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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education Issues (5 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 207. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the early childhood care and education scheme; if she will ensure that the payment is expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52233/13]

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. I will not detain the committee unduly. I support the Supplementary Estimate. I follow you, Chairman, and the Minister in wishing well all those who serve with great distinction overseas. I am conscious as we move towards Christmas of the sacrifice military families make. They release their husbands or wives to serve on our behalf in locations...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I join in commending the Minister, which I do not do too often. I also commend the Cork students who were responsible for the inaugural missing persons day. That is a worthwhile development. I know two of the families that have been devastated by virtue of losing a loved member and I know how difficult the situation is for them. The Supplementary Estimate serves to highlight for us the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I would be amazed if the Minister could restrain himself.

Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The legislative programme contains a number of important health Bills, not least the health information Bill. Is it intended in that Bill or any other health Bill that is pending to introduce a statutory duty of candour? I raise this question in the context of recent court decisions, where we have seen the HSE resist up to the steps of the court acceptance of responsibility for the injury...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (4 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to require all primary and post-primary students to undertake instruction in swimming and life saving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52036/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (4 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if will set out in tabular form the funds allocated by his Department to county councils (details supplied) for the purpose of combatting homelessness in each year since 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52037/13]

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Ireland’s ratification of the Antarctic treaty has been raised on several occasions with both the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Taoiseach. More than 40 countries have signed up to the Antarctic Treaty System. The Government cannot claim to be very strong on matters environmental. In a recent response from the Tánaiste-----

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: -----he stated that the administrative costs associated with signing the treaty would be problematic. I have tabled parliamentary questions to various Departments on this, only to be informed that no cost-benefit analysis was carried out.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I was just wondering-----

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Antarctic treaty is an important international treaty. When does the Tánaiste propose to introduce legislation and sign up to it? Deputy McLellan raised the important point that we have seen in the last week in the capital city two acts of utter depravity.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: There was the burning of a horse following by the burning of a human being two days later.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: You have it, a Cheann Comhairle. Will the Tánaiste assure us that the Garda will have sufficient resources to tackle those two acts of utter depravity?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Strips (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is also a reality that the Minister of State commissioned consultants to design the next phase of the development and that the €8.6 million of public money which has been invested appears to be abandoned by him and his Department. I plead with him not to do that. I ask him to give us some indication of what his Department intends to do to ensure that the money already spent is not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Strips (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 4. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current status of the airstrips at Inishbofin and Cleggan in Connemara; the way his Department plans to ensure that the airstrips are successful in their operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51572/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Strips (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: This question focuses on the interconnectivity between Cleggan and Inishbofin Island, Connemara, County Galway. Up to €8.6 million in public funding was allocated to the provision of two runways at the two sites. The intention of providing an air service between the two sites was that economic activity on Inishbofin, with 160 inhabitants, would be enhanced through tourism. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Strips (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am disappointed and horrified by the Minister’s response. My understanding was that the Minister appointed a firm of consultants to carry out a detailed design and costing in order to prepare tender documents for the construction phase of the terminals at Cluain Leacht, Cleggan, and at Inishbofin. Planning permission was granted for these two terminal buildings. Funding required...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Minister of State said legacy problems exist which date back to 2001 and 2005. In 2013 we should not be talking about legacy issues from that period. If there were problems then they should have been solved by now. I am not trying to score political points because there are no political points to be scored in this situation. It is simply a requirement that the business would be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I welcome the Minister of State's response, to some extent. This is really unfortunate in the context of the valuable work that the organisation does, and we all wish it well as it faces fairly major challenges. The public, both North and South of the Border, want to be absolutely certain that every cent of public money being devoted to causes such as these is being properly expended, with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (3 Dec 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the Ulster-Scots Agency spent more than €480,000 of public funds over 12 months without proper authority in 2010; the reason there is a delay of two years in the publication of the agency’s annual report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51571/13]