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Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Order for Second Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: I am taking the Bill on behalf of the Minister.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am very pleased to introduce to the House the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017, which will establish the new Department of Rural and Community Development. This Bill has just one purpose, to establish the new Department, confer a name upon the Department and to provide for a Minister who will be in charge of the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: Have respect for the Chair.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: He did not put any money into it. There was talk but no money. It was the former Minister, Jimmy Deenihan, who put the money in with me. Talk is all the Deputy's late father put in.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: Talk is all the late Deputy Jackie Healy-Rae put in.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Michael Ring: We will use the Deputy's machinery to do it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: She is a very good Tánaiste.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: She is very effective.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: It was dealt with.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Leader Programmes Administration (28 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: I thank the Cathaoirleach and the two Senators for their good wishes. I look forward to working with them. This will not be a simple job but, at the same time, I have a role and a part to play. I have a seat at Cabinet, and whatever I can do for rural Ireland I will be there to do it. The first problem I inherited when I took over this job was this issue. I will read out the official...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Leader Programmes Administration (28 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: I do not disagree with anything the Senator says, and I am not just saying that. I will give you two figures, which are really upsetting. Sixty-three projects have been approved to date, with €1,116,000 delivered. Whatever funding we have now - we have the funding, and I cannot go back on the funding we have - I want to see it spent. Senator Conway-Walsh is quite correct. I want...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Leader Programmes Administration (28 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: We are the lead Department and I have responsibility for the Leader programme.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (22 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: 202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that they have been waiting 16 weeks for a decision. [29258/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: The Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, met the Leader groups approximately three weeks ago and she has simplified the programme. She has made 32 changes. I will be taking over the Leader programme and I hope this will simplify it. I hope there will be more applications and less bureaucracy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: Above anybody else, the Deputy knows how Government works. She was long enough in government. She knows about delegated orders, responsibility and what happens when somebody is given a task. As a Minister of State, I was given the role of looking at the post office hub working group which I chaired. I made a recommendation to Government. I was delighted that the Government accepted that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: As I said, the report was accepted by Government. My Department is going to pay the cost of that, which is €100,000. We hope to have services put in, like a peace commissioner service, a one-stop shop for communications, ICT training, expert advice services, collection of motor taxes and so on. In the private sector we have already seen somebody else taking one on in Kildare. When...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: I accept what Deputy Joan Burton said about no closures of post offices. There have been very few in the lifetime of this Government. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív's Government nearly closed more post offices than there are post offices now. I do not have the figures but I will have them for him the next time.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: Wait a minute-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: Deputies Joan Burton and Éamon Ó Cuív, who were both senior Ministers in government, know about semi-State companies and that An Post is a semi-State company that is now doing a root and branch review of the whole post office network. I have done my report to Government on the hub. We are now waiting for An Post to come to the Government with whatever proposals it will come...

Priority Questions: National Monuments (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: The Minister does appreciate the Deputy's support in this. He has been very helpful in regard to what is happening at Moore Street. The report, as the Deputy knows, has been published on the Department's website for everybody to see. The new group has been set up and it is chaired by Dr. Tom Collins. I am told the progress to date has been very positive. The committee will examine how to...