Results 14,401-14,420 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: It did.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: I agree with Deputy Durkan.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 37: In page 17, to delete lines 11 to 15. I have tabled this amendment to try to amend the section of the Bill that proposes to insert a new Part 2A in the Communications Regulation Act 2002 which will set out regulations governing ComReg hearings. As we had a long discussion on this matter on Committee Stage, I will refer to it briefly on this occasion. I referred on...
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: As the Minister has made sense on this point, I will withdraw the amendment.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 41: In page 19, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: 11. "The Electronic Communications Appeals Panel is dissolved". It was difficult to find somewhere in the Bill in which to include this amendment. I am not sure to what extent I have been successful in finding an appropriate place. There is a general feeling in the industry that the Electronic...
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: How will it fit in with the Bill?
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 48: In page 22, to delete lines 24 and 25. This is the meat of the Bill, relating to the Minister's power. Many people are nervous about the Minister creating offences triable on indictment. It has arisen in other regulations. This appeared in the European Communities Bill and concerns special powers enabling the Minister to make regulations to give effect to European...
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: He would be famous if he did.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: He should start his bid for the leadership of Fianna Fáil.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: I said the Minister did not introduce emergency legislation. Where is that legislation?
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: I read the Minister's press statements.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: Nobody is responsible for it. Is that not right? If two or more are responsible for something, nobody is responsible for it.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: That is the reason it does not have that.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: Yes.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: How much will the Minister spend on the scheme?
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, has disappeared.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: Not in my house.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: That was a great achievement in 2004.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: The Cruiser is still going strong.
- Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)
Tommy Broughan: I tabled a question today but it was not dealt with. I was fascinated by a press statement from the Minister referring to a tsunami warning system. Will this system be in place by mid to late May? Many of us believe a tsunami is heading for this Government. The Taoiseach's speech was the early warning alarm that it is happening.