Results 401-420 of 587 for in 'Dáil debates' speaker:Noel Coonan

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) (11 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: I wish to share time with Deputies Joe Carey, Pat Breen and Tom Hayes, if that is in order. At the outset, I acknowledge the role played by the staff, medical and otherwise, of Nenagh General Hospital and Limerick Regional Hospital. I acknowledge also the emergency services who provide such a fantastic service, in difficult situations, to the people of north Tipperary. Deputy Lowry provided...

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) (11 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: I am glad she is not at a Labour Party rally tonight. Did the party deliver? It did not. What confidence and trust can the people of north Tipperary now have in Fianna Fáil's ability to deliver, aided and abetted by Deputy Lowry? I say they can have none and I offer an example, although Deputy Lowry has left the House. This time last year, capital funding was planned to provide for a...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: Do not do it, Tadhg.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: We will allow the Deputy pass through.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: How does the Minister know? She is not a doctor.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: So does Deputy Crawford.

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?

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: She should apologise to the doctors in Nenagh.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: We used to have such a hospital in north Tipperary.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: They put in the services first.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: The Minister should first put in place the services.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Noel Coonan: We were told that last year as well.

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.

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]

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.