Results 181-200 of 559 for speaker:Seán Ardagh

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Gentlemen, if you wish to interrupt, I ask you to do so in an orderly fashion.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: That is not a point of order.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: I ask Deputy Treacy to continue to address the motion, as he has done to date.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (8 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Question 340: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in having the VEC teachers salaries and pensions paid centrally by his Department rather than by the VECs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34007/08]

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Listening to the tone and tenor of the Opposition contributions, with the particular exception of Deputy Bruton, it sounds like the prophets of doom. I wonder if the situation was reversed and the Opposition was in Government, would it have the bottle to put forward this plan?

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Would they take the swift and decisive action that this Minister and Government have taken to protect the economy and the jobs about which we are all so concerned? The Government is to be congratulated on taking such action.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: I would like to hear more about the banks' net assets, as Deputy Gilmore mentioned earlier.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: We want to know where we are. Deputy Burton suggested a figure of €200 billion, which is the difference between €600 billion and €400 billion.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Yesterday, the Taoiseach mentioned €100 billion — the difference between €500 billion and €400 billion. The Minister for Finance has mentioned €80 billion. Today is 1 October and yesterday marked the end of the third quarter, so I would like to see the equity or net assets of the banking system in Ireland valued on a prudential basis, under which the Central Bank has always stated...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Seán Ardagh: It would be difficult to put the amendment into effect, given the terms and conditions under which a bank can get into trouble and the way fees and sanctions can be applied. There is an extensive matrix of the type of problems that a financial institution can get into. Some of those difficulties have not yet been defined. Similarly, the sanctions that can be adopted by the Minister,...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (10 Jul 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Question 948: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide information on expenditure for 2007 and 2008 and predictions for 2009 to 2013 under the National Development Plan 2007-2013 broadband programme, as carried out and predicted in tabular form (details supplied). [28417/08]

Public Private Partnerships: Motion (Resumed). (9 Jul 2008)

Seán Ardagh: I propose to share time with Deputies Cyprian Brady, Mulcahy and Cuffe.

Public Private Partnerships: Motion (Resumed). (9 Jul 2008)

Seán Ardagh: The Central Statistics Office's small area population statistics, SAPS, indicate that the number of family units comprising mothers with children in Dublin South-Central is 7,066. This is 25% greater than the next highest figure in the State, which is 5,600 in Dublin South-West. There is a significant poverty indicator in these figures. The developments we are discussing are located in...

Public Private Partnerships: Motion (Resumed). (9 Jul 2008)

Seán Ardagh: The preferred partnership arrangement that has been in place between Michael McNamara and Company has ended. Both sides have agreed that the second bidder will be approached to see whether it can be brought on board. The other three projects in place at O'Devaney Gardens, Convent Lands, Seán MacDermott Street and Infirmary Road look like they are going to mediation. Having read The Irish...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)

Seán Ardagh: I agree with Deputy Quinn. As a result of this, financial institutions throughout the world suffered and, in turn, us consumers now suffer through the non-availability of loans, particularly mortgages at reasonable rates for young people. Recently, a businessman with a large number of assets went to a bank seeking a small loan and was refused because the bank had no money to lend. This...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)

Seán Ardagh: I am delighted to have the opportunity to contribute on this motion on the economy. We have been used to significant growth rates, averaging 5% to 6% year on year over the past decade. We were used to new initiatives and many of our expectations have been met with regard to infrastructural and other projects. Householders with a constant increase in real wages could aspire to a new flat...

Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Report Stage (2 Jul 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Is the Deputy making a concluding contribution?

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2008)

Seán Ardagh: Question 644: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans he has to allow special needs assistants to job share in the same way as teachers in view of the circumstances of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22648/08]