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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (11 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of discussions he had with members of the Northern Ireland Executive and the UK Government on the need to implement the Stormont House and the Fresh Start agreements in full. [1573/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (11 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: The Stormont House and Fresh Start agreements need to be implemented to deal with legacy issues. I welcome the coroner's report today on the Ballymurphy massacre. A sense of relief was so evident as I listened this evening to the families of those innocent people who were murdered by state forces. The anguish and suffering those families were put through as a result of the heinous crimes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (11 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his response. I remember meeting the Ballymurphy families in the Dáil in 2014. If memory serves me, a motion was passed unanimously in the House in 2015 in support of the families. I very much welcome and do not doubt the Government's commitment to dealing with legacy issues but the British Government must be equally committed, which has not been the case so...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (11 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: I agree with the Minister. I know families who have lost loved ones and who have never gotten justice. They have never gotten the truth regarding who carried out the atrocities. In December 1972 in my own home area of Belturbet, County Cavan, two young teenagers, Geraldine O'Reilly and Patrick Stanley, were killed by a bomb. RTÉ will broadcast a programme tonight about the bombing of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (11 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of the most recent discussions he had with his UK counterpart in relation to the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland. [13243/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (11 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 381. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he had with members of the Northern Ireland Executive and with members of the UK Government in relation to the need to address legacy issues as provided for in the Stormont House Agreement. [1574/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Diseases (11 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 950. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a compensation scheme for a sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23741/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Future of Ireland: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the contributions of Reverend Karen and Mr. Lunn. As Ms Hanna and others have said, this is a particularly difficult and traumatic day for the families of the victims of the Ballymurphy massacre. We sincerely hope the findings of the inquest will bring the truth. We at this committee have often discussed with the families of victims that the least people deserve is the truth...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Improvement Scheme (6 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce a specific funding programme for the local improvement scheme due to the delay in having such roads repaired as discussed in Dáil Éireann (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23562/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 239. To ask the Minister for Health if the recruitment of vaccinators will be streamlined and unnecessary delays eliminated in the case of applicants such as recently retired general practitioners and other health professionals that are still registered with their professional body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23584/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (6 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 25 March 2021, if there have been recent discussions with the European Commission in relation to the issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23565/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will implement to reduce the delays in processing and approving tree felling and tree planting licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23590/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (6 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 276. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when decisions will be made on the 2021 community development pilot programme applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23593/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (5 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to improve income eligibility limits for social housing in counties Cavan and Monaghan given that the existing limits are much too low at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22857/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (5 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when income eligibility limits for social housing will be increased in counties Cavan and Monaghan in which existing limits are far too low at present and unrealistic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22856/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (5 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reduce the 10% deposit requirement for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan given that this is causing serious difficulty for potential applicants who have high rental costs at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22793/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (5 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: 673. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid will be made available for small scale poultry businesses which were totally dependent on selling their product to the hospitality sector pre-Covid-19 and have lost such market for the past 14 months; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that such enterprises are unable to avail of Covid-19 business supports due...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: Thank you, Chairman. My colleague, Senator Blaney, is trying to connect to the meeting. I welcome the contributions of Professors FitzGerald and Morgenroth. It is great to have them with us for this discussion. Professor FitzGerald gave a very impressive statistic on early school-leavers and the success we have had in this State in reducing considerably the percentage of pupils who leave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: Both Professor FitzGerald and Professor Morgenroth referred to the fact that students who leave the likes of Cavan, Monaghan and other rural counties and go to college in Dublin, Cork, Galway or wherever do not, by and large, return to the areas where they came from. Could there be merit in more third level courses being delivered locally through the colleges of further education? Sadly,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Brendan Smith: To go back to an initial comment I made, I referenced the six implementation bodies that were established as part of the Good Friday Agreement. There are six other areas for co-operation. Would Professor FitzGerald or Professor Morgenroth see merit in a seventh implementation body being established in the area of further and higher education and innovation to give a structure to the type of...