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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (4 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 159. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if progress has been made in the provision and planning for the 383,000 young persons served by the non-formal or youth work sector to access the arts (details supplied); the stakeholders her Department is in dialogue with in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21300/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (4 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 160. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the implications of her plan to fast track the implementation of the Arts in Education Charter; if this will impact on provision for 383,000 young persons, many of whom are young persons with fewer opportunities involved in the non-formal and youth work sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21301/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (9 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to assist a person (details supplied) living here to renew their passport. [22032/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Funding (9 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the academic library tender, which is due for renewal in July 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21991/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (9 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the refurbishment works on a school at a location (details supplied); when this building will be available for use by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21915/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Museum (9 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 339. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has a written oversight arrangement with the National Museum of Ireland as per the code of practice for the governance of State bodies published in 2016; and if so, if she will make a copy of this available. [21508/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Museum (9 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 340. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which roles and responsibilities are delineated between the National Museum of Ireland and her Department in order that effective accountability is possible only with clearly defined roles and responsibilities between her Department and State bodies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21509/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Museum (9 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 341. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which the National Museum of Ireland operates as an autonomous body as set out in the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997; the detail of this autonomy in view of the fact the museum is being funded primarily by State funds and its board is comprised of ministerial appointees; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Vehicles (9 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 643. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce electric, hybrid and biogas buses into each of the State bus companies; his plans to introduce electric, hybrid and biogas buses into the private bus fleets; his plans to introduce electric, hybrid and biogas taxis into the State; if he will he use quota systems to achieve these objectives; the expected start...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Zero energy government.

Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: In 1862, the Dublin-to-Meath railway line was constructed comprising a branch from Clonsilla to Navan. One hundred years later, Córas Iompair Éireann closed and lifted the line. There is only one functioning line into the middle of the county, that is, the Drogheda to Tara Mines line. Tara Mines is one of the few freight lines operating in the country at present and it takes...

Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: With due respect, the Minister will not even be happy with the answer provided because the first third of it was a civil servant's potted history of the rail line itself. I welcome robust analysis. No project should ever happen in the Department without robust analysis, but how is this for robust analysis? Meath has roughly the same population as Kildare, a higher population than Wicklow...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The greater Dublin area is being choked by a troika of policy failures. First, we have lopsided, rudderless spatial development, which is over-concentrating economic and population activity in Dublin and at the same time gutting regional Ireland. For example, more people leave County Meath every day to work than actually work in the county. No other county in the country has that...

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Today, a few dozen miles from where we are, in towns like Newry, Armagh and Enniskillen, Irish people democratically determined in the recent Brexit referendum to remain in the EU but not much has changed for these Irish people in the past 100 years. The self-determination of Irish people in Northern Ireland is being ignored and discarded by London, as it was in Dublin 100 years ago....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 176. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the monitoring committee of the Action Plan for Rural Development has been set up; when the group will meet; the persons appointed to the group; if the monitoring process for the action plan has begun; the priority actions and milestones that have been identified for the first six-month segment as outlined in the action plan...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: North-South Interconnector (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the tender process will be complete for the contracting of international experts to investigate the costs of undergrounding the North-South interconnector versus the overheading of same; when the experts will be in place; when the investigation will be complete; and if he envisages a postponement or delay in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: We now have the required forum of four Members, including one Teachta Dála and one Seanadóir, and we will commence the meeting. I wish to advise Members to turn off their mobile phones as they will interfere with the sound and may have the effect of hiding their mellifluous voices when they start to speak. I have not received any apologies as of yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Fishermen from Killybegs contacted the committee in the last number of days concerning a meeting that was held here previously to discuss what it takes to sustain rural communities. They indicated, along with the Irish fish producers, that they felt that there was an imbalance with regard to the witnesses that were present at that meeting. It is important to say that groups from both the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I am sorry I was obliged to leave but I had to speak in the Dáil. I have read through some of the notes that were sent in advance. I might have missed some of the questions or I might repeat some of them. One of the key issues is if Britain leaves the Single Market and the customs union, which is very likely, it is impossible to see a situation where there will not be some level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Does anyone else want to offer an opinion on that?