Advanced search
Show most relevant results first | Most recent results are first | Show use by person

Search only Joe McHughSearch all speeches

Results 11,301-11,320 of 13,291 for speaker:Joe McHugh

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (15 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of offices and civil servants involved in the administration of the penalty points system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36365/09]

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: I wish to raise an issue under the Labour Services (Amendment) Bill, given the presence of the Minister of State with responsibility for labour, Deputy Calleary, and the Tánaiste. When we are discussing the effectiveness of the board, we must also discuss a radical overhaul of courses. I am encountering many constituents, sparkies and plumbers, who have done one, two or three years of...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: While we are considering a radical overhaul of the board, we also need to consider a radical overhaul of the courses that we deliver. We have only to look at our neighbours in America where Cormac McCarthy wrote a book entitled, "No Country for Old Men". We are in the process of-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: -----creating a country for-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Ireland is becoming no country for young men. We need to address this serious situation. Some 104,000 people in the unemployed labour force are aged under 25 years. Young people are getting on boats and aeroplanes. We cannot record-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: It is the same as the 1980s, in that we cannot record the statistics-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: We are throwing those under 25 years of age to the slaughter. We are letting them go and ignoring the serious issue of jobs in this country, where-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: -----there is a greater enticement to be on the dole than in work.

Proposed Legislation. (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 113: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to bring to Cabinet legislation that will create a directly elected mayor for Dublin that was promised to be in place in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35968/09]

Proposed Legislation. (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: The Minister's response is a wee bit flowery. I know he will respond by saying that the specifics will be in the legislation, but at this stage we need to put some meat on the bones because several questions need to be answered even before we reach the legislative stage. For example, what are the powers of this proposed mayor in respect of rezoning and the draft development plan, a power...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 306: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of slatted houses built here under the farm waste management scheme on a county basis in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36163/09]

Written Answers — Energy Prices: Energy Prices (13 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to address the issue of windfall profits being made by electricity generators on the back of charging consumers for the cost of carbon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35596/09]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (13 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to potential investors who have made offers on commercial property on the banks' bad loan books; if this is the case, if negotiations between the banks and the investors are currently being pursued by the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35743/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (13 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 398: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if charges under the Local Government (Charges) Bill 2009 apply to the non-principal private residences of parish priests who live in parochial houses and own their own houses, to ancestral homes owned by members of the Irish diaspora and to houses owned by Irish citizens who own houses in Northern Ireland;...

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (13 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 404: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of housing aid and improvement for the elderly grant applications that have been accepted and approved at local authority level on a county basis in tabular form; the number of these applications that have been given funding on a county basis in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Are there instruments in the National Assets Management Agency Bill to deal with agricultural credit?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: As the Taoiseach is aware, many farmers were forced into building slatted houses under the nitrates directive and farmers have contributed €534 million in inputs alone towards the banks.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: There should be provision within the banking sector for them. As the Taoiseach knows, cattle prices are falling and farmers are being pushed to the wall because there is no agricultural stocking credit available.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle would know from his own constituency that stocking credit for farmers to provide the money to buy feed and livestock is not available and it is destroying agricultural activity, as my colleague, Deputy Crawford, and the leader of Fine Gael, Deputy Kenny, pointed out this morning. Farming enterprises form part of the small and medium enterprise sector and we should...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has concerns regarding the value for money aspect of Údarás na Gaeltachta; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34137/09]

   Advanced search
Show most relevant results first | Most recent results are first | Show use by person

Search only Joe McHughSearch all speeches