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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourist Accommodation (18 Apr 2024)

Brendan Griffin: ...important and appreciated. It would also be welcome if he could do that throughout the business sector because it is from the ground up that we can really get what is going on at the coalface. We are where we are with the challenges we have faced over recent years, but there is scope within the overall budgetary parameters to assist the businesses that have fed the economic growth the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Brendan Griffin: ...a response to the Brexit crisis. I do not think any of us in 2016 envisaged we would still be talking about this in the Dáil Chamber on the last day of the summer term in 2022. Unfortunately, we are where we are. While we can start talking about the blame game and the appalling behaviour of the British Government and of parties such as the DUP, with their scorpion and frog approach...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Brendan Griffin: ...the local improvement scheme was moved out of the Department of Transport. It is such a large Department with such a large budget that the scheme could have been better off in that Department. We are where we are today and it is never too late for those three Departments to adopt a collaborative approach, come back together again and do what they can for those local improvement schemes....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Brendan Griffin: ...to work with those people and do our best to move this forward and achieve progress. Earlier we discussed the process of appointing the independent directors, which should have started earlier. We are where we are. As the Minister, Deputy Ross, said earlier, we want to meet those people the day they are appointed and get stuck in. Unfortunately, we are not at that point yet, but we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Brendan Griffin: ...should come directly from the Minister. For that matter, there is far too much delegation in this regard. We have the same issue with responses from the Department of Health and the HSE. We are where we are, as the saying goes, but I expect at least when answers are sought that the responses sent to Deputies should be a little more detailed and should at least refer to the questions...