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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can claim arrears for the household benefits package in view of the fact they forgot to apply for same in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4806/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to plans by Sligo County Council to downgrade the Sligo fire service to a retained only service; his views on the decision to downgrade the service; if Sligo County Council will be contacted in order to address financial issues that may have influenced the decision; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when legislation will be in place to enable local communities such as Enniscrone, County Sligo to hold local plebiscites to change the spelling of its place name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4415/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of restoring funding for Traveller-specific accommodation to 2008 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4667/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of doubling funding for housing adaption grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4668/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of doubling the provision of housing under Housing First; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4670/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Fund (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing the local government fund by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4671/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Contracts (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take action at Departmental level to enable Sligo County Council to extend the current contract of works currently under way in Sligo town to upgrade O’Connell Street, the urban centre of Sligo and its public realm under Project Ireland 2040 and the urban regeneration fund; if he will take action to allow...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1327. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an up-to-date map of the special areas of conservation in the Strandhill area, County Sligo will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4714/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1328. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if new signage will be erected advising the public of the location of special areas of conservation in the sand dunes in the Strandhill area of County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4715/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Management (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1329. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures in place to ensure that special areas of conservation which are being damaged by costal erosion are protected and secured by local authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4716/20]

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: Will the Minister give the House an update on the Government proposals on any assistance that might be available or is being considered for commercial tenants with their rents? I have noticed that many commercial tenants are very fearful, especially of the international landlords, who do not seem to be as forgiving as the local landlords. They seem to have a bottom line, which does not take...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: I wish to raise one last issue, which has been going on for the past ten or 12 years. When I first got involved in the local authority in Roscommon, permission for one-off housing on the bad land in the area was much easier to obtain. In my constituency, which now includes northern Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo and southern Donegal, there is an issue with one-off housing. We have been to...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: It is good to be a backbencher again in the Dáil, although the Seanad was not such a bad place for asking questions. I want to ask about local authority housing developments under the Rebuilding Ireland programme. Are they all back up-and-running throughout the country? During the past ten or 15 years the local authorities were buying houses on the open market and getting developers to...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister and all of his team for the work they have been doing in very difficult circumstances over the past few months. I express my condolences to the families and friends of those who have been lost to this awful disease over the past few months. My mother is 92 and is in a local nursing home. She happened to be in Sligo University Hospital. As someone who have benefited...

Covid-19 (Tourism): Statements (6 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: With regard to "Normal People", my father comes from Tubbercurry where much of it was filmed, and I like to think we are all normal people down there. Deputy Harkin will agree with me that one aspect we need to look at is that approximately 90% of businesses in Sligo are tourism-related. I found it incredible that one hotel was paying between €75,000 and €175,000 in rates a...

Covid-19 (Tourism): Statements (6 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: I hope to speak for five minutes and the Minister of State might answer my questions for five minutes, if that is okay. I very much welcome the Minister of State's address to the House on the impact of Covid-19 on Irish tourism and his plans to support the sector in recovering from this crisis. First, we must think of the more than 1,300 people who have passed away from Covid-19 and our...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Frank Feighan: And Deputy Peter Burke as well.

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Acting Chairman for his generosity. I ask the Minister about large-scale capital infrastructure projects such as the new building extension at Summerhill College, Sligo, and other classroom infrastructure projects in my constituency such as the ASD unit at Abbey Community College, Boyle. The projects were announced by the Department last year. Will they be able to commence...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Frank Feighan: Do I have ten minutes or am I sharing with Deputy Durkan?