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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: So have I.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: It is also unfair for it to apply pressure to have a request for a racetrack refused. That is the nub of the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: How much money does Horse Sport Ireland receive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: If HRI is using its influence to prevent the Irish Harness Racing Association from holding an event, it concerns the use of public money being given to it. Since 2001 almost €1 billion has been given to it and Bord na gCon. HRI has prevented the Irish Harness Racing Association from holding an event and I find it very difficult to stand over this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: That was because of the Minister's intervention. I had raised the matter with him previously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: Hang on one second. The point I am making is that the Minister is giving a ball of money to HRI which has abused its position in preventing harness racing from taking place. It has effectively-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: It tried to become an affiliate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: We could meet next Tuesday morning to deal with the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: If HRI is as determined as we are to give it the money, its representatives will be here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: Up until it held the event in Dundalk, it was blocked, despite several requests from the Irish Harness Racing Association to hold an event there. The fact is that the board of management in Dundalk was prepared to permit the event to be held, but HRI intervened to stop it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: No, the Minister changed it - just once.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: I do not want this to get personal, with people saying we are playing ping-pong and holding the meeting to ransom. We are not. Every year since I became a member of the committee I have voted €1 billion to Horse Racing Ireland and the greyhound board. I have serious reservations about this because people are sleeping on the streets, people are hungry and there are children in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: I brought it to the Minister's attention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: The Minister dealt with it - one event.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (18 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: 145. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be fitted for orthopaedic shoes. [40823/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: 420. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a badly needed cataract operation. [40434/15]
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: The banks are not offering solutions.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: The Taoiseach is aware that the Margiris, the second largest trawler in the world, has been fishing in Donegal Bay since last weekend.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: It is accompanied by two super trawlers and is within 50 miles of the Irish shore.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Martin Ferris: Has the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, searched those boats? Is the Taoiseach aware that the Margirisis banned from fishing in Australian waters?