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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: There are still a fair few of them outstanding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna: Chairperson Designate (28 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome Mr. Meagher to his new role. I crossed swords with him previously when he was the chief financial officer in Glanbia for which he was an excellent operator. He had a great grasp of the dairy industry and I am sure he will be of great benefit to Bord na Móna and its mission statement. With regard to that mission statement, Bord na Móna was established to create jobs in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna: Chairperson Designate (28 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I accept that he is new to his position, but it is important that he know what our views are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna: Chairperson Designate (28 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: We can produce significant quantities of biomass in this country, but it must be economically viable to do so. That is where the focus must be. The agriculture sector has the potential to produce biomass. The stocking rate in this country is only 50% of what is permitted under the EU regulation for nitrates; therefore, there is huge potential in the sector to produce biomass which could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna: Chairperson Designate (28 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: What is the status of the hydro plant in Silvermines?

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: The Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017 will enact the public service stability agreement that has been reached between the Government and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. The question of how the Government will deal with the fact that three teaching unions - the ASTI, the TUI and the INTO - have yet to ratify the agreement is a serious one. This outstanding issue is a cause for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (29 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the reason correspondence coming from Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel to persons has on its letterhead Our Lady's Campus, Cashel rather than Our Lady' Hospital, Cashel; if this is part of a downgrading of Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50761/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in County Tipperary as of 1 November 2017; the number of community gardaí in the division; and the number of Garda Reserve and new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014. [51670/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to revisit a penalty imposed on a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51557/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale of appointing a primary school board of management as the main contractor in a Department-funded school refurbishment project and the successful tender company as the subcontractor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51553/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request a Department engineer or inspector to engage with the principal and board of management of a school (details supplied) in relation to an over run in the cost of refurbishment at the school of €16,500 approximately; and if his Department will engage with the contractor in view of the fact that it should be outside the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to revisit a penalty imposed on a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51555/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the control of below cost selling of beer and spirits in the off licence and supermarket trade in efforts to change in the culture of binge drinking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51542/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 431. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the approximate cost to Bord na Móna for the closure of the Littleton plant in County Tipperary excluding redundancy payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51791/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 432. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected cost to Bord na Móna specifically for the winding down and decommissioning of the physical plant and machinery at the Littleton, County Tipperary, plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51792/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (5 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 433. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons who will be employed and the length of time they will have been employed for at the Bord na Móna plant in Littleton, County Tipperary, after the formal closure of the plant to render the plant fully unproductive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51793/17]

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Fianna Fáil supports this proposal. The horse and greyhound racing sectors are two industries of which we in this country can justifiably be proud. The funding allocated to them is some of the best money spent by the Exchequer. In 2016 the two industries contributed €50 million in betting taxation, which represented an increase of some €20 million in the wake of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Tipperary Jigsaw project which was offered support in the past 12 months by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52144/17]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I am sharing time with Deputy Eugene Murphy. I have listened to the statistics given by Members on the Government benches but, as a former Taoiseach once said, one can prove anything one likes with statistics. The Government just does not understand how rural Ireland operates or the damage it is going to do to rural Ireland. No one condones drunk driving and I will not stand in this...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Nor in Tipperary.