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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I said, I welcome the passing loop into Galway. I also expect that the Minister will proceed with the railway line into Foynes. It is a great pity that the railway line connecting Waterford to Rosslare in Wexford was recently closed because, with the new European direct routes, it would also have been a vital link. The Minister is dead right however; it is all about a network. We do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad the Minister is going to reopen the Foynes line for passengers and freight but is it not absolutely ridiculous to even contemplate doing so, particularly for freight, without connecting Ballina and Westport, for example, to Foynes? We would have the port but not the connecting railway lines while we are talking about decarbonisation. Does it take an awful lot of study to do that?...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total planned investment in heavy and light rail in the current national development plan; the major projects involved; the estimated cost and completion date of each; if he will propose additional rail investment in the forthcoming review of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1013/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been further progress in relation to the review of income eligibility for social housing supports that is currently underway; when a decision will be made in relation to the increase of the income limits in respect of social housing supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14483/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of grants paid for the upgrade of private wastewater systems and septic tanks in each year since the scheme's inception in 2013, by county; the expenditure in each year, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15368/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of villages and towns in Ireland that do not have municipal wastewater systems by county; the steps he plans to take to deal with this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15369/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of individual houses served by private wastewater systems by county; the action being taken to ensure that these are not a cause of pollution; the number of inspections carried out on them in each year since 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15370/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1450. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical practice (details supplied) has not received a supply of Covid-19 vaccine despite ordering same; when it will receive such a supply; if the practice will receive sufficient supplies to vaccinate all the over 70 year old cohort and those on the medical priority list under that age with a first vaccine immediately; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1464. To ask the Minister for Health the way the valuation of property is assessed in respect of the nursing home subvention scheme in cases in which the house in question was legally disposed of four years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14302/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for pain management treatment at the paediatric chronic pain clinic in CHI, Dublin; the average waiting time for such specialist services; if new referrals for treatment are being accepted by the service; if not, when the service ceased taking new referrals; the steps being taken to address this issue; the reason...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1670. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members that have been recruited to the multidisciplinary pain teams in CHI, Dublin in the past three months; the number of patients that have been seen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15084/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (24 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he plans to take to prohibit intensive farmers who face difficulties complying with the nitrates directive renting land in hill and mountainous areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15080/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 13, 17 and 18 of 25 February 2021, when the inquiries referred to will be completed; when this Deputy will be apprised of the outcome; the reason for the delay in respect of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16157/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to run a module under the urban regeneration and development fund specifically aimed at funding large community facility developments in view of the dearth of funds available in urban areas for such developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16151/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to approve immediately the appointment of a permanent CEO to Galway County Council given that the council has been without a permanent CEO for a long time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16152/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: School Transport (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when payment of the remote area school transport grant for the school year 2019-20 will issue to a group of parents in a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16217/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason rural social scheme supervisors are being requested to gather personal information from scheme participants as part of the annual review of means of participants in the scheme; if discussions have taken place with the Data Protection Commissioner on whether such an arrangement is satisfactory under the GDPR; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is planned to give consideration to accepting up to 400 refugees into Ireland from the up to 12,000 persons who have been trapped on the Greek islands, particularly Lesbos (details supplied), in view of the humanitarian tragedy there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16150/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén soláthar agus cé na tagairtí d’fhorbairt na hearnála breisoideachais trí Ghaeilge atá déanta ag a Roinn sa Ráiteas Straitéise don tréimhse 2021-2023, cé na beartais atá á moladh ag a Roinn chun an earnáil sin a chur chun cinn; agus an ndéanfaidh sé...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 211. To ask the Minister for Health if it is planned to avail of the ability of newly qualified doctors by offering all graduating doctors in 2021 positions under the HSE as interns, thus retaining this valuable resource here, particularly in view of the high cost to the State of educating doctors and given the shortage of trained doctors here and the need in recent years to recruit many...