Results 201-220 of 1,981 for speaker:Conor Lenihan
- Written Answers — Onshore Exploration: Onshore Exploration (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: No petroleum authorisations in respect of the Irish onshore have been granted by my Department since 2007. The last onshore authorisations were two Onshore Petroleum Exploration Licences granted in 2005 and those licences have now expired. In March of this year, I announced a competition for Onshore Licensing Options over areas in the North West Carboniferous Basin and in the Clare Basin....
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: At the outset, I thank Deputies for allowing me to report back to the House at an early stage on the amendments introduced to the Bill on Committee and Report Stages in the Seanad. These amendments concern the removal of the provisions excluding local authority members from becoming members of the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland. Amendment No. 1 removes section 40(1)(d), which provides...
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: That is precisely the purpose of the amendment, to remove the prohibition in the legislation as it was drafted. I am doing that in line with the recommendation of the Fine Gael spokesman in the Seanad so perhaps the Deputy misunderstands what I am doing.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: We are not employing people.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: The Deputy has misunderstood the Bill. This is the Inland Fisheries Bill, not the Health Service Executive Bill.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: The Deputy has either misunderstood or not read the legislation. This Bill is about Inland Fisheries Ireland, not the HSE.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: It is not facetious.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: If Deputy McHugh bothered to read the amendment being made, he would see that I am making it-----
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: -----precisely to be in accordance with what his spokesman in the Seanad was asking me to do.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: I do not understand why I am now being attacked for doing something in response-----
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: -----to a Fine Gael Senator.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: I am being attacked. I am not being attacked about Inland Fisheries Ireland, its board or composition but about the HSE. Really, there are many things-----
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: -----I am answerable for in this House but I am-----
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: I am not the Minister for Health and Children.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: Deputy McHugh keeps interrupting me.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: Oh for God's sake.
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: Plainly the Deputy has not read the Bill. There is no proposal to put councillors on the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland. I have made five appointments already and the Oireachtas committee will make the balance of those appointments. There is absolutely no intention to have councillors travelling to any meetings of Inland Fisheries Ireland. The Deputy's assertions seem to be based on...
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: That is all in the Bill. If Deputy McHugh had read the Bill-----
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: -----he would understand how absolutely irrelevant his point about the councillors is-----
- Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)
Conor Lenihan: -----because there are no councillors on the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland-----