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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Ring: 1841. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal (details supplied) for an invalidity pension will be finalised. [37764/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: 1187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason incorrect information was given to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo regarding their GLAS payment; the reason the person was informed that it would be paid in the next payment run when this was clearly not the case; and when this application will be finalised in view of the fact the lack of payment to this...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: I am pleased to come to the Seanad to present the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017 which will establish the new Department of Rural and Community Development. The Senators may wish to know the Bill was passed by the Dáil last night. This Bill has just one purpose, namely, to establish the new Department, confer a name on the Department and to provide for a Minister who...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: I will talk about some of the issues raised here, starting with Senator Paul Daly's comments on the amendments debated last night. The Taoiseach decided when forming the Government that the Department of the Gaeltacht would be included in Deputy Humphreys's Department, now the Department of culture, heritage and the Gaeltacht. Deputy Joe McHugh has been appointed as Minister of State in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (13 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: 958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following a successful appeal the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was not paid their 2015 ANC payment, in view of the fact that the agriculture appeals office in its capacity as an independent body made this decision based on EU regulations, national legislation, guidelines and the terms and conditions of the...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: I thank the Deputy for his comments. I also thank those in Sinn Féin and all those who made a contribution to the debate on the Bill. If Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív had listened, he would know that I spoke about myself. I said I did not have a holiday home in the west but that I lived in it. I did not speak about the Deputy at all. If he thought that I was referring to him,...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: I thank all of the Members who made a contribution. I agree with Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív that we will have many differences in the times ahead. We have had many debates during the years in this House. I also accept his contribution to rural Ireland. When he was a Minister, his heart was in the right place. Many years ago he had responsibility for the areas covered by the new...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle does not have to. I have read them.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: Let him in.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: Yes.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: This is a small Bill. Deputy Ó Cuív served in government for 13 years.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: The Deputy was there from 1997 to 2011. He was a Minister of State-----

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: Better than anyone, Deputy Ó Cuív knows how the Government works. In fact, he still thinks that he is in government. That is a part of his problem.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: We have had good Ministers of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht. It was insulting this morning when Deputy Ó Cuív said that Deputy Kyne, who was a good Minister of State-----

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: So were the Ministers of State, Mr. McGinley and Deputy McHugh. All were very good Ministers of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht. They all performed very well in that regard. Deputy Ó Cuív thinks that, because he is the only one in the House who can speak Irish, no one else can speak it and represent the Gaeltacht. These have all been very fine Ministers of State.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: The Deputy left out the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, and the former Deputy McGinley, who inherited a Department after Deputy Ó Cuív in difficult times.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: I want to say to Deputy Ó Cuív-----

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: The Deputy knows how the Government works.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: He knows that I need to get this legislation through so that I can start fixing up my Department, getting my staff and fighting for my budget. The Deputy tells me every week that I have so much money that I will not be able to spend it.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: He has been telling me all day today that I will not have enough money to run the Department. He cannot have it both ways.