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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 429. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or officials in his Department met or corresponded with a company and or persons (details supplied) in the context of an aspect of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41189/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 430. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the context to his meeting in New York with a person (details supplied); the number of officials that attended the meeting with him; the reason the meeting was convened; the venue of the meeting; the persons that arranged the meeting; if minutes were taken of the meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 436. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a member of the NBP tender evaluation team in his Department accompanied him to a meeting with a person (details supplied) in New York in July 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41247/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Administration (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 431. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all expressions of interest in relation to the national broadband plan that did not submit a final bid in the tender process will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41199/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Official Engagements (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 432. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a copy of his ministerial diary for the June, July, August and to month end September 2018 and a schedule of all meetings he has had during that time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41201/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Administration (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 437. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a process of due diligence on all companies (details supplied) that are part of the consortium bidding for the national broadband plan will be conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41248/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications Data (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the delays in the issuance of carer's benefit following a first application, in terms of days and weeks; the number of applicants awaiting the processing of a claim for carer's benefit; the number of days and weeks from application to award; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40611/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for carer's benefit will be assessed in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40612/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assessments of resources are conducted in her Department in respect of staffing in order to adequately cover telephone inquiries, administrative workflows and volumes; if the areas in which resource gaps and deficiencies in service exist have been assessed; the way in which these impact on processing applications...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a ministerial order under section 160 that an environmental impact assessment which would be mandatory under the codified EIA Directive 2011/92/EU is not required in view of the European Court of Justice judgment in Case C-215/06 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40737/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an instance of water contamination below ground level in an area (details supplied); if the mater has been investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40752/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 627 of 2 October 2018, the schedule of the quarterly meetings with Wicklow, Kildare, Meath and all Dublin local authorities since the beginning of 2018 and those planned until the end of 2019; the schedule of each project discussed at each of those quarterly meetings; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 627 of 2 October 2018, the reason a single stage process was not used for this project in view of the fact that it falls under both thresholds in the criteria, under €2 million and less than 15 units; if a cost-benefit analysis and tender process was undertaken for the project...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (10 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 227. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some children are being denied a second ECCE year in the scheme that was expanded to two years from September 2018, and due to implemented changes in that extension of the scheme a full calendar year is assessed in the child's birth year as opposed to a quarterly assessment approach...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his contingency plans both short and long-term in the context of a Brexit both with and without a backstop in view of well established and highly integrated Ireland and UK supply chains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41575/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: This questions relates to contingency planning for Brexit, with or without a backstop. The agrifood sector is exposed to risks and geography plays a part in the fresh food industry. Will the Minister give an indication of the scenario where there is a deal and of the scenario in which we will rely on the backstop?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The short-term impacts for some, particularly smaller producers, will be on their survival and the flexibility of a loan scheme will be important. The smaller the producer, the less expertise they will have available to them. It will probably be about keeping the show on the road for small niche producers. The requirement for proximity to the market for fresh food producers means there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What are the stakeholder meetings telling the Minister about the flexibility of the loan scheme? Is he listening to the stakeholders? Is he taking initiatives to change the nature of the scheme? Hand holding is fine to point people in directions but it may well be that systems are required to link suppliers as opposed to individuals trying to get a loan through the loan scheme and trying...

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I sought this debate on Monday morning and it is a very different debate now, as others have said, from the one I anticipated. Nobody from the Opposition sought the resignation of the Minister, Deputy Naughten. Like others, I came here with a list of questions, and they will remain irrespective of who is the Minister. The process is central to what we are trying to unpick. We must be...

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: On a personal level this is obviously a difficult day for Deputy Naughten and his family. He did not have any option but to resign given the information that we now have. I question the Peter Smyth report process and what exactly Mr. Smyth will examine. I echo the point made by Deputy Harty. I cannot make any sense of the consortium that has been in place since July. It raises obvious...