Results 1,021-1,040 of 7,024 for speaker:Willie Penrose
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I call Deputy Niamh Smyth. Deputy Nolan's contribution is a very good example to her.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I am allowing Deputy Nolan in again, if she is brief.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I call Deputy Smyth to come in briefly.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I am being very lenient because we nearly have the programme scoured.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: The latitude is unbelievable and it is only the first meeting. I hope I am not here anymore because I would not tolerate this. I call Deputy Burke.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I thank Deputy Burke for his brevity and call the Minister to respond.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I wish the Minister and Minister of State well in their important roles in promoting, sustaining and revitalising rural Ireland. Every member of the committee is a part of the rural framework. The Ministers know how important rural communities are and how many feel left behind and isolated. I do not need to give the Minister any advice, but it is important that he not be stymied in his...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: Am I right? I bet Deputy Ó Cuív remembers that. That has not been done. How could a Department of any description in this State do 95% of the job and leave the critical 5% not done? One can have all the Comptroller and Auditor Generals in the world but it is no good if jobs are not finished. It is vital for that spur into Longford to be completed. Let us complete the footpaths...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: We do not have to reinvent the wheel to get technology to rural Ireland. Let us imitate what is happening in Ludgate. That is a beacon of hope to rural communities. Get money to various other groups like that across rural Ireland and they will survive and thrive. Kick bureaucracy out the gate because otherwise rural Ireland will be strangled.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: Yes. We are scheduled to finish at 12 noon.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: No, we have not.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: We will make as much progress as we can.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: The members were probably allowed too much latitude at the beginning of the meeting.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I want to get a few replies to my own questions after being very patient and thrown into the job of Acting Chairman.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I call on Deputy Ó Cuív and we are discussing programme A that deals with rural development and regional affairs.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: Why are small and large counties allowed to submit eight projects?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: Deputy Ó Cuív has asked why a large county like Cork and a smaller county can both submit eight projects. Cork or Galway might need 20 projects.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I must bring the discussion to a conclusion.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: I am aware of that.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Willie Penrose: We have spent three hours considering the further Revised Estimates. I thank the Minister and Minister of State and their officials for attending the meeting. Members look forward to future positive engagement with the Minister who will have noted that a number of issues remain to be thrashed out. The committee will return to these issues at some point and take a focused and targeted...