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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: -----even though it accounts for 2.5% of the population.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: While it might suit the narrative for our local constituents to be able to say that, the truth of the matter is every county should be getting a fair shot at it. Strangely, Dublin got investment for 63 rural hubs through Our Rural Future, even though the likes of Mayo and other counties get far less. That is a strange question as well.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Is it a coincidence that the two last Ministers-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: -----always get the most money?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Is it a coincidence? You know it is not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Everybody-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: You are shouting me down now. Every Deputy is smiling-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Every Deputy is smiling at the fact-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: -----that the two Ministers get more money for their counties rather regularly.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: I think he should be Minister now.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Why is he not a Minister any more?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: I fought for it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding drawn down from the rural regeneration and development fund in each month since she took office. [19222/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: I have to inject some level of reality into this debate today. Rural Ireland is on its knees.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: It is suffering significant population decline, predominantly concentrated in the west and midlands of Ireland. That continues apace. It is calculated that in the last 40 years, 800 electoral divisions have lost population or significantly lost population. There has been a lopsided spatial policy which has put hundreds of thousands of young people into the Dublin area, in particular. The...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: I do not think the Minister is getting to the nub of the question at all. The issue is that the EU has downgraded the north-west region as a lagging region. The EU has said that as a result of falling GDP per capitain those areas compared with the rest of the country, places like Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Donegal, Monaghan and Mayo face increasing challenges. That is happening...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Like Cavan.
- Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Interest rates are at the highest level since 2019. By any reasonable projection we are going to see that spiral increase over the next while. The ECB has increased its lending rate six times since January 2022 and more increases are coming in the next week. Increasing the interest rate is a good tool commonly used to deal with inflation, and in fairness it often works in the case of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach again has failed to answer the question. If the Taoiseach does not see a link between corruption and the economy, there is a serious problem in this regard.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Corruption is a threat to investment. It is a threat to business and it is a threat to society.