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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: Before I address my question, I wish to acknowledge the passing last night of Michael Lynch from County Meath, a former Member of this House and the Seanad. Michael was a proud representative of the people of Meath and a great friend to me. On behalf of the people of County Meath and the Fianna Fáil Party, I extend my sympathies to his family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. At what...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: I have been asking the Minister of State for a long time, and have submitted parliamentary questions to his office as well, about the discussions between the Department and the governing bodies such as the GAA, the IRFU, the FAI and so forth. They are the bodies that will have preferred grounds they wish to see developed. The names of the grounds have been leaked to the media from day one....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: I would have loved to have been there to welcome it and to offer a detailed presentation as a proud GAA man. I am seeking information on the negotiations on this ground with Cumann Lúthchleas Gael. It is a 20,000 seat proposal and the Minister of State knows it is a strategic ground for the north east. I would be obliged if the Minister of State would give a candid response to my question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: I condemned the gimmick of the Minister of State electioneering with it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: Every sports club in Ireland and the national sporting organisations deserve an apology for the flippant manner in which the Minister and the Minister of State treat them, as if they are giving candy to them. That is who deserves an apology. They are the decent community leaders in this country. The Minister of State need not lecture me.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: He is not talking to the Healy-Raes now. He should sit down.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: The Minister of State had his time and he is trying to waste my time as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: This is a strategic piece of infrastructure. That is heightened by the fact that the local authority supports it and is planning to have Navan central railway station behind the back of the stand. If the Minister, Deputy Ross, ever honours the promise he gave me three years ago to visit Navan and examine that piece of infrastructure, I could get both him and the Minister of State to visit...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: Please God.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (22 May 2019)

Shane Cassells: 63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has assessed the impact the removal of State funding to an organisation (details supplied) has had on grassroots football; his views on whether the organisation will become insolvent as a result of the continued removal of funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22096/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a report (details supplied) into the pay and conditions for councillors will be published. [23896/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: I wish to ask my good friend, the Minister of State, when the report by Sara Moorhead SC, on pay and conditions for councillors will be published. Obviously, the 949 councillors who were elected last week and others will be interested in this. Many young people will be entering politics for the first time. I know that feeling as it was 20 years ago today when I entered politics for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: In the 20 years since we were first elected to local authorities the workload has increased substantially for those who find themselves as members of local authorities. The requirements for legislative knowledge and how councillors must deal with development plans and other areas are far more demanding. Crucially, the pressures, especially on young people entering public life, are...

National Development Plan: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the opportunity to debate the call for a review of the national development plan. There is no doubt that Government's behaviour in the context of the national development plan, Project Ireland 2040 and, in particular, the national planning framework, was disgraceful and showed the contempt with which the national Parliament is held by this Government. The Parliament was bypassed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Election Management System (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the recent extensive counting periods for the ballot papers in European and local elections will result in consideration being given to the introduction of voting by electronic and online methods. [23895/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 457. To ask the Minister for Health if the amount awarded through the HSE optical voucher differs for children in County Meath compared with other counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23399/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if there are incidents in which the HSE in conjunction with an organisation (details supplied) provide speech and language therapy for children over six years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24168/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 679. To ask the Minister for Health when speech and language therapy will be provided to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24169/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Ireland (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 765. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the 16 instream and enhancement project contracts signed in 2017 under the National Strategy for Angling Development 2015-2020 had demonstrated consultation with the relevant local authorities regarding these projects; if so, the details of the consultations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23630/19]