Results 14,961-14,980 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan
- Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: It is clearer.
- Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: What about yesterday's newspaper article?
- Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Did the Minister read the interview?
- Written Answers — Language Programme: Language Programme (24 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the training provided in teaching English as a foreign language for primary teachers and teachers specifically assigned to teach children whose first language is not English; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34101/06]
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will address the pressure on schools that have large numbers of pupils whose first language is neither English nor Irish; if she will, in particular, remove the cap of two extra teachers for such schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34100/06]
- Job Losses. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Yesterday's confirmation that approximately 450 jobs are to be lost at Cadbury over three years is a shocking hammer blow for Coolock and Dublin's north side. Of the 1,500 member workforce at Cadbury, workers in Rathmore, County Kerry, and in Tallaght in west Dublin, will be affected but as 1,100 workers are based in the Coolock plant the most serious impact will be felt there. My first...
- Written Answers — Post Office Network: Post Office Network (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number and location of post office closures and the conversion of sub-post offices to postal agents to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33438/06]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Transport: Ministerial Transport (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason he did not ensure that his ministerial car was an alternative eco-friendly model; if he is encouraging his Ministerial colleagues to switch to greener alternatives in their choice of official vehicle; if he has examined international examples of the conversion of all State and local government...
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister stated two and a half weeks ago, when 45,000 people woke up to find they had no telephone or broadband services, that he would rush emergency legislation through the House. Almost three weeks later, there is no sign of it. Ms Isolde Goggin, chairperson of ComReg, stated that she would like to see a statutory basis for a notice of withdrawal of service, in other words, every...
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Is it not the Minister's job to legislate on behalf of the regulators such as CER and ComReg? He is not doing it.
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister did so.
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Ms Goggin wants legislation.
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Fianna Fáil never rushes.
- Electricity Generation. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: What will be the ultimate cost of the interconnector? What is its intended route? What implications, if any, will selecting the developer on a hybrid basis have for the State? What impact will the interconnector have on the electricity market when it is opened in 2012? For example, how will it affect the marginal cost, the retail sales index and the role of the incumbent, the ESB? In...
- Electricity Generation. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: It is the consumers who have to pay for it.
- Fisheries Protection. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Will the Minister of State indicate if the report will be published openly or will it turn into a Deloitte & Touche affair, so to speak, whereby it will not be published for months and then eventually published in an underhand way? The Minister of State mentioned addressing financial hardship for individuals in his reply and we know the advice of the National Salmon Commission given last...
- Fisheries Protection. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: As an addendum to that question, the Minister of State seems to be dodging the question of the costings. Will he and the Minister make any recommendations to the Minister for Finance arising from the report, given that they have accepted the advice of the standing scientific committee?
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: We are last in the race. We may be turning corners but we are still last.
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Into a cul-de-sac.
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)
Tommy Broughan: We are dizzy from turning corners.