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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects Funding (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 225. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which the various programmes operated by his Department can be accessed by community and rural groups throughout north County Kildare; the extent to which applications have been facilitated in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3381/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects Funding (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 226. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he expects County Kildare to benefit from the rural and community development schemes available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3382/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Comhairle na Tuaithe (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role of Comhairle na Tuaithe going forward as envisaged by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3383/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Enhancement Programme (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 228. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the success or otherwise of the community enhancement programme; the expenditure on this programme in 2018; the allocation for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3384/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 229. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his views on the success to date of the operation of the dormant accounts programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3385/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Agencies Funding (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 230. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role of Pobal in the allocation of funding for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3386/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dog Breeding Industry (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 232. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to review and update the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3388/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charities Regulation (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 233. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to amend the Charities Act 2009 and regulations thereunder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3389/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Initiatives (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 234. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which his Department continues to interact with urban and rural communities with a view to identifying ways by which positive interaction can take place with particular reference to urban and rural isolation and its effect on communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3390/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if clarification will be provided in relation to the responses to Parliamentary Question Nos. 187 and 188 of 15 November 2018 (details supplied). [3283/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the ambassador to our meeting and wish her well during the Romanian Presidency. I have no doubt she will do a good job. Notwithstanding the fact, her country comes into the Presidency at a very trying time. Her Excellency Mrs. Breazu was at our centenary celebrations over the past number of days. It is amazing to ponder how things have changed over the past 100 years. In some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: When I first became aware of this projected cost overrun, I immediately thought that someone had decided that the project was too expensive and should stop. In whose interest would that be, by the way? Knowing how the system works and how rumours extend within Departments and structures such as the HSE, what was the immediate knock-on effect when the overrun was identified in 2017? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: The figure was €61 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Did that increase the cost from €660 million or €880 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Yes, but there are-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: -----so many constituent bodies within that figure that it is virtually impossible for an outsider to determine-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: -----where the dogs have buried the bones. What I am trying to do is simplify the matter. There have been a multiplicity of boards and people with various responsibilities. Although I presume they were all interlinked and there was a constant updating between one and the other, I am not so sure about that. A monthly reporting system would not be sufficient to keep everyone abreast of what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: That was not the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: My question is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: What question did I ask?