Results 241-260 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney
- Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)
Colm Keaveney: I am happy to acknowledge some of the achievements in health that are listed at the beginning of the Fianna Fáil motion. However, I cannot help but raise an eyebrow at some of the other content of the motion, one part of which calls for the Government to immediately put in place proper governance structures for the HSE. Has Fianna Fáil forgotten it was only recently in government and it...
- Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)
Colm Keaveney: That party destroyed this country and sold our economic sovereignty. Yet Deputy Kelleher and his colleagues have the cheek to put forward a motion suggesting that they would reform the Health Service Executive. Their fingerprints are all over the mismanagement and dysfunction of the HSE. The colleague sitting beside Deputy Kelleher earlier was the architect of the executive. Members...
- Written Answers — National Spatial Strategy: National Spatial Strategy (21 Feb 2012)
Colm Keaveney: Question 443: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the budget allocation for the spatial policy section, Department of Environment, Community and Local Government; the way staff are assigned to this unit; if he will provide information on the way hub status that was given to Tuam, County Galway, in 2007 will be benefit to it in the short,...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Colm Keaveney: He did say it.
- Job Losses (29 Feb 2012)
Colm Keaveney: I recently brought an urgent matter concerning a forced, contested redundancy situation in Galway to the attention of several Ministers, including the Minister for Social Protection and the Minster for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. Rehab Enterprises plans to make 18 employees in its recycling centre in Galway redundant. Only a limited number of employees have indicated that they will...
- Job Losses (29 Feb 2012)
Colm Keaveney: I am pleased that the Minister has expressed an interest in looking forward to the outcome of Friday's discussions concerning the affected workers. I draw the Minister's attention to the fact that Rehab posted a surplus of â¬1.9 million in 2009 and a surplus of â¬2.3 million in 2010. I note the commitment by the Department of Social Protection to the wage subsidy scheme. However, I am at...
- State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Colm Keaveney: Deputy Stanley knows that is the reality.
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (7 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected savings from the decoupling of learning support and learning resources from primary schools; the way these savings were calculated; if proper account was taken of extra costs involved in having support and resource teachers travelling to and from schools and for the loss in productivity from the time expended on such...
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: Hear, hear.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: We are being forced to sell them on this occasion.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: We are cleaning up Fianna Fáil's mess.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: It is a Fianna Fáil mess. Its fingerprints are all over-----
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: -----the destruction in this country.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: Fianna Fáil destroyed the economy and we are cleaning up the mess.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: It is denial on the Deputy's part.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: It is year zero politics.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: The fingerprints are there.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: That is 12 months after Fianna Fáil was there for 15 years of destruction.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: The fingerprints are all over the scene.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Colm Keaveney: Shame on you.