Results 7,741-7,760 of 23,559 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: It was an absolute disgrace then and it is a disgrace now to leave towns such as that without town councils. It was a stupid act by a stupid Government and it will forever be remembered for doing that and for robbing very genuine and committed public representatives who were not in it for the money. The Ceann Comhairle knows as well as I do, and better because he has been there longer than...
- Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: ------and they wanted to represent people. They were not talking about €90,000 or €120,000 for directly elected mayors. All they wanted to do was to represent the people in their communities. The Government robbed them of that and now the Government is trying to say it is empowering-----
- Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----local democracy by putting these directly elected mayors in place. I would have no problem with that happening if the Government had started where it left off in the blackguarding that it did in the past by reinstating the town councils. The Government cost the nation a fortune because if anybody thinks it saved money, the Ceann Comhairle knows that is not true. It cost an absolute...
- Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: Try to reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Funding (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16802/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter in relation to a road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16891/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: If it takes us 20 minutes to read, we may as well pack up. We should be able to digest it within five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I acknowledge that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: Does the Chairman have my name on his list?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome the delegation. The one thing which is of great concern to all of us is the temporary withdrawal of funding to the association pending the three reports from the FAI, Grant Thornton and Mazars. All I would say about that matters is that any person who has ever been involved in any type of business, regardless of whether it is trading with €50 million or €50,000 a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: Maybe what I am saying does not suit others but I am going to say it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Chairman can eat into his own time, not mine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: Did I question Deputy Coppinger?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will ask questions but they will not be like those posed by Deputy Coppinger..
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I was interrupted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: Patiently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I want to remind Mr. Delaney's colleagues of what he has done over many years, whether it is with regard to the District League, Mounthawk Park in County Kerry, the Victory Shield tournament, Killarney Athletic, Castleisland Soccer Club or Asdee Rovers. I will conclude with one observation. At the end of the month, Mr. Delaney is to come to Castleilsand AFC to open the new George...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: If Mr. Delaney is guilty of anything, it is of trying to help an association in the best way that he saw fit at that time. That is all he stands accused of in my book.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am being goaded here. If the Deputy minds her business, I will mind my own.