Results 11,501-11,520 of 15,805 for speaker:Michael Ring
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: The programme will be announced at the end of the month and the information will be made available. I am not hiding information and I have no problem with any of the information going out for any scheme. I can give some figures on the urban and rural parts of the RAPID scheme. We had €5 million last year and €2.5 million was ring-fenced for the Dublin north inner city. If...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: The scheme is there to target disadvantage in urban and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: -----and provincial towns.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: How can I specify where we want a programme like that? We try to target where the disadvantage is located. We know where it is in inner city Dublin and in other cities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: Deputy Ó Cuív has been a public representative for a long time. He knows that some local authorities have local economic plans and they know best. On the local community development committees, LCDCs, there are representatives from the local health boards, from the education and training boards, ETBs, and elected representatives. If anybody knows what is happening on the ground,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: I want to take up what Deputy Kenny raised. He talked about farm enterprise in respect of the rural social schemes. I agree that they are very good schemes. I would like to see people staying on them where possible. The difficulty now is to get people to go on these schemes. Where people are on them, they should be left on them. They are giving great value to the community. He is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: It is part of the overall Leader programme and €15 million was left out for this scheme. We announced it last week and it will give people an opportunity to apply if they have ideas on food, or innovation. It is a bit like the food hubs and digital hubs around the country. This one is targeted at rural area and I hope we will see a big draw down of that scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: A total of €5 million of funding will be made available for this year. The criteria will be publicised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: I will send the Deputy the details on it. We only announced the actual funding and the opening of the scheme last week. I will ask the officials to send that to the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: Which programme Chairman?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: It is funding that we get from Europe. We administer the scheme and today it was interesting as we had groups from North and South who were displaying what the groups actually do. We really only administer the scheme for them; it is funding that comes directly from Europe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: As Deputy Ó Cuív knows, that will be a matter for the Department of Finance and the Government to negotiate with Commissioner Hogan. I know that the committee had him in here recently. My own views on it are that the programmes that have come from Europe, the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, programme in particular, have been very good. They are programmes that have kept rural...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: Of course I will and I will be supporting the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed. He will have my full support. Within Cabinet, as Deputy Ó Cuív knows, my role and brief is to make sure that everything is rural proof and I will be expressing that view in Cabinet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: He does.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: Deputy Ó Cuív knows that in relation to the national plan and our own budget over the next number of years, I am well able to fight my corner and I will be fighting that corner at Cabinet level with the Minister for Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to make sure that the existing programmes we have in my Department on the rural regeneration and urban...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: Yes that is in relation to payments off schemes we administer and whenever Europe decides that it wants to pay us that funding, sometimes they pay us in arrears and sometimes they pay us ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: At least-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Ring: The positive point on that is that it is not many years ago we had the Troika and we were borrowing money from all over Europe. Deputy Ó Cuív is quite correct that we are net contributors to it now and it may stay that way. The Deputy and I, this committee and all at Government level have to make sure that the funding that is in place will be maintained. The €1 billion...