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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: The Gathering (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: As the Minister is aware, a number of the smaller existing festivals receive funding either from the Arts Council or the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. We should utilise to the greatest extent possible funding that already exists. For this particular year there should be a requirement for Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht funding to have a Gathering dimension. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason he withdrew funding of €36 million for CIÉ two months after approving it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45399/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Does this mean that, in the event of CIE being unable to make the saving the Minister is seeking, €36 million is still available that has been reassigned from the projects mentioned and not spent on the original plans? I asked the Minister before what projects this money was taken from but I have yet to get an answer. How does the Minister see CIE being able to make the necessary...

Topical Issue Debate: Tourism Ireland Website (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive outline of the background to what happened. I fully support what Tourism Ireland has done. It was excellent use of public moneys to purchase this domain name. Clearly, it was ludicrous to have Ireland.com in the ownership of an agency that does not have the promotion of Ireland within its remit. We have seen where similar cases occurred with...

Topical Issue Debate: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Do Fine Gael not have parliamentary party meetings?

Topical Issue Debate: Tourism Ireland Website (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Last Monday, Tourism Ireland announced that it has acquired the Ireland.com domain name from The Irish Times, in a deal worth almost €500,000. In doing so, Tourism Ireland has greatly inconvenienced as many as 15,000 Ireland.com domain users who have been told they are about to lose their e-mail addresses. The Minister may be able to provide us with more information on this. The...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy should not be looking for a climate Bill; he should be looking for a roof to be put over Ireland.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: There is a fair bit of it around Sandymount as well.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: We read in a newspaper today that an international firm has been hired by the Government to raise the ceiling on bankers' pay. As the Minister will know, bankers' pay was set at approximately €500,000 per annum. When the report is concluded, does the Government intend to bring legislation on this matter to the House?

Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister think it will fall?

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Sadly, third level students are now starting to find out about those. Since the June summit, the Government has also sought to add to the confusion surrounding the deal. It has tried to confuse the issue of promissory notes with the deal supposedly achieved in June.

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I have a minute to put my supplementary question and the Ceann Comhairle might allow me to do so.

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Is the Government still seeking a deal on Ireland's bank debt, as outlined in June? Is it holding out in the hope that the promissory note process under way well before June will somehow be resolved, as the interest issue was resolved? The Government will go on another lap of honour, and perhaps the Taoiseach will be on the front of Vanity Fair the next time.

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister is part of the Government. It is about time it took responsibility

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Kicking Fianna Fáil helped you going into the election.

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I was talking about this Government's actions.

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Last June, following the statement issued at the end of the European Council meeting, the Taoiseach and Government colleagues trumpeted the outcome as being a game changer for this country. We were led to believe that the decision to allow for the direct recapitalisation of Spanish banks without placing the burden on the shoulders of the Spanish people had positive benefits for the Irish...

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach is representing Ireland at the negotiating table in Brussels today. What is he seeking? In light of the statement of the three finance Ministers, is he asking for clarity concerning whether his understanding of the June summit is correct and still stands?

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Is he asking for a timeline for the conclusion of a deal on Ireland's bank debt? If so, what is it that we are seeking in that regard?

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I am glad that the Minister raised the Time magazine issue. Since June, the Taoiseach has spent more time on a lap of honour congratulating himself on having Ireland included in the text without making any real effort to work with the leaders of the other countries. He has not met a single leader in the intervening period.