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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (5 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Laois will be provided with adequate classroom accommodation for the school year starting September 2017. [16548/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a school building project (details supplied) in County Kildare. [16549/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (5 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if approval will be given to visually impaired voters to vote independently by secret ballot in view of the recent decision by the High Court on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16930/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (6 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the decision not to impose rent caps in County Laois and the remainder of County Kildare. [16818/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (6 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will release funding to employ more staff in the housing section of Laois and Kildare County Councils and release extra funding to expand their housing construction programmes. [16819/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure that the contracts for new community employment supervisors will be of the same duration as existing contracts; and if he will address the situation regarding job security for these supervisors. [17453/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 86. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans regarding gratuity payments for community employment supervisors that have no pension entitlements; and if his officials will engage with the trade unions on this matter. [17454/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 340. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the free travel pass for pensioners who have permanent residence here and are citizens but out of the State for a number of months each year on missionary duties. [17478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: 580. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a nursing home charging a person (details supplied) for a mattress. [17998/17]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I refer to the €15 million of the €20 million allocated in 2017 for the national broadband plan. Does the Minister consider the money to be adequate if the procurement process will be closed this year, as he said it would be? The earlier false dawns were not the fault of the Minister, but the programme for Government stated this was...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: It is good news that homes are being connected and there is a timeline for it. However, I still have concerns about the 300,000 homes to be connected. I will put the connection of the 750,000 homes in the following scenario. The Minister has 75 acres of land and he wants to sell them to me. However, in the meantime, he decides to sell off 30 of the best acres to Deputy Lowry, for example....

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the fact the online voucher scheme exists. We have sought an increase in the scheme in our pre-budget submission for the last number of years, so I am glad the Government and ourselves agree on that. It is certainly beneficial. I was surprised by the low take up. Did the Minister say there was a 50% shortfall in the take up?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: I know that it is a 50% grant. It is euro for euro.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: Can the Minister talk about the take up?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: Could I suggest that information on the changes be sent out to Oireachtas Members? We have a role in terms of encouraging the local authorities members to get the information out there.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: Perhaps I missed an announcement, but on the licence fee the concern is that one in seven people does not pay and so six out of seven are carrying it. There is huge concern, particularly for low and middle income households that there would be no increase in that fee and that the improvements would come by way of the €40 million that is not being collected. I do not know how accurate...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: On the SEAI funding, there has been a lot of retrofitting of houses built in the past 40 years. A problem has arisen in regard to some of the houses built between the 1950s and 2007. Many of these houses were never insulated and are difficult to insulate now, and many of the people living in them are experiencing fuel poverty. Are there plans to target these houses which are in dire need...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: Solid walls.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: There is an area in Laois where the pilot scheme could be run.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Brian Stanley: I note an increase of €2 million in the allocation for Inland Fisheries Ireland. A backlog of cases will occur following the change proposed in legislation due to be adopted. The new legislation will result in a large number of legal actions. Is the €2 million increase sufficient to deal with this backlog or does it even cover these cases? The Minister of State is correct...