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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Appointments to State Boards (11 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 459. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the board membership by gender of the national cultural institutions, the Irish Film Board, the Arts Council and Culture Ireland; her plans to address gender imbalance within these bodies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18013/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Data (11 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 460. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the gender balance of her Department’s staff by percentage, in tabular form; the gender balance of senior officials and management within her Department, by percentage, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18014/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (11 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 461. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason relevant officers from her Department did not conduct a full investigation into the cause of the structural damage which led to the collapse of national monument number 526 at Donaghmore, County Louth. [18036/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (11 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 462. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department was consulted prior to the granting of planning permission to a house built 30 feet away from the Donaghmore Souterrain. [18037/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (11 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 463. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the exact circumstances which led to the structural damage to the Donaghmore Souterrain in County Louth. [18039/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (11 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 464. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the National Monuments Service determined the identities of the parties responsible for the collapse of the Donaghmore Souterrain; and if so, if they have been prosecuted under section 14(1) of the National Monuments Act, amended 2004. [18040/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: We will now consider the future of community, social and economic development and co-operation in Border counties with representatives of Derry City and Strabane District Council and Louth County Council. Later in the meeting we will discuss the same topic with officials from the special EU programmes body. I welcome the following witnesses: Mr. John Kelpie, chief executive officer and Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Thank you. Is there anybody else to speak from Louth County Council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat. Bhí an cur i láthair iontach suimiúil. I invite the representatives of Derry City and Strabane District Council to make their presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the witnesses for that insightful information. I open the floor to members for questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I might pose some questions. Peripheries do not tend to do well economically. Peripheries are usually damaging. What we have here, however, is a man-made periphery to a certain extent. It was created and it should not be there. People in the South tend not to understand that the highest levels of deprivation, unemployment and depopulation are to be found along the Border. In the recent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: What about Louth County Council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not a Newry-Mourne one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The Louth-Newry memorandum of understanding is the best-practice template of any of the local authorities having regard to integration. There is joint planning and even joint employment. There is quite a bit of joint work. Is that the same relationship that Derry City & Strabane District Council has with Donegal County Council? Has it happened as much in the west of the Border region?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Investment is obviously one of the other mitigating factors involved. I had a look at the figures released yesterday by the Construction Federation of Ireland on the level investment in each county in the South in 2017. Cavan came last. It got no funding at all in 2017 for infrastructural projects. County Louth was second from the bottom in the funding process, and Donegal was in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: With regard to special designation, the idea of pushing the Border to the sea, to a certain extent, so there would be free movement of people, products and services on the island of Ireland, a special designation measure has been passed in the Oireachtas as an objective. Even the European Parliament has a version of special designation within its Brexit negotiation guidelines. What is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Does Derry City & Strabane District Council have an opinion on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I will now pass on the baton on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: There have been reports that individuals from the Department of Finance or Revenue Commissioners have done preparatory work to cater for the fact that it may be necessary to have some locations along the Border at which vehicles travelling up and down, be they goods vehicles or citizens' cars, will be checked for the contents. There has not been a crystallisation of that information in any...