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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2018)

Tom Neville: There is a trade-off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2018)

Tom Neville: It was mentioned that 30% of the workforce were approaching retirement age.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2018)

Tom Neville: It was mentioned that the middle cohort of graduates left Ireland during the recession. Is there now a gap in the middle or is the gap wider than that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2018)

Tom Neville: PPARS.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (1 Feb 2018)

Tom Neville: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a query by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5290/18]

Childcare Support Bill 2017: Second Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: I thank the Chair and the Opposition. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs and have been for some time. I have worked closely with the Minister on the issues relating to this. I want to place on record the fact that I believe the Minister has done extremely well with this and has displayed with a very proactive attitude in trying to address the concerns...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to monitor the effectiveness of local authorities' building programmes in 2018. [4523/18]

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: I welcome that the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy visited Limerick city last week. Limerick City is a sister constituency of mine as I am from Limerick County. Some 79 council housing units were opened on Lord Edward Street. I have people on the fringes of the city who are in the county constituency and are looking to obtain housing in that scheme. Can the Minister outline his plans to...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: The Minister mentioned 2006 and 2007. I cast my mind back to when I was first going into the council in the noughties. There were council estates being build in small rural towns throughout County Limerick. We want to get back to that space again, with small pocket, turnkey type estates being built. I ask the Minister to continue to liaise with the local authorities and to hold them...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: I welcome the initiative from the Minister. Obviously, we have seen there is a cohort, a particular demographic, who have been hit very hard in the crash in recent years. Having been hit that hard, such people would have applied to get onto a council housing list but, as circumstances have improved again, and as they are starting to get back into employment and starting to climb the ladder...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the first houses to be available under the new affordable purchase scheme. [4522/18]

Other Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: When does the Minister expect the first houses under the new affordable purchase scheme to be available?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the new N1 vehicle category measurement method, in view of the fact it is excluding the majority of 4x4 commercial vehicles from installing rear seats such as a make of car (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4745/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4673/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: 270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget for local and regional roads in each of the years from 2007 to 2018 by county. [4722/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (31 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: 290. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) for a contributory pension will be reviewed. [4694/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: I thank the Chairman for facilitating me. I welcome the witnesses. I was struck by several things. I do not intend to repeat questions already posed. The farmers group has given several answers to the questions I had intended asking. The first question relates to forestry. Is there specific information on how much or what percentage of forestry per landholding would be accepted? Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: Have there ever been proposals around asset compensation? Mr. Fitzgerald has presented to us the way in which farmers' incomes have been hit. However, the value of their assets has also been hit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: The kernel of where Mr. Fitzgerald is coming on this issue is that when farmers entered the scheme in 2007, he said most farmers were happy with the designation because of the strength of the comprehensive and robust assurances that were offered. Obviously, he believes he entered that scheme in good faith and what has happened subsequently, which is outside his control, is something...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Tom Neville: Yes.