Results 561-580 of 1,750 for speaker:Declan Breathnach

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: Before I call Deputy Aylward I remind Members that we are dealing with amendments Nos. 9, 11, 12 and 18 and I ask that in the interests of moving this Bill forward they stick to the purpose of the amendments.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I ask the Deputy to stick to the purpose of the amendment, which is labelling on alcohol and not labelling of Kerry.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I ask Members to allow Deputy Nolan to make her contribution. Show some respect for Deputy Nolan and the Chair.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: Those involved with breweries need to be given an opportunity to prepare for the new regime. Regardless of whether this is right or wrong, they know it is going to happen. They need to be able to minimise the cost. Those involved with small breweries in particular need to be able to cope with it. When does the Minister realistically expect that this Bill will be implemented in full? I...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I fully support the overall objective of the Bill, which is to tackle alcohol abuse and underage drinking. I welcome the targeted and evidence-based measures that will help us to address these issues. I would like the Minister to help us along the way by answering a number of questions as part of my process of obtaining an understanding of the right way to finalise this Bill. I do not want...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I think one has to.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weather Events (26 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a programme of assistance will be introduced to help farmers who have lost up to 70% of their maize crop due to the conditions during Storm Ali; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that harvesting machinery is incapable of lifting a maize crop once it has fallen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38997/18]

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I am sharing time with Deputies Jackie Cahill and Robert Troy. The clock is ticking. There are 185 days to go. I am tinged with a certain sadness at the prospect of any reintroduction of a Border, either hard or soft, when it has, for all intents and purposes, been removed. That tinge of sadness also creates a certain madness at the futility of two islands on the periphery of Europe...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: As I said, there are 450 special needs students who have not been accommodated, which is an indictment on the scheme. I also acknowledged that the scheme was very successful for a time but as stated by most people on this side of the House it is now not fit for purpose and it needs to be recalibrated. Twelve months ago, the Minister of State gave an assurance to the education committee...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: The school transport scheme is 50 years in existence. It started in 1968. It is commendable that in the current year, 117,000 children are availing of it. Some 12,000 of them have special needs. Over 4,500 vehicles have covered what I am told was over 100 million km since the scheme started. As the old poem states, "The wheels on the bus go round and round", but unfortunately the doors...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the Chair and Senator Ruane for allowing me to comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I came here to listen to this debate because Deputies Aylward and I have tabled questions on school transport as part of the Topical Issue debate. I hope that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport will turn up for the Topical Issue debate. I believe that the scheme is broken, as other members have said. The scheme cost €190 million and there has been an increase of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I want to address the same matter of agriculture. Storm Ali devastated up to 70% of the maize crop in Louth, Meath and north Dublin last week. Less than 60% of the crop, if it is salvageable at all, will only be salvaged by the introduction of imported specialist machinery. Much of that maize was grown to meet the demand of the cereal crisis that we have had over the past number of years....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: No.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I apologise for having to leave earlier. I missed the presentation. I want to make sure that I do not ask questions which were asked and will concentrate on housing. I was interested in the response to Deputy Burton that it was not the role of the council to evaluate the mechanisms or structures of housing systems. If it is not the council's job, whose is it? We have approximately 650...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: If it is not the IFAC's job, whose job is it? I cannot see who is taking any responsibility for it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: The Commission for Regulation of Utilities was established under the programme for Government and the confidence and supply arrangement. To date, the whole issue of Irish Water's connection charging policy has not been agreed. I am sure that, as Meath Deputies, the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, and Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, will be acutely aware that Irish Water is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I will be as brief as possible. I would like to pay compliments to both organisations. They perform great services locally and nationally. I have a few questions. I am not sure of the wording here - I refer to the strategic housing development, the more than 100 buildings that go directly to an Bord Pleanála. It has been suggested that this body is almost as slow as the local...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: Dundalk is an exemplar.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (18 Sep 2018)

Declan Breathnach: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that redress that is owed is paid by the Church (details supplied). [36587/18]