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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be approved for major capital works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40855/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (21 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail, for primary schools and second level schools, the instances where roll numbers have been inflated for each of the past ten years, in tabular form; the action taken by her Department in such instances; the actions taken arising from such fraudulent claims; if any board of management or school principal has ever been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Television Licence Fee (21 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households who currently qualify for the free television licence; the corresponding numbers for each of the past ten years, in tabular form; the resulting cost to the Exchequer for each of those years; if these monies were transferred directly to RTÉ on an annual basis; and if she will make a statement on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: Is there anything the Minister of State can do in the short term to support this valuable asset we have in the Mulranny area? As I outlined, it is there not to make a profit but to serve the community. Dr. Cowley has a tremendous team of staff. Perhaps the Minister of State could take a trip some time to see the way the service operates. It provides meals on wheels and housing. It is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting my matter tonight. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, who at least has the manners to come in. I thank her for that. I am raising this very important issue of St. Brendan's nursing home in Mulranny. It is a tremendous facility with a wonderful reputation, opened in 1998. It is a rural based nursing home that provides many people with...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: I will test the Minister of State. I am sorry, I am going to finish, a Cheann Comhairle. I want to ask the Minister of State again, and I am asking him to respond. Will he put the local authorities under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General? I have asked the Taoiseach. For whatever reason and whatever powers they have, by God, they are afraid of the county managers.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: Will Deputy Gould sit down? We always listen to the Deputy.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: When I was in government, I delivered.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: All the Deputy ever did was talk, talk, talk and bring people outside the Dáil. That is all the Deputy ever did. The Deputy is a talker. I am a deliverer and I delivered when I was there.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: The Deputy never delivered anything, or anyone in Sinn Féin.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: Go away, Sinn Féin. You have destroyed the country. Liz Truss-----

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: I will tell the Deputy one thing, we do not want you in government, whatever we have.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: This is what democracy is about - telling the truth.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I welcome the Bill on the directly elected mayor for Limerick, but I have to say that with a big caution. Really in this country we have the Civil Service and the county managers running the country. I am sick and tired of it. The time has come. I will give just one example of it. In Mayo today, two thirds of the business property in the county was revalued....

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: I had the courage to go to the courts. I lost it but I did not get a lot of support in this House. The day we got rid of the town councils and the day we got the elected representatives such as Deputies taken off county councils was a sad day because we handed over their powers to the county managers. They get two or three from Fianna Fáil, two or three from the Independents, and two...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: You listen to me-----

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: You listen to me. I am the only one-----

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: I was the only one that sat over there when nobody in this House voted against it - nobody. The Deputy can go back and check the record. I was the only one that was prepared to vote against it. No party opposed it.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: Be quiet you-----

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Ring: -----because I am always listening to you. You listen to me now for a while.