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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (7 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 1064. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to install fast charge points for electric vehicles in towns throughout counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36830/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (7 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 1063. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he plans to implement to secure the post office network in view of its importance throughout the country with particular reference to the needs of rural communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36826/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Child Care Services (7 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 1366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if community childcare facilities are exempt from rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36235/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Child Care Services (7 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 1367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to exempt all childcare facilities from liability for rates in view of their role in the provision of preschool education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36236/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (7 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 1411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to increase the income eligibility limits for social housing in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36857/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (7 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 1408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reduce the 10% deposit required to avail of a local authority housing loan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36763/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (7 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 1412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to amend the conditions applicable to the tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36858/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (7 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 1413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be allocated in 2018 to Cavan County Council for house improvement schemes such as the housing adaptation scheme in view of the importance of these schemes, particularly for elderly persons and persons in ill-health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36869/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received the two independent reports on the proposed North-South interconnector; if so, when he plans to publish the reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37595/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to publish the two independent reports on the proposed North-South interconnector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37594/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: More than a year ago the Fianna Fáil Party introduced motions in this House and Seanad Éireann calling on the Government to commission independent studies of the technical feasibility and cost of undergrounding the North-South interconnector. It is welcome that following the motions the Minister has commissioned two studies. I understand the reports have been with him for some...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his detailed response. He has told me previously in response to numerous parliamentary questions that he expects to bring the report to the Government shortly or within a few weeks. That dates back some time. The Minister mentioned the people who had been given sight of the report. Has EirGrid had sight of it? Was it asked for comments or submissions on either...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: EirGrid has had sight of both reports.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: A very distinguished and reputable journalist, Michael Fisher, who does a lot of work for The Northern Standardnewspaper in Monaghan and is a former RTÉ correspondent, did a great public service in obtaining through freedom of information requests correspondence between the Minister's Department and EirGrid. Reading that correspondence over the summer months, one would think that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: We welcome that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: I anticipate some interesting discussions at the Cabinet table when the Minister presents those reports because his colleague, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, stated some time ago that one would expect civil disobedience if the project were to proceed on the basis of the transmission cables being overground. I was very surprised that the...

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: I refer to the remarks made by Deputy Margaret Murphy O'Mahony when she spoke about how she learned about the economic and social benefits of post offices provided for local communities through her work in the post office during the years. None of us should ever ignore the fact that most postmasters and postmistresses went beyond the call of duty during the years in assisting people who...

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: It is very important that there be a realistic measurement to take the entire catchment area into account. I said this at a public meeting lasdt Saturday in Kilnaleck where I saw people from a wide catchment area who would not have been factored in in the population taken into account.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 456. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the request by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the need to provide additional funding for specific health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37300/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Smith: 580. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be approved for the provision of the new medication Spinraza for persons needing this medication in view of its widespread availability to persons in other EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37813/18]