Results 1-12 of 12 for cowen speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Vote is to obtain information which is necessary for the security of the country and that given the sensitivities associated with a Vote of this nature, information relating to its operation is not made public. When Brian Cowen was Minister for Finance, he gave the same type of answer. It should be stuck somewhere. The Vote can disappear altogether and it can be a line under some...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (16 Dec 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá an chéad cheist eile in ainmneacha na dTeachtaí O’Dea, Lawless agus Cowen.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Issues (26 Nov 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is there a ceist eile from Deputies Cowen or McAuliffe?

Pay Inequality in the Public Service: Statements (24 May 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...while next door another teacher on a different rate is teaching a class. This has not been addressed. It should have been the first issue addressed with regard to public finances. Deputy Cowen spoke before us and I heard him state this was a necessary step that had to be taken by his Government, which was compounded by the current Government. To this day, I do not believe this and...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (27 Sep 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...those operating in sub-Saharan Africa, will the Minister of State consider taking a similar stance, given that former Ministers for Defence, including Tony Killeen, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, Brian Cowen, Alan Shatter and Deputy Simon Coveney, as well as the Taoiseach, did not do so when I raised the matter with them?

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I agree with Deputy Cowen. This is a low attack on the qualified child payment. It is a decrease in a social welfare rate, yet the Minister has made great play of her claim that no social welfare rate has been cut. I oppose the section on that basis alone. I also oppose it on the basis that it targets many who are dependent on social welfare payments. Under the proposed changes, the...

By-Election for Dublin South: Motion (23 Jun 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Only last week Government Deputies brazenly voted confidence in the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, yet the Government is terrified of the electorate. It does not have a mandate to govern because it stood in an election and did not put forward any of the policies it is now implementing. What is even more bizarre is that we are discussing a writ for a by-election in Dublin South but one of the...

Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...upon the property bubble continuing and that such was not a position that could be sustained. Two years on from the initial emergence of the crisis, I want to give the two Brians, Deputies Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan, a lesson in the real world to put into context the giveaway or present that they are giving to bankers and property speculators. The sum of what is intended here is that...

Twenty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty of Lisbon) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ..., protects public services and seeks to play a positive and progressive role in the wider world. In June 2008 when almost 1 million people rejected the Lisbon treaty, we gave the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, and the Government a mandate for change. We gave him a strong hand to play at the Council of Ministers. Following the example of the people of France and The Netherlands, we called on...

Lisbon Treaty: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...leadership. Why was it that one week it argued one position and the next week it argued another? The IFA said it was seeking a "No" vote originally and it then capitulated to the three monkeys, Cowen, Kenny and Gilmore. The veto that Mr. Padraig Walshe and the IFA sought was to disappear in the Lisbon treaty and yet he capitulated. The dream of this Lisbon treaty to which the Minister...

National Drugs Strategy. (30 Nov 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...will arrive in the Minister's office tomorrow, given that the deadline is November. Is the Minister of State aware that the figure announced by his colleague, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, a fortnight ago in the Estimates is not sufficient to deal with the demands of the local or regional drugs task forces? In fact, it is at least €8 million short of current demands. When...

Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There was no attempt in the Government's amendment or Deputy Cowen's reply last night to refute the points made in the Sinn Féin motion that there is no impediment under EU competition rules to Government investment in Aer Lingus.