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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: This is not the "Late Late Show".

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 33. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding allocated by his Department for current and capital expenditure in 2018 including the capital carry-over from 2017; the amount spent under each category to date in 2018; his plans to ensure full expenditure of funds available by the end of 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52192/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: Let battle commence. I am trying to get my head around the funding model of the Minister's Department and the constant underspend in capital. I know it is drawdown but the fact is there is still 30% of the budget unspent after 11 months of the year. What are the Minister's plans to deal with that and to ease the system whereby money is drawn down from his Department?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his good wishes. Both of us share an interest in and a passion for this area and I look forward to working with him. There is €21 million in capital to be spent between now and the end of the year in three weeks' time, and €8.6 million in current expenditure. Is the Minister confident that he will spend that €21 million, particularly in...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: I am very proud of the Department as well. I am very proud of the fact that my party proposed that it be established. I am delighted we gave the Minister a job. I am proud, too, of the fact that it is in Ballina. That is an example of how decentralisation works. The people who are on the ground, top class civil servants, who are living these programmes are delivering them. Long may it...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: LEADER Programmes Administration (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 35. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made to date with the roll-out of the LEADER programme 2014 to 2020; the expenditure incurred to date on the programme by administrative, animation and project costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52193/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: LEADER Programmes Administration (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: The LEADER programme continues to be behind budget. The Minister referred to it in the reply to my previous question. He made some changes when he took office. I ask for an update on expenditure on the programme.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: LEADER Programmes Administration (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his reply. A total of €11 million has been spent out of €250 million and we are now in year five of a programme that runs from 2014 to 2020. Only €11 million has actually been spent on projects to date. Even if we were to add the €23.4 million to that total it only brings the spend up to approximately €35 million. There is still...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: LEADER Programmes Administration (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: While there has been some progress in 2018, the Department has still only spent 50% of what was allocated for LEADER this year. That suggests that the Department is not yet up to speed in terms of getting the budgeted amounts out. Is the Department looking at any of the structures involved? Are there LEADER companies or local authorities that are not performing at the level required? Has...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 46. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress on the pilot scheme to encourage residential occupancy in rural towns and villages as committed to under the Action Plan for Rural Development. [51865/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Mobile Telephony Services (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 52. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timeline for the release of information on the mobile coverage blackspots pilot project to encompass all 31 local authority areas expanded in March 2018; if a map of blackspots will be made available; the actions he will take to address these blackspots; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51866/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Enterprise Sector (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 63. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of progress towards completing the development of a national policy on social enterprise following the announcement in September 2017; the month in which the policy will be completed and published in 2018; and the number of stakeholders consulted to date. [51867/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 65. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount allocated by current and capital expenditure to date in 2018 to schemes (details supplied); and the amount expended on each such scheme to date in tabular form. [51868/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (11 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 70. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications made under the rural regeneration and development fund; the number of applications granted funding; the funding approved in Budget 2019 for the scheme in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51869/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (12 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 241. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current and capital funding allocated for each scheme and programme in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 under his Department and bodies under the remit of his Department; and the amount expended in each such year to date in 2018 for each scheme, in tabular form. [52396/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Budgets (12 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 242. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he has sought permission from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to carry over unspent capital to 2019; if so, the amount sought as a carryover; the reason this was necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52397/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Budgets (12 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has sought permission from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to carry over unspent capital to 2019; if so, the amount sought as a carryover; the reason this was necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52398/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Budgets (12 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of capital allocated to her Department in 2018; the amount spent to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52399/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Budgets (12 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: 271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current and capital funding allocated for each scheme and programme in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 under her Department or the bodies under the remit of her Department; and the amount expended in each such year to date in 2018 for each scheme in tabular form. [52400/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Dara Calleary: The internal battles of the Tory party are not a matter for this House, thank God, but the stability of the British Government and the British economy is. We are all aware of the potential economic and social impact of Brexit. The staggeringly high stakes do not appear to bother many in the British political system. When one reflects on yesterday's events Shakespeare's "...day of sound and...