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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: We will discuss that matter in private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: I see no reason not to visit, but we should first have our discussion and get agreement in private session. I am also in favour of visiting.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plean Forbartha Náisiúnta (21 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth nach bhfuil a Roinn ag caitheamh ach 15% dá caiteachas caipitil ar an nGaeltacht agus na hOiléan sa Phlean Forbartha Náisiúnta i comparáid leis an bplean náisiúnta a bhí ann roimhe seo, Transforming Ireland ina raibh 22% den chaiteachas caipitil geallta don Ghaeltacht....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (21 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason she does not have a detailed national music strategy. [27052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (21 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 49. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht ós rud é gurbh é mí Iúil na bliana seo caite an chéad sprioc a luadh leis an bPlean Gníomhaíochta Cúig Bliana don Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge, an bhfuil náire uirthi go raibh moill bliana lena fhoilsiú agus an bhfuil aon athruithe curtha i bhfeidhm aici chun a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (21 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason her Department and the national monuments service, NMS, have not protected the togher in Mayne Bog, County Westmeath since its discovery in 2005 in view of new structures identified in 2017 by contracted archaeologists (details supplied). [27056/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT paid in relation to concerts performed by foreign resident music artists here in each of the past five years; and the rate of VAT that they pay. [27837/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Properties (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the use of land at a location (details supplied). [27913/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 310. To ask the Minister for Health the future of a centre (details supplied) in County Meath; and if the centre will be properly funded. [27419/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Job Creation (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 611. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of her plans to help create high-skilled quality jobs in the Gaeltacht of Baile Ghib, County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27725/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Industrial Development (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 612. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the local community’s concerns in the Gaeltacht of Baile Ghib regarding the proposed location of a plastic melting facility in an Údarás na Gaeltachta premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27726/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Industrial Development (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 613. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Údarás na Gaeltachta did not send a representative to a public meeting in the Gaeltacht of Baile Ghib to address the local community’s concerns regarding pollution, health and planning over a proposed plastic melting facility in an Údarás na Gaeltachta...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Industrial Development (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 614. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of grant aid given to a company (details supplied) by Údarás na Gaeltachta; the number of jobs the company created; the length of time the company remained in the Baile Ghib Gaeltacht; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27728/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 615. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the minute silence to commemorate the Great Irish Famine, which took place on the Friday prior to the National Famine commemoration day and which was observed by national schools and sporting bodies, is no longer being requested by her; and her plans to reinstate same. [27773/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (26 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 616. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when international famine memorial day will be held in 2018; and the location of same. [27774/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (27 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a suspected mass Famine grave behind a location (details supplied); her plans to ascertain whether it is in fact a mass grave; and if, in the event it is found to be a mass grave, her plans to ensure that its location is marked appropriately. [28216/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Toghcháin d'Údarás na Gaeltachta (27 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 275. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht céard iad na socraithe a bhí i bhfeidhm don toghchán deireanach le haghaidh Údarás na Gaeltachta in 2005 ó thaobh ionaid chomhairimh, foireann toghcháin agus ábhar breise a bhaineann leis na toghcháin sin, ar nós páipéir bhallóide; agus cén costas a bhí...

Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: There are 3,826 children homeless in this country. Between April 2017 and April of this year, the numbers of children homelessness increased by about 50%. That is the single biggest increase in child homelessness on record in the State. As my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, stated, these figures are an underestimate of the true numbers of children living in homelessness as they do not...

Topical Issue Debate: Enterprise Support Services Expenditure (28 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Meath is a great county. It is well located and has good land. Its people are well educated, industrious, creative and conscientious. While it is a given that every Member will regularly come into this Chamber and claim that his or her county needs further funding, this is not a typical Member's whinge. Meath is unique in that it is an outlier when it comes to State funding and investment....

Topical Issue Debate: Enterprise Support Services Expenditure (28 Jun 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Again, the Minister of State lumped Meath in with that mid-east region. I identified in my first contribution that there are radical inequalities even within that mid-east region. The second thing the Minister of State did was what his Government does regularly, namely, when we show a systematic problem, a Minister points to the exceptions that prove the rule. Of course there are...