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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (5 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 347. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a service (details supplied) will be established in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50858/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (5 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 348. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase substantially the level of capital grant assistance available towards the upgrading of existing childcare facilities and the provision of new childcare places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50859/19]

OECD Report on SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Ireland: Statements (10 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the opportunity to make a short contribution on this important report. My colleagues, Deputies Troy and Scanlon, dealt with some of the details of the report earlier. I wish to refer specifically to the needs of the Border region. Through parliamentary questions and other debates in this House, we have discussed the particular challenges facing small and medium-sized enterprises...

Domestic Violence: Statements (11 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: Once again I raise the non-provision of a refuge in Cavan-Monaghan for victims of domestic violence. I have raised this issue through parliamentary questions and in other Dáil debates over recent years and, unfortunately, little or no progress has been made in that respect. Women who are victims of domestic violence from the wide geographical area of Cavan-Monaghan have to source...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 271. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase funding for home support in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52439/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 272. To ask the Minister for Health if a substantial increase in funding will be ensured for home support hours in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2020 in view of delays in having such support provided for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52440/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 273. To ask the Minister for Health when additional personnel will be recruited and vacant positions filled in respect of a backlog (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52441/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of the inaugural meeting of the beef task force; when the task force will meet again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52442/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of payments made to date to farmers in County Cavan under the ANC, single farm payment and BEEP; his plans to issue outstanding payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52443/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of payments made to date to farmers in County Monaghan under the ANC, single farm payment and BEEP; his plans to issue outstanding payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52444/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue under BEAM; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52445/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Applications (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe to approve and issue forestry thinning licences in view of the concern of some applicants regarding long delays in finalising such applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52447/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 304. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the areas in counties Cavan and Monaghan that will benefit from the extension of broadband infrastructure in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52370/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if specific funding will be allocated in 2020 towards a road upgrade project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52460/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide funding directly to soccer clubs that received assistance previously through the programmes of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52482/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide financial support to an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52483/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Inland Waterways Development (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 376. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the capital investment proposed for the Shannon-Erne waterway in 2020; the projects that will benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52432/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Inland Waterways Development (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 377. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a new facility (details supplied) will be available for use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52436/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Inland Waterways Development (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 388. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to extend the blueways programme in 2020; the particular schemes in this regard; the level of investment in each project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52486/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (12 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: 389. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding for projects (details supplied) in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52487/19]