Results 13,461-13,480 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Manufacturing Forum. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: I refer to manufacturing export growth.
- Manufacturing Forum. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister does not agree.
- Manufacturing Forum. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister does not agree with his own people.
- Manufacturing Forum. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: I know the Minister has a communications unit.
- Manufacturing Forum. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: I am.
- Manufacturing Forum. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: Does the Minister agree or disagree? He should answer the question asked of him.
- Manufacturing Forum. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: I asked the Minister whether he agreed with those who advise him, namely, the Department of Finance, the Central Bank and Mr. Macri, who chairs the Small Business Forum. He does not agree with them and considers everything to be great. In recent hours, there have been some rumours in respect of the Proctor and Gamble plant in Nenagh, County Tipperary. If the Minister has any information in...
- Manufacturing Forum. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: What about the early warning system?
- Industrial Development. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will implement any policy initiative that will redirect investment funding to manufacturing and commercialisation of new inventions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8586/07]
- Industrial Development. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: In a previous reply on manufacturing we noted declining productivity levels and higher costs, most of which are directly attributable to the Minister's policy. He disagreed with the Central Bank and the Department of Finance about export growth and the fact that many companies would not be based in Ireland were it not for our tax policy. Future job creation will be based on exploiting the...
- Industrial Development. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: In the interests of saving time, I suggest we move to the next question.
- Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister has other ways of going.
- Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: Willie should have made sure that did not happen.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 14 November 2006, if he will address the matter whereby some women in occupational pension schemes do not accrue benefits while on unpaid maternity leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7968/07]
- Pension Provisions. (1 Mar 2007)
Phil Hogan: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to index link the State pension to both 40% and 50% of the gross average industrial earnings respectively; the cost of same respectively in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7967/07]
- Consumer Protection Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)
Phil Hogan: That is what they call moving the head rack.
- Consumer Protection Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)
Phil Hogan: That is the Minister of State's job.
- Consumer Protection Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)
Phil Hogan: Fine Gael will support this Bill on Second Stage, although we will seek to amend it on Committee Stage. The Bill is long overdue and it is surprising that it has come so late in the five-year term of the Government. Its powers are much weaker than they should be. It is weak because the National Consumer Agency has nothing like the powers it needs to have a reliable role to protect...
- Consumer Protection Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister has been in Government for ten years and has had plenty of opportunity. It is a hotchpotch of proposals, some of which have been foisted on the Minister by EU regulations or closing off loopholes, which could easily have been implemented long before now. To claim the Bill is the most fundamental reform of consumer law in years is nonsense. It transfers some powers that already...
- Consumer Protection Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)
Phil Hogan: The Minister was glad to accept the report.