Minister wants new electoral system
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
IRELAND NEEDS a new electoral system that would allow TDs to serve their constituents better, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey has told an Oireachtas committee.
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Dempsey holds line on drink-drive legislation
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
MINISTER FOR Transport Noel Dempsey has said rural Ireland would have come to “a sorry state” if it were dependent on tolerating drink-driving – and he was confident this was not the case.
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Dempsey publishes bill to reduce drink-drive limit
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has published his controversial legislation aimed at cutting the drink-driving limit on Irish roads.
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Mixed reaction to drink-driving plan
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Irish Insurance Federation (IIF) today said it supported proposals by Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey to reduce drivers’ maximum permitted blood/alcohol content from 80mg to 50mg per 100mls.
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Landing system benefits Knock
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
AN UPGRADED navigational landing system has all but eliminated diversions due to low cloud and fog at Ireland West Airport Knock, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey was told at the opening of a new terminal building there yesterday.
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Forum told of alcohol's huge role in road deaths
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
ALCOHOL MAY have been the contributory factor in over 1,000 fatal collisions on Irish roads between 1999 and 2008, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey said yesterday.
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Minister plans to merge agencies
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The Commission for Aviation Regulation and the regulatory functions of the Irish Aviation Authority are to be amalgamated with the planned National Transport Authority, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey announced yesterday.
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Rise and fall of Irish e-voting: a brief but expensive history
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
THE PLAN to introduce electronic voting goes back 10 years. In the spring of 1999 then minister for the environment Noel Dempsey commissioned research on the counting of ballot papers in the European and local elections of 1999 to test the feasibility of e-voting.
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Gardaí search Anglo Irish Headquarters
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 02/24/2009
The Irish Transport Minister, Noel Dempsey is talking about “economic treason” in the shenanigans at the Anglo Irish Bank - whether that’s a ‘charge’ which anyone will actual face is another matter. But search warrants were issued by Dublin District Court and this morning Gardaí attached to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement began searches of the...