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- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: I genuinely appreciate how restricted the Minister is in what he can say about an ongoing investigation, but what happened in the past does not absolve the Department or any of us from needing to ensure that an audit has been conducted so that the equipment used by people working in the Coast Guard has been tested and found to be fit for purpose. I will not ask the Minister to comment on...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: Yes.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: I have a number of quick questions to ask. Under the grant for sporting bodies and the provision for sports and recreational facilities part-funded by the national lottery, there is a decrease from the 2017 figure. Why is that? Various bodies from minority sports appeared before the committee. Deputy O'Keeffe arranged that with the Chairman recently. They do not like their sports to be...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: No. I said the parliamentary question reply one reads will determine when the scheme opens. One reply earlier this year indicated it would open within a number of months, and one last week indicated it would open in a number of months as well. The number of months keeps moving, depending on when one asks the question.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: Can the Minister give the month in which applications will open this year and a ballpark figure as to how much funding will be available this year under the scheme?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: To be fair, if the Minister only opens the applications in September - I do not wish to put dates in his mind - the chances are that no funding will be allocated under the 2018 budget because based on previous years, it will take a number of months to adjudicate on the applications. To be fair, there is a big difference in terms of when the application process opens and closes and that will...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: As I outlined, if the Minister opened the process in September or October, it would mean he would not have to allocate funding this year.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: That is the reason I ask the question. The Minister might open the process this year but allocate the funding in February or March 2019. That is a genuine reason why the process might not open this year. I just gave one example and the Minister rightly said there are many others out there who are anxiously waiting for a timeframe on the terms of the funding availability. People are...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: Has the greenways strategy been published?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: When does the Minister envisage that it will be published?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: Before the summer recess?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: I think we all agree that-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: What about the tourism action plan?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: I refer to the plan from 2018 to 2020.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: The updated one?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: While acknowledging the huge increase in international tourists visiting Ireland, we do have a problem arising from Brexit. I think the Minister will acknowledge that. I refer to the fall-off in tourists from the UK.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: The Minister did make additional funding in the region of €1 million available in last year's budget to try to address that. However, when that is seen in the context of the funding that the UK Government put in place to mitigate the potential fall-off in tourists visiting the UK as a result of Brexit, it pales into insignificance. Moreover we have not been able - the Minister will...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: Can we address one more question before we conclude? Under the first programme, programme A, concerning civil aviation, I asked about legislation and policy documents for which the Minister was unable to give a timeframe at the outset. I do not know whether correspondence came in through email or whether the Minister will be coming back to me later today or tomorrow regarding the national...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: I am just making the point that I am surprised it is not in the 2018 output target-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Robert Troy: -----under "legislation", because it should be.