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Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (2 May 2017)

Joe Carey: I wish to ask Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the status of the 2017 CLÁR programme and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (2 May 2017)

Joe Carey: The CLÁR programme is the most important scheme for rural Ireland. I welcome that the Minister of State re-opened the scheme last year. It was the first time since 2009 that the scheme was available. Last year County Clare received €284,000 for 27 projects for rural areas that have suffered from significant depopulation. The scheme provides community groups and schools with an...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: CLÁR Programme (2 May 2017)

Joe Carey: 83. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects to announce successful applications under the 2017 CLÁR programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20309/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Built Heritage Investment Scheme (2 May 2017)

Joe Carey: 85. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects to announce successful applications under the built heritage investment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20310/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (2 May 2017)

Joe Carey: 678. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding a storm protection scheme (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20567/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (2 May 2017)

Joe Carey: 1167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding payments under the 2016 basic payment scheme and the 2015 and 2016 GLAS schemes; the status of GLAS payments to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19474/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (2 May 2017)

Joe Carey: 1441. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she envisages the records as presented by an organisation (details supplied) will be available in workable format to those persons that need them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19914/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (13 Apr 2017)

Joe Carey: 287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of a GLAS contract for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18932/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (11 Apr 2017)

Joe Carey: 441. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be made available for a flood protection scheme (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17986/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Joe Carey: 643. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason whereby in a GLAS 3 application by a person (details supplied) and as administered by his Department, protection of watercourses was not an option when adjoining landowners using the river in question qualified for this option. [18059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Paternity Leave Scheme (6 Apr 2017)

Joe Carey: 195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the new paid paternity benefit scheme per county since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17412/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (6 Apr 2017)

Joe Carey: 273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are planned changes, either through legislation or otherwise, to the rules regarding the felling of forestry and the replanting obligation in the context of a scenario (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17186/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education Standards (5 Apr 2017)

Joe Carey: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he envisages his Department interacting with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to make more seamless and develop specific numeracy and literacy skills in the transition of a child from ECCE, early childhood care and education, to first year in primary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cancer Strategy Publication (30 Mar 2017)

Joe Carey: 224. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to publish the national cancer care strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15941/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (28 Mar 2017)

Joe Carey: 236. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15148/17]

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (21 Mar 2017)

Joe Carey: I thank the Minister. We have a huge challenge in reaching our renewable energy targets. We need more initiatives like the one the Minister has described which is very encouraging. We have opportunities in solar, hydro and biomass energy. There are also huge opportunities in offshore wind. There seems to be a focus, understandably, on larger scale energy producers. I want to raise the...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (21 Mar 2017)

Joe Carey: The Minister mentioned in his opening remarks the need to secure Government approval and that he had hoped that if he gets Government approval he could push on in the later stages of this year and perhaps next year. He also mentioned the question of state aid. Has the Minister made any inquiries on the state aid impact? Is he confident the scheme he is designing will get around that...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (21 Mar 2017)

Joe Carey: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider the creation of a renewable electricity feed in tariff for microgeneration using action 114 of the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13697/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Geological Survey of Ireland (21 Mar 2017)

Joe Carey: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the policy on supporting stakeholders in the creation and maintenance of geoparks, such as the Burren and Cliffs of Moher geopark, in view of the environmental and economic benefits of this UN designation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13694/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Joe Carey: I thank both groups for their clear presentations. There was an awful lot of overlap with our meeting of two weeks ago. A lot of the points made by both groups today were also made two weeks ago to this committee. I am concerned about the level of consultation and also about what is viewed as consultation. It appears that the points raised in the so-called dialogue were not taken on...