Results 18,241-18,260 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: I thank the committee for the opportunity to present details of the Supplementary Estimate for my Department. As the committee will be aware, in 2019, as the Government advanced its original preparations for the risk of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October, supplementary funds were not available for new initiatives or programmes. However, the Department has successfully secured funds to support...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: The numbers are a little bit higher than anticipated and this is to ensure there are enough devices. It would be appalling if they ran out, so this is provisional.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: No, we are just being prudent.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: It relates to the 2020 rental for quarter one for the main Iveagh Court building and to No. 5 Harcourt Street. The rent is usually payable quarterly in advance. Due to the constraints on administration grant funding, occasionally we have been paying these rentals in the relevant quarter, rather than strictly in advance. Due to additional funding being available this month, the rentals for...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: Yes, it is.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: The minority sports are fully funded this year. Regarding Hockey Ireland, its high performance programme is also fully funded to the end of the year. There is no more requirement, as far as I know, from Hockey Ireland.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: The €800,000 is for the Olympics. From the figures the Chairman has in front of him, he can see that the Olympic Federation of Ireland is getting €250,000 and Paralympics Ireland is getting the same amount. Turning to the costs of the high performance programme, Rowing Ireland is getting €70,000; the Irish Amateur Boxing Associations, IABA, is getting €50,000;...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: The hockey team is already fully funded until the end of the year.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: The hockey team is not included in this Supplementary funding, but this funding is only for 2019.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: There is full funding in place, therefore, for 2019.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: No, it has no requirements, that I know of, for this year.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: Hockey Ireland will certainly be considered for next year, as will everybody else.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: The organisation has got exactly what it required for this year.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: There is €1 million for Fáilte Ireland and €6 million for Tourism Ireland. The Border counties will be the main target for that €1 million. We have a provisional €40 million in case there is a no-deal Brexit, which we hope will not occur. This funding will be used for marketing to target the UK, Germany, France and the USA.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ^ Estimates for Public Services 2019 ^
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Shane Ross: I thank the members of the committee for their attendance.
- Scouting Ireland: Statements: Road Safety Data (5 Dec 2019)
Shane Ross: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for raising this important subject. He has produced some extremely useful information and I have always said that I am happy to consider anything that is evidence based and bears scrutiny and to refer it to the appropriate people for consideration. I will not dismiss out of hand what he has produced today because it is too serious a subject. It appears to be...
- Scouting Ireland: Statements: Road Safety Data (5 Dec 2019)
Shane Ross: I wish to make it clear that road safety and saving lives are the top priority as far as I am concerned when addressing this subject. To suggest that I should, and the Deputy named particular roads-----
- Scouting Ireland: Statements: Road Safety Data (5 Dec 2019)
Shane Ross: He identified particular roads in his initial speech. He named the N59, if I am correct.
- Scouting Ireland: Statements: Road Safety Data (5 Dec 2019)
Shane Ross: He named particular roads. He says he is not expecting me to interfere with any particular roads and then he names particular roads as black spots where I should be interfering.
- Scouting Ireland: Statements: Road Safety Data (5 Dec 2019)
Shane Ross: What the Deputy is talking about is not relevant to this debate. What I have to do is follow Government policy, which is that road safety remains a top priority, of course it does. What I said earlier is that I will not interfere with every individual road or individual black spot. Were I to do that, I would be running around the country doing it in my own constituency and other...