Results 2,201-2,220 of 4,504 for speaker:Joe Carey
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: Before we conclude on this subhead, which covers rural recreation, CLÁR, the walks scheme and the town and village renewal scheme, my experience in County Clare has been favourable and I have seen the transformative effect that these schemes have on local rural areas. As the Minister will be aware, Clare County Council set up a rural strategy, which he launched, that the council...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: Community groups are better prepared these days. That the Minister is opening schemes earlier in the year is positive and to be welcomed. He stated that he would open the rural recreation and town and village renewal schemes at the end of this week. I agree with Deputy Ó Cuív about trying to broaden CLÁR. Perhaps the Minister could engage in a consultation process with the...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: The Banner is leading the way as usual.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: It is kept under pressure, too. I guarantee that. That concludes our discussion on this subhead. The remaining elements of subhead A, including the town and village renewal scheme, have been discussed. We are finished-----
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: Is there an issue with the wider subgroup?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: I am keen to try to bring this to a conclusion. We are two hours into the meeting. I propose that we take a break after we conclude this discussion.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: I want to bring this to a conclusion.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: I have listened to the Minister, Deputy Ring, and I am seeing the action on the ground. The local improvement scheme, LIS, works.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: I compliment the Minister on reinstating it after it was discontinued in 2010. Many small byways-----
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: -----benefited. It is a wonderful scheme. There is no doubt, however, that it needs a few tweaks to improve it even more.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: We have had a healthy discussion. There is no doubt that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport needs to step up to the plate. If we can aid the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, or Deputy Ring rather, in that way, we will.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: We have had a great discussion here on programme A.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: I am bringing in Deputy Canney on the WDC. I advise him that we are concluding the discussion of programme A.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: We certainly would be very interested in having representatives of the Western Development Commission appear before the committee. That concludes our discussions on programme A. I propose that we have a ten-minute break. It is a good point to stop.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: We still have to discuss programmes B, C and D. The witnesses have been here for nearly two and a half hours. I think it is the right time to have a break.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: I do not have a difficulty but we have to finish our consideration of the Estimate.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: We have to do that this evening. We have to go down through it to conclude it. The Minister has indicated he is willing to come back another time. We will schedule that to happen but it will be a few months away.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: We need to conclude our deliberations on the entire Estimate this evening.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: The Minister does not have a problem coming in to discuss any issue. That is his position. We have a duty to consider the Estimate this evening. We can invite the Minister and Minister of State to appear before the committee at some point in the future to discuss whatever programme members want. The Minister has told the committee that.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Joe Carey: Let us consider them. We have programmes B, C and D ahead of us. They are significant programmes. The committee can agree to discuss any programme after this but we must conclude our consideration of the Estimate.