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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Ballymurphy Families: Discussion (1 Jul 2021)

Brendan Smith: Is there a timeframe for the new talks, if we want to call them that? I referred to the need to ensure that families of victims and surviving victims are updated and that constant contact is made with them on behalf of the State. The Minister referred to the ongoing contact that his Department has with representatives of the families of the victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the Taoiseach's confirmation that the farming and agrifood sector is at the heart of all Government deliberations at Cabinet and subcommitee levels. That is important because 175,000 people are employed in the sector and it is responsible for 10% of Irish exports. It has faced particular challenges over the past number of years, including CAP reform. In 2014, the European...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if there is a Cabinet committee or sub-committee that deals with agriculture. [34655/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (30 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional measures he will implement as a matter of urgency to ensure that delays in driver theory tests are reduced without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35367/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (30 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that applicants for driver theory tests who had applied in 2020 do not have their appointments delayed due to more recent applicants getting priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35368/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (29 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 269. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he will implement to reduce delays in the registration of foreign births; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34240/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the introduction of higher income eligibility limits for social housing in areas such as counties Cavan and Monaghan due to the inadequacy of existing eligibility limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33857/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce higher income eligibility limits for social housing given that existing limits are too low in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33856/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (24 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there have been any recent discussions with the parties in the Northern Ireland Executive on the establishment of a civic advisory panel as provided for in the Stormont House Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33871/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (24 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the proposal in the Stormont House Agreement to establish a civic advisory panel following the provision for the establishment of a civic forum in the Good Friday Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33872/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to amend public procurement processes to ensure that small and medium enterprises are not disadvantaged in tendering for the provision of services to the State such as provisions for schools and other public services in view of the fact that in recent years small enterprises have lost valuable business at local level due to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of engagement the Office of Government Procurement has with small and medium enterprises to ensure that more products are sourced locally and that such businesses will not continue to be disadvantaged through centralised purchasing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34163/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network (22 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: I will share time with Senator Erin McGreehan. Senator Niall Blaney is in the Seanad but hopes to join us later. I welcome Mr. McNeill and Mr. Campbell. I also welcome their presentation, which gave a positive outline of the potential of our region. I am glad that I suggested, when this committee was first formed in this Dáil, that we meet with different cross-Border partnerships...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if capital expenditure was on or within profile at the end of May 2021; if he expects expenditure to come in on profile in 2021; if not, if he has received requests for a reallocation of funding; if such requests will be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32351/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (17 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 12. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to reallocate capital funding within the Estimate of his Department in circumstances in which there is slower than projected expenditure to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32406/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (17 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if further much needed funding will be allocated in 2021 for the non-national road network if there is a capital funding reallocation within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32407/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected roll-out of the National Broadband Plan for counties Cavan and Monaghan for 2021; the measures that will be implemented to offset the delays that have occurred in this roll-out to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32791/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath and Louth receiving support under the employment wage subsidy scheme; the number in each county who were receiving support under the scheme in May 2021; the number of persons in each county who have received support under the scheme and its predecessor since March 2020; the expenditure on the scheme...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if legacy issues were discussed during his recent meeting with Prime Minister Johnson. [27628/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (15 Jun 2021)

Brendan Smith: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if the need to implement in full the Stormont House Agreement was discussed during his recent meeting with Prime Minister Johnson. [27629/21]