Results 15,701-15,720 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Road Traffic Regulations. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: What of our European colleagues?

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is it a fact that the 2003 strategic rail review set out four policy options for the development of rail freight? Is it also the case that throughout the time the Minister has been in the Department he steadfastly refused to set out which of the policy options he favours? Is it also a fact that less than 2.5% of the country's freight is transported by rail, even though rail freight is four...

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I asked five difficult questions.

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I am talking about the Minister.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: It is 25 years in Fianna Fáil language.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: God be with the days when we had Fianna Fáil Deputies from the west with some backbone.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Ministers of State, Deputies de Valera and Killeen, would run out on to the plinth and stand up for the region but now they have been silenced.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: They have been incarcerated in State cars.

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister referred to the feasibility study in Transport 21 for important access routes to Shannon. When will that be completed?

Road Network. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is there a timeframe for it?

Road Safety. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: What is the timeframe for the amendments? This is an unsatisfactory way to do business. Why did not the Minister not come up with a major safety authority Bill in the first instance? Why must this Government always introduce a Bill and then radically change it? In April, the Minister appointed a chief executive officer designate of what was then to be the driver testing standards authority....

Road Safety. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: We had asked for it before then as well.

Air Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is the Minister saying he will not undertake the economic impact assessment requested by my colleague, Deputy O'Sullivan, and instead will prepare a regional plan for the future in conjunction with the Departments of Arts, Sport and Tourism and Enterprise, Trade and Employment? Will that take into account the necessity to compensate for the jobs and business that may be lost following the...

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: How can the Minister know that?

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: How does the Minister know that? He does not seem to have a strategy. Is anyone looking at a situation where subsidies might be beneficial, given the overall cost benefit to the economy? How does the Minister know? He is simply shaking his head and saying it is not possible. After Christmas, the ports, which are part of the portfolio for which I have responsibility in the Labour Party, will...

Rail Services. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: It was a Fianna Fáil Government that did it before.

Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is it intended to bring the Bord Gáis Éireann Bill and the Natural Gas Bill forward at an early date, given that we have heard alarming reports from the UK about its gas supplies for the coming winter? We are depending for 80% to 85% of our gas on imports. Is this a priority for the Government, given that the powers of the regulator almost certainly need to be strengthened?

Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: On a point of information——

Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: This subject was discussed last night at a meeting of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges. With reference to an interjection by Deputy Breen, we discussed the issue of questions. We ask endless questions on these energy matters and we do not get answers. The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, is asleep at the switch.