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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I call Senator Mark Daly. I see he is back from America.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am sure they were.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Well said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Those are important points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Before you do, do any of the other participants want to speak?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Do not be shy. We want to hear your voices. I used to be a teacher and we used to encourage people to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Who puts the levy on? Who do the athletes pay the levy to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is not a case of laying blame. We are just trying to put a standard-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We want to make sure everybody ends up with more money rather than less. We are just trying to understand the process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Those are important points. We have to leave the room by 1.15 p.m. I call Senator Ó Céidigh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Of course. I am sorry to interrupt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Has Rowing Ireland raised this with Sport Ireland directly? Has there been a debate or discussion about it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The exceptional additional costs that Rowing Ireland has are the issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: That point is very well made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Minority Sports: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the witnesses. The meeting has been impressive, successful and informative. They have given us issues that we should raise with Sport Ireland. We will come back to the witnesses about that.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if the reimbursement dataset will specifically cover only current HSE funded users of the FreeStyle Libre device; and if not, if the Health Technology Assessment Group review will compare total blood glucose strip usage spend year on year. [38448/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the weighting percentages to be used as part of the upcoming HSE FreeStyle Libre review decision making process that will be given to criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38450/19]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (19 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: There will be a general election. The Minister's certainty that the proposal will go ahead would be one thing if he knew he was going to be in government for the next five years but policy changes are coming for our national road network and that is a different thing altogether. Ardee cannot afford to take that risk. It cannot afford to wait because it has waited for 20 years. The...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (19 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In 2018, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, fought hard to get funding for the Ardee bypass. He issued a press release welcoming it. I do not know if the Minister can hear me but I ask him to listen to me as I cannot think of anything more important in my constituency. This is very important for Ardee. The Government has increased its investment in Ardee and...
- Climate Change: Statements (19 Sep 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I understand that.