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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 May 2017)

Michael Ring: 483. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and the reason no response has issued from the HSE in this regard. [25803/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (31 May 2017)

Michael Ring: 245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a 2016 GLAS payment; when payment will be received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26156/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Dormant Accounts Fund Administration (1 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: A call for proposals under the Social Enterprise measure of the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursement Scheme was issued on 8 February 2017. This measure will support social enterprises that provide services to, or employment opportunities for, disadvantaged people, particularly in rural areas. The closing date for applications under the measure was 15 March 2017. I can confirm that an...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: It would not be big in Mayo.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: I will deal with that.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: Just like the Deputy ran away from Fianna Fáil.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: Go away out of that. The Deputy would be over here if he got the chance.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: He would love to come over here.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: We should hear the truth. He would come over here if he got the chance.

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: I thank the Deputy for his good wishes which I appreciate. He held this brief for many years and I am delighted to be back in charge of it. I am pleased and honoured to serve in government. I am looking forward to working with the Deputy and I am sure we will have many battles on many issues in the coming years. The action plan for rural development is one of the most significant...

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: The Deputy referred to not having taken any action. The first action I took when I took office was simple. When the Deputy was Minister, he had the CLÁR programme up and running, but it was closed in 2009. I reopened it. That is one real action which has helped rural communities throughout the country. The programme has worked well and many rural schemes have benefited from it. ...

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: There is substantial funding for the scheme this year. The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has the Action Plan for Jobs which has produced results. A total of 80% of the jobs created last year are in rural Ireland. I am a newly appointed Minister. I have to set up a new Department which, as the Deputy will be aware, takes time. I also have to get a Secretary General in...

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: Correct.

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: The Deputy is correct that we paid local authorities upfront last December. To be fair to them, contracts have to be entered into under the rural economic development zones, REDZ, programme and the town and village scheme, but there has been a substantial improvement in the figures the Deputy received last February. I will provide further information for him through an update on the amount...

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: I would like the local authorities to spend that money. I would also like more of the funding under the CLÁR, REDZ and Leader programmes and the rural recreation and other schemes to be spent. I will ring county managers this week to make sure that is happening, but there has been a major improvement in the spend in the past few months. They got that money in December and have been...

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: On a point of order, the Minister of State with responsibility, Deputy Joe McHugh, is to come in to take these questions shortly. The Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, is sick. I am taking the rural and recreation questions and would appreciate it if I could take just those questions. I ask for the permission of the House to do so.

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: That is a very good question. There will be two separate Departments. A new, separate Department will be set up with its own Secretary General, a position which has to be advertised. It will be a full, brand new Department and I will only have responsibility for certain areas. I hope the Minister of State, Deputy Joe McHugh, will be here shortly to deal with the questions.

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: I have to honest and Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív knows this as he has been here long enough. I was given this role last week. Every other Minister walked into an old Department. This is the only new Department that is being set up. It is a new Department. We will have to get a new Secretary General and offices and get the Department up and running. At present, I am using the old...

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: If the House wants, I can take this question.

Priority Questions: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Ring: The Minister is committed to re-establishing the Oireachtas all-party consultation committee on commemorations. She intends to put in place the practical arrangements to reconstitute the group very shortly. In the period leading up to the 1916 centenary commemorations, the all-party consultation committee on commemorations was instrumental in promoting an open, consensus-based and honest...