Results 21-26 of 26 for 5 million speaker:Clare Daly
- Departmental Agencies (9 Feb 2012)
Clare Daly: ...already has been brought before, and is at present before, the Committee of Public Accounts because of this very move, which as the Minister has noted involves the expenditure of just short of â¬5 million of taxpayers' money for a new facility in Ashtown of a far less superior status than the existing facility in Kinsealy. Is the Minister aware the students still will be sent to Kinsealy...
- Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (11 Jan 2012)
Clare Daly: ...is that the introduction of the provision has been delayed. The legislation should have been passed before Christmas. I note that the Government is respecting the provisions of the directive from 5 December but we all know what happened when the word got out that this provision was to be given legislative status - many employers started banging the drum. One would think they were going...
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: ...they have 6.01% of the voting rights in the IMF. Under this proposal China will take a great leap forward and go from 3.66% to 3.81% of the IMF voting rights, even though it has a population of 1,500 million people. A group of 24 sub-Saharan African countries with a population of 225 million is represented on the IMF executive board by Rwanda, which has a total of 1.39% of IMF voting...
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: ...and so forth. It is really punitive legislation which is not being introduced just for this charge. However, the Minister and the Government cannot bring everybody to court. There are 1.4 million households eligible for the charge and, at best, the Minister can bring about 5% to court. We will go into the courts and defend those people. The Judiciary is not exactly flavour of the month...
- Report on Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)
Clare Daly: ...open up the north side of Dublin for economic development. It is a magnificent project which would transform the lives of citizens in the area. Given that it would cost the Government only â¬700 million in the course of the next couple of years, it is lunacy to shelve it. I appeal, even at the eleventh hour, to have the project be re-inserted in the capital budget. Last week the...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (6 Oct 2011)
Clare Daly: ...deals with Irish patents lists an average figure of 320 patents granted each year between 2007 and 2009, with roughly one third of those applying being granted a patent. Of the patents granted, 250 were granted to people within the State. In a European context, the European Patent Office granted 33,844 patents with an effect in Ireland, of which only 151 were granted to applicants from...