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Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will ask the Minister the next question. The Minister need not go with all the rigmarole. Can he simply get the answer and cut out the crap?

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister cut out all the waffle? I think that is an acceptable term in the Parliament.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister tell me what new schemes he is rolling out this year in the rural development sector?

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister be a little more specific on the schemes he will roll out this year under the rural development plan? Are there no new schemes under the CLÁR programme? Will there be more walkways? What new schemes will emerge? The Minister should not give me generic answers. They reflect badly on him because it is obvious that he does not know what he is doing.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The figure is €312 million.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister be rolling out new measures under CLÁR this year?

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 39. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps he has taken to ensure a full spend of capital funds provided to his Department in the 2018 Estimates and from the carryover of €7.7 million from 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8716/18]

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry to have to criticise the Minister again but there was a massive underspend in his Department last year. A sum of €7 million that was not spent last year is being brought into this year and €19 million was given back to the Exchequer. Two months of this year have passed and no schemes have been announced. Nothing is happening. What plans does the Minister have to...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How much capital has the Department spent to date? Would it be €15 million? That is the pro rataspend that should have occurred at this stage, particularly since projects that were approved before the end of last year can be implemented this year. Can the Minister indicate whether the spend is on target or behind it at this point?

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I should point out that there were Exchequer cuts half way through the years the Minister referred to so we were not allowed to spend the money allocated to us. The first year of the downturn was 2008 and with regard to 2010, the Minister was constantly telling us how bad the economy he inherited was. He is getting that wrong again, like he gets most things wrong. How much capital was...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have it here.

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wanted to check if the Minister knew-----

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----and if he does his homework.

Other Questions: Leader Programmes Data (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Spokespersons get five.

Other Questions: Leader Programmes Data (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the approvals to date by the local action groups of funding for projects under the Leader programme, by local action group; the amount of expenditure to date on projects by local action group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8717/18]

Other Questions: Leader Programmes Data (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This refers to another programme where there is underspending. How much has been spent on projects in the Leader programme to date?

Other Questions: Leader Programmes Data (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did I hear that rightly? There should be approximately €200 million for projects under Leader. Is the Minister telling me that, to date, all that has been approved is approximately 10% of that, €20 million, with all that has been paid out being €933,000 of the allocation for projects of more than €200 million? Will the Minister confirm that I picked up the...

Other Questions: Leader Programmes Data (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister confirm the figure of €933,000? I will take it, if the Minister does not correct me, that €933,000 has been spent nationally on projects. Will the Minister give me the total figure to date for administration and will he tell me why the onus is not on the Department to ensure that Galway gets projects approved? The Minister knows what the delay was in Galway....

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have to say, I am very disappointed that all the time we are getting to speak about this monumentally comprehensive piece of work is ten minutes. The plan is based on research that has been hosted on the national planning framework website since 24 January. There is a paper on this site called "Prospects for Irish Regions and Counties". Its basic thesis is that larger industrial...