Results 1-20 of 3,523 for speaker:Lucinda Creighton

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion. (26 Jun 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: It is my pleasure to support the motion. As Deputy Brian Hayes outlined, there is a series of problems and failings in the Government's proposals regarding the process of co-location. The decision to proceed with co-location amounts to little more than acceptance of the failure of Government policy in respect of the health service during the past ten years. The Taoiseach and the Minister...

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion. (26 Jun 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: ——on the basis that their party, if re-elected to government, would not deliver on the policy. However, they have since been bought off with additional junior Ministries and have suddenly become silent on the matter. The Government has shown itself to be bereft of ideas on how it might reform the public sector and deliver public hospital beds. It has resorted to taking the easy way out...

Light Rail Project. (28 Jun 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine if a route has been selected for joining up the existing two Luas lines in Dublin city centre; when this project will proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18042/07]

Foreign Conflicts. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he has taken to ensure the European Union and the wider international community use all possible tools available to put pressure on the Sudanese Government to end the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18771/07]

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: It gives me pleasure to speak on this issue that is critical for both my constituency and the country, namely, waste management and specifically the proposed incinerator for the Poolbeg Peninsula. This evening the Opposition is offering the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, the opportunity to stop the Poolbeg incinerator. He need only support the...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: The Minister claims that by an agreement not to raise landfill fees "in such a way as to give competitive advantage to incineration", the incinerator will be stopped. Pull the other one. Either the Minister is naive or this is a blatant attempt to hoodwink us into believing the Green Party will do something about incineration. We will not be fooled by these tactics. We have our own...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: ——and that he has not abandoned his former staunch commitment to the people of Dublin South-East.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: Fine Gael is offering the Minister a life raft, namely, the opportunity to stand by his principles.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: As Fianna Fáil will not offer him the same opportunity, I hope he grasps it and brings his Green Party colleagues with him.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: Exactly; therefore, the Minister has the power.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: What about incineration?

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: The Minister is not dealing with the motion.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: What about our ambitions for incineration? Will it be 15% or 20%?

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: Why did the Minister not demand, in the programme for Government, that the incinerator be stopped? Why did he not make it a crunch issue in the programme? That was his opportunity and he failed.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: The Minister has let us down.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: I am a constituent of the Minister and he has let us down.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: It is all talk.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: If we are setting the record straight——

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: Deputy Sargent is propagating lies.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: It is absolutely untrue.