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- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister beside the Taoiseach has had a few Irish moments of his own.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: If the Taoiseach listened to his party's banking expert, we would be in a completely different position. Deputy Mathews is a man of integrity.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: What did the people of Oranmore do to the Taoiseach?
- Other Questions: State Airports (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I know that. The Minister should stick to the question, which concerns a business plan for Shannon.
- Other Questions: Tourism Industry (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: As the Minister said, the CSO figures which were published last month showed a drop of 9% in visitors from Britain during the July to September period. He is aware that his Minister of State, Deputy Ring, launched an "Escape the Madness" Olympics campaign to target some 8 million Londoners. It would appear Londoners were quite disinterested in that and declined his invitation. The question...
- Other Questions: Tourism Industry (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: There is a man about to go overboard.
- Other Questions: State Airports (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister accept that Shannon Airport would be well and truly able to carry its current debt pile if Aer Rianta International was left there? He will be aware from company records that Aer Rianta International made a profit of almost €30 million last year when exceptional items are removed. It is clear that if Aer Rianta International were to be retained by the airport, the...
- Other Questions: State Airports (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister said earlier that the State Airports Act 2004 always envisaged that Aer Rianta International would transfer to the Dublin Airport Authority. Does he accept that the same legislation envisaged that separation would not take place until viable business plans were in place for both Cork Airport and Shannon Airport? He is now proposing to separate Shannon Airport. Can he explain...
- Other Questions: State Airports (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister accept that in the event of the European Commission giving permission to Ryanair to purchase the Aer Lingus stock, this would represent a negative position from an Irish point of view, particularly as it would reduce the level of competition between us and our nearest neighbour, one of our biggest markets, and within the wider European context? Will the Minister also...
- Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Will the Minister ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to publish his diary for the several months since the applications were received?
- Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I am sure Deputy Lawlor will find that such applications would be invalid.
- Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: We will publish the criteria for the Deputy.
- Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Can we get the list of the questions proposed to be taken together circulated?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I can understand the ineligibility criteria and am aware of clubs that were rightly deemed ineligible and informed to that effect. I am not talking about ineligible clubs but about clubs that appeared to have met all the stated criteria, both on cursory and more detailed investigation. I am aware, however, of at least two cases in which a Fine Gael councillor told one club money would be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I have no problem where there is written evidence; I am trying to obtain a picture of what occurs in private meetings.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the large number of applications for the sports capital grant and the relatively small budget available, if he has had to change the allocation criteria used in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52912/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I have received what I consider to be troubling information from councillors around the country who have been informed by some clubs in their respective areas that they are not on the favoured list. They seem to have information that is not readily available. I understand from at least one club that it has been told by the local Fine Gael councillor that it has not met the criteria but that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I ask the Minister to inform the House as to the level of contacts or the number of meetings that have taken place-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Will the Minister inform the House the number of meetings he has had with members of his own party or the Labour Party on the subject of sports capital grants in the period since the applications were submitted? I ask him to provide the House with these details and also to give details of other individuals or delegations involved. Such information would be helpful.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport (27 Nov 2012)
Timmy Dooley: That is a very fine statement, but the facts that underlie it are different. The Minister of State is aware of the auditor's report that identified the future viability of CIE as being in jeopardy. The reaction from the CIE group of companies was to increase fares and cut services. I understand the fiduciary duty of the company directors and their requirements to balance the books, but the...