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Other Questions: Local Improvement Scheme Funding (21 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: I also welcome the injection of capital into our country roads and laneways. Throughout County Clare, we benefitted by approximately €867,000 last year and I welcome the confirmation that a new €10 million fund will be announced this year. A number of constituents who have benefitted from the LIS have said to me that some roads are falling into a state of disrepair because...

Other Questions: Local Improvement Scheme Funding (21 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: The Minister might give clarity on the establishment of a fund for LIS roads that fall into disrepair. These roads could be 15 or 20 years old and there is no access to county council funds to repair them. If a fund was created, local groups could apply to it and carry out repair works. I urge the Minister to give that consideration.

Other Questions: Local Improvement Scheme Funding (21 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: I specifically refer to LIS roads.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme Administration (21 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 55. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans for the LIS scheme 2018; the allocations to date, by county; his further plans for the scheme into the future in view of demand; if the provision of funding towards maintenance of LIS roads will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8505/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (20 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to enhance the JobsPlus scheme to target older unemployed and long-term unemployed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8413/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (20 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the allocation of the additional 250 rural social scheme places will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8414/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Mobile Telephony Services (20 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 529. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps being taken to tackle the problem of mobile phone coverage black spots in rural areas in the context of his Department's co-chairing of the mobile phone and broadband taskforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8502/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (20 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the advice he would give to persons in County Clare that are effected by pyrite on the best course of action to have the problem addressed; if the possibility of including these properties in the State pyrite remediation scheme will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8412/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: I thank the Minister for bringing absolute clarity to this situation first-hand in the House. It is also reassuring to hear of the positive developments happening at Ennis Hospital. The retention of seven-day MAU services is important as the more patients who can be diverted from University Hospital Limerick, the better. Notwithstanding the opening of a new €25 million...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: I wish to express my thanks to the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise this issue. I welcome the Minister for Health to the House and thank him for taking the debate. As he will be aware, the medical assessment unit at Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis was established following reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the mid-west region. Medical assessment...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: Deputy Durkan should take his time.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important legislation, the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017. It addresses key issues which have been identified as areas where current employment rights legislation should be strengthened to the benefit of employees, particularly low-paid, more vulnerable workers, without imposing unnecessarily onerous burdens on employers and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Geological Survey of Ireland (14 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his view on the value of the geoscience sector here as determined by a recent analysis of the sector; the steps he is taking to maximise the value of the sector to local economies and communities, such as the development of geoparks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7257/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (13 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 79. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which live exports performed in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the efforts his Department is making to promote further expansion of the live export trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6914/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (13 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; the reason for the delay in issuing payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6735/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentations. I personally do not have a difficulty with the public services card and I think it is a good initiative which streamlines people's engagement with services, notwithstanding what the witnesses have said. In particular, in regard to the Bara case, as I understand it, it involved Romanian self-employed citizens who challenged the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: -----under the data protection directive 95/46/EC. Unlike Romania, Ireland, under the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 at section 262, sets out that we share the use of our PSI data and that it is restricted to public service bodies specified in law or their agents. Unlike Romania, Ireland has legislated specifically to restrict the scope of the obligations and rights contained in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: I have listened to Mr. McGarr but I take issue with that and do not think he has a foundation for it. I deal on a daily basis with people who have public services cards and I hold one myself. I think there is huge merit in the public services card. I do not really get Mr. McGarr's arguments. I think it streamlines the service and enables people to access services in a more streamlined way.

Other Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (7 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: No.

Other Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (7 Feb 2018)

Joe Carey: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the type of projects eligible for support under the regional enterprise development fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5764/18]