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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I acknowledge the effort and the work of the gardaí in Drogheda and County Louth, as well as the additional gardaí in the county. We have over 70 new gardaí in the whole county and in my own town of Drogheda we have 16 new community gardaí. Whatever about the chief superintendent, and I have no issue with Deputy Smith on that, it is the community garda who is the person...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (18 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details on when she expects the large scale sport infrastructure fund (LSSIF) to open for project applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23387/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (18 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details on how the Government is forward planning to boost tourism in mid County Louth, including areas such as Ardee, Dunleer, Annagassan and Castlebellingham; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23388/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline if any consideration is being given to the introduction of a higher payment of voids funding to local authorities where the refurbishment cost of the unit is well above the average €50k higher payment in order to ensure any and all empty units are brought back into use as a matter of urgency; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the expansion of the croí cónaíthe scheme, if any consideration would be given to allow commercial properties to be included in future rounds in order to generate investment and business opportunities in areas vacancy and dereliction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23390/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 430. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of temporary assistance payment funding that has been provided to nursing homes to date, by nursing home name or company name, address and county, since it commenced up until the scheme closed in April, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23684/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (18 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 431. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 11 May 2023, if he will provide further details on the internal HSE TAPS audit referred to; the date it was received by the HSE, and him and his Department; the results and recommendations of this audit; when his Department intends to publish the final audit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23685/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: With the agreement of members, we will go into private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: We have received apologies from Mickey Brady MP, Colum Eastwood MP, and from Senator Ó Donnghaile. For the information of the members and the witnesses, we have a system to rotate through the speakers so that every party and group gets an opportunity to comment on what they might want us to talk about. Sinn Féin is up first. It was to be Fianna Fáil but there are tributes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Mr. Hynes for his address. Before I call Sinn Féin, I want to acknowledge the presence of Mr. Hynes' organisation everywhere that I, as Chairman, visit, particularly in Northern Ireland. Even as recently as yesterday, I attended a peace summit which was sponsored in part by the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. There was very good attendance. The issues the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: Some very important points were made there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Fianna Fáil Party is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Dr. Farry. I call Senator Black and thank her for being so patient.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: So were we all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I want to say a few words. I thank the witnesses for coming. It is always enlightening to meet and listen to them, and I again acknowledge the fantastic work they do. If I may refer a little to some of the issues I picked up yesterday, Senator Black, you spoke about the one which struck me most, the question of mental health. Mental health is a huge issue, far bigger than I had realised....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: She married across the divide and reared her children. If anyone spoke with passion and conviction about the problems associated with communities not being educated together, it was she. That is somewhere the communities have to start. Putting aside the constitutional question, which will be decided at some stage by referendum or otherwise, we will have to address the needs of young...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: Drogheda is the largest town in Ireland with a population of more than 80,000, yet since March it has had no driver testing centre. A total of 2,700 people who applied to sit their test in Drogheda must go elsewhere to towns they neither live in nor know well. A freedom of information request shows that of the significant number of centres turned down by the Road Safety Authority, two were...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement entitled "Lessons from the Architects of the Good Friday Agreement", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 27th March, 2023. The recent anniversaries of the signature of the Good Friday Agreement and of its resounding endorsement...