Results 101-120 of 587 for speaker:Noel Coonan in 'Dáil debates'

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2008)

Noel Coonan: Young people are not interested in starting a business.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2008)

Noel Coonan: More hardship.

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)

Noel Coonan: When the archives dating back to the 12th century were destroyed in the Four Courts in 1922, Winston Churchill wrote to Michael Collins. He stated, "800 years of Ireland's history may be blown to the four corners of the earth but the title deeds of Ireland are safe". How many title deeds of farms throughout Ireland are safe after this budget, with its savage cuts imposed on the farming...

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)

Noel Coonan: Deputy Brady is supported by the Greens and an Independent from my constituency who is happy with the cutbacks.

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)

Noel Coonan: I will finish with a quote from the Bird. He said "Don't do it Tadhg" and I ask the Minister not to do it either.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2008)

Noel Coonan: The Taoiseach should look behind him, his backbenchers are not impressed.

EU Treaties. (27 Jan 2009)

Noel Coonan: Did the Minister run that by the Cork hurlers?

Accident and Emergency Services. (28 Jan 2009)

Noel Coonan: Taking services out of a community before putting alternative services in place is a classic case of putting the cart before the horse. The Teamwork report estimates it will cost €380 million to implement this change. However, only €6 million has been allocated to Mr. Paul Burke, the person charged with implementing it. The services are simply not in place at the Mid-Western Regional...

Accident and Emergency Services. (28 Jan 2009)

Noel Coonan: They are like the centre of excellence in Portlaoise in the Minister of State's constituency, the Government did not invest the necessary funding in it.

Accident and Emergency Services. (28 Jan 2009)

Noel Coonan: Portlaoise was designated a centre of excellence.

Accident and Emergency Services. (28 Jan 2009)

Noel Coonan: Some 19,000 people attended the accident and emergency department in Nenagh.

Accident and Emergency Services. (28 Jan 2009)

Noel Coonan: Where are they?

Natural Gas Grid. (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the plans in place to extend the natural gas infrastructure in north Tipperary; the timescale for doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4858/09]

Natural Gas Grid. (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: I am disappointed that the Minister started his reply by stating he has no responsibility for this and that it is a commercial matter for Bord Gáis Éireann. Preliminary results from the analysis carried out by DKM indicate subvention from the State will be required to have gas delivered to the towns of Thurles, Nenagh and Roscrea. According to the report, a sum of €11 million will be...

Natural Gas Grid. (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: I do not accept the Minister's analogy. Infrastructure must be put in place to attract people and industry to an area. What was the cost of the 35 jobs that were lost in Taylor Made, Templemore, yesterday because of energy prices, following the 24 lost last December? That is a total of 59 job losses. What is the cost of that to the State?

Natural Gas Grid. (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: We need equal treatment in rural Ireland. We do not want all the money spent within the Pale.

Telecommunications Services. (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: They will be obsolete before then.

Telecommunications Services. (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: The Minister will be sitting on the MANs.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: The same thing applies in Monaghan.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: Is the Minister casting aspersions on doctors in Nenagh?