Results 61-80 of 3,555 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch in 'Dáil debates'

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Deputy Brian Hayes and his Fine Gael colleagues for tabling this motion. The debate is fundamentally about providing each child in the State with the best opportunity to reach his or her full potential and it is also about the ongoing daily anguish and frustration faced by parents who want help for their children. It is a question of how we define the price of a child's education...

Arms Trade. (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on breaches of the European Union code of conduct that have led to the export of arms by member states of the Union to regimes guilty of gross violations of human rights. [30868/07]

Schools Building Projects. (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: As the Minister of State, Deputy Wallace, is aware, Ballintemple national school on Crab Lane in Cork is full and therefore unable to cope with the increasing demand for school places within the parish. It is in the unenviable position of being unable to offer junior infant places to nine families from the parish for 2008. Furthermore, the 2009 and 2010 junior infant classes are greatly...

Schools Building Projects. (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: With the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's permission, I would like to get clarification on a key point. Will a design team be appointed immediately, especially as a timescale for the completion of this project needs to be set as a matter of urgency?

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: The HSE is setting the prices.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: "I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created." That is a quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein which goes to the centre of this debate and asks who is the villain of the piece, the entity created or the creator of the entity? The HSE is the creation of the Minister and like Shelley's Frankenstein it has grown completely and utterly beyond her control. The Minister told...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: It is seven years since the Government set out a plan to establish eight specialised centres of excellence to treat cancer. In that time of unprecedented prosperity, the Government has failed to provide the funding or leadership necessary to put these in place. I will give an example by quoting a letter which straddles that seven-year period. It states: Dear Patient. As a major research...

Social Welfare Code. (4 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he will end the cohabitation rule for lone parents; and the justification for delaying reform in this area. [32184/07]

Local Authority Housing. (4 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is fully aware that local authority tenants are treated differently according to the type of accommodation they occupy. A local authority tenant living in a house is able to engage in a tenant purchase scheme. Unfortunately, tenants who live in apartments have been prohibited for the past ten years from doing the same. During...

Local Authority Housing. (4 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Can the Minister of State provide a date for the legislative framework?

Local Authority Housing. (4 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister of State did not answer my question.

Local Authority Housing. (4 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: The message to this House is there is no date for those who wish to buy their homes.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: According to the Simon Community, 55 homeless people died on the streets in 2006. When will the social housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill, or other legislation, be introduced to implement the housing strategy to ensure these figures are not repeated? These figures released by the Simon Community are a record high. They probably do not reflect the real number dying on the streets,...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: There are several matters outstanding in respect of the electoral commission, local authorities, boundaries and population. Local elections are due to take place in summer 2009. Will there be changes to the boundaries and the structure of the seats in constituencies?

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: A Green Paper was to come before the House this week on local government reform but we will not see it until next summer. When will the Taoiseach make a statement on this matter?

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: According to the programme for Government a Green Paper on local government was to come before the House this week. A commitment was given that within six months of the Government coming to power that Green Paper would be before us. In that regard, a commitment was also given by the Taoiseach that a commission on the boundaries for local elections would be established. Will the Tánaiste...

EU Directives. (18 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 62: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will ratify the public participation directive, Directive 2003/35/EC; if he anticipates areas of conflict between the directive and the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006; if there are areas of conflict, if he will amend the Act in line with the directive; and if he will make...

EU Directives. (18 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: I compliment the Minister on his return from Bali. He is looking well. I am not sure whether it is the tan or whether he has taken, like the Taoiseach, to wearing make-up.

EU Directives. (18 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister for his reply. He is correct to state there are two directives relating to the Aarhus Convention and that the access directive has been transposed. The directive to which I refer is the public participation directive. As the Minister will know, Ireland is the only EU member state not to have ratified the Aarhus Convention. It has been conceded by the Government that...

EU Directives. (18 Dec 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: The programme for Government stated that within six months of coming to power, a Green Paper would be brought before the House. That should happen some day this week.