Results 21-40 of 2,343 for speaker:Michael Colreavy
- International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I wish to discuss amendment No. 77.
- International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I misunderstood the situation.
- International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I will deal with the amendments tabled by Deputy Mac Lochlainn, who sends his apologies for not being here but he is chairing a committee meeting and hopes to join us later. Amendment No. 12 states provides that a copy of any notice or other document that is required or authorised by or under this Act to be served on or given to a person shall also be sent directly to his or her legal...
- International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: What we are seeking by way of amendment No. 12 is that documents would be served directly to the person's legal representative at the time of issuance of the notice. The people about whom we are speaking in this regard are often under severe pressure and may not be used to dealing with officialdom. I cannot understand how the inclusion in legislation of a provision that would require the...
- International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 12: In page 12, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(3) A copy of any notice or other document that is required or authorised by or under this Act to be served on or given to a person shall also be sent directly to his or her legal representative at the time of issuing the notice.".
- International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 13: In page 13, line 25, after "violence" where it secondly occurs to insert "and acts of domestic violence". This amendment proposes the insertion after the word "violence", where it secondly occurs, the words "and acts of domestic violence". This would ensure that persons suffering from domestic violence have clarity with regard to their rights in terms of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I welcome the witnesses. Deputy Dessie Ellis is our spokesperson on transport but he is currently in the Dáil Chamber as there was a timetable clash and he sends his apologies. I represent the north-west Sligo and north Leitrim area, but whoever is to represent it next time around will cover Sligo, Leitrim, south Donegal and west Cavan. The chambers of commerce in those areas will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: That would seem to make sense. Do the figures quoted by the witnesses include sharing forecourts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Yes, the figure of €105 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Given that there do not seem to be any steps in train to get the gas pipeline up through Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Donegal, and that we will not allow fracking into the region, what are Gas Networks Ireland's plans for the north west?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Could the witness repeat that please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Gas Networks Ireland will not be making that decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I understand that.
- 1916 Quarter Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Almost 100 years ago Dublin and the entire island of Ireland were in a state of desperation. Unemployment was rampant. There was a massive rate of child mortality and swelling slums were rife. The only option many people had was to be shipped off to the killing fields of Europe to spill their blood for their imperialist oppressor. Out of this despair and destitution, arrived the men and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: On a point of clarification. Does that mean the land-based studies will not being going ahead from 1 January?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: So nothing further will happen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Environmental Protection Agency's study of hydraulic fracturing could be compromised in the public's opinion owing to the close relationship of some of the participants with hydraulid fracturing interests. [44986/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: My question concerns the Environmental Protection Agency's study of hydraulic fracturing. Every time its representatives appears before the Joint Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further serious concerns are raised about the independence of the study which the public very much regards as compromised. Will the Minister of State stop the practice of fracking?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: One of the reasons I came to the Dáil was to have fracking banned anywhere in Ireland. The area most at risk from this pernicious technology is where my children and I live. It is where my grandchildren and great grandchildren will also live. Because I am not seeking re-election, I have the luxury of taking on this issue without political considerations. People are doing tremendous...