Taoiseach's Speeches Archive 2006
I am delighted to launch both the new Strategy for the National Centre for Partnership and Performance, Irish Workplaces: A Strategy for Change, Innovation and Partnership, and new guidelines on employee financial involvement, Improving Performance – Sharing the Gains.
I am delighted to be with you today to launch the Temple Bar Traditional Irish Music and Culture Festival, 2007. This is a venture I warmly welcome, providing as it does, a focal point for the wealth of Irish culture, song and dance, that helps to define our identity as a people.
Thank you all for joining me here in this beautiful and historic Church of St. Werburgh. I am very grateful to Archdeacon Pierpoint and the other authorities here in St Werburgh’s for the opportunity to make this announcement at this location, which is significant to us for a number of reasons which I will explain shortly.
I am very pleased and indeed proud to be here with you to declare open for business the largest single infrastructure project this State has ever undertaken. This undertaking is the outcome of more than ten years of vision and effort which began long before the first spade was set in the ground.
Tá an-áthas orm fáilte a chur romhaibh anseo inniu - tráth a bhfuilimid ag fógairt ráiteas an Rialtais i leith na Gaeilge.
Tá áit speisialta ag an nGaeilge i saol na tíre seo.
Tá an-áthas orm fáilte a chur romhaibh anseo inniu tráth a bhfuil muid ag fógairt ráiteas an Rialtais i leith na Gaeilge.
The Irish Language has a special position in the life of the Nation.
This annual members evening provides a great opportunity for you all to get together and swap notes on another successful year for Ireland's ICT Industry. I am delighted to be here and to join with you in wishing Michael Daly all the best as he ends his two year term as ICT Ireland's Chairman
I am delighted to be here this evening to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Irish Hospice Foundation. It is a real honour to be invited to such an occasion and to have the opportunity to acknowledge the excellent work carried out by the Irish Hospice Foundation. There is no doubt hospice care can make a real difference to patients and their families at times of great stress, uncertainty and sadness.
I am delighted to be here this evening to officially open these new premises in Dublin’s Docklands for Camara. More than that, I am happy to have this opportunity to join with you in a celebration of your achievements, which are all the more notable when you consider that Camara has been operating for just over one year. We have just seen on the video how worthwhile your work is and I think it is important that such endeavour is recognised and encouraged.
The establishment of the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute here at DCU is a hugely exciting development. It is an honour for me to be here to mark the Institute’s official opening at today’s symposium.