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- Seanad: Sustainable Tourism: Statements (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: Please stop interrupting your colleague.
- Seanad: Sustainable Tourism: Statements (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Griffin, to the House for what is a very important debate on sustainability and tourism. I acknowledge the work he is doing to promote tourism across the four provinces of Ireland. That is very important. This is a debate on sustainability and I wish to focus on it. I listened earlier to some of the contributions on the staff that work in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I know that a lot of the focus is on the expenditure, what it means for communities and how it works. Some of our body of work, as the Chairman knows, is to look at value for money in terms of the grants available to communities and to support the Department, local authorities, LEADER groups and others and, more importantly, the communities in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: What about programme A?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: All right. I acknowledge the increase in funding that has been made available. I acknowledge also that this is a relatively new Department - only two years old - and that from a standing start the Minister has managed to increase the budget by over 26% in 2019 to a total of €291 million across the various programmes. This needs to be acknowledged because it is hard-fought-for with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: As we all know, it is under programme A that the vast majority of capital expenditure occurs. Such funding is certainly welcome in the many communities that benefit from it, whether through the LEADER scheme, the rural regeneration scheme, town and village renewal scheme, the CLÁR programme, the walk schemes, local improvement schemes and Tidy Towns. Every single county and community...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: Kilmacthomas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: It is a fine place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: Flahavan's porridge comes from there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: It is the best porridge in the world.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: I would like to follow up on what the Minister has said before he moves on to Senator Hopkins. I acknowledge that the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, is here too. I welcome the improvement in the standard of applications. That has to be noted by this committee because it is something we look at regularly when we hear from community groups. I want us to note that. I would like to ask...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: I remind the Deputy not to mention persons by name.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: I call Deputy Fitzmaurice. The Minister can then respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: Is that Irish Water Safety?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: With regard to water safety, coming from a coastal county, like the Chairman, I want to deal with the issue of safety at beaches, rivers and quarries, which have been a problem and, unfortunately, we have had some drownings in quarries in recent years. Lifeguard courses are consistently run by Irish Water Safety. I commend the volunteers who are involved in that movement and acknowledge the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: I, too, welcome my good friend and colleague, former Senator Maurice Cummins. He has had many outings in this House over the years. In the face of two serious challenges that the country faces, namely, those relating to Brexit and climate change, I welcome the cautious approach adopted by the Government in presenting the budget yesterday. Preparing for a no-deal scenario has to be done....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: Senator Leyden was up late last night
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)
Paudie Coffey: Sinn Féin would make no provision for a no-deal Brexit.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Paudie Coffey: We saw what happened with bankers before.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy English, to the House for this debate on housing.I do not agree with Senator Craughwell, who said that statements are futile. It is an opportunity for all of us to raise issues of concern, put them on the public record and suggest solutions to the Minister of State, who, I know, is willing to listen. It is also an opportunity for the Minister of State...