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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: We are clearing up your legacy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: We are clearing up the mess you left after you, which took ten years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: It is very hard to listen to this rubbish.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: The truth is-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: -----that you presided over the bankruptcy of the country.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I have heard of a goldfish memory. I have never heard of a green fish memory.
- Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I propose to Questions Nos. 7, 18, 22 and 83 together. I commend Deputies Deering, Neville, and Heydon for their interest in the sports capital programme, SPC, not only regarding the appeals process but throughout the process. I have had constant engagement with them. They are clearly very interested in the programme. I am glad to say we have an appeals process for the first time. The...
- Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I understand the Deputy is quite the legend in the local soccer scene in Limerick. In reply to Deputy Deering's queries, the key issue regarding invalidations is title. Generally, the largest number of invalidations result from the title documents not being in order. They have to be to protect public moneys. That is why we require such stringent adherence to the title requirements....
- Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: We are confident that we will be able to fund the successful applicants in the appeals process from within our existing budget. I would like to reduce the number of invalid applications by ensuring we avoid the submission of as many such applications as possible. This can be done by giving people an opportunity to submit further information if their applications are found to be invalid when...
- Other Questions: Industrial Relations (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: The Deputy is replacing Deputy James Lawless, but he is not supposed to be lawless.
- Other Questions: Industrial Relations (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: This question relates to the Phoenix Park tunnel.
- Other Questions: Industrial Relations (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Deputy Troy's remark is on the record of the House.
- Other Questions: Wild Atlantic Way Project (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I thank Deputy Naughton for raising this matter and I appreciate her interest in tourism in Galway. I was glad to recently join her and the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, on a tour of her constituency of Galway West to deal with a number of tourism and sport-related matters. I thank her for her interest in the Wonders of the Wild Atlantic Way campaign. It is a new €1.8 million...
- Other Questions: Wild Atlantic Way Project (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: We are partnering with Classic FM in the United Kingdom, which has a listenership of 5 million people who Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland have identified as our key market in the UK and to whom we will intensively market the Wild Atlantic Way for a month. Although there was a decline of 5% in 2017 in visitors to Ireland from the UK , it is very heartening that there was an increase...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: The Deputy was on the bus.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Others asked questions that the Deputy did not.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16, 40, 80, 85 and 93 together. The Sports Capital Programme (SCP) has been the primary means of providing Government support to sports clubs and organisations for sports capital works. Allocations under the 2017 round of the programme were announced on the 30th November (local projects) and 21st December (regional projects) with a total of...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: My Department's role in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of developing national tourism policy, while the tourism agencies have operational responsibility for the implementation of this policy. The matter raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for the board and management of Fáilte Ireland. Accordingly I have referred the Deputy's question to the agency for direct...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Events (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: In 2014, Dublin won the right to host 4 matches of the UEFA EURO2020 tournament comprising three group games and one second round game. The bid to host was a collaborative effort between the Football Association of Ireland, Dublin City Council and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. Since then a Local Organising Structure (LOS) has been developed with the...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (15 Feb 2018)
Brendan Griffin: The 2017 round of the Sports Capital Programme (SCP) closed for applications on the 24th February. By the closing date, a record number of 2,320 applications seeking €155 million in grants were received. In November and December last, Minister Ross and I announced €60m in allocations to a record 1,800 projects under the 2017 round of the SCP. Full details of all these...