Results 16,881-16,900 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: We should scrap the policy directive.
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: That is correct.
- Employment Rights. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: They are waiting for nominations from the cumainn.
- Job Creation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Perhaps the Minister should ask the backbencher.
- Labour Inspectorate. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I wish the Minister of State well but his progress to date in ramping up the recruitment to 90 staff has not been satisfactory. Will he meet the targets before the end of 2007, which is not too far away?
- Departmental Offices. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action taken by his Department and its agencies to date to ensure maximum energy efficiency and minimum carbon footprint in their daily operations; the cost of these actions; the steps he will take in the second half of 2007 toward the goal of reducing energy consumption in his Department and its agencies; and if he...
- Departmental Offices. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I am conscious of time but I officially congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his appointment. This is the first occasion I have had to do so.
- Departmental Offices. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I also congratulate the Minister and his team, including the Minister of State, Deputy Billy Kelleher, whose appointment is long overdue. This is clearly a case of Cork versus the rest of the country in terms of the ministerial turnout. They should all be wearing red ties, if not red jerseys. I appreciate that it is early in the season of replies but I invite the Minister to read his reply...
- Departmental Offices. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: A sensible decision.
- Energy Conservation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the carbon footprint of his Department to date in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19203/07]
- Energy Conservation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I take it the Minister's reply is "I don't know. We have no way of calculating it but we are going to try and establish a method of so doing." I welcome that promise to do better. I will table a question in due course to measure how much progress the Minister makes.
- Energy Conservation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister has not answered the question.
- Energy Conservation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister is in government.
- Energy Conservation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I asked the question. What is the answer?
- Energy Conservation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister's new Green Party colleagues will give him those.
- Energy Conservation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Agree a system and do it.
- Energy Conservation. (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I refer the Minister to the Building Control Act 2007.
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: What are the implications for the current staff of the various committees if those committees will in effect be stood down between now and the end of September? In his capacity as ex officio chairperson of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, the Ceann Comhairle might consider the matter and report to the House tomorrow. I am sure there are other tasks to be done, but I would hate to...