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Written Answers — Sports Capital Funding: Sports Capital Funding (26 May 2009)

Martin Cullen: The organisation in question has been allocated €476,184 under the programme since 1998 - €76,184 in 1999, €200,000 in 2002 and €200,000 in 2006. Both the 1999 and 2002 grants have been drawn down in full. Grant allocations are subject to the terms and conditions of the Programme, which include, for allocations above certain specified thresholds, the execution of a deed of covenant...

Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (26 May 2009)

Martin Cullen: After six years of successive growth culminating in a record high in 2007, overseas visitor numbers declined slightly (2.2%) in 2008 to 7,839,000. In revenue terms overseas visitors generated an estimated €4.8 billion in revenue (including carrier receipts and cross-border expenditure) which was a reduction of 2.46% on the record expenditure generated in 2007. This resilient performance...

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (27 May 2009)

Martin Cullen: My Department does not provide grants to specific performing art practitioners as described by the Deputy. Funding decisions including bursaries are a matter for the Arts Council.

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (28 May 2009)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 152 and 153 together. Under the Sports Capital Programme, which is administered by my Department, funding is allocated towards the provision of sports facilities at national, regional and local level. Over 7,400 projects providing a range of essential sports facilities have now benefited from sports capital funding since 1998 bringing the total allocation in...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: It should put them forward.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: That is fantasy.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: The NewERA proposal is not well thought out or costed. It does nothing more than change the name plates on doors.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: I very much welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate and vote confidence in the Government. Let us be clear why we are here. My party had an extremely bad day recently in the local elections. Neither was it a great day in terms of the European Parliament in that we lost our seat in Dublin. I offer my commiseration to a very good friend, Eoin Ryan, who was a great MEP and I...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: Clearly, Deputy Kenny even wrong-footed his colleagues, so-called friends or potential partners in the Labour Party by doing so. It was an ill-judged move but one I welcomed. Earlier I listened to Deputy Coveney whose premise was that we should govern in good times but, because there are great challenges facing the country, we should cut and run. Of course the real challenge of any...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: We have a mandate, constitutionally achieved only two years ago, to govern this country for five years. It has been an extraordinarily difficult two years but not one of us on this side of the House is fearful of the challenge before us or the mountains that must be climbed to deliver to this country socially, economically and politically the benefits that will accrue when the tide turns, as...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: I smiled to myself immediately when he stated that because I saw instantaneously a continuation of the sort of rhetoric that Fine Gael has been putting across, not only in this House but throughout the length and breadth of the country.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: While people are without doubt angry at the Government, and angry at Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, and we have paid a price for this, they have no sense-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: -----of the potential of the Opposition because not one substantive policy has been put forward for the resolution of the financial crisis that faces this country or, indeed, the banking crisis that faces this country at present.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: There is no question but that many mistakes have been made across the system. Governments have made mistakes in the past and I have been a party to this Government where mistakes have been made as well-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: -----but it is wrong to promote this rhetoric, this cliché that is being used by the Opposition, that somehow our approach to stabilising the financial system in this country has to do with some relationship between the politicians in Government, bankers and developers. It is simply untrue, it is a falsehood and there is no basis to it, yet it has been perpetuated on the doorsteps over the...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: All they have offered is a lie to the public about our efforts to stabilise the Irish banking system, with all its faults and flaws. Despite all of those who have wronged the financial system, who have, in my view, committed fraud within the financial system, that does not remove the duty upon Government to sustain a financial system in this country that can keep the economic situation...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: It was about sustaining and protecting international deposits into the Irish banking system,------

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: -----which is utterly misunderstood by the Opposition.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: The reality of the investment that we have put into Anglo Irish Bank, for instance, is that if we did not do so the catastrophic bill that would fall upon the taxpayer of this country would be enormous in comparison to anything that we have invested in the banking system. If the Deputies opposite do not want to take my word for it, I take great comfort in and great confidence from what has...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Martin Cullen: -----in terms of the message being sent internationally. Deputies Gilmore and Kenny are constantly doing this. They have helped those abroad who would seek to undermine the economy by fostering a message that, somehow, there-----