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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she will introduce to reduce the delays in having applications for carer’s allowance processed and finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28868/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the promised review of income eligibility limits for social housing; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the perceived totally inadequate income limits in areas such as counties Cavan and Monaghan are depriving persons on low income to apply for local authority housing; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be allocated to local authorities in respect of the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability, housing for older persons scheme and mobility aids grant schemes; if the local authority funding requirement will be reduced; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Brexit, the Good Friday-Belfast Agreement and the Environment: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the presentations. The delegates are also welcome. Ms Hough's statements were very much to the effect that not having functioning political institutions in Northern Ireland at this time is a great tragedy. Unfortunately, we cannot have the North-South Ministerial Council without the Executive and Assembly functioning in Northern Ireland. The council provided for Ministers both...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Brexit, the Good Friday-Belfast Agreement and the Environment: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: Is Ms Duggan referring to the areas of co-operation?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Administration (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process of nominating members apart from local authority nominees to education and training boards; if membership of such boards varies; if so, the composition of the Cavan and Monaghan ETB, the Louth and Meath ETB, and the Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30046/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 719. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the programme support payment will ensure appropriate financial support to childcare providers in respect of the substantial costs in the administration of the TEC, CCSP and ECCE schemes as announced in May 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29951/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 720. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the programme support payment does not provide for the registration of children after 31 December 2018 to August 2019 in respect of TEC and CCSP and to June for ECCE; if the scheme will be amended to recognise the additional time required for childcare providers to complete the administrative work associated with the scheme as...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the level of grant aid to assist in the provision of childcare facilities both for community and private childcare providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29899/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 86. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the level of grant aid to assist in the provision of childcare places; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a need in some communities to undertake large scale projects either in the expansion of existing childcare facilities or in the provision of new childcare facilities; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Northern Ireland (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the authorities in Northern Ireland and with the EU Commission about the proposed PEACE PLUS programme; the projected timeframe for its introduction; the measures that will be included in the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30392/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30397/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated in 2020 to enable the further design and development of an essential road project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30393/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated in 2020 towards the planning and design of an essential road project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30394/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 364. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when funding will be allocated towards the necessary provision of a refuge centre in counties Cavan and Monaghan for victims of domestic abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30395/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Funding (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 381. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated for the 2014 to 2020 LEADER programme; the expenditure to date; if he is satisfied that the total funding will be drawn down by the end date for the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30420/19]

Brexit Contingency Action Plan: Statements (11 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: Half way through the extension agreed with the EU 27 a number of permutations and combinations of how dangerously Brexit may play out have increased. The leadership contest within the Tory party, some uncertainty, to say the least, in the British Labour Party, the rise of the Brexit Party and the increasing Scottish support for a second Scotland independence referendum means that things are...

Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: While I concur with Deputy O'Callaghan, I was struck by Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan's contribution last night. Deputies O'Sullivan, Crowe and I worked with the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, when he was Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on the terrible atrocities committed in May 1974, including the heinous murders of 34 people between Dublin and Monaghan. Of course, there have been other...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Preparations (11 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the preparations in the event of a no-deal Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30932/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (11 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if talks will continue throughout the remainder of July and August 2019, if necessary, to reach agreement in the event of agreement not being reached shortly by the Irish and British Governments and the political parties in Northern Ireland to have the Assembly and Executive restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30933/19]