Results 561-580 of 7,389 for speaker:John Brady
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) John Brady: When does Mr. Hill expect that might progress?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) John Brady: Will Sport Ireland talk us through the process of the boycott decision? Did it come from the Government or did Sport Ireland decide for itself to boycott certain sporting events as well as athletes from Belarus and Russia?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) John Brady: The recent basketball match with Israel received considerable focus. It should not have gone ahead. In 2022, Basketball Ireland’s CEO stated that Basketball Ireland "would not fulfil its Women's EuroBasket 2023 qualifier against Belarus ... due to their support of Russia and the ongoing war in Ukraine" and “Our stance was supported by ... Sport Ireland”. Is Dr. May...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) John Brady: Just two weeks ago, Mr. Feehan stated: “ ... quite frankly, we don’t believe this would make a blind bit of difference. What it will do is destroy our women’s international game for the next ten years.” There seems to be a large amount of hypocrisy in the positions being adopted. While the Government provided some guidelines in respect of Russia, and rightly so,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) John Brady: There are double standards within Sport Ireland and the FAI in the approaches they are taking. That is regrettable.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: I welcome Mr. Gaffney, his dad and the rest of the witnesses here this afternoon. I know Mr. Gaffney and his dad. I have been trying to push this case in recent years. In the last line of his opening statement, he said that we were the last chance of ending this nightmare. That sums it up. It has been a nightmare personally for the whole family. I know the personal toll it has had in...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: The 20 tonnes seems a huge weight not to be picked up in that process. If that process was carried out as Mr. Pinkster laid out, would he be surprised that such additional tonnage was not identified in that process?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: It should have been and it was not.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: None of that, so there was a major failure at that point.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: We know that of 11 ships in total there were issues with three or four of the ships. I am not asking Mr. Pinkster to say there was an inherent failure in that process, and I am not sure as to whether there was fraud going on with regard to the body overseeing the process. I am not asking the witness to comment on that. If that process was carried out as Mr. Pinkster laid out and it was not...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: I thank Mr. Pinkster for that. If the process was adhered to properly this should have been picked up at that stage.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: It raises serious questions of a potentially fraudulent system where the proper safeguards are not being followed or adhered to. That needs further investigation, if it has not been investigated, by the police force in the relevant authority. Mr. Gaffney mentioned a couple of times that he felt at risk, that the Mary Kate was going to capsize. He mentioned some of the detail. Perhaps Mr....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: It was not and we know subsequently the inherent ages. The Gaffney family have been through an exhaustive process with the political lobbying, the courts and all of that. I wish to ask about the lobbying here in this State. The EU Commission has put a solution on the table indicating a fund that could be utilised potentially to compensate and mitigate this. Mr. Gaffney has met many...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: I share Mr. Gaffney's frustration. Politicians have also failed him in this process. He is frustrated at being kicked between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Transport. I have raised this issue with both Ministers, Deputies McConalogue and Eamon Ryan. Both Departments keep kicking the issue back to the other and no one is taking responsibility. ...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: I will make a final comment. It all adds to the frustration. I have been dealing with this issue and I know Deputy Whitmore has too over recent years. I had hoped there would be a collective approach from the five TDs in Wicklow.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: I initiated a process in the past year to try to pull together the five TDs to push this solution on the Government, given that we have two senior Ministers in the county. Unfortunately, only Deputy Whitmore came back to me and none of the other three even acknowledged my attempt to pull together the five TDs. I sense the frustration. The issue is being kicked to touch and being kicked...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: Thank you, Acting Chair.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: To follow up on that point, and Mr. Gaffney referred to this earlier, other serious issues have arisen in this State. The mica scandal impacted on thousands of people from Donegal right down the western seaboard and in other parts of the State. It was not any fault of any individual homeowner, and was completely outside of their responsibility. The Government devised a scheme - rightly so...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
John Brady: Europe has handed us a solution. We need to grab it and try to end this nightmare for Mr. Gaffney and his family. There is precedent. The Government just needs to find a way of utilising the offer put forward by the Commission.
- Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)
John Brady: The Government motion before us today seeks to approve an order to extend the accommodation recognition payment scheme, which is due to expire on 31 March of this year. We very much appreciate the value this scheme has brought by providing shelter to thousands of people fleeing war in Ukraine. I acknowledge the compassion of the thousands of Irish families who have opened up their homes...