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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Funding (3 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation in the rural development plan for the TAMS scheme 2014-2020; the amount of funds approved to date for projects since its inception; the payments made to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41230/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (3 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 61. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the GLAS scheme to date; the average annual payment per participant; the total paid out to date under the GLAS scheme since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties (3 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is examining the possibility of introducing an excise duty rebate of 50% on legally made poitín in the coming budget in order to stimulate this indigenous industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41593/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (3 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the mobility allowance payable to persons who have a disability; the reason for the delay in making a decision in relation to this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41418/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (3 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 398. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide extra funding for home care and home help packages in 2018 in view of the fact that the demand for these services far outstrips supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (3 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 492. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received advice in relation to the illegal dumping in the 16th century old dock in Galway; the steps that he plans to take to deal with this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41592/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when it is expected a contract will be awarded for the national broadband scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41703/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hope the Minister does not read the answer he gave previously to very similar questions and that we start to get into the nitty gritty of this. Caithfidh mé rud amháin a rá i dtús báire. Ní haon mholadh é féinmholadh agus ba cheart don Aire cuimhneamh ar sin. Nowadays fibre is no more complicated than copper was 20 years ago. It is a little thing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister confirm that not one house in this country has been connected to fibre or anything else under his national broadband scheme?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Before Eir signed a contract with the Minister it had committed publicly to rolling out fibre broadband to 300,000 houses. Can the Minister confirm that Ireland is unusual in having a very high percentage of the population living in non-agglomerated areas? People call them rural areas, I call them the people with bigger back gardens. One would think there was some awful magic at work...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister give me an estimate of when he hopes to sign a contract for the national broadband scheme? It is a very simple question. I do not know what is wrong with the international experts that they think there is anything revolutionary or physically difficult in putting a little bit of fibre into every premises on this tiny island. If they have a problem with that, the kids on...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That was not the question I asked.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure the preservation and development of wild brown trout in lakes and rivers in circumstances in which it is indigenous; his policy towards the threat posed by pike to wild brown trout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41702/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: An Clár Caipitil Spóirt (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an bhfuil cinneadh déanta aige ar an iarratas atá déanta faoin Deontas Caipitil Spóirt do 2017 ag club iomartha i gContae na Gaillimhe (sonraí tugtha); mura bhfuil, cén uair a bheidh cinneadh déanta ag an Aire agus cén uair a bheidh na deontais faoin Deontas Caipitil Spóirt do 2017 á...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Improvement Schemes (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the limits he has put on the costings for administration by local authorities on works to be carried out under the local improvement schemes to ensure as many roads as possible are repaired under the scheme to the highest standard possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42038/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates For Public Services 2017: Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An bhféadfaimid tosú leis an mórphictiúir? Can we start on the big picture?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates For Public Services 2017: Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, an caiteachas. In the end of the day the programmes of the Department have been discussed here recently as part of the Estimates process. I am concerned that we are into the last quarter of the year and looking at what the Department did for the first seven, eight or nine months. There is a very serious underspend in the Department, even against its profiles which themselves are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates For Public Services 2017: Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry, but included in that 99.86% was €13 million carried over and a large sum of money that was given to local authorities in December for projects sanctioned in a pre-spend, which is something that I never saw happen in my time in government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates For Public Services 2017: Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister's explanation of the 99.86% spend is a bit like a pilot who takes off in an aeroplane for New York and, having turned back after a crisis 100 miles off the coast, ditches all of the fuel the aeroplane was given and says that all of it was used. Basically, the Minister has ditched money for projects that had only been sanctioned three weeks prior. It is bad practice. The...