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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach should not forget that nurses get up early in the morning.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach saved the detail for the Fine Gael membership but I suppose it went over their heads.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (30 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry felling and planting licence applications awaiting a decision; the details of the backlog; the number of weeks applicants are waiting for a decision in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4511/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is a delay of more than 12 months in employing archaeologists in the Forest Service; the number of archeologists that will commence employment and when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4522/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach does a fair bit of that himself.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: An amnesty for Bloomberg but not for ourselves.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 291. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) waiting more than two years will be assessed for cataract surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3901/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of the roll-out of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3365/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: We have talked at length today about the national broadband plan, but there has been conflicting information coming from different sections of government on the costs associated with the roll-out of the national broadband plan. The Minister will appreciate that there is considerable concern, particularly in the light of what has happened in the building of the national children's hospital...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister will have read the detail in his Department that when the State originally sought to develop a process to appoint contractors, the advice available to the Government at the time - in a PwC or KPMG report - identified the necessity or opportunity to leverage the use of existing infrastructure that resided with the ESB and Eir. The best value for the State could be provided on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mining Industry (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the identification of further unidentified sinkholes in view of the identification of a further sinkhole on a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3367/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mining Industry (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister is familiar with the sinkholes that have developed in parts of County Monaghan as a result of difficulties around a disused site. Could he update the House on where the Department is at in dealing with other such potential difficulties around the country?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mining Industry (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister well knows that the grounds at the GAA club and village community centre in Magheracloone were damaged by the opening of that sinkhole. Land collapsed at the community centre in the immediate aftermath of the emergence of that sinkhole. Part of a road also collapsed with a significant impact on people getting around. My concerns are centred around the safety of the roads,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mining Industry (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister may not have all the information today but I am trying to get at the reviews that take place. I understand that, from the time that the water was pumped into the caverns, a three-month period elapsed before the collapse at Drumgossatt. I understand that Gyproc indicated that it only monitors every six months, as required by the Department. It appears in this case, based on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to address freshwater temperatures in view of increased fish mortality rates in summer 2018. [3369/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister is aware that the increases in water temperatures during the summer of 2018 had a considerable impact on fish mortality rates. Will he outline to the House any proposals he has to address this issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister of State has outlined the impact of climate change but the sad reality is that this is the tip of the iceberg of the horrific impacts of climate change. Since 1980 there has been a 50-fold increase in the number of places experiencing dangerous or extreme heat. The five warmest summers in Europe since 1500 have happened since 2000. We are playing Russian roulette with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: While I accept that the development plan for 2040 contains certain targets, the difficulty is that when we start pushing something as far out as 2040 that allows people to glaze over and effectively say that is for another generation, it is for somebody else beyond this electoral cycle. The principle of carbon pricing was introduced by the then Government in 2012. Fine Gael-led Governments...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I have raised very serious concerns about the capacity of the remaining bidder to deliver. I and others have been raising them for the past year and a half and, sadly, it seems that it has only dawned on the Government in recent weeks. Perhaps the concerns are being taken more seriously following the Minister's arrival in office. I have been raising concerns since the main contractors that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (24 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 1. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the completion of the tendering process for the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3370/19]