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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network (22 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: I will share time with Senator Erin McGreehan. Senator Niall Blaney is in the Seanad but hopes to join us later. I welcome Mr. McNeill and Mr. Campbell. I also welcome their presentation, which gave a positive outline of the potential of our region. I am glad that I suggested, when this committee was first formed in this Dáil, that we meet with different cross-Border partnerships...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if capital expenditure was on or within profile at the end of May 2021; if he expects expenditure to come in on profile in 2021; if not, if he has received requests for a reallocation of funding; if such requests will be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32351/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (17 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 12. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to reallocate capital funding within the Estimate of his Department in circumstances in which there is slower than projected expenditure to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32406/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (17 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if further much needed funding will be allocated in 2021 for the non-national road network if there is a capital funding reallocation within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32407/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected roll-out of the National Broadband Plan for counties Cavan and Monaghan for 2021; the measures that will be implemented to offset the delays that have occurred in this roll-out to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32791/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath and Louth receiving support under the employment wage subsidy scheme; the number in each county who were receiving support under the scheme in May 2021; the number of persons in each county who have received support under the scheme and its predecessor since March 2020; the expenditure on the scheme...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if legacy issues were discussed during his recent meeting with Prime Minister Johnson. [27628/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if the need to implement in full the Stormont House Agreement was discussed during his recent meeting with Prime Minister Johnson. [27629/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I am very glad both he and Prime Minister Johnson committed to supporting all the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement. The agreement must be implemented in all its aspects, with no cherry-picking of its provisions. It is very important that the Taoiseach raised a number of atrocities that were committed, including, unfortunately, some in my...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions recently with a bank (details supplied) on its decision to withdraw from the market and with another bank in relation to its plan to close 88 branches here given the concern of employees and customers on the resulting loss of banking competition here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31696/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 670. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the arrangements being made to enable Irish passport holders who are resident in Northern Ireland to avail of the proposed EU Digital Covid Certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31688/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: I thank our guests for their presentations. I apologise that I missed some of the meeting earlier because I had difficulty getting connected. In one of his responses, Mr. Murphy made a point on detailed preparation for what I, along with others, want to see in the future, which is constitutional change on our island. Like many others, I aspire to a united Ireland to be achieved through the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (3 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action the State’s enterprise promotion agencies are taking together and on a cross-Border basis to promote jobs and investment in the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30037/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ministerial Engagements (3 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 100. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a report on his engagement with the Minister for the Economy in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30038/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland (3 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up to date position in relation to the need for a comprehensive investigation into the bombing in Belturbet, County Cavan in December 1972 and the need for full co-operation by the authorities in Northern Ireland in relation to this atrocity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30243/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland (3 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 464 of 15 December 2020, if there have been further developments in relation to the need for a comprehensive investigation into the Belturbet bombing of December 1972; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30242/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (3 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he will implement to support the post office network in view of the particular challenges facing that sector at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30400/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (3 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the post office network will be enabled to provide additional Government services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30401/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (3 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeline for the processing and finalisation of the 2021 sports capital grant applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30402/21]

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: I welcome this plan, which outlines the Government's commitment to ongoing and much-needed supports for workers and enterprises still impacted adversely by the ongoing pandemic. There are still many challenges and difficulties for different sectors of our economy and thus for a sizeable proportion of our workforce. That cohort of people, be it employer or employee, needs the reassurance...