Results 381-400 of 904 for speaker:Ray Butler
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Ray Butler: How many times has the Deputy been here?
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Ray Butler: How many times has the Deputy been here?
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Ray Butler: He is never here on a Friday.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Ray Butler: Deputy Adams is not in the IRA.
- Order of Business (25 Nov 2014)
Ray Butler: When will we see publication of the Bill to provide for the exchange of criminal records information with other EU member states and other designated states? There was a very violent robbery in Trim last week where criminal gangs robbed jewellery shops. In the past two to three years 30 to 40 jewellery shops throughout the country have been robbed. These people leave the country within 24...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Ray Butler: Blame the referee.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Ray Butler: Deputy Martin’s was forget about the past.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: In light of the new betting legislation and the new tax relating to online gambling, the pot is going to increase as time passes. People are referring to the Indecon report as if it were the Gospel or the Bible. Surely, we can identify what is going to happen in the future. I do not believe that selling Harold's Cross is the solution. If it must be sold, that is far enough. However, I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: Through the Chair-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: -----the land in question was sold for a considerable sum of money and I would like to discover where that money went.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: Has there been a reduction in payments? Everyone is going in and doing deals with banks. With the debt that is owed there, surely to God a deal can be made, especially if it is a State-owned bank that we owe the debt to. We need some people to go in there heavy-handedly and make a deal for the Irish greyhound industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: I referred to it a couple of times, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: I welcome Mr. Meaney, Ms Larkin, Ms Forde and Mr. Lewins, who is known to me. I have been involved in greyhound racing all my life, it is in my blood. I have trained, raced and bred greyhounds. The greyhound industry employs 10,500 people, part-time and full-time. That is why the Government provides significant funding because the industry is both a significant employer and revenue stream...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: I will move on. I have said enough on that topic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: I am speaking as an owner and as a person who is involved in the game and I find it very difficult to stomach some of the things that are being said at this meeting, rightly or wrongly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: What new arrangements have been agreed with the bank to deal with the debt of between €22 million and €24 million and the pension costs which amount to €8 million? The problem I have noted around tracks is that during the Celtic tiger era, people flowed in the gates of the stadia, but with the recession, it has been difficult to get people to come to race meetings....
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: Angry words.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: It is cloak-and-dagger stuff.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: The cheaper brands are driving them mad. They should go back to Kellogg's Cornflakes.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Ray Butler: He should go back on the Kellogg's Cornflakes.