Results 14,441-14,460 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: The people to whom the Minister refers will buy less coal.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: Two. They could fit on a tandem.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister could leave the House.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: This could be one of the Minister's final appearances in the Chamber.
- Railway Procurement Processes. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question No. 36.
- Railway Procurement Processes. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: I got the information on the ten largest procurements last night. I thank the Minister.
- Railway Procurement Processes. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: The point is that â¬325 million is paid annually in a subsidy to CIE by the taxpayer. The Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon report refers specifically to another annual internal audit report, which outlines that further significant breaches were found in areas outside the scope of that report, including significant non-compliance in the chief mechanical engineer's department. In an effort to get to...
- Railway Procurement Processes. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: It refers to the Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon report. I am surprised it was not taken with this question. The key point is that there are further and other abuses going on within CIE and it is refusing to give us the facts. I ask that the Minister would insist on getting them on our behalf.
- Performance Indicators. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: A key issue not involved in these memoranda of understanding or new contracts is the taking into account of commuters' views. The Minister should insist that commuters should be consulted, particularly where timetables have been changed very recently. On the northern line, trains now take longer to get to Dublin and people are extremely angry that there are more stops on the route. There...
- Road Safety. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: The last report the NRA has relating to tunnel safety is the Egis Tunnels report. The executive summary of the report was kept from me and I had to appeal to the Information Commissioner under the Freedom of Information Act 1997 to obtain a copy. It stated the result of tests confirm, "that the system is unable to provide the required level of safety, especially in the case of an event...
- Road Safety. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: Will the Minister insist on a report from the NRA regarding the safe operation of the tunnel, given the system deemed to be unsuitable for the purpose? How can that be allowed to happen?
- Road Safety. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Port_Tunnel - FootnoteThe only technical report available from the NRA regarding the tunnel concludes it is not safe. Is the Minister aware the NRA said it must commission a new report but it has no funding to do so? It will have to come out of next year's Estimate. The key issue is the authority is not being transparent about the facts regarding the...
- Road Safety. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: The NRA has no report saying that.
- Public Transport. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: Vast areas of the greater Dublin area have no bus or rail transport whatsoever due to the expansion of the city in recent years. Approximately 200,000 more people are living in the greater Dublin area and a significant number of them will not have a choice from Dublin bus. In discussing timetabling and accountability from CIE and, in particular, Iarnród Ãireann, does the Minister accept...
- Departmental Bodies. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: What happened in the Shannon Foynes Port Company is not acceptable. I accept that the Minister sent the report to the Garda SÃochána but we need companies such as CIE, which the Minister mentioned, and the Shannon Foynes Port Company to be accountable in a stronger and more accountable to the Oireachtas, the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Committee of Public Accounts. That is not...
- Harbour Authorities. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a copy of the Deloitte report into the Shannon Foynes Port Company; if he carried out an internal investigation into alleged irregularities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46218/09]
- Harbour Authorities. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is it not a fact that the Minister is a shareholder in this company along with the Minister for Finance and that the findings of the Deloitte report which the Minister has in his possession states that this site of 16.6 acres is the best site in Foynes Harbour and was sold for â¬2.1 million to the sole bidder? There was no public auction and no competitive tendering. There was no updated...
- Harbour Authorities. (9 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the fact the Minister has sent the report to the Garda SÃochána. However, the fact is that the chief executive officer of this port was the sole receiver of tenders into the hiring of a boat over a two-year period and which cost the port more than â¬100,000. The chief executive officer granted himself that tender. No tenders were produced from anyone else and no contracts...
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (8 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the introduction of the health insurance levy, the stated object of which was to keep the cost of health insurance down, has not been achieved, instead it has forced an increase in the cost of private health insurance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45649/09]
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (8 Dec 2009)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of FÃS course providers or subcontracted FÃS course providers in which evidence has been found that the exam results supplied to FÃS have been manipulated by such providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45520/09]