Results 14,581-14,600 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: What is the Minister's strategy? He has talked for a long time but will not give us a number.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I did.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: What does the Minister consider the optimum number that would be economically viable? What is his strategy for the post office network? Those are my questions. He is the Minister responsible for postal services.

Postal Service. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: If the Government is re-elected there will be no post offices left.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Having regard to the importance of developing our natural resources to the optimum and the equal importance of ensuring we retain or regain some degree of independence in the provision of a vital resource such as gas, what lessons have been learned in regard to the planning, preparation and implementation of an operation such as this? Will the Minister indicate what plans he has to change...

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister sounds like someone who expects we will have more significant gas and oil finds.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: He did not seem to have that view several months ago and was, in comparison, rather negative about the prospect. How will this process operate in terms of the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act and the functions of An Bord Pleanála? In regard to the revised pipeline route, will the companies go straight to An Bord Pleanála, under the provisions of that Act, in terms...

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister never told us.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: It was a secret.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: He was not allowed. The Taoiseach kept it in the local office.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I am not saying that; the Minister is.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Can we debate it?

Digital Terrestrial Television. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: "Living in hope" sounds like a good slogan for the Government's billboard.

Digital Terrestrial Television. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Is it possible that, in 2009 or 2010, many householders on the east coast and the Border regions will have a Noel Dempsey moment? Might they flick on a screen, see snowy, wavy lines and say "God be with Noel Dempsey" or words to that effect? Has RTE not warned that, owing to the fact the Minister has been so slow — for example, we are a long way behind the UK — householders on the east...

Digital Terrestrial Television. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: That would be in slim screen colour.

Digital Terrestrial Television. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: If that is the case the Minister will be remembered.

Digital Terrestrial Television. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister should not frighten RTE.

Digital Terrestrial Television. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister will get it.

Energy Resources. (14 Feb 2007)

Tommy Broughan: He knows everything about fishing.