Results 10,861-10,880 of 15,805 for speaker:Michael Ring
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: We gave out €28 million last year and to date 62% has been spent, that is, €17 million.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: Is that the figure the Deputy has?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: Later today I will give the Deputy the updated list that I have before me. Deputy Collins is from Cork. I brought in the Cork county manager and spoke to him. I met when I was in Cork recently.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I will consider the checks and balances. I am meeting the officials in the afternoon and we have to see about the underspend. I have to consider the overall budget and see what I can do. I am still hoping the local authorities will respond and that we will see a major increase. I will make one promise to the Deputy, and he will criticise me when it happens, next year, if we are...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I will respond to Deputy Collins first on the local improvement schemes. He is quite correct. While I know that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport was down in the constituency, he did not deliver the local improvement scheme, however. I did that. He was there 17 or 18 months ago and he did not deliver it. I delivered it though and we now have a scheme in place for the Deputy....
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I thank Deputy Penrose for his contribution. I will answer Deputy Fitzmaurice first. He spoke about rural proofing. It is a very valid point. Every other day, we get memos from Government with regard to what has been proposed by other Ministers. My officials and I have to watch these memos come in because these are what will determine the decision. I have to make observations on these...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: It has done more work for rural Ireland than all the local authorities put together. If we had not the rural social schemes, we would have a serious problem. The Deputy is quite correct as there is now the problem of people being able to stay on it longer. I am talking to the Minister in that regard. The Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, will deal with the broadband matters. We spoke...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I want to answer the question.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I covered the issue of the framework for the plan. I have also dealt with the query about the local improvement scheme, LIS. I am sure members have read about public banking. I have answered questions about the matter in the Dáil. The Programme for a Partnership Government envisaged that An Post, the Irish League of Credit Unions and other interested stakeholders would be asked to...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: My Minister of State will deal with the question about dormant accounts.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: The Estimate for current spending in 2016 was €4 million and the outturn was €3,801,000. The Estimate for 2017 was €3.9 million.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: That is the current expenditure.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: Sorry. In capital, it is €3,383,000.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I wanted to give the Deputy the figures for 2016 and then for 2017. The 2017 Estimate is €11,383,000 and to date we have spent €1,212,000.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: We are still monitoring that. The Deputy knows how the local authorities work and that a lot of receipts will be submitted in the last few weeks of the year. We expect that figure to go up significantly and I hope it will. I have allocated the money and am waiting for the local authorities to draw it down. I can only do what I can do, which is to allocate the money. I depend on the local...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: They are the figures I was given. In fact, the relevant figure is 52%.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: We will do a check on that and revert to the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I certainly will.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: On the Deputy's first question relating to the inspectorate, we have a team in place in the Department whose job it is to go into the local authorities to inspect some of the work that is done.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: A small sample, yes and they are doing that.