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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: Apologies for not being able to hear all the contributions but there have been votes and I was in another meeting on the way back. However, I have gone through the documentation. Shared housing and integrated education are contained in one sentence in the Good Friday Agreement but there has not been progress on shared or mixed housing to the extent we would like either. In the early 1990s...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: Is that college still to the fore as a model? Are there still big numbers attending? Am I right that the initiative is not intended for whole schools but there are shared classes such as where students are together in a campus or adjacent in a town? Is it intended that this initiative move forward incrementally, with shared classes rather than a shared or integrated school? It seems,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: May I ask a question on capital budgets? Suppose a group comes together with a need for a school. If school facilities then have to be put in place is there a 100% grant for this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: By "recurrent funding" Ms Merron means revenue on an annual basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: Is the fund dependent on access to local community facilities in the interim? New builds are not an option.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: That is obviously plus the enrolment.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 16 June 2015, if he is aware of the level of legal and professional fees incurred to date by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in an ongoing legal dispute (details supplied); if his Department has requested these details from the special liquidators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30283/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 16 June 2015, if he will provide a breakdown of the legal and professional fees as listed on page 62 of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation's report of 12 March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30316/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 269. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the outcome of his discussions with an insurance company (details supplied) in relation to the need to retain the maximum level of employment in its office in Cavan town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29625/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 300. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the need to provide much needed additional job opportunities throughout County Monaghan; the proposals his Department and the State's industrial promotion agencies have to assist in job creation, and in the maintenance of existing employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30334/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the need to provide much needed additional job opportunities throughout County Cavan; the proposals his Department and the State's industrial promotion agencies have to assist in job creation, and in the maintenance of existing employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30335/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Exports (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the details of any discussions that have been held at political or official level with the Russian authorities in relation to the impact of the ban by Russia on food exports from the European Union; if the importance of the Russian market for pigmeat exports from Ireland has been discussed; the need to have this...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 357. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to increase the number of Permanent Defence Force members assigned to the general Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30353/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 362. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in relation to a full investigation into the bombing in Belturbet in County Cavan in December 1972, which resulted in the death of two young persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29624/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 405. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda station in the Cavan-Monaghan division, from the end of May 2010 until the end of May 2015; the proposals in place to increase Garda numbers in the Cavan-Monaghan division; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30351/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 406. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the proposals in place to reinstate the Garda drugs unit in the Cavan-Monaghan division, given the need to provide additional resources to specifically target those persons involved in the drugs trade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30352/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 445. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if specific funding will be allocated towards the ongoing costs of running a child care facility (details supplied) in County Cavan; if additional financial assistance will be provided for smaller child care facilities in rural areas with small populations, due to the particular challenges they encounter; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 521. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposals to upgrade the Breffni care unit in Ballyconnell in County Cavan, as this unit is of critical importance in the delivery of services to the elderly in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29902/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals to upgrade the care unit for the elderly in Lisdaran in County Cavan, as this unit is of critical importance in the delivery of services to the elderly in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29903/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Smith: 523. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals to upgrade Oriel House care unit in Rooskey in County Monaghan, as the unit is of critical importance in the delivery of services to the elderly in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29904/15]