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- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: We are discussing an amendment.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: We are having a debate on the Irish language.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: We are supposed to be discussing an amendment.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle does not have to. I have read them.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: Let him in.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: Yes.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: This is a small Bill. Deputy Ó Cuív served in government for 13 years.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: The Deputy was there from 1997 to 2011. He was a Minister of State-----
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: Better than anyone, Deputy Ó Cuív knows how the Government works. In fact, he still thinks that he is in government. That is a part of his problem.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: We have had good Ministers of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht. It was insulting this morning when Deputy Ó Cuív said that Deputy Kyne, who was a good Minister of State-----
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: So were the Ministers of State, Mr. McGinley and Deputy McHugh. All were very good Ministers of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht. They all performed very well in that regard. Deputy Ó Cuív thinks that, because he is the only one in the House who can speak Irish, no one else can speak it and represent the Gaeltacht. These have all been very fine Ministers of State.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: The Deputy left out the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, and the former Deputy McGinley, who inherited a Department after Deputy Ó Cuív in difficult times.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: I want to say to Deputy Ó Cuív-----
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: The Deputy knows how the Government works.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: He knows that I need to get this legislation through so that I can start fixing up my Department, getting my staff and fighting for my budget. The Deputy tells me every week that I have so much money that I will not be able to spend it.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: He has been telling me all day today that I will not have enough money to run the Department. He cannot have it both ways.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: I thank Deputy Tóibín for his co-operation. He has an understanding of how rural Ireland works. The Government is setting up a new Department to represent and put rural Ireland at the Cabinet table. Maybe Deputy Ó Cuív does not like that, but I am delighted that the Taoiseach has selected a Minister. The Deputy should be delighted that the Gaeltacht Department will not...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: I did not like tonight, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. This debate was not about the Irish language or the Gaeltacht. It was about setting up a new Department. I just want to put that on the record loud and clear. I am proud to have been born and reared in rural Ireland. I have never used it as a holiday home. I have always lived in rural Ireland. I understand the problems of rural Ireland. I...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: I thank the Deputy for his comments. I also thank those in Sinn Féin and all those who made a contribution to the debate on the Bill. If Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív had listened, he would know that I spoke about myself. I said I did not have a holiday home in the west but that I lived in it. I did not speak about the Deputy at all. If he thought that I was referring to him,...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Michael Ring: I thank all of the Members who made a contribution. I agree with Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív that we will have many differences in the times ahead. We have had many debates during the years in this House. I also accept his contribution to rural Ireland. When he was a Minister, his heart was in the right place. Many years ago he had responsibility for the areas covered by the new...