSE coming forward and responding to pleas on live radio in respect of particular issues in this city. As far as I am concerned, it is this House that makes decisions.

Health Services (11 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: It is the decisions that are taken here that are important. That is what I expect the HSE to respond to, not to what happens on live radio. As an elected politician, I believe the HSE has a responsibility to take on board the views expressed in this House and the commitments given in this House.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (11 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: Question 401: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of a school (details supplied) in County Clare on the building programme. [10383/08]

Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: I propose to share time with Deputies O'Connor, Conlon, Nolan, Thomas Byrne and Cuffe.

Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Fine Gael for putting forward this motion and I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I am somewhat disappointed by the partisan approach being taken although that is perhaps only natural. To apportion blame to the Government for the ills of society with reference to this particular issue is short-sighted. We must look at society in general.

Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: As Deputy Rabbitte said, it is clearly a cultural and societal issue. Perhaps I too am being partisan in saying I am not overly impressed with the Fine Gael proposal that the solution is to demand a comprehensive review of the availability of knives and offensive weapons and to look to a Garda campaign to tackle the proliferation of same throughout the State. With respect, there is something...

Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Timmy Dooley: That is what the motion proposes. However, the only feasible approach is to work together to find a solution to this. We must take our focus away from the implements themselves because practically anything can be turned into an offensive weapon. Deputy Rabbitte went through a list of crimes perpetrated against people in his constituency and elsewhere. Each of us could do the same and...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2008)

Timmy Dooley: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the proposed capital works project at a school (details supplied) in County Clare. [8224/08]

Broadband Services: Motion (27 Feb 2008)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. The Minister gave a clear and concise policy statement on broadband yesterday evening in which he set out the future of broadband services and provided an understanding of where we have come from. I will not stand here and suggest that all is rosy in the garden and that everything that should have been done has been done. That is...

Student Support Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2008)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister of State and the introduction of this Bill. It has been quite some time in gestation and it is welcome that it has made its way to the House. Those of us who have been public representatives for some time, including the Minister of State, will be aware of the ongoing debate that takes place each summer when young adults are in the process of going to college and the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Feb 2008)

Timmy Dooley: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of speech and language therapy positions that remain unfilled here; the extent to which the shortage of speech and language therapists is due to lack of three years' work experience; the efforts being made by her Department to provide work experience to recently qualified speech and language therapists on leaving college;...