Results 21-40 of 349 for speaker:Tom Morrissey

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)

Tom Morrissey: ——has announced the loss of 350 jobs in an important international company——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)

Tom Morrissey: ——and which is not true. I ask for restraint from the Opposition benches——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)

Tom Morrissey: The Members opposite are attempting to talk down how the economy is going.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)

Tom Morrissey: I ask the Fine Gael Leader in the House to comment in the absence of the person who made the outrageous allegation.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)

Tom Morrissey: It is now 12 months since Transport 21 was approved by this Government. It is also more than 12 months — December 2005, I believe — since the Minister for Transport was last in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)

Tom Morrissey: I would like a number of issues addressed. Before Christmas, we were promised legislation on the setting up of the transport authority for the greater Dublin area. A head of the authority, which was announced nine months ago, has not even been appointed. Only yesterday, I received a letter from Dublin Bus stating that it had now secured a timetable for the train service to Donabate and...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)

Tom Morrissey: There is a conflict there and it is time the Minister came to the House to outline his plans.

Seanad: Legislative Programme. (30 Nov 2006)

Tom Morrissey: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Fahey, and thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this matter on the Adjournment. The agreed programme for Government includes a commitment to replace the Road Transport Act 1932 with modernised legislation to allow, inter alia, for new services in the bus market. There have been some reforms in the Dublin Bus market and the establishment of...

Seanad: Fisheries Protection. (23 Nov 2006)

Tom Morrissey: While I do not claim to be an expert on marine issues generally or razor clam fishing specifically, I have been made aware of a possible issue in Portmarnock in my constituency of Dublin North. The Minister will be aware that fishing for razor clams in certain areas is not prohibited by the EU habitats directive 1992, as transposed into Irish law. However fishing for razor clams is managed...

Seanad: Driver Education. (16 Nov 2006)

Tom Morrissey: I thank the Minister of State for attending to discuss the education of learner drivers and the wider driving community. As we all know, alarming numbers have been and continue to be killed on the roads, despite our best efforts, including the penalty points system, the Garda traffic corps and random breath testing. If we are to devote all our resources to enforcement, on which we are...

Seanad: Driver Education. (16 Nov 2006)

Tom Morrissey: The Minister of State said lessons of this nature are not the norm across Europe. However, I am certain that what we are experiencing with young drivers in this country is not the norm. We are mistreating young drivers by pushing them into a system whereby they fail their tests at the first attempt and are then charged large amounts of money for insurance because they have failed their...

Seanad: Housing Policy. (15 Nov 2006)

Tom Morrissey: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter. The concept of management companies is in dire need of reform and regulation because hundreds of thousands of euro is being collected from householders who have moved into apartment complexes and mixed housing developments. However, there is no transparency in the collection and expenditure of this money and the bank accounts in which it...

Seanad: Housing Policy. (15 Nov 2006)

Tom Morrissey: I thank the Minister of State for his considered reply. However, while the Minister of State has suggested what will be done, there must be a discussion on the issues created by practices that have developed in the past three or four years.

Seanad: Public Transport (26 Oct 2006)

Tom Morrissey: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter, which relates to public transport integration. I wholeheartedly welcome last week's announcement of metro north, which will enhance the lives of the people of Swords and adjoining areas. If commuters who currently use the bus service transfer to the metro when it is completed in a few years, they will save 390 hours commuting per annum,...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Tom Morrissey: In the past few weeks there has been, after many years of procrastination, a successful flotation of Aer Lingus.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Tom Morrissey: I say "successful" because the flotation was intended to bring about a number of outcomes. One was equity for the company. The second was the plugging of its pensions deficit and the third was the strengthening of its balance sheet, which has certainly happened. However, the Government has retained a major shareholding in the company and we need a debate on the present management of Aer...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Tom Morrissey: Aer Lingus was not established as a job creation agency, though it might have been used as such in the past. The company should concentrate on the service it provides to its customers. As the Government still retains a shareholding in Aer Lingus, I call on the Minister to come to the House to discuss the future of the company.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2006)

Tom Morrissey: At varying intervals in the past few months various taxi unions have tried to hold the commuters of this city to ransom. The most recent threat was before the Ryder Cup on the basis of a change of fee by the Dublin Airport Authority from 70 cent per pick-up to an annual fee of €500. I recently learned from figures supplied by the taxi unions' economist to the taxi regulator that when this...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (19 Oct 2006)

Tom Morrissey: It is not.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2006)

Tom Morrissey: Last week, the National Consumer Agency published a report, Putting Consumers First, which deals with the issue of management companies established in new housing estates. The report, which contained many excellent recommendations, was the result of research into the functions of management companies, the different types of management companies, the non-existence of an arms length approach...