Results 41-60 of 11,205 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: Sorry, what question are we on?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: As outlined in my reply to an earlier question, the operation of the League of Ireland and its academies is fundamentally a matter for the Football Association of Ireland which, like all national governing bodies of sport, is an independent, autonomous body responsible for the organisation and development of its own sport. At present, no specific funding is allocated for League of Ireland...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: As I said to Deputy Byrne a while ago, and as Deputy Ó Murchú has acknowledged, the Government has played a role in terms of the supports it has provided to the FAI. We are operating on the basis of a memorandum of understanding, MOU. A significant amount of reform has happened already. Of the 163 recommendations or conditions, 159, or 98%, are either completed or phase 1 of them...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: I could not be more open about Listowel. If the Deputy's party Deputy from north Kerry had turned up to the opening of Listowel Writers' Week, he would have got a press release on the extent of what the Department was giving. The Deputy does not have an issue with Tralee, because of Deputy Pa Daly, or with Gweedore, because of Deputy Pearse Doherty.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: Forgetting outside-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: What did the people of Listowel ever do to Sinn Féin?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: What did the people of Listowel ever do to Sinn Féin?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: Why is it that the Deputy is against-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy named it in correspondence to my Department. I am clearing up the Dáil record.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy named it in correspondence to my Department.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy does not like it now. He named it in correspondence to my Department. I am going to be clear with the Dáil. The Deputy has a problem with Listowel Writers' Week. He has a problem.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy should let me finish. I did not shout him down.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: This is the Deputy's tactic. He is now adopting the Pearse Doherty tactic. The last day the two Deputies came in here and they attacked me over Gweedore. I subsequently was able to fix it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: I did not hear the Deputy say today that I had allocated money to Gweedore outside normal practices. I also did not hear him say that I had allocated money to Tralee outside normal practices.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy should take it up with his own two Deputies.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy should take it up with his own two Deputies. I hope the people of Listowel-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: I hope the people of Listowel are listening to this on Radio Kerry.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: I hope Jerry O'Sullivan on Radio Kerry is listening to this. I do not know what the Deputy has against the people of Listowel.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy did not have the guts to put it down on the Question Paper today - the name of it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy cast aspersions on an individual.