Results 201-220 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney

Rural Areas: Motion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)

Colm Keaveney: I wish the proposers of the motion a happy Christmas. Santa Claus has come early to Fianna Fáil. Judging by the palpable sense of relief on the faces of many of its Deputies, they are delighted to be out of Government. Thomas Jefferson once wrote: "History, in general, only informs us of what bad Government is." The budgetary measures that Fianna Fáil seeks to condemn this Government...

Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Dec 2011)

Colm Keaveney: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reforms being discussed under the Common Agricultural Policy negotiations that will affect farmers in the west of Ireland who work on less favourable land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38934/11]

Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Dec 2011)

Colm Keaveney: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the issue on Common Agricultural Policy reform measures and their implications for designated disadvantaged areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38933/11]

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Colm Keaveney: The Deputy is not too shy herself.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Colm Keaveney: What facilities?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: What about the cuts in Northern Ireland?

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (11 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Question 593: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will inform this Deputy when Land Registry intend to process reference number (details supplied) as a concluded land registration. [40929/11]

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I warmly welcome this Bill, the purpose of which is to ensure fairness across the economy. The notion that temporary agency workers spend a brief time in their place of employment runs contrary to my own experience. In all sectors of the economy, agency workers are used indefinitely in the workplace. They often work shoulder to shoulder with comparable and like workers but they earn...

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (17 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the requisite criteria to be met for students sitting the junior and leaving certificate State examinations to become eligible for special centre support while sitting their examinations. [2475/12]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (17 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special centres provided for in 2010 and 2011 for junior and leaving certificate examinations. [2476/12]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (17 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost to the Exchequer in providing special centres for State examinations for academic years 2009, 2010 and 2011. [2477/12]

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Would you say that outside?

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Were you ever in the Galway tent?

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Apologise to the children of this country for what you did.

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Your fingerprints are all over the destruction of the country. Apologise to the people.

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: This is the man who wanted to go to jail.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Is the Deputy referring to the newspaper from which he read earlier?

Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Hear, hear. Progress.

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Deputy Ó Cuív was born in Dublin 4.

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I was recently impressed by comments from the deputy leader of Fianna Fáil at a public meeting in Ballinalsoe on the issue of rural schools. I now appreciate that the comments he made that night were well informed, based on his contribution to a Green Paper when he was first elected in 1992. Entitled "Education in a Changing World", it proposed Fianna Fáil's objective to ensure that the...