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Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Noel Grealish: I will also only take one minute. I support Deputy Martin Kenny's amendment. I have also been contacted by many people who are involved in private members' clubs. They are very concerned that this Bill will have an effect on their businesses. Over 400 people work in these clubs. I seek assurances from the Minister of State that this will have no impact whatever on the private members'...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Noel Grealish: During the period of austerity, financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation was introduced which resulted in cuts of up to 33% in the income of the Irish pharmacies. Since the FEMPI cuts of 2009, pharmacy is the only sector which has not had those cuts reversed. Pharmacists were buoyed up by a commitment the Minister gave at the annual conference of the Irish...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)

Noel Grealish: She should withdraw the comment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2019)

Noel Grealish: We have to assure the people that the money leaving the country, which averages just over €1 billion per year, is not the proceeds of crime. I know an awful lot of it is genuine money but I wanted to get a commitment from the Government that proper controls are in place.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2019)

Noel Grealish: Money being transferred without proper controls needs to stop.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2019)

Noel Grealish: What controls are put in place to ensure that tax has been properly paid on all this money?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2019)

Noel Grealish: What does the Taoiseach think is going on?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2019)

Noel Grealish: I am asking what proper controls are in place. I am entitled to ask the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2019)

Noel Grealish: I bring to the Taoiseach's attention the amount of money being transferred out of Ireland in personal remittances. Over the past eight years alone over €10 billion has left the country by way of personal transfers. That is a staggering amount of money. The top five countries to which money was transferred in the past eight year include €843 million to Lithuania and €1...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2019)

Noel Grealish: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I want to outline the following facts to the House: in the two years since leaks were discovered in the roof of the operating theatre in Merlin Park Hospital, the number of people waiting for orthopaedic treatment in Galway has increased by 42% while the numbers in hospitals in the rest of the country have reduced; the number of people waiting for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2019)

Noel Grealish: Not in Galway though.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2019)

Noel Grealish: They were done mostly across the Border.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2019)

Noel Grealish: It is regrettable that I have to stand here again today and talk about a crisis in the health services in Galway, and particularly at University Hospital Galway, UHG. It is consistently one of the worst hospitals in the country in respect of the number of people who have to spend a night on trolleys. It has got so bad that older people, in particular, are genuinely afraid to go to hospital,...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (3 Jul 2019)

Noel Grealish: I welcome the Killilea family to the Distinguished Visitors Gallery today, especially his wife, Anne. The Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Canney, cannot be here today. He is caught up with ministerial business and he asked me to pass on his apologies. I am delighted to have the opportunity to say a few words about Mark...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Noel Grealish: The club proposing to construct a sports centre of excellence in Renvyle and expand existing facilities on a 34-acre site that will include four new playing pitches and a covered terrace, in addition to attractions such as a public playground and looped walkway. These are two projects of major importance to the west. Will the Taoiseach commit to allocating Connacht Rugby the €20...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Noel Grealish: It is the Dublin Deputies who were heckling.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Noel Grealish: Like a broken record.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Noel Grealish: The Deputy did too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Noel Grealish: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. This is going to be a political decision. All the applications are being assessed by the large-scale sports infrastructure fund team in Killarney, but there ought to be political intervention to make sure there is regional balance and that the west gets the State aid it deserves. The stadium proposed to be built in Galway has gone through the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Noel Grealish: People living in rural areas have long had the perception that they have been largely forgotten about by successive governments. There is a growing regional imbalance between Dublin and rural Ireland. Over the decades Dublin has received enormous investment with more than €750 million on the port tunnel, €728 million on the red and green Luas lines, €368 million on the...