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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Remit (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 254. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the creation of local enterprise strategies by each of the local enterprise offices for its corresponding areas; if there are specific timeframes in which strategies must be prepared; if such strategies will include public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27344/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Establishment (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 255. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the possibility of opening outreach or sub-offices of the local enterprise offices particularly in larger counties, including in Clifden in County Galway; if there is scope to involve the local development companies in such a policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27346/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 314. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the contract for provision of social welfare payments was awarded to An Post; the duration of this contract; if there is an option to renew; if there is any legislation before the Houses of the Oireachtas that would alter this contract in any way; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27341/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 315. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the ways in which a person with a jobseeker's claim can contact her Department if that person has secured very temporary employment; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who secure temporary employment are experiencing difficulties in informing her Department in order that the jobseeker's claim may be suspended; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Appeals (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 330. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a decision has been made on an appeal against the boundaries of a special protection area in Inishbofin Island, County Galway; if so, the results of the appeal; and if not, when a decision is expected. [27324/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 341. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the numbers and locations of post offices that closed in each of the years between 2005 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27330/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Island Communities (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 411. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans, under additional funding for islands, to help farmers with privately owned Islands with the cost of transporting stock and equipment from the mainland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26724/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to farmers who volunteer lands to county councils for greenways, in terms of retaining the use of this land in calculating areas for entitlements and disadvantaged area payments as there are at present no compensatory payments being made to the farmers for this public good; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the proposed GLAS scheme, if his Department will provide farmers and/or planners with lists of farmers who have declared shares on any given commonage to make it possible to prepare plans. [27209/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the proposed GLAS scheme, the status of the maximum minimum commonage figures published in 2012 by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if these will be used in the preparation of rural environment protection scheme plans. [27215/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the proposed GLAS scheme, the level of training and support that will be provided to the process by the National Parks and Wildlife Services and his Department; and when ecologists and agriculturalists will be selected and trained to do this work. [27217/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the proposed GLAS scheme, the structures that will be put in place to ensure that sustainable commonage management plans reach a common standard across the country. [27218/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the proposed GLAS scheme, the reason the RDP leaves the issue of funding the costs of preparing GLAS plans to be borne by farmers alone when it could be funded/part funded directly by his Department under the knowledge transfer or collaborative support measures. [27219/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the proposed GLAS scheme his views on the process of getting agreement of 50% or 80% of active commonage shareholders in the preparation of a GLAS plan; the way a planner would be selected in view of the fact that many individual farmers have used different planners over the years. [27221/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 544. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the national cancer care guidelines regarding a 12 week period of referrals for routine cases; and if such a waiting time for an 18 year old with a lump on her breast is too long, in view of the stress such a wait would cause to a girl so young. [26725/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Outcome of the European Elections: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Chairman. I welcome both witnesses to the discussion on the European Parliament elections and its broader history. On the turnout issue, Ireland would have had a reduction in turnout. When Ireland became a member of the EEC, as it was then, the whole concept of direct elections was coming into being and there would have been a new process for all the countries involved. In...

Other Questions: Primary Care Centre Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: 10. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the progress in establishing new health centres at two locations in County Galway (details supplied) in recognition of the critical nature of the health facilities for the communities; whether the provision of the health facility is a matter for his Department and the Health Service Executive rather than any other Department; and if he will make a...

Other Questions: Primary Care Centre Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: The question relates to the plans for replacement of a health centre on Inisbofin Island and the plans for Corrandulla health centre.

Other Questions: Primary Care Centre Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I commend the Government on the ongoing work and on the number of primary care centres that have opened, including those recently opened in Athenry and Loughrea in Galway. There is no update on the two projects that I mentioned. I spoke to the Minister of State before regarding Inisbofin. There was back-and-forth between the Department of...

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Seán Kyne: I welcome this debate on an important part of our agriculture sector and our economy. A total of 78,000 farmers are engaged in beef production. While I welcome the motion, the Opposition has offered few solutions. There is grave concern about beef prices in the farming and rural communities. Given what has happened over the past number of months and what might happen in the autumn,...