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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Applications (7 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by persons (details supplied); and when payment will issue. [5974/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (7 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 637. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that his Department allocated to the Cork East constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016. [5591/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport and Recreational Development (7 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 666. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the recent results of research suggesting that males in secondary schools are 42% fitter than females; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that it is suggested that females here are less likely than males to meet the minimum current physical activity recommendations for optimal health;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities Provision (7 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 667. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the timeline for completion of phase 2 of the national indoor arena.​ [5751/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medal hauls from other countries with similar populations are misleading because they do not take into account the significant levels of funding underpinning high performance programmes in those countries; his views on whether Ireland's medal targets at major events will remain...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Strategies (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the need to develop a new high-performance strategy for the development of elite sport here; and his plans to develop such a strategy. [5752/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending a specific tax concession as announced in the recent budget (details supplied) to sporting organisations. [6305/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 194. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the tax incentives and reliefs that will be available to owners of properties in rural towns and villages following on from the Government launch of its rural development action plan. [6377/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Advanced Healthcare Directives (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the completion of the work of the multidisciplinary working group under section 91 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 and the submission of its recommendations to the director of the decision support service, DSS; and the timeframe provided to the director of the DSS to publish the code of practice. [6208/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Transport Infrastructure Ireland to review their proposals (details supplied) in view of concerns raised. [6341/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Expenditure Programme (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, following the midterm review of the capital plan, a construction project (details supplied) will be brought forward; and if so, the timeframe for same. [6379/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 299. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding an application for the funding of a youth project (details supplied). [6228/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I welcome the Minister to the committee this morning. The document he has brought before us was expected. I listened to the Minister in a television interview after Christmas following an admittedly tragic period of a major number of road accidents and fatalities. It is like what we had yesterday with regard to the hospitals. Is this throwing good money after bad to fix a problem? Is it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I am talking about the image being portrayed of the few locals in the pub and the people who come back from America. They love to meet these people and have a drink with them and talk with them. These people will not be there anymore; there will be no one in the pub. These people will just come in for the one pint or two pints and we are driving them out of existence. It has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Do we have facts on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I will follow up on the questions about the alcohol limit, being disqualified with a blood alcohol concentration of between 50 mg and 80 mg and breathalyser testing. Is the Minister not aware of the impact the morning afterwards? Many law abiding citizens go home at night on time in the hope that they are okay for driving the following morning. Often, they can get caught out. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Yes. We are disqualifying people. The Minister is saying that the three-point penalty has not been effective enough. What about people who travel to work the morning after a night out, when they went home early and did not drive to do so, and feel that they are now good enough to drive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: This relates to the Chairman's question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: The Deputy will do her best.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I welcome the witnesses and hope that they have a good working relationship with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross. The Minister and Ms Murdock have both given the committee substantial documents which are full of statistics. I want to raise the issue of the condition of our roads because there is no mention of it in the aforementioned documents. I have...