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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in ensuring that various animal remedies that were available up to now without a prescription from a veterinary surgeon will still be available at competitive prices after the EU regulation requiring them to be prescribed by a veterinary surgeon comes into force here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends including the western rail corridor from Athenry to Claremorris as a project in the forthcoming revised NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31517/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rail projects in Connacht included in the current NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31518/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The purpose of Question No. 5 is to ask the Minister if he intends including the western rail corridor from Athenry to Claremorris as a project in the forthcoming revised national development plan. Question No. 71 asks him to list the rail projects in Connacht in the present national development plan. I look forward to the Minister's reply to those two questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the reply. What we are getting is renewal and maintenance of what is there but we presumed that would happen. We are getting a few platforms in Ceannt Station and a passing loop in Oranmore. It is not much for the whole of Connacht. That is the first thing that has to be said. The Minister mentioned the concept of renewing existing infrastructure. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The good thing about this project is that it would cost a lot less depending on who we believe, and whether we believe the Bradley report or the original report from Ernst & Young. Between €150 million and the outer limit of €200 million is a lot less than the cost of the road from Castlebar to Westport. There is €1 billion in the rural regeneration and...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister intend to reallocate capital funding within his Department's Estimates? There has been a slower rate of expenditure to date than projected, amounting to an underspend against profile of €150 million.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department's capital profile was to have seen 25% of the money spent in the first five months of the year. That is just over 40% of the year. However, the Department underspent by €158 million in that period, or 30% against profile. As such, the Department already has a significant underspend. That is clear from the Exchequer returns to the end of May. I like what the...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are not.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: What was the Department's capital carry-over from last year to this year? I am interested in getting the answer to that question. Will the Minister check as regards the roads done under the LIS that are public but not in the charge of local authorities? There is a difference. They are not privately owned. They are all public rights of way. Would the Minister consider providing extra...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform an bhfuil sé i gceist aige dlús a chur le hearcú tuilleadh státseirbhíseach chuig an státseirbhís, a bhfuil cumas acu oibriú tríd an dá theanga oifigiúil, á chur forálacha an Bhille leasaithe Teangacha Oifigiúla atá faoi bhráid an Oireachtais faoi...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mar is eol don Aire Stáit, tá Bille ag dul trí na Dála i láthair na huaire agus beidh, faoin mBille sin, dualgas ar an tseirbhís phoiblí 20% a earcú a mbeidh Gaeilge agus, glacaimid leis, Béarla acu. Faoi láthair, tá painéal ann agus is beag duine atá tógtha ón bpainél do dhaoine, ní hamháin a bhfuil...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cé mhéad duine ar roghnaíodh iad don phainéal Gaeilge, mar a thugann an tAire Stáit air, agus cé mhéad duine atá fostaithe cheana féin ón bpainéal sin? Cén fáth nár fostaíodh tuilleadh? An nglacfadh an tAire Stáit leis go bhfuil sé cineál seafóideach painéal Gaeilge amháin a bheith ann...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: B'fhéidir nach é sin an fhadhb ar chor ar bith. B'fhéidir gurb é an fhadhb atá ann ná go bhfuiltear ag srianú daoine trí iad a chur ar an bpainéal Gaeilge amháin. Níl daoine ar an bpainéal sin in ann fostaíocht a fháil sa tseirbhís phoiblí ach i bpoist atá bainteach leis an nGaeilge. Má tá...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: There was a big underspend last year. Was there an underspend in the capital allocation up to the end of May? Is it projected that will carry on again this year to the end of the year? Has the Minister received requests from Departments to transfer funding within the Department to funding streams that might be spent more quickly this year to make up for the shortfall in expenditure so far?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister referred to the Department of Transport. It has profiled 25% expenditure in the first five months of the year, even though that period accounts for 40% of the year, but it is significantly behind on that expenditure, that is, by €150 million. At a time when county roads are screaming out for money and the Department of Transport has spent nothing on non-county roads,...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Only that I do not want to gum up the Minister's Department with unnecessary work, I would love to submit a freedom of information request in respect of the assurances the Minister got in June, July, August, September and October last year that all the money would be spent by all the Departments. He has ended up with an underspend of €700 million. I know what happens within...

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm go bhfuil deis agam labhairt ar cheist cúrsaí iascaigh. I will begin by raising a small issue that perhaps the Minister can tackle for once and for all. He mentioned that as Minister, he inherited six harbours and then he got Cape Clear. Obviously, the Minister's Department did not tell him that he has a bit - I mean a bit - of Cleggan Pier. The fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 165. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when it is intended to announce the details of the revised National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31516/21]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Port of Dublin is not accepting container trains to and from the west of Ireland; if, he plans speaking to the board and management of the port in relation to this matter in view of the fact that container trains are the most environmentally efficient way of carrying these goods; and...