Results 16,641-16,660 of 16,849 for speaker:Dermot Ahern

Written Answers — Property Acquisitions: Property Acquisitions (4 May 2004)

Dermot Ahern: My Department has no record of discussions or negotiations in connection with the purchase or lease of the former Stella Maris Mercy Convent and boarding school at Mount Trenchard, Foynes, County Limerick.

Written Answers — Exploration Licences: Exploration Licences (4 May 2004)

Dermot Ahern: During this period my Department received 40 applications for authorisations. Of these 40 applications two were for petroleum leases, two for lease undertakings, three for frontier exploration licences, 19 for licensing options and 14 for petroleum prospecting licences. Some 38 authorisations were awarded as a result. Two applications — one for a licensing option and one for a petroleum...

Written Answers — Salmon Lice: Salmon Lice (4 May 2004)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 183 and 184 together. A comprehensive programme of monitoring and control of sea lice levels at marine finfish farms is carried out on behalf of my Department by the Marine Institute. The inspection carried out at the fish farm in question in January of this year found that sea lice numbers were below the level specified in respect of that time of the year....

Written Answers — Fishing Licences: Fishing Licences (4 May 2004)

Dermot Ahern: The overriding objective of the Government is to preserve the salmon resource in its own right and for the coastal and rural communities that it helps to support. The economic goals for a sustainable commercial salmon fishery based on quality and value rather than volume and the development of salmon angling as an important tourism product are both fully compatible with the primary objective....

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: If Deputy Howlin claims that a compelling case has not been made, obviously he did not listen to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform at the start of the debate. Then again, with all the heckling, how could he have heard? I welcome the opportunity to address this important issue for the country. This Bill is about bringing Ireland into line with the rest of Europe. The programme...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: Because the GPs are so bloody dear.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: The doctors might charge less — €150 for one second with a consultant.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: I agree.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: Including the dead patients for whom doctors received €14 million.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy should give up the fags rather than concern himself with smokescreens.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: Hear, hear.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: They are slow learners.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: Put forward Michael.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: He did not refer to the President.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: He did not.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: It is beneath the Deputy to say that.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: That is contemptible.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: It was already voted upon.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: This is a transparent effort to hype this debate. The Members do not want a debate.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy is trying to stifle debate.