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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: We need a new emergency department in Mullingar.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: Very briefly, in the 25 seconds remaining-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: If everything is publicised, will the Taoiseach tell us on the floor of the Dáil today if he has an arrangement with Deputy Lowry? Will he answer "Yes" or "No"?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: So he is telling a lie.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: This is the first question that my party leader tabled before Christmas. As a party, we had and continue to have genuine concerns that not enough is being done to meet the challenges this country faces following Brexit and yesterday's speech has given rise to extreme concern for Irish business. The evidence is that the UK Government has decided that there will be a customs border on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: I welcome the witnesses. This committee agreed before Christmas to invite them in. The main issue at that time was the lack of consultation before the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy O'Donovan, made his announcement on gender quotas and governance in the various sporting organisations. Since then, the organisations have had consultations with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: It was actually answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: It is good to get an opportunity to speak again. I would be far more aligned to the GAA than I would be to rugby, but not nearly as much as my two colleagues on the right, Senator O'Mahony and Deputy Fitzpatrick, based on their inter-county successes over many years. They have played a very meaningful and positive role in the GAA. I want to focus on the gender quotas in both...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: Over five years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: I think I have an opportunity to make an interjection.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: I know, but maybe he will wait until I have asked my question. I am seeking clarification on behalf of my party leader on what arrangement is in place. As my colleague said, who is facilitated by this office? Is it facilitating all Members of the House? When we draft Private Members' Bills, we do so with the help of our research office and not any office within the Department of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: I asked a question and I am somewhat at a disadvantage as I have never served in government. What were advisers doing in previous Governments? Were they not engaging with one another? We have had coalition Governments for a long time and there are different policy perspectives when different parties join together. What were advisers doing in the previous Government that meant they needed...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: He was trying to give people a chance to own their own home.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: The Taoiseach is very funny.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: The Valuation Office commenced a process of revaluing how rates were charged to commercial customers a number of years ago. Letters have issued from that office. I can only speak for my constituency of Longford-Westmeath but these letters have issued in the past number of days and have proposed significant increases in commercial rates to customers. How businesses in Mullingar will be...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: The Government is the main stakeholder in Bus Éireann, so it has a role to play, and Deputy Ross is the Minister with responsibility for transport, so he has a role to play. I thank the Taoiseach for repeating back to me what I already know and have put on the record of the House. I asked what the Minister briefed the Cabinet on yesterday. Does the Taoiseach believe that the Minister...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: What about the Government's role?

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: The silence of the Minister, Deputy Ross, is truly deafening and is certainly unnatural for him. We read in theSunday Independenthow he chose to nitpick sloppy grammatical errors rather than discuss the actual content of the most recent road safety report at a time when the number of deaths on the roads is increasing. He seems unable to take ministerial accountability seriously and has...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: In the past two weeks, numerous articles have been written in the press about the financial state of Bus Éireann, with losses of €6 million last year and projected losses of €7 million this year. While these losses are significant and unsustainable in the long run, services to people across the country should not be jeopardised. The semi-State company faults Expressway...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Investigations (18 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 81. To ask the Taoiseach the cost to the Exchequer of any ongoing investigations or inquiries in his Department. [2397/17]