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- Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of funding spent by his Department and the Government in attending the St. Patrick's Day Parade event in America, including details of all costs such as travel, drinks, receptions, accommodation and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33048/07]
- Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the funding spent by his Department in America in 2006 and to date in 2007, to include all travels costs, reception costs, details of events, sponsorship and funding allocated to US based organisations and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33050/07]
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the funding spent by his Department on a project (details supplied) in the USA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33049/07]
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when he will announce details of the sports capital programme 2008. [33039/07]
- Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the same kind of scheme and the same money will be made available for county players who play for soccer teams in every county of the country as the schemes (details supplied) announced recently for football and hurling teams; if the same scheme will be put in place for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the schemes (details supplied) will be made available to other sporting organisation that represent their county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33041/07]
- Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the same kind of scheme as the one announced recently (details supplied) will be made available for the ladies football teams and players and ladies camogie teams and players; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33042/07]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payments from her Department for 2007; if any payments have issued to them in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33038/07]
- Written Answers — Youthreach Programme: Youthreach Programme (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a Youthreach student (details supplied) in County Mayo will be provided with an allowance towards their travel costs in view of the fact that the nearest public transport service will leave them nine miles from home yet a private transport operator passes by their house and that their parents were told that they would be provided...
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the broadband action plan funding will be put in place to ensure that areas (details supplied) in County Mayo will be broadband enabled. [33043/07]
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 266: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the areas that have been broadband enabled under the broadband action plan; the areas that have yet to be done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33044/07]
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (6 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Question 267: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding allocated to the broadband action plan in each of the past three years and to date in 2007; the reason these projects are not going ahead; if there has been a cutback in the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33045/07]
- Road Safety: Motion. (11 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: I compliment my colleague for tabling this motion. The Government is not able to deal with the penalty points situation; there is no system for notifying people who are given penalty points. Many of my constituents were unable to pay their fines at the post office because the system had been computerised and had been moved on to the next section. A person should be allowed pay such fines....
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: The Government should do it.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on the budget because many of the announcements made by Ministers are not made in this House, but in Northern Ireland or in Government Buildings where none of us can go in to hear them. They can brief and tell the media what they want, but we cannot get the opportunity to argue with them. I was glad to see my colleague went to a press briefing to...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: This economy was booming for ten great years. When the choir was clapping, singing and dancing to congratulate the Minister for Finance last year, we nearly had to bring in the national orchestra to play the music for it.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Exactly.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: Within a year, the same Minister came into the House with a deficit instead of a surplus. He will now have to borrow. I am speaking slowly because some of the Deputies opposite are a little deaf from listening to me shout. Perhaps I will be calm and quiet. The Government is going to have to borrow â¬5 billion to run the country.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: The Government, and particularly the Minister for Finance, have squandered that much money. According to what they said in May of this year, there were no problems in the economy, the health sector, the education system or the agriculture industry. The Government said it would not be able to spend all the money it was collecting from taxpayers.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
Michael Ring: The taxpayers' revenue was squandered by the Government within a short amount of time.