Results 13,281-13,300 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: We are not in favour of that.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: I have a brief question for the Minister. The new section 51B(1) provides that no legal costs shall be allowed for the making of an application to the PIAB. What is the position of that new section in the context of the judgment of Justice McMenamin in the O'Brien case on the issue of legal costs for applicants to the PIAB?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: It can work the other way around too.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister will take whatever message he wants.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: Is it?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: I thank the Minister.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: The election is over.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: I know the Minister is genuine about everything.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: I am well aware of which committee I was a member.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister is the one doing a U-turn.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister is the one going over the top.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: We are concerned about their profits.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister was not listening to our contribution.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: Will the Minister give way?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: Will the Minister yield?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: On a point of information, would the Minister accept that in 2005 the profitability of all general insurance companies was â¬418 million? Premia in that year were reduced by 1.8%, even though there was a 26% increase in profitability for such companies.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: I wish to share time with Deputies Creighton, Flanagan and D'Arcy.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: Fine Gael supported the setting up of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board but we cannot support this Bill. It was the Fine Gael Party that first called for a mechanism to be put in place that would lead to reduced charging by the various intermediaries that were in place in order to speed up the processing of those claims in a less costly manner. Ultimately, we got the Government to act...
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister gave us all these assurances when the Bill was going through the House in 2003 but they did not turn out to be true, in spite of the advice we gave the then Minister, Deputy Harney, at the time but she knew best. For our part, we supported the establishment of the PIAB but laid down some important markers at the time. We made the point that Article 34 of the Constitution...
- Employment Rights. (4 Jul 2007)
Phil Hogan: When will the board of the National Employment Rights Authority be appointed? What funding will be available to the authority in the current year? Will FÃS trainees or apprentices on construction sites etc be included? Will they be part and parcel of NERA's remit, given the history of the haphazard training of some such employees in the past, particularly in the construction industry?