Results 81-100 of 1,150 for speaker:Frank Fahey

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Frank Fahey: I personally offered Deputy Kenny an opportunity to do so but he wanted to make it a political football.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Frank Fahey: We have already debated it here in the Chamber.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Frank Fahey: The Taoiseach recommended it be dealt with in the Dáil but Deputy Kenny refused to take it up.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Frank Fahey: Deputy Creed broke that precedent by bringing the matter into the Dáil.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this Bill and I compliment the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Calleary, and his officials on introducing it. It is timely, not least in the context of the downturn in the economy and the need for a modernisation of labour legislation, but for a much more flexible approach than we have seen in the past. I want to dwell on the inability to pay...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: I am quoting a company from the west which had the initiative to go to London to try to ensure continuation of employment for its workers. It is currently tendering in London and the purchase price for a load of gravel delivered to Tottenham in London is £5.65. The purchase price for a load of the same material to be delivered in Dublin is €10 per tonne. Structural concrete is €10 to...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: It is about time.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: All of the allegations made by the Deputy from Kerry are totally and completely untrue. I was appointed Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources in January 2000, halfway through the Government's term of office. I chose to run the Department in an entrepreneurial way and expand and pursue the developmental role of the Department in the marine sector. My objective was to deliver an...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: The value it had was gross tonnage and engine power-----

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: -----which enabled the people who were successful to go out and buy a fishing boat and return to fishing. It is interesting to note that a number of the people who qualified for the scheme have lost money on it since then. The Ombudsman's report stated that the appropriate remedy for the adverse effects suffered by the Byrne family was monetary compensation and that the calculation methods...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: It states: The Scheme did not provide financial support to successful applicants for the acquisition of a replacement fishing vessel itself and the replacement capacity, i.e., gross tonnage and engine power granted under the Scheme had to be used by the replacement fishing vessel. It could not be sold on or otherwise traded or realised as a financial asset in the tonnage market. The...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: To add insult to injury on the day after the Ombudsman's report was published with this finding, Jim Higgins MEP issued a press statement which stated: The scheme cost €2.8 million, yet only six applicants were deemed eligible and two of Frank Fahey's constituents got 75% or €2.1 million of the total funds. The other four successful applicants were left with the crumbs. If ever a...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: As the Ombudsman stated, there was no compensation given.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: The tonnage could not be sold.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: For Deputy Ferris's information, the tonnage could not be sold.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: It could not be sold or otherwise disposed of. The figure he is talking about is the value of pelagic tonnage and this was not pelagic tonnage, it was entirely different and nothing like as valuable, even if it could be sold.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: As the Ombudsman stated there was no compensation given out under this scheme. There was no predetermined amount of fishing boat capacity awarded under the scheme. The suggestion that was made again today by Deputy Creed that 75% of compensation went to two constituents is a ludicrous one.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: The Deputy has obviously not read the Ombudsman's report, but has picked out what he liked from it.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: I have welcomed the Ombudsman's report in that it has set the record straight in regard to the false and defamatory allegations made against me by Jim Higgins and others, including Deputy Ferris. This issue has been ongoing since 1994. I have had to put up with the sort of complete misrepresentation that we have heard today about what was involved in this scheme. There was no 75% of any...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: The Taoiseach offered to Deputy Creed to bring this matter to committee but because he wanted to keep the political football going, he decided to bring it in here and have it dealt with in this way. I am happy to defend myself in this situation and the participation-----