Results 621-640 of 5,550 for speaker:Martin Ferris
- Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: We accept it.
- Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: I move amendment No. 6:In page 5, line 25, to delete “3 shall” and substitute “5 shall”.
- Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: I move amendment No. 7:In page 6, to delete lines 3 to 5 and substitute the following:“(h) one shall be chosen by the Minister for their specific skill and competencies and be representative of the horseracing industry in Northern Ireland.”.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (20 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: 115. To ask the Minister for Health when certain clothing will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [2414/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of two applications from a school (details supplied) made in November 2015, one of which is an emergency works and the other of which is an application for additional school accommodation, both of which are to accommodate a new pupil who uses a wheelchair and who will start school in 2016. [2405/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (20 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allocate a resource teacher to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry. [2412/16]
- Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: It has reached the stage, not just in my constituency, but in all constituencies, at which people are afraid to attend accident and emergency departments. Who could blame them? The long waiting lists represent many people suffering in their homes and hanging on for long-awaited treatment, but the public face of the crisis is in the accident and emergency departments of the large hospitals....
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: There is no doubt that a great deal of the damage caused by the recent floods could have been prevented had successive Governments not indiscriminately slashed public budgets. I welcome the schemes put in place by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, which will help in some way to compensate farmers for fodder lost and so on. Today marks the 75th...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (13 Jan 2016)
Martin Ferris: 909. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action he will take to ensure equality of allocation of funding towards the repair of roads in Lower Ormond in North County Tipperary, particularly in the area of Rathcabbin where some vehicles cannot use public roads due to their state of bad repair, where school buses can no longer operate and where the situation has reached...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: I thank both witnesses for their presentations. I must say at the outset that the behaviour of Horse Racing Ireland has been disgraceful. I think it is snobbery. I have read the communications from Horse Racing Ireland to the harness racing group. People are genuinely trying to bring support to an economy in various areas. It is an absolute disgrace. Two harness racing meetings were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: How often has Horse Racing Ireland engaged with them, between 2008 and 2015?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: There were engagements from harness racing, from 2008 up until 2014, and it was dismissed by the HRI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: In June of this year, it was dismissed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: Did Mr. Kavanagh hear the same concerns on 27 September-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: -----when it was granted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: May I speak again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: Two harness meetings took place in Dundalk in 2008. They were negotiated directly with the Dundalk racecourse. The IHRA received a positive response from the thoroughbred industry observers who were present, including the independents from the Turf Club. Between 2008 and 27 September 2015, however, every effort that the IHRA made to hold a meeting at that track was thwarted by HRI. I do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: I cannot accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: A small amount was drawn down in Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)
Martin Ferris: Are there 16,000 in the thoroughbred sector as well?