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- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regional Development Initiatives (3 Apr 2019)
Joe Carey: 89. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Atlantic economic corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15236/19]
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Business of Select Committee (3 Apr 2019)
Joe Carey: Apologies have been received from Deputies Niamh Smyth and Martin Kenny. At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members and staff are requested to ensure that, for the duration of the meeting, mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode, depending on the device used.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: The Dáil referred the Revised Estimate to the select committee on 28 February. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the Further Revised Estimates for 2019 for the Department of Rural and Community Development which amounts to €260,282,000. It is an opportunity for the committee to make the process more transparent and engage in a meaningful way on relevant performance...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: I thank the Minister of State. We will begin by discussing subhead A4, national rural development schemes, including the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme and the CLÁR walk schemes. I call Deputy Michael Collins.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: Those fall under subhead A5, which we can discuss together with subhead A4 if the Deputy wishes. I suggest we discuss subheads A4, A5 and A10 together, which covers the rural regeneration programme.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: Subhead A1 is administration, subhead A2 is administration non-pay, subhead A3 is the western development commission, subhead A4 is the national rural development schemes, subhead A5 is the LEADER programme and subhead A6 is tidy towns and town and village regeneration. We will discuss them all together.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: The Deputy did very well. He mostly touched on programme A in terms of the walks programme, the LEADER programme, broadband and mobile phone coverage. He touched on the issue of text alerts. That is a matter for the Department of Justice and Equality but the committee received representations on that issue in Dunhill, County Waterford last week and it is an issue we hope to follow up on...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: We got a request from the broadcasting unit to check mobile telephones because there is interference.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: There is interference coming across the system. Will members check their mobile telephones please?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: The Deputy must be brief.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: The Minister of State, Deputy Seán Canney, wants to speak, so we should conclude on programme A. We have to hear from Deputy Fitzmaurice as well.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: Yes, and it is a good engagement. To be fair to everyone, I will allow the Deputy to make two brief points and the Minister to make two brief replies, before we move to the next programme. I want to bring in the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: I congratulate St. Thomas's GAA club and Ballyhale Shamrocks GAA club. The ultimate winner was Ballyhale. They are very small communities.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: They demonstrated how a small community can fight back, end up in Croke Park and slug it out in an all-Ireland final. They are supported by schemes put in place by the Minister. We are benefiting from the money that is now available and the State is investing. I call on Deputy Fitzmaurice.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: That is the Deputy's view.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: We are coming to the end of the discussion on programme A and I have a few comments to make. I welcome the Minister's highlighting Tidy Towns groups which are among our greatest groups. The Minister's expression of thanks to them as a community initiative is most welcome, as is the financial support he has provided which is well received in communities. In County Clare, particularly Ennis,...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: I thank the Minister. We will conclude now on programme A. We are two hours and five minutes into our meeting. We could suspend for a few minutes or we could proceed. I suggest we suspend for five minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: Is programme A agreed to? Agreed. We move to programme B. Are there any questions on programme B?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: I have a couple of questions. The CSP is a good initiative. I agree with Deputy Ó Cuív on the minimum wage and the shortfall that groups must meet. It is putting pressure on them. I am aware of Obair in Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare. It is a large community services project. When the committee was in Dunhill last week, we met a group that complained to us about this issue....
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019) Joe Carey: Is programme group B agreed to? Agreed. Are there any questions on programme group C?