Results 2,301-2,320 of 4,504 for speaker:Joe Carey

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: I am keen to try to bring this to a conclusion. We are two hours into the meeting. I propose that we take a break after we conclude this discussion.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: I want to bring this to a conclusion.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: I have listened to the Minister, Deputy Ring, and I am seeing the action on the ground. The local improvement scheme, LIS, works.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: I compliment the Minister on reinstating it after it was discontinued in 2010. Many small byways-----

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: -----benefited. It is a wonderful scheme. There is no doubt, however, that it needs a few tweaks to improve it even more.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: We have had a healthy discussion. There is no doubt that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport needs to step up to the plate. If we can aid the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, or Deputy Ring rather, in that way, we will.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: We have had a great discussion here on programme A.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: I am bringing in Deputy Canney on the WDC. I advise him that we are concluding the discussion of programme A.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: We certainly would be very interested in having representatives of the Western Development Commission appear before the committee. That concludes our discussions on programme A. I propose that we have a ten-minute break. It is a good point to stop.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: We still have to discuss programmes B, C and D. The witnesses have been here for nearly two and a half hours. I think it is the right time to have a break.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: I do not have a difficulty but we have to finish our consideration of the Estimate.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: We have to do that this evening. We have to go down through it to conclude it. The Minister has indicated he is willing to come back another time. We will schedule that to happen but it will be a few months away.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: We need to conclude our deliberations on the entire Estimate this evening.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: The Minister does not have a problem coming in to discuss any issue. That is his position. We have a duty to consider the Estimate this evening. We can invite the Minister and Minister of State to appear before the committee at some point in the future to discuss whatever programme members want. The Minister has told the committee that.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: Let us consider them. We have programmes B, C and D ahead of us. They are significant programmes. The committee can agree to discuss any programme after this but we must conclude our consideration of the Estimate.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: We need to go through the programmes.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: We can do that if that -----

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: ---- is the agreement of-----

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: I can bring this to conclusion, if that is the agreement of the committee.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Joe Carey: I thank the Minister, Deputy Ring, and the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, and their officials for their assistance. It is proposed to publish the briefings supplied by the Department on the committee's website. This will be an invaluable aid for citizens monitoring the Department's performance. Is that agreed? Agreed. I will also publish the secretariat's briefing on the website. Is...