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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Care (25 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: I thank Senator Burke for raising this issue. An overarching principle of our health service is to provide patients with the most appropriate care and service in the most appropriate location provided by the appropriate health care professionals. Patients should not have to attend hospital unnecessarily, with all the added stresses and possible complications that such attendances involve....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: I thank Senator Byrne for raising this issue today and I am pleased to outline the Health Service Executive's position on the person concerned. I understand the person has a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome and suffers from associated anxiety. He was offered temporary use of a vacant HSE property, known as Caradas, in Drumconrath a number of years ago when he became homeless. Caradas was...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: I appreciate that the Senator did not want to raise this issue publicly. If he contacted the HSE or local authorities formally, a response is the least he should have received. If that did not happen, that is not acceptable. I suggest that he could sit down with local representatives from the HSE and the local authorities. It is a very sensitive case. I will convey the Senator's strong...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Improvement Schemes (25 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: Tá mé buíoch don Seanadóir as an ábhar seo a ardú inniu. Faoi na scéimeanna a bhíodh ag an Roinn go stairiúil, bhíodh deontais chaipitil ar fáil chun muiroibreacha sa Ghaeltacht a fhorbairt, chun bóithre sa Ghaeltacht a fheabhsú, agus chun áiseanna ar nós hallaí pobail, páirceanna imeartha agus áiseanna...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Improvement Schemes (25 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: Tá mé ar thaobh an Seanadóir maidir leis an gá atá an an pobal a choinneáil beo. Beidh gá mór ann fá choinne infheistíocht a mhealladh isteach sna ceantair Ghaeltachta. Mar a bhí an Seanadóir ag rá faoi na deiseanna a bhaineann le Slí an Atlantaigh Fhiáin, tá deiseanna móra ann agus beidh go leor...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéim na mBóithre (26 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: Mar is eol don Teachta, tá buiséad caipitil mo Roinne don Ghaeltacht laghdaithe le roinnt blianta anuas. Chomh maith leis sin, tá na scéimeanna faoina gcuirtí maoiniú ar fáil d'obair fheabhsúcháin ar bhóithre curtha ar fionraí. Sa chomhthéacs sin, níl sé beartaithe maoiniú a chur ar fáil d'Údarás na...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Disability Services Provision (31 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: I am advised that the provision of a facility and access for any proposed works would be a matter for the relevant Local Authority in the first instance, in this case Kerry County Council. I also understand that the Council may have purchased the adjoining lands and, in that regard, the issues as to whether fishing rights were part of the acquisition and what, if any, regulatory requirements...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Plean Teanga (31 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: Bunaíodh Uisce Éireann i mí an Mhárta 2013 faoin Acht um Sheirbhísí Uisce 2013 agus is fochuideachta chláraithe é faoi Bhord Gáis Éireann. Níl Uisce Éireann cuimsithe faoin Chéad Sceideal d’Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla i láthair na huaire. Tá an próiseas chun uasdátú a dhéanamh ar...

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: I have been provided with a script but I will not use it.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: I was as surprised as the Deputies to see copies of the letter. It is important to point out a working group has been established under the stewardship of Bobby Kerr. When I received a copy of the letter the first thing I did was go to the working group because it includes representatives from the Irish Postmasters Union and various stakeholders with an interest in pulling together a plan...

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: No one was more disappointed than I was when I saw the letter.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: Good work is being done by the working group. Its meetings are long and people are putting much time into it. Sometimes when something such as this happens, it helps to keep focus on an issue. I hope that happens by the Deputies raising the issue publicly and by me trying to be honest and upfront not just in not giving a standard reply for the sake of it-----

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: -----but as someone who lives in rural Ireland and who is from a parish where the lifeblood of the community on a Friday, or any other day of the week for that matter-----

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: -----is for people to come in to the post office. The post office network knows it will have to change with the times, and opportunities exist for banking in post offices. This is where the conversation is going.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: I will ensure the Deputies' observations, contributions and concerns are fed into the working group.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: I can ask.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Public Procurement Contracts (15 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: The TELLUS project is a geophysical and geochemical analysis of the soils of the island of Ireland. Initially the six counties of Northern Ireland were surveyed and under the INTERREG IVA programme the survey was extended to the six border counties in this jurisdiction. Additional funding has now been provided for the extension of the survey across a number of counties in the Midlands and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland (15 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: Matters in relation to accommodation are primarily a day to day operational matter for public bodies, in this instance Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI). As the Deputy will appreciate, accommodation and staffing are amongst the most significant cost components of public sector bodies and it is incumbent on all agencies to achieve economy and efficiency. In this context, the Board of IFI...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (15 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: At the outset, I can confirm that no exploration involving hydraulic fracking has been authorised in this jurisdiction. I can also confirm, as I have done on numerous occasions, that no decision will be made on any proposal for the use of hydraulic fracturing in exploration drilling as part of an unconventional gas exploration programme until there has been time to consider the outcome of...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Comharthaí Bóthair (15 Apr 2015)

Joe McHugh: Tá na logainmneacha Gaeltachta daingnithe san Ordú Logainmneacha (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) IR 872 de 2004. Faoi réir fhorálacha alt 33 d'Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiula 2003, níl aon fheidhm nó éifeacht ón 28 Márta 2005 leis an leagan Béarla de na logainmneacha seo ar chomhartha bóthair nó sráide arna chur suas ag údarás...