Results 18,841-18,860 of 21,096 for speaker:Charles Flanagan
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: A simple amendment to the 1972 Act would do it. We did it for the Lourdes marriages. The issue is the same - the validation of marriages that have been declared invalid.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: What about the passport issue?
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Who will be travelling to Angola?
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister for Health and Children can come back on Monday because St. Patrick's Day is on Sunday in New Zealand according to the Taoiseach.
- Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the performance of his Department; and if he plans any restructuring of the Department. [11605/10]
- Land and Land Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases)(Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: With the approval of the House, I wish to share my time with Deputies Joe Carey, Coveney and Ring.
- Land and Land Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases)(Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: On behalf of the Fine Gael Party, I welcome the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010 and commend my colleague, Deputy Ciaran Lynch, on introducing it. It is not a perfect Bill and I am sure the Deputy will acknowledge that he does not have a monopoly of wisdom on it. Opposition Members do not have available to them the same level of...
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (9 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the child psychiatry service in counties Laois and Offaly is suspended to all routine referrals, due to a huge backlog in work and very limited resources; the number of referrals on the waiting list; the number of persons who have been informed that they cannot be placed on the waiting...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (9 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in the payment of retirement pension to a prison officer (details supplied) in County Laois, who retired on 24 December 2009 and who has not received pension or gratuity in respect of their service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11455/10]
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Department has had them for years.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Riverdance Government.
- Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (4 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of convictions secured to date for gun murders in 2005, 2006, 2007,2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10952/10]
- Fines Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages. (3 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Is there an amendment grouping list?
- Fines Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages. (3 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: "(3) Commencing in 2014, the Minister shall, by regulations at five yearly intervals, reproduce the tables in this Act to update the monetary amounts in the Table with the rate of inflation identified in the Consumer Price Index from year to year.". We addressed this matter at some length on Committee Stage....
- Fines Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages. (3 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: I accept what the Minister has said.
- Fines Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages. (3 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: I welcome what the Minister has said and I welcome what he has done in addressing the heart of the Bill. We must strike a balance between those who are unable, for one reason or another, to discharge the fine and those who are unwilling to pay and respond to the court. I accept the Minister's point that there are often difficulties. For example, it often appears that higher fines are...
- Business of Dáil (3 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: To what does No. 20 on the Order Paper relate?
- Business of Dáil (3 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: So it is not the dissolution of the Dáil.
- Fines Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: I was not aware of that.
- Fines Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Mar 2010)
Charles Flanagan: I agree with what the Minister has said. It is essential to have a provision for the debtor to apply to pay by instalment. That is a matter that will be adjudicated upon by the court, having regard to the circumstances. In view of what the Minister has said, it makes my amendment No. 57 redundant.