Results 461-480 of 5,550 for speaker:Martin Ferris
- Personal Explanation by Member (7 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: Come outside and do that.
- Personal Explanation by Member (7 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: You are a disgrace.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I thank Mr. Phelan and his colleagues for attending this meeting. Like most of the Deputies and Senators that have spoken here today I come from an area most affected by this issue which involves money owed by 400 or more farmers. It strikes me as strange that this matter has become an issue after 19 years. What happened in the intervening years that this liability was not detected? Like...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: No, but I hope to find out in the next 24 hours.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I wish to clarify that this was a telephone call that was made to my office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I am not making any accusation against anybody. A letter came to my office that a letter of comfort was in existence - it was a political letter of comfort.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2016: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I thank the Minister for his presentation and contributions. I am quite conscious of the value that small breeders bring to rural communities and what the greyhound industry means to rural Ireland. I live in an area where every second person I know in the agriculture and farming sector in parts of North Kerry would also be breeding greyhounds, most of them do it at a loss. They do it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2016: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: That is in people's memory
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2016: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I am sticking to the motion. I would appreciate if I was not interrupted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2016: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: Deputy Martin Kenny made a very valuable contribution on the difficulties that arise from a lack of co-operation. He referred to the lack of response to the questions that were put to Horse Racing Ireland when its representatives appeared before the committee in the recent past. Some of the questions remain still to be answered. I have raised the issue of harness racing and how the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2016: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: It took ministerial intervention at this committee to get HRI to provide access to Dundalk track for harness races. This left a very bad taste in the mouths of many people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I thank the Minister for his presentation. I concur with the remarks of Deputy Pringle. Each year we get a report suggesting it is hitting the floor and then the Minister comes back with a great success. This is a game plan and it does not wash with me. I imagine it does not wash with anyone who has been involved with the fishing sector over the years. Let us consider area VII. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I want to tease this out. The evidence I get from the people who are potting crayfish and lobsters is that they have never seen spurdog as thick in the water as they have been in the past two years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I am not talking about one area but about the whole way from Kilmore Quay to Loop Head. I have been in every port and have spoken to people at the coalface. The scientific evidence does not take into account the people who are fishing it. I have had a problem for a long time with scientific evidence because it is not based on the experience of people who are part of the industry. I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I think-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I think we are making progress here. I want to see something come out of this meeting. I think we are making progress and that is------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I do not want to be awkward.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I will wait for private session. I want to see this through.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: It has only been banned since last year. It was banned for Ireland for 15 years. European boats could fish and Irish ones could not. It was ridiculous.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)
Martin Ferris: I am not disputing that. However, I am disputing that-----