Results 41-60 of 2,770 for speaker:Bernard Allen

Irish Blood Transfusion Service. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I thank the Chair for giving me an opportunity to raise this issue tonight. The Irish Medicines Board has warned that the blood screening irradiator which helps to prevent serious complications, or even death, at the Irish Blood Transfusion Service unit in Cork is faulty. The machine, which prevents a rare but sometimes fatal reaction in some patients who receive blood is in such poor...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will issue new planning guidelines to local authorities. [2695/04]

Written Answers — Development Levy: Development Levy (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Question 167: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will reconsider his position in relation to development levies to be charged by local authorities in view of the negative impact they will have on the price of houses, new industrial and commercial developments as well as new agricultural developments. [2696/04]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 10 December 2003, the duration of the lease and the person from whom each property was rented; if, in view of the promise made on 10 December 2003 in reply to the parliamentary question that the details would be forwarded to the Deputy and have not been so forwarded, he will now release the details; and...

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The judgment remains the same. That is rubbish.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: We need an extra hour.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I apologise, a Cheann Comhairle, if my question has been asked as I was at a committee hearing. Is primary or secondary legislation necessary for the proposed introduction of electronic voting?

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: What answer was given?

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: My party will oppose this Bill. I will start by quoting from Fianna Fáil's election manifesto of 2002: "The surest way to cause unemployment and undermine the public finances would be to implement unsustainable spending plans or to try to return to the days of high taxation." Those of us who fought the 2002 general election against the Government knew that it could not be trusted to keep...

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: As usual, half-truths.

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Not true.

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Next, they will be giving out lollipops at elections.

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Yet the UK has refused to introduce the system.

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister has said nothing about the counting software.

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: We do not know that.

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Of course there is. That is stating the obvious.

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Like the Dáil system

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Hear, hear. We should not.

Electronic Voting: Motion (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Consumers were also ripped off then.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Motorists would not agree with the Minister of State.