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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Activities (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I wish to ask the Minister if he has any proposed future plans for Coillte for the Killykeen Forest Park holiday village and if any offers have been made over the past five years to buy the facility. Perhaps the Minister could outline these proposals and if Coillte is planning any major investment at the site.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Activities (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: The Minister outlined some of the wonderful Coilite owned amenities across Cavan and Monaghan. When I say this, I am thinking of the Castle Lake and Forest in Bailieborough where local community groups, such as the Bailieborough Development Association and the Bailieborough Castle Lake Committee, today planted 2,000 hardwood trees to commemorate victims of the Troubles. Other amenities...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Activities (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: The Minister of State would have no problem getting in to stay there now.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Activities (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: The Minister of State should come to visit us again.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Activities (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: It was 2016.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Activities (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister of State. We must maximise the potential of the natural amenities and attraction that are on our doorstep. The Minister of State alluded to it and we can see what is happening in Ballymahon. The multi-million euro investment by Center Parcs there will create local employment and it has huge potential for counties such as Cavan and Monaghan. That template could be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Activities (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: It was ahead of its time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Activities (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: Bring it to Cavan.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Enterprises (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to address the numbers abandoning farming as a profession; his views on whether, if farming is not made attractive to young farmers, half of the countryside will be planted in forestry in ten years time with hundreds of jobs lost in the farming sector as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12193/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with a county council (details supplied) in view of the proposed withdrawal of the Derry/Dublin express bus. [12456/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 338. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the completion date of a consultation review (details supplied). [12458/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I do not have a question but I have been listening to the debate in my office and I feel very strongly about this issue. In my constituency of Cavan-Monaghan, we have a fabulous citizen advice centre. The model used includes the provision of a mobile office to local libraries and so on, which is very important. As public representatives, we rely on that very much and I was delighted to...

Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (21 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the implementation of the Fianna Fáil motion that was passed by Dáil Éireann regarding the North-South interconnector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13039/17]

Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (21 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I feel a sense of déjà vu, as I am sure the Minister does. During Question Time on 7 February, I appealed to him to withhold Government funding from the capital phase of the North-South interconnector project until such time as the impact of Brexit had been realised. Since then, the Houses passed Fianna Fáil motions calling for an independent expert analysis of the technical...

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Schemes (21 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I am very concerned about recent reports of cuts to community schemes such as the community employment scheme, Tús and the rural social scheme. The deadline for the rural social scheme in County Cavan is today and my office has been inundated with requests for application forms. They are being well utilised. One need only look around communities in the country to see the valuable work...

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Schemes (21 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister of State and I hope the commitment is there to strengthen and enhance the schemes and that there will be no reduction in them. I am being honest when I state rural constituencies such as Cavan-Monaghan have not seen the economic recovery about which we hear so much talk in the Chamber. It really has been the more urban areas which have been affected by it. Rural areas...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the implementation of the mobile phone coverage audit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13040/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insurance Fraud (21 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the establishment of a new fraud database as set out in the report of the cost of insurance working group and its 33 recommendations; if additional staff will be hired for this unit; the intended budget to be allocated; the way this information will be gathered and stored; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (21 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is legislation or rules on the number of bookmakers that can open in any town at the one time; the legislation there is on this issue at present; and his plans for new proposals in this area. [13761/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Extension (21 Mar 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the plan which he announced in budget 2017 to extend mortgage interest relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13124/17]