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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. There is co-ordination and it is being done through the town regeneration officers. It is their job to work together through the local authority and to identify funding schemes. Offaly has not been doing too badly. I remember being up in the supermarket I visited in Edenderry and €12.25 million was provided for that. That is a wonderful project. I visited...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Health Services

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 38. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 9 May 2024, the status of the transfer to her Department of land on Inishbofin on which the airstrip is situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26981/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Téim ar ais arís go cúrsaí na n-oileán leis an Aire agus go háirithe an t-ionad cúraim phríomhúil atá beartaithe ar Inis Bó Finne le 21 bhliain anois, ag dul siar go dtí 2003. I am hoping that the Minister might be telling me that she might be giving me a day for cutting a ribbon on the primary care centre on Inishbofin, just to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank Deputy Connolly also for raising this issue. As the Deputy is aware, the land on which the Inishbofin airstrip is located is currently owned by Galway County Council. These lands were acquired by way of a compulsory purchase order, CPO, by Galway County Council on behalf of the Department. Part of the site is intended for use by the HSE for a primary care centre. The transfer of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister and I appreciate her hands-on approach in this matter but it is also important always to point out that the CLÁR programme in 2003 identified the need for health centre. That is 21 years ago. Then we had the national primary care island services review in 2017, which again absolutely highlighted the need for a primary care centre. We are talking about Inishbofin,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I am glad that the Deputy put in the questions because I think if she or I were doing this, we would have it done more quickly, to be honest with the Deputy. When I started looking at this, it has been going on since 9 September 2003. That is when the Department requested Galway County Council to purchase the land. This went through a CPO process. I will not go into it but the Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: A health centre on an island is a most basic requirement. I take heart in what the Minister has said but I have done that before foolishly. I take heart, however, from the fact that we are being told that a design team would be appointed in quarter 3. I note that that is not in the Minister's answer anywhere. We are getting certain information like a jigsaw puzzle. I welcome that a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Cathal Berry: I leave the last word to the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. There is no doubt about it but that we need the primary care centre on the island. My Department intends to transfer a section of the land to the HSE and we have given the Deputy a timeframe on that. I will ask my officials to respond to the Deputy with an answer on the design team as I do not have that to hand and I will not give the Deputy wrong information. I know...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jun 2024)

Departmental Programmes

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 39. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider changing the application process under CLÁR, measure 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26534/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jun 2024)

Brendan Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the outcome of the review into CLÁR areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26540/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jun 2024)

Brendan Smith: 46. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it is proposed to extend the CLÁR areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26539/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I understand the question is grouped with a number of questions from Deputy Brendan Smith who would have raised questions with the Minister about the Ballyhaise and Castletara areas being included in the CLÁR area. The Deputy is held up with the Good Friday committee meeting at this stage but I ask that the Minister might be able to address those points. In particular, I want to raise...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Control of Dogs (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Yes, it will look at that. As I live on the Border, I am aware that there will be a ban on these dogs in Northern Ireland. It has already kicked in in the UK. It will be in place from the first week of July. We do not want to be out of kilter with Northern Ireland. There is no point in them being banned there and having a different arrangement south of the Border. However, we have to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2024)

Vacant Properties

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 37. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she accepts that there continues to be an unacceptably high level of vacancy and dereliction in many local authority areas; if she will commit to increase funding to tackle vacancy and dereliction rates in County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26604/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: Does the Minister accept that there continues to be high levels of vacancy and dereliction in many local authority areas? In particular, I raise my area, County Offaly, where the local authority is grappling with derelict and vacant buildings. I acknowledge that €2 million in funding was provided under the urban regeneration and development fund, but I would like the Minister to look...