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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand the Minister has taken over responsibility for the community services programme. The programme has major potential. The first thing the Minister will need is money to expand it. It has the potential to use many of the facilities that the State has invested in to keep them open all day every day. What are the Minister's plans to avail of this unique opportunity to expand the...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many reviews does the Minister have going on at one time in the Department? It seems every answer to every question put to this Government involves doing a review. How many reviews is the Department carrying out at the moment? How does the budget of €46 million compare to the budget for the same programme last year? Has it been increased or is it the same money?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: What was it last year?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will ask the question again: how does the money provided this year compare to the money provided last year? Simply put, the Minister knows he cannot dramatically increase the scheme if the money has not increased. How does the money this year compare to last year? Mayo would claim to have great prowess at Gaelic football. However, it seems to me that the Minister is becoming keen on...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is Seetec.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 47. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to outline his plans to co-fund the development of greenways with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1219/18]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The development of greenways is of vital importance. I imagine the Minister would agree that in developing greenways we need to buy the land and ensure the investment is secure. Does the Minister have any plans to work with the Minister of Transport, Tourism and Sport to co-fund the development of greenways? The question is especially relevant for CLÁR areas. We should expedite the...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister believe that to protect the investment in developing a greenway, which normally has a hard surface and fences on each side, the land should be bought rather than use a permissive way whereby one landowner can hold up or stop everything? The Minister mentioned the debate that took place here, which I did I admit keep going because I believed he was buying a pig in a poke...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister did not answer the other part of the question. I do, however, admire his frankness in answering the one he did answer. I concur with him. If it was in his Department, we would not face many of the challenges we do face. My second question relates to whether the Minister believes that the rational policy for the greenways, where two fences are put in - unlike the walkway...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister should put his money on the table. He is missing the point. He did not give them the opportunity to sell.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has grown. There are more taxes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Western Development Commission (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 55. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans for the development of the Western Development Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1217/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Western Development Commission (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the Minister of State met the executives and-or the board of the Western Development Commission? Did they set out for him what they believed they would need in terms of resources, both of personnel and finances, to enable the commission to reach its potential? In respect of the WDC investment fund to invest in business and community development initiatives, can the Minister of State...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Western Development Commission (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked the Minister of State about the western investment fund. How much money does it have to invest this year from its resources and those of the Government in businesses in the west? That was one of the key roles of the Western Development Commission. The Minister of State has obviously made strong representations on behalf of the western rail corridor extension to Claremorris. Has...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Western Development Commission (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How significant? Is it €2 million or €5 million?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 60. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the average net annual inflow of funds into the Dormant Accounts Fund over the past five years; the amount of unallocated funds in the fund at present; his plans to ensure that these funds are spent for the purposes of social, economic and educational disadvantage and on services for persons with a disability; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 71. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps he will take to ensure a full spend of all the funds provided in the 2018 Estimate in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1216/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: CLÁR Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 72. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extra measures it is planned to roll out under the CLÁR programme in 2018; his plans to introduce a measure to support group water schemes in CLÁR areas with the aim of ensuring that the last areas in the country that do not have access to either a public water supply or a high quality group scheme will get such a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments by the Exchequer to the European Union in 2016 and 2017; the estimated payments for 2018; the receipts from the European Union for 2016; the estimated receipts for 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1268/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Aitheantas Scoileanna (16 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a thabharfar aitheantas do scoil (sonraí tugtha) mar scoil neamhspleách; cén chúis atá leis an moill ar an gcinneadh seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [1261/18]