Results 181-200 of 11,258 for speaker:Séamus Kirk

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Data Protection (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Kirk: 255. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the exchange of information between the Revenue Commissioners and Irish Water regarding the registration for property tax and registration for water charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5182/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (4 Feb 2015)

Séamus Kirk: It is recommended to forward a copy of the response received from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to the petitioner informing him that the joint committee, while mindful that it is not within its remit to seek the awarding or revoking of planning permission, proposes the following: to write to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government...

Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: I am glad to have a brief opportunity to contribute to this important debate. Over Christmas, when Members were enjoying themselves, RTE broadcast a programme which featured particular difficulties with housing conditions in a county in the midlands. There were two or three houses featured on the programme, which was presented by a former Member of the House, the late Ted Nealon. The year...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (27 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: 159. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in County Louth from 2007 to 2014, in the manufacturing industry, including agri-business, multinationals and small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3751/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the anomaly which has arisen regarding allowances paid to primary teachers who achieved degree qualifications during the 2011-12 academic year, with apparently a condition that a teacher would have to have been teaching on 5 December 2011 to qualify for the increased allowance (details supplied); if the rule...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Illegal Dumping (27 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: 507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the toxic dumping into the Dundalk, County Louth, water supply; if there will be immediate intervention from the Environmental Protection Agency; if he has figures in relation to the amount of toxic dumping which is being dumped into the Fane River; and if he will make a statement on...

Report on the Outline Heads of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Motion (23 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: I am grateful to have the opportunity to contribute briefly to the debate on this most important Bill, the Climate Action and Low Carbon (Development) Bill 2013. The Bill continues to lack real teeth, with no clear targets being set. The exhaustive hearings of the Joint Committee on the Environment, Cuilture and the Gaeltacht and its subsequent recommendations on which there was consensus...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: Is the Bill being allowed go to Committee Stage?

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to contribute to the Bill which, if enacted, would lead to the Thirty-fourth amendment of the Constitution. At the outset, let me set out my party's position. Fianna Fáil is not opposed to advancing the Bill to Committee Stage for further debate. Fianna Fáil supports relaxing the Whip on specific matters of conscience and was the...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Contamination (21 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: I concur with Deputy O'Dowd and if a meeting is arranged with the politicians who have collective responsibility in this area, l certainly will attend. This is a vitally important issue that must be addressed urgently. It seems to me that there is a need for more co-ordination of the various agencies with specific and less specific responsibilities in this area. A structure must be put in...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Contamination (21 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this most important issue. The fact that Oireachtas representatives from Cavan-Monaghan and Louth are in the Chamber to speak on the matter illustrates and underlines the gravity and seriousness of the situation. The report in the Sunday Independentthat the water supply for Dundalk was being contaminated came as a shock to many people...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: On the water services Bill, the Taoiseach will be aware of the considerable fear and anxiety in north County Louth, particularly in the Dundalk area, where approximately 50,000 people are seriously worried about the quality of water coming through the system because of pollution leaking into the source of supply at Lough Muckno, Castleblayney, County Monaghan. This is a particularly serious...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: Perhaps the Taoiseach might make contact with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government about this matter in order that an investigation could get under way about the problems there.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (14 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has endeavoured to quantify the benefit to the economy of the reduction in cost of brent crude oil; and if he will provide figures for same. [49434/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Deposit Interest Rates (14 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the announcement of a DIRT refund for first-time buyers, announced in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1709/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme Payments (14 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: 314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in view of the dire predictions for cash flow for dairy farm incomes for 2015, if he will consider extending the completion dates for projects approved under the TAMS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1189/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fuel Prices (14 Jan 2015)

Séamus Kirk: 964. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources due to the decrease in the value of natural resources, including oil and gas, if this reduction will be passed on to domestic customers of fuel, including for home heating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1710/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (16 Dec 2014)

Séamus Kirk: 197. To ask the Minister for Finance the GNP value of the current total workforce here on an hourly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47702/14]

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Séamus Kirk: The Minister is probably aware that the price of Brent crude oil has dropped significantly on the world market, with potential benefit for motorists, transporters and the overall economy. Unfortunately, the full extent of the reduction has not manifested itself for consumers because of the excise duty structure attached to the cost of diesel and petrol.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Séamus Kirk: Is there any way at all that the Finance Bill could be revisited to accommodate a reduction in the excise duty which would give a real boost to the economy by reducing transport costs?