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- 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 purpose of the meeting is to consider a further Revised Estimate for 2017 for the Department of Rural and Community Development, Vote 42, in the amount of €146,742,000 to meet the expenses of the Office of the Minister for Rural and Community Development, including certain services. In the absence of Deputy Joe Carey, I am stepping in as Acting Chairman. I welcome the Minister for...
- 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 will.
- 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 Ó Cuív.
- 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 must keep focused or else we will get bogged down. Deputy Canney is a great example of how to be focused, targeted and brief while still making his points. I call Deputy Carol Nolan.
- 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?