Results 12,701-12,720 of 16,679 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: What about the parliamentary question?
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: This is a joke. Is there no obligation to respond to regular questions?
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: As an example.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made by her Department on its commitment to the construction of a school (details supplied) in County Meath. [22595/15]
- Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: As the quote goes, nothing has changed but the faces and the hairpieces. Both Government parties been dragged kicking and screaming to the point where they have accepted the Opposition demand for a commission of investigation. What we have seen is the politics of yesterday and a Government mess of today. In 2012 my colleagues, Deputies Gerry Adams and Pearse Doherty, submitted hundreds...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: This is what happened in this place in the first instance - questions were not answered.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Because of prevarication.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: That questions be answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: First, it is interesting to hear from the witnesses' presentation and the history of Bord na Móna the opportunities that can be available to the State with regard to good semi-State companies that focus on particular areas. It is something positive and there is a need in this State for more focus on the opportunities provided by a semi-State for investment and development. The second...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Very good agus go raibh maith ag Mr. Barry as sin. In addition, reference obviously also was made to the changes that are happening, the restructuring and so forth. Is it expected there will be changes to the terms and conditions of the employees and will all those redundancies be voluntary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: When does Mr. Quinn expect it will be finished?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: All right. In respect of carbon fuels and the carbon tax, the latter obviously was introduced to reduce carbon-rich fuels. Does Mr. Quinn have figures to hand on exactly how much of a reduction this has had on Bord na Móna's carbon-based products?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: No, but I refer to the volume of products. Mr. Quinn stated the volume of sales has reduced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Percentage-wise how is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: It seems shocking that biomass is being imported. What is the blockage with regard to biomass production?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Is there a role for Bord na Móna in the production of biomass?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Does Bord na Móna grow biomass?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Is it Bord na Móna's objective to do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: On carbon tax, I have heard anecdotally that a large number of briquettes that Bord na Móna sells into the North find their way down into the South. Does Mr. Quinn have any figures or information on that? I believe Bord na Móna puts a different colour band around the bale of briquettes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Has there been a big increase in sales of briquettes in the North as a result of the carbon tax down South?