Results 321-340 of 10,757 for speaker:Timmy Dooley

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: It might just be due to their administrative systems. Achieving 100% compliance with anything suggests to me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Maybe we need a system change instead of an examination of detection methods.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Thank you, Chair. I appreciate that. I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for highlighting this issue in recent weeks. The committee has been taken by it for a number of reasons, principally the cost of insurance. It is very clear from the numbers the witnesses have outlined that a significant number of people are not paying their insurance, and that has a knock-on effect on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister and I appreciate his open and frank statement. My questions will, I hope, address the overall context. We have reached an impasse and the Minister has identified some of the background to it. Clearly he will not engage in the tit-for-tat exchanges that seem to exist here. Is he satisfied that the legislation is strong enough to address the situation that has evolved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: There is a regular interaction between the departmental officials and board members generally because the board reports to the Department. Have there been any exit discussions with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I am only putting this to the Minister because we hear things second-hand but something that has been mentioned to me in passing is that the board did not feel it could act in a particular way because of legal threats that were issued against it. The threat was that if the board was to move in a particular way on the executive, the board members, as I understand it, would be sued. I can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Not at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I am trying to understand where we are trying to start a process to appoint a new board. I am conscious that at least in public, there does not seem to have been a resolution of the issues which led to the various differences. I presume that the senior counsel's report is available to Mr. Barry and Mr. Neely. Are Mr. Barry and Mr. Neely charged with the full powers and responsibility,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I am still trying to understand the resolution here because clearly there are problems that have led us to the situation we are in. Will it be a matter for the new board to act on the report that is created or developed by Mr. Barry or Mr. Neely, or is the expectation that they are being charged from the shareholder to resolve the problems before a new board is appointed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will reiterate the point I made at the outset, which was in respect of the process of operation, to put it like that. When one looks at this in the context of the board of a private company - which it is not - one would certainly not expect any half-decent private company to be embroiled in a situation like this where people would be retiring or resigning from a board in the way that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I am sure that would have been part of the conversation the Minister would have had with the previous chairperson, if she had identified that she was lacking some legislative backing, or whatever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Okay. I thank the Minister for his time. We must recognise that the Minister is walking a fairly tight rope here, in what he can and cannot say, recognising his role and the rights of all stakeholders. I thank the Minister for being as open and as frank as he has been.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister and his officials. In particular I welcome Ms Edwina Love who was an official in this House for a considerable period of time. She has been doing amazing work in the Department. I thank the Minister for his statement. In passing, I recognise the Sinn Féin position in wanting to reduce the marketability of the dairy sector in Ireland and it expects the Minister to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: You cannot have it both ways, with respect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will give the floor. This is wonderful. I will cede my time to Deputy Cronin, she is doing really well here - keep going-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: -----in terms of her explanation of what the capacity of Sinn Féin is to have two different positions on the same issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I want to focus my attention on a couple of issues. I thank the Minister for what he has done on expanding the scale of the ACRE scheme to allow all farmers, some 46,000 of them who sought to be part of it, to participate versus the initial budgeted position of about 30,000. That is welcome to farmers who want to farm sustainably, raise their families and have a meaningful impact and live...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will conclude on this. A similar issue exists in regard to the hen harrier in the area where I live, in east Clare. I am not a beneficiary of it, just to put it on the record. However, many farmers are. The idea behind putting in place a specific scheme for the hen harrier was to ensure that farmers farmed in a way that was in sympathy with nature and protected a rare species. It seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I really appreciate that.