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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Guidelines (20 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider placing a moratorium on the development of windfarms until guidelines are in place. [8522/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector (21 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the heat recovery technology element of grant aid under the TAMS scheme will be removed to enable it to be included in the SEAI dairy farm energy grants (details supplied). [8789/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (26 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home tuition will be continued for a child (details supplied) until they are assessed and the services required put in place in school for them; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the child did not attend school until January 2019 having received home tuition since reaching school age; and if his attention has been further...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 311. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9115/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (26 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment of illness benefit will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if her attention has been drawn to the fact the payments which were originally paid to the Department of Education and Skills were refunded to her Department following the person's retirement but have not yet issued to the person....

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: We all acknowledge we are in crisis mode at the moment. I commend the Government on brining forward the legislation, albeit at the last minute. We should have been working on this sooner. Already today, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, has stated that he will have to bring in amendments to his part of the omnibus legislation. In talking about this, we must...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application by a person (details supplied) under the GLAS scheme will be considered. [9839/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: He is over in the Department of Justice and Equality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: It is the very same Minister who wants to push legislation through who has us here today on the problem he created. He put through legislation with no solution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: What is this about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I refer to No. 2019/409, correspondence from a Cork student, Sam McCormack, who is looking for the help of the committee. What do we propose to do in that regard? I know we noted it, but what do we propose to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Is there anything further that could be done by the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I propose that we refer the correspondence to the NTA for response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: It is a rural broadband issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: We all know why we are here. It is just over two years since our good friend, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, commenced his legislative programme in the Department. Many of us here were aware of the damage he was going to impose on rural Ireland and even on the periphery of the bigger towns. We have evidence of that. Since Christmas, rural Ireland has been in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I am wary of asking questions that have already been asked. I welcome the witnesses from the NTA. More importantly, I acknowledge that there is a crisis in rural Ireland regarding access for people living there. I would like to ask Ms Anne Graham why the National Transport Authority, NTA, only hears alarm bells ringing now. When we were going through the amendments to the Road Traffic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I refer to getting people who might be afraid to drive to work in the morning. At this stage no-one knows what the limits are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: What has that got to do with the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: The subsidy will be available 24-7.