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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 550. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider allowing religious services to resume in June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if the social distancing measures currently in place and which demand a distance of two metres to be kept from all persons is now under consideration to be reduced to one metre in line with the advice of the World Health Organisation for the later stages of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business in order to ensure smaller SMEs can reopen in June and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 598. To ask the Minister for Health the measures and funding in place to assist the farming community deal with the mental health consequences of Covid-19; if funding allocations can or have been made to charities that deal with suicide and the farming community since the outbreak; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8768/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 819. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll- out of the national broadband plan in counties Sligo and Leitrim; the timeline for its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8916/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 884. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the Cootehall and Croghan junction upgrade on the N4 between Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8497/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 887. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1007 of 20 May 2020, if the NTA will consider extending the limit to March 2021 instead of December 2020 to give the industry the full year in view of the fact many SPSVs would have been purchased in January and February due to the new car registration system in place before 2013; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 904. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if taxi and SPV driver licences will be extended for 12 months due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8746/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 905. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if full driver licences will be extended for 12 months due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8747/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 909. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding which was announced for the provision of the national surf centre in Strandhill, County Sligo and the Sligo civic plaza in Sligo town by Fáilte Ireland is still proposed to be allocated in view of the Covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8767/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) and persons in similar positions did not qualify for the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8888/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (3 Jun 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person is entitled to receive his or her means-tested disability allowance payment in another EU member state for a time period under the provisions of EU law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8931/20]

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: Over the past few months, certainly with Covid-19, many people are considering living and working in rural Ireland. Many Members in the Houses use the national broadband plan as a political football and now the same people are calling for greater access across the State. They are demanding more connectivity. The broadband operators are seeing 30% more use in broadband. Politicians in this...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: It is great to see the Minister of State here today. He spoke about his Leitrim connections. I believe the last time I met him was for breakfast in his adopted family home in Dromahair in north Leitrim. He is very aware of the issues in that county and, indeed, in all the counties throughout the country. I wish to discuss three issues. The first has been raised by other Deputies. Will...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: Our thoughts are with the families and friends of the more than 1,600 people who have lost their lives due to Covid-19, and indeed all those who have recovered from it. I thank the people of Ireland for the work they have done to help effectively flatten the curve. I wish to bring the thoughts of many of my constituents to the Chamber. The 2 m rule has been mentioned already and I know...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister for visiting Sligo University Hospital over a year ago. I look forward to going down with him next time, when we will go in the front door rather than through the emergency department.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: I am here.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Divisional Headquarters (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of the new regional Garda headquarters in County Sligo as set out in the capital plan of his Department; the stage the project is at; when a planning application will be submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7508/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are grants available from his Department or bodies and agencies under his remit that provide grant funding towards the costs of planting land for forestry, biodiversity and beekeeping (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7527/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 786. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if issues (details supplied) regarding driver licences for former USA residents now seeking to obtain full Irish licences will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7526/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Funding (27 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 797. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide greenway funding to the proposed Sligo-Leitrim northern counties greenway (details supplied); his views on the importance of the greenway to the rural areas along the route; if the possibility of funding a small proportion of the greenway will be investigated to establish the route for future development; and if he...