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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the contracts be extended?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will this programme and the allocations made run beyond 2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The contracts will go on. There will be an extension in the contracts. The current contracts expire in 2020. Is that not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can someone clarify that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My understanding is that the contracts are until 2020.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a few other questions on the other programmes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to ask another question under programme B.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I meant programme A, the other one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It relates to the broadband task force. It is not only broadband. It refers to mobile telephones as well. The Minister will know that there are many areas in Mayo where there is no mobile telephone coverage. Can the Department play any role in that? I am not simply talking about remote rural areas. I am talking about within the Castlebar circle too. There are estates where people have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to raise the issue of the local improvement scheme, LIS. It would be remiss of me not to say there are 500 roads in Mayo waiting to be done under the LIS and that number will increase every year. While I understand the difficulties, one of the causes was the severe cut to the number of outdoor council staff. I would be bitterly disappointed if Mayo was to hand back any of the money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is for the LIS. The Minister said €10 million was allocated for this year and only €5.6 million has been spent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Absolutely. That is why they never should have been turned into development companies.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (5 Mar 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the crisis regarding insurance for special schools (details supplied) in which insurance is no longer available under their patron body; and the measures being taken to ensure these schools can remain open after the deadline of 31 March 2020. [3359/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (5 Mar 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 698. To ask the Minister for Health the situation at a nursing home (details supplied); the number of staff vacancies at the home; the duration of the vacancies; the duration of the contracts offered in the recruitment process; the number of vacant beds; the date the last patient; was admitted; and when full day care services will be reinstated to four or five days per week. [3353/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (5 Mar 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 699. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the provision of the primary care centre scheduled for Bangor Erris, County Mayo; and the timeline for delivery of same. [3354/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Expenditure (5 Mar 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 700. To ask the Minister for Health if the two general medical services, GMS, allowances will remain in place to enable the Bangor Erris, Glenamoy and Geesala clinics to remain open with two full-time nurses and two full-time secretaries in Bangor and Glenamoy as is the case; and if his attention has been drawn to the savings made by reducing to one general practitioner covering the area from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (5 Mar 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 701. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the Valproate Project Response report; when it will be published (details supplied); if an independent inquiry will be established to examine the matter; if his attention has been further drawn to the French compensation scheme for persons affected by foetal anti-convulsant syndrome and a UK report due to be published on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies Property (5 Mar 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the lands and buildings, excluding local authority houses, owned by public bodies in County Mayo. [3358/20]

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As we work our way out of the turmoil of this pandemic, the entire EU project faces an extraordinary test. There are opportunities, however, not only to address the democratic deficit that contributed to Brexit but also to reshape many aspects of our society and of the whole of our island. The EU has a major and crucial role to play in this transition, and the EU financial support package,...

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the Government concerned about the high interest rates to be charged by the Irish banks to distribute the EU financial package? Has it quantified the projected amount that is going to be made by financial institutions in delivering the Covid-19 package? The reason I ask is that the European Central Bank rates today are the lowest ever on record. Deposit rates are minus 0.5% and...