Results 1-16 of 16 for destroyed speaker:Billy Timmins

Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Billy Timmins: ...our political system, and the role of the late Brian Lenihan, and if I may make so bold, the former Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Notwithstanding the many errors they made and that their Government destroyed the economy here, at the 11th hour, at one minute to midnight, when they had no choice a system and policies were put in place. Many people have suffered in their implementation. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: ...scripts and materials are sent back to he schools where pupils can, quite rightly, view them. I do not know what happens to them when they go back for re-examination or whatever but they may be destroyed. I have been approached by the families of some students who would like the artwork to be returned to the students and I cannot see why their request cannot be facilitated. For many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: The artworks and materials are already in schools so it would be no problem for families to get them back. Returning the items to students would save the SEC the difficulty of destroying them. The items should be returned be it needlework, painting or whatever and I can see no reason not to do so. Another important issue is the rechecking of examination papers. Time and again I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: ...the opportunity to look at it. Only a certain percentage look for a re-check. After the re-check it is sent back up to the Department and even if a student does not ask for a recheck it is destroyed somewhere in the Department. I cannot see the worry about it being destroyed in transit as it has been transported up and down already. If a grade A student, who will not look for a...

Topical Issue Debate: Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations (28 Jan 2015)

Billy Timmins: To reiterate, the tribunal involved 17 years, 428 witnesses and, as outlined by the Minister, €159 million. It destroyed many reputations, rightly or wrongly. It brought down a Taoiseach. Yet, we do know not know its outcome. Where does accountability lie in this squalid affair? It is as if it operated in a parallel universe for which we in the House had no responsibility. ...

Water Utilities: Motion (12 Jan 2011)

Billy Timmins: ...simple mechanism for turning off the water. The vast majority of people do not know how and where to turn off their water. All public buildings should have a switch. I know of schools that were destroyed with ceilings collapsing over the period. If they had a little switch at the door, when they are heading off for the Christmas holidays they could knock it off and thereby save...

Written Answers — State Banking Sector: State Banking Sector (16 Dec 2009)

Billy Timmins: ...of files that are in hard copy only; the way in which these files are protected; when these protection measures were put in place; if he is satisfied that all files are secure, that some have been destroyed since the nationalisation of Anglo Irish bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47480/09]

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Billy Timmins: ...Liberal Party and Irish Nationalist Party. Recent Fianna Fáil-led Governments have done to Ireland what Osama Bin Laden has tried to do to the western world for the past decade, namely, they have destroyed it. It is governments rather than financial regulators or central banks which are responsible for countries. Fianna Fáil-led Governments assisted in destroying this country in...

Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: ...the consumer some good if we got that statistic. Fine Gael will oppose resolution No. 4 and resolution No. 7. I have mixed views on the betting tax. Much of Charlie McCreevy's heritage is being destroyed this evening. Is the Minister concerned that this move will give rise to on-line betting?

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Sep 2008)

Billy Timmins: ...at a polling booth, he or she can approach the polling clerk and telephone the county registrar, his or her representative or somebody in the local authority and make his or her case. It is soul destroying not to be able to vote on an issue. One can see the impact it has on people and it is not difficult to deal with the issue there and then. On the issue of the conduct of elections,...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Sep 2008)

Billy Timmins: ...this could give a certain advantage to the incumbents as opposed to the individual who is starting off. Serious consideration will have to be given to designating areas for posters because they destroy the countryside, are an unnecessary expense and are a massive headache for the public and the politicians taking part. There is a need to designate areas in constituencies where posters...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)

Billy Timmins: ...to Killarney, he told me he hoped it would happen by 2012. He was a realistic politician, God be good to him. The decentralisation proposals are the greatest scam ever perpetrated on this State, destroying efficiency. I instance the moving of 30 or more employees of Bord Bia to Enniscorthy when ten or more of them were working abroad. There was no thought to it and it was a complete...

Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: ...21 2008. In so far as trade in cluster munitions exists in Ireland today, this is effectively symbolic legislation. Ireland does not produce or use cluster munitions and has no stockpiles to destroy, which is an important issue for other signatories to the Wellington convention. In that vein, the purpose of this Bill in prohibiting the trade, transit or procurement of cluster munitions...

Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: ...penalty should be sufficiently large to put off even the most profitable of pensions funds. Section 6 of the Bill provides that any cluster munitions found will be confiscated by the State and destroyed, at the expense of the owner of the cluster munitions. It also provides that the Minister will have the discretion to confiscate any means of transport used to transport cluster munitions....

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Billy Timmins: ...is seeking to rewrite history. It seeks to claim that it created the Celtic tiger but I cannot imagine Deputy Martin, Deputy Cullen and Deputy O'Dea creating it when history will show that they destroyed the fruits of the economy with a series of ill-judged and mismanaged projects, with which we are familiar. In time, I expect many more will come to the surface as the squabble to dole out...

Written Answers — Flight Incident: Flight Incident (27 Jun 2006)

Billy Timmins: Question 304: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if photographs and details taken with respect to passengers on board a recently diverted flight (details supplied) will be destroyed; and if not what the situation is. [24356/06]