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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (30 Jun 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 739. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting list figures for counties Longford and Westmeath by testing centre and number of persons awaiting driver tests in tabular form. [13584/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (30 Jun 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 740. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional resources which will be put in place in counties Longford and Westmeath to reduce the backlog of persons waiting for their driver tests [13585/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (30 Jun 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 741. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional campaigns and resources that will be made available to Fáilte Ireland to encourage tourism and staycations in Ireland’s Ancient East and Hidden Heartlands regions for the remainder of 2020. [13599/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (30 Jun 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 860. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a group (details supplied) had its community employment scheme workers removed. [13592/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 873. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional resources which will be provided to Westmeath County Council to reimburse it for the direct and extraordinary costs incurred relating to Covid-19 emergency measures such as purchasing of information and communications technology equipment to facilitate staff working from home, costs associated with testing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 874. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional resources which will be provided to Longford County Council to reimburse it for the direct and extraordinary costs incurred relating to Covid-19 emergency measures such as purchasing of information and communications technology equipment to facilitate staff working from home, costs associated with testing...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Arts and Entertainment Sector (30 Jun 2020)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chairman for his patience. I am sure it is the first time for some of our guests to appear before an Oireachtas committee. It is my first time to sit on a committee. We are all finding our feet. I have received submissions that highlight the harrowing reality facing our arts and entertainment industry. Funding for the Abbey Theatre has not yet returned to pre-2008 levels....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: That would be perfect. I thank the Chairman. I refer to the question from my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, on VAT. None of the witnesses had the opportunity to address the question but perhaps they might do so now.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: That is grand. I have some questions for Ms Banotti and Mr. Kelly. It is wonderful to see Creative Ireland represented at the committee. A number of people involved in the arts, entertainment, culture and heritage in my constituency, which is Longford and Westmeath, have raised concerns about the threat to the arts and entertainment sector. If there is a loss of skills in that sector, will...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Ms Banotti. I have some questions for Mr. Kelly relating to tourism, and I will be somewhat parochial. My constituency of Longford and Westmeath is somewhere between Ireland's Ancient East programme and the Hidden Heartlands. Specifically, in 2017, and I am referring to Fáilte Ireland's own figures, the midlands, which would include Laois and Offaly, there were 218,000...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: How does it compare to what Italy is doing to promote Venice? Can we learn anything from that in case we need a second round of "Ireland, make a break for it" or something like it?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: Google is the Chairman's friend.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: I can appreciate that. What about additional advertising and marketing for the Hidden Heartlands programme?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: What about the interest rate on working capital loans?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will review the business restart grant to remove the barrier to small business in circumstances in which the qualification is linked to rateable premises in view of the number of businesses that operate, provide services and maintain and generate employment in the smaller towns and villages. [14481/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (7 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the centres of cultural significance in counties Longford and Westmeath that have low-level internet access, thereby affecting their ability to create an online footprint to advertise events and attract tourists. [14478/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (7 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the spend allocated and envisaged for the upgrading of the N4 from Mullingar to Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14489/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (7 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the stage the upgrading of the N4 from Mullingar to Longford is funded to; the date it is contracted to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14490/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (7 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there was a cost-benefit analysis undertaken on the upgrading of the N4 from Mullingar to Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14491/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (7 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be no additional tolls placed along the proposed upgrade of the N4 from Mullingar to Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14492/20]