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Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: When will the debate resume?

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: I want to make a couple of points on the Bill, and I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the debate. As my colleague has already outlined, Fianna Fáil will support the Bill because we support its main content. The Bill provides IDA Ireland with the power to acquire strategic sites for industrial development where it has identified particular...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: I regret it does not clarify the matter. I am well aware of the eligibility criteria for participation on the community employment scheme, which the Government changed a number of years ago. This change is having a devastating impact on community employment schemes. I am surprised that schemes in the Minister of State's constituency have not contacted him about the impact this change is...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topical issue for debate because it is extremely important. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the invaluable work of the many participants on the community employment schemes the length and breadth of the country. They are very much at the heart of our community. It might be beneficial for the Minister of State to engage in this debate...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: They have huge difficulty now because the pool of available participants is being squeezed by both sides. On one side there has been an increase in employment opportunities, and that is extremely welcome, but on the other side changes were made to the eligibility criteria for the scheme in April 2017. This is placing a huge burden on participants and many of the schemes. It is putting the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: What organisations are to be invited to appear before the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: This is in regard to Metrolink.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: I do not disagree with the proposal but given the public consultation process is currently under way would this not be a parallel process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: I and a number of members tabled a motion on CIÉ pensions at a previous committee meeting that we would support the call on the Minister to make funding available to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I thank the officials for the work they do on the vital sports capital grant, which is vital to support sporting clubs right across the country. The Minister says there was due process and that he did no interfere with regard to Wesley College benefitting from an allocation of €150,000. It seems there is always due process. It was due...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: If the Chairman lets me finish my question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: -----it is about sport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: It is about funding for sport and a college which boasts on its website that it has four rugby pitches, one flood-lit rugby grid, one soccer pitch, two full-size hockey astroturf pitches, two mini-hockey pitches, two full-size hockey grid pitches, 16 tennis courts and hockey pitches during summer seasons, two cricket pitches during summer seasons, two outdoor basketball courts, one gymnasium,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: It happens to be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: I will not return to the issue of Stepaside Garda station.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: It is also the case that Wesley College - which was granted €150,000 - Loreto College and Three Rock Rovers were awarded some €450,000 in total. They are located within a five mile radius of each other, and the majority happen to be in the constituency of the Minister. Does the Minister accept that people are annoyed by this? Does he accept that the perception out there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: I have another question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: The Minister and the Minister of State are here before us today. Neither has outlined the percentage of funding that is allocated for disadvantaged areas, or areas of high deprivation. Of the €56 million allocated, how much of it was ring-fenced? I recently listened to an interview that An tAire Stáit gave last week in which he alluded to the fact that not all of the money that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Robert Troy: If not all of the moneys were allocated, can the Minister of State advise where the balance of that-----