Results 401-420 of 3,554 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch in 'Dáil debates'

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I wish to raise two matters. During the summer period, the Minister for Justice and Law Reform announced the creation of a house price register database. Has legislation been drafted in this area and when is it expected to be before the House? On the day we broke up for the summer recess, a report was published by a working group investigating mortgage arrears. The report contained a...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Given that the report contained legislative recommendations, will we see such legislation before the House?

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Given that the Taoiseach has acknowledged that there is no legislative need for the creation of a house price register database——

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: A Cheann Comhairle——

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: When the Dáil goes into summer recess, we have Ministers making announcements outside the House and when we come back to the House in September——

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: ——we cannot get a response from Ministers to acknowledge the announcements they made several weeks earlier.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Very simply——

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to indulge me for a moment.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Taoiseach has acknowledged that there is no legislative requirement for the creation of a house price register database, which is contrary to earlier information we got on the matter. When will the database be put in place given that there is now no legislative hindrance on it?

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Taoiseach has not responded to my second question on whether time will be given in the House to discuss the report published on the day the House went into recess, which affects 35,000 mortgage holders.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Can we take it a Cheann Comhairle——

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: It was just a bad news week during the summer when the Minister came out and made the announcement.

Teaching Qualifications (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the changes made by her to the probation process for newly qualified teachers; if she will confirm that the requirements of the probation process must now be achieved in three years instead of five years; if she has considered the impact this will have on teachers who are unable to find regular work; and if she will...

Emergency Planning (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I understand that the Minister contacted a number of local authorities across the country to ask them to furnish him with a report of their activities during the adverse weather conditions, namely, the cold snap and the flooding. What has happened to those reports? Has someone reviewed them and compiled the information they contain? Have they found their way into a single document...

Emergency Planning (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Given the Minister's comments, are we to believe that nothing has been learned in recent months? There must be something. The key concept of emergency planning is risk assessment. One must make a determined risk assessment before drafting an emergency plan. As we head into next winter, is the Minister informing the House that last year's risk assessments are the same as those currently in...

Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government the number of houses leased from private landlords under Social Housing Leasing Initiative to date in 2010; average monthly cost and full-year these leases; properties which are be refurbished returned landlord at end lease period with no option buy property or sell it sitting tenant; reason was not made...

Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I thought we would be doing this after "Oireachtas Report", not before it.

Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: It is interesting that when the Minister announced this programme in the Chamber two years ago, he said he would spend €20 million per annum and with that would acquire 2,000 properties in the private sector. The figures the Minister has given this evening are well off those targets. At that time he was also adamant that there would be no option to buy as part of the package. Why has he...

Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: As I have stated in the House previously, there is no long term security of tenure for a social housing applicant in this programme and neither is there an exit policy. The Minister of State is on record in this regard in reply to a parliamentary question. Even though he is shepherding local authorities into this approach by saying it is the only show in town, he is not giving them any...

Local Government Elections (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister indicated in previous comments on the White Paper that it would be launched concurrently with the announcement of the mayoralty. Has the White Paper being brought before the Cabinet or has the Minister a date on which he envisages it will be brought before the Cabinet? Second, we are a million miles away from a mayoral election if one operates on the assumption that the...