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Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2018)

Declan Breathnach: Ask the people what they want.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Declan Breathnach: 38. To ask the Minister for Health the reason CHO 8 was 51,000 home support hours behind target in the first quarter of 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28226/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to say a few words. I have watched this document with interest and I have come today to support what Deputy MacSharry has said, the principle of the concept. There are too many in the squeezed middle we often talk about who are not in a position to educate their family. The struggle of families who do not get SUSI grants and must provide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I am not a member of this committee but it would certainly be something good for the budgetary oversight committee to get its teeth into in terms of costing it independently.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Laundering (3 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional measures will be introduced to deal with the problem of fuel smuggling and trading in illicit diesel products; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this illegal activity is responsible for an increase in the number of intermediate bulk containers of sludge being dumped in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Laundering (3 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: 434. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual cost related to the clean-up and restoration process due to fuel laundering by local authority in 2016, 2017 and 2018, in tabular form; if his attention has been drawn to an increase in this illegal activity in 2018 in County Louth; the measures which will be taken to assist in the clean-up; and if he will...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I compliment the Irish Road Haulage Association under the stewardship of Ms Murphy both for her lobbying and her proactivity on behalf of truck drivers everywhere. I do not just refer to truck drivers in my constituency because, as a Border constituency, we know the dependency, in particular in the Cooley Peninsula area. We are all aware of the traditional issues that arose when the Border...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: What about fuel tourism?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: Fuel tourism results in losses to the Exchequer. Have those losses been quantified?

Other Questions: School Patronage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of communication with a person (details supplied) regarding the reopening of a school under a new patronage; if he has been in communication with Louth and Meath Education and Training Board, LMETB, which is willing to reopen the school by September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29234/18]

Other Questions: School Patronage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I acknowledge the Minister's interest in this sorry saga of Faughart national school in my constituency which has been closed since September owing to difficulties with leadership and management. Stalling, procrastination and dilly-dallying do not help the cause of parents, children and the community of Faughart in their wish to return the children to Faughart school. I ask the Minister to...

Other Questions: School Patronage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I welcome that a meeting is to take place. I spent 35 years teaching, 25 of them in a rural community. Anybody who lives in a rural community such as Faughart, of which there are many, will know the school is the focal point not just for teaching but for the community. Archbishop Eamon Martin outlined to the parents' association that he has no difficulty in principle with the proposal....

Other Questions: School Patronage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I am sure the Minister is well aware that in excess of 30 of the families involved have pre-enrolled with Louth and Meath ETB which has clearly indicated that it can have the school operational in September if the will is there. While I understand some of the archbishop's concerns, which may relate to the transfer of faith teaching or whatever, the management of LMETB has assured me that...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: Deputy, will you please address the Bill, not the Deputies?

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: It is the Heritage Bill 2016 now.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: Stick to the Bill.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: The Deputy's time is up. We are talking about the Heritage Bill 2016. The Minister to respond.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: There were a considerable number of questions. With the leave of the House, if more than seven minutes is required, we should allow the Minister.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: The Deputy has the Minister's attention.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Declan Breathnach: I have listened with considerable interest to the debate and I had not intended taking part in the Chamber, although I have contributed at parliamentary party level. None of us is an expert, although we can indicate that we are until the cows come home. I have had considerable experience of various environmental schemes, from REPS to GLAS, over the past 20 years. I have experience of their...