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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ministerial Briefing (14 Dec 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 677. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his ministerial briefing has been published and is downloadable on his Department's new website. [53729/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (14 Dec 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 678. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount allocated to town centre health checks per annum; the number of checks undertaken by county; and the number planned. [54144/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Dec 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 751. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of the capital carry over from 2016 of €13 million that has not been spent to date; the subheads under which the underspend has occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53700/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Dec 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 752. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has sought permission from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to carry over unspent capital to 2018; if so, the amount sought as a carryover; the reason this was necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53701/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Dec 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 753. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of capital allocated to her Department in 2017; the amount spent to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53702/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (14 Dec 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 754. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the capital and current budget allocations for Údarás na Gaeltachta in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53725/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (14 Dec 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 755. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeframe for delivery of funds under budget 2018 to Údarás na Gaeltachta on linguistic, cultural and community development in the Gaeltacht. [53726/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Rural Recreation Policy (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his priorities for the development of rural recreation in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1840/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Rural Recreation Policy (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the Minister to the House. Given that he has already waited seven months, having to wait an extra 20 minutes beyond the scheduled time was not too much to ask of him. I know the Minister has been anxious to come in here to answer questions. I do not know what his colleagues were doing that prevented them from facilitating him before now. It appears that the enormous potential of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Rural Recreation Policy (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his reply. I understand that a review of Comhairle na Tuaithe was conducted in 2015-2016. It is now 2018. I understand that just one meeting of that body took place last year. I am of the view that it should meet regularly in order to create confidence, cohesion and co-operation between all the stakeholders. Why did Comhairle na Tuaithe meet just once last year?...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Rural Recreation Policy (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not an organisation, it is a committee of the Minister's Department.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Rural Recreation Policy (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If there is one thing that bedevils this Government it is that everything needs to be reviewed. I remind the Minister that time is running out for this Government. It does not have an enormous amount of time in which to fulfil its promises. How many extra walks have been brought under the walks scheme since 2011? How long will this review take? There is a commitment in the programme for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Rural Recreation Policy (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government has given such a commitment.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 44. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to his Department in 2017; the amount that was spent in 2017; the amount that has been carried forward to 2018; the amount surrendered to the Exchequer at the end of 2017; the amount paid to local authorities in 2016 and 2017 that has not been spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1841/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: All last year, I asked the then Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, and subsequently the new Department of Rural and Community Development, about the level of underspend in this area. I kept predicting a significant underspend by the end of the year and the Minister and his colleagues kept telling me that this was not going to occur. Despite the Minister's...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand €10 million on the capital side and €8 million on the current side that could have been spent on the ground in rural areas has been handed back to the Exchequer. Will the Minister explain how he managed to underspend the current allocation in the Department? Will he also confirm loud and clear that €10 million paid out to local authorities more than a year...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: He was a Minister of State in the Department before his appointment as Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is wrong. I was not in the Department in 2010. He may remember that I was in the Department of Social Protection in 2010.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was not finishing up; I left the Department in 2010. I will answer the Minister's question on the underspend in 2008 as he appears to believe he is asking the questions today. I could have taken the net knowing that the appropriations-in-aid cannot be spent but did not do so. That is what happened in 2008 and the Minister should check the facts. He is very quick to play games with this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 46. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to outline his plans for the development of the community services scheme in 2018 in view of the fact that responsibility for this scheme has transferred to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1842/18]