Results 1-20 of 2,770 for speaker:Bernard Allen

National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the national waste management plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on his plans to deal with toxic and nuclear waste. [2845/04]

National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I have heard enough to know the Minister is putting the cart before the horse. He is admitting in the Dáil that he expects local authorities to produce a waste management plan, yet no national waste management plan exists. Would the Minister agree that it is highly negligent to involve himself in very expensive advertising campaigns on television and radio, when people cannot implement the...

National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister spent most of the time speaking but I did not get an opportunity to ask supplementary questions. Surely the Minister cannot waffle out of the situation. That is ridiculous. I have one supplementary question. Where is he proposing to store the nuclear waste? He said in committee that four sites were being considered. Where are they?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Question 140: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the introduction of electronic voting for the European and local elections. [2846/04]

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: How can the Minister contemplate introducing this system without agreement from all parties in the House? How can he introduce a system that is changing fundamentally the way we run our democracy, by not introducing it through an electoral commission? How can the Minister contemplate introducing this system without key questions about the security of the system, including whether it is...

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I am asking the Minister——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: If being called "buddies of Fianna Fáil" is accusing them, well and good.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I am asking a question. Will the Minister make available——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I will not withdraw it.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I am asking the Minister to make available the details of the contracts entered into between the PR company and his Department. Why has he not answered the questions regarding the verifiable paper audit trail and the source code of the system? Why are the questions unanswered and why is the Minister so headstrong in pushing forward this system? Will he suspend its introduction until there is...

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Are we to roll over under the jackboot tactics?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: With proper safeguards. I am asking about safeguards.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: They have not been answered. Fourteen questions remain unanswered on this.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: He is telling lies.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: We did. That is incorrect. That is not true.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I know what it said.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is not a fit person to answer the question. He has a vested interest.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister asked what my point was. I will explain it to him.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is the political head of the Department introducing the system, but it should have been introduced by an independent electoral commission established with the consent of all parties in the Dáil——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: ——as would happen in any democracy.