Results 1-9 of 9 for climate change speaker:Alasdair McDonnell

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: World Wildlife Fund Earth Hour 2009 (16 Mar 2009)

Alasdair McDonnell: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; I assure you that your confidence is well founded. Climate change is a very serious issue if not the most serious and challenging issue facing humanity. That is not just my opinion, or the opinion of some in the Chamber; it is the consensus opinion of world renowned scientists, even if it is not that of our own Minister of the Environment. As I understand it, the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (24 Feb 2009)

Alasdair McDonnell: ...Many of Northern Ireland’s key domestic and international markets are struggling. Consumer and business confidence is in relative free fall. Unemployment is rising. In particular, the current climate is acutely severe and threatening for local small and medium-sized enterprises. My office has been inundated by local businesspeople who are deeply concerned that their hard-built...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Report on the Inquiry into the Role and Potential of Credit Unions in Northern Ireland (17 Feb 2009)

Alasdair McDonnell: ...could, and should, be allowed to provide to local communities because of the constraints of the regulatory system. Eight of the recommendations contained in the report go a considerable way towards changing the regulatory arrangements, enabling credit unions to provide a much expanded and effective range of services, and at the very least, the same range of services provided by credit...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations: Decommissioning (26 Nov 2008)

Alasdair McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will estimate the average cost of decommissioning a nuclear power station borne by (a) the public purse and (b) the nuclear power industry.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations: Decommissioning (19 Nov 2008)

Alasdair McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate the Government has made of the average cost of decommissioning a nuclear power station, including associated clean-up costs.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power: Northern Ireland (11 Nov 2008)

Alasdair McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what (a) meetings and (b) discussions he and his predecessor with responsibility for nuclear energy has had with the Minister for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in the Northern Ireland Executive on the implications for electricity consumers in Northern Ireland of the Government's decision on the future of...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Climate Change: Curriculum (23 Jul 2007)

Alasdair McDonnell: ...what provision is made in the national curriculum for educating children about renewable energy; and what measures are in place to ensure that all school children are suitably educated about climate change.

Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (13 Mar 2006)

Alasdair McDonnell: ...energy resources in Europe, yet, according to the Carbon Trust, only 0.2 per cent. of the north's primary energy requirement comes from renewable sources. That is a scandal. The threat of global climate change ensures that we must quickly change the way that we source and use energy. Financial assistance is required. There is some around, but it is not massive and we need to extend it...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Second Report of the Committee for Enterprise, Trade and Investment (1 May 2001)

Dr Alasdair McDonnell: ...in extremely difficult circumstances. The Chairperson earlier referred to globalisation. Globalisation has been the name of the game in the last 10 years, if not the last 15. The whole world has changed and become a village. We can no longer operate in isolation, as we could perhaps have done in the past with the grants, the protection, the shelter and the subsidies. Businesses developed...