Results 9,701-9,720 of 13,291 for speaker:Joe McHugh
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: Does Deputy O'Reilly have any specific questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: Is Senator Moran happy with the Narrow Water Bridge-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: Representatives were invited but they indicated they would not attend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: No, it came from Transport NI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: I ask members to brief as there is another delegation due here at 11.30 a.m. That is InterTradeIreland and I am sure this conversation is important to its work as well. I appreciate the patience of the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: I ask Mr. Barry to clarify what are the plans for the southern side of the N2 with regard to Monaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: That is interesting. I ask Mr. Barry to elaborate. The TEN-T corridor is the Belfast-Dublin-Cork route.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: Could a public-private partnership arrangement be included?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: I note there is a vote in the Seanad, Senator White.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: We will resume in public session. Mr. Barry was going to pass over to Mr. Nolan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: He has had a chance to reflect on what he really wanted to say.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: Before Mr. Nolan comes to deal with this, may I suggest that we suspend the sitting for the vote in the House.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: I wish to clarify that they were invited.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: A vote has been called in the Dáil, but we have a few minutes in which Mr. Berry can reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: What does Mr. Barry mean by "several" years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: I welcome Mr. Fred Barry, CEO of the National Roads Authority, NRA, to discuss the development of road links along the Border region. Mr. Barry is accompanied by Mr. Michael Nolan, head of regional and programme management with the NRA. We look forward to exploring how infrastructure development can be progressed to the benefit of citizens and the economy both North and South of the Border....
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (22 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: 97. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views regarding the potential to develop language tourism products here; his views on whether the Appalachian and UIster-Scots diasporas in North America would be attracted to Ulster-Scots and Gaelic linguistic interpretations of Irish history including the history of the Ulster Plantation; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (22 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: 315. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to develop language tourism in respect of Ulster-Scots and Gaeilge, with reference to the Appalachian community in north America. [43516/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Enterprise Support Schemes (22 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: 99. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his efforts to promote enterprise in the Gaeltacht; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44249/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Smuggling (22 Oct 2013)
Joe McHugh: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the work that he and the Revenue Commissioners are doing to address the availability of illicit tobacco here; if he and the Revenue Commissioners have engaged with Northern Ireland Customs on this matter; the cost to the State in 2011, 2012, and to date in 2013 of illicit tobacco trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44638/13]