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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...

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

Heather Humphreys: The town centre first policy is a major cross-government policy that recognises vacancy and dereliction are still a challenge in many rural towns and villages. It seeks to breathe new life into our town centres, supporting the Our Rural Future vision for a thriving rural Ireland. Central to town centre first is the range of support funding, including my Department’s rural...

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

Carol Nolan: I acknowledge that these schemes are positive and bring about improvements if towns and villages are lucky to avail of the funding through the application which is made by the local authority. They are very positive and that is why I am asking for increased funding to be given to our local authority, Offaly County Council. I acknowledge the work of the council's regeneration team, including...

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

Heather Humphreys: We have appointed town regeneration officers in every county. They will engage with communities and with landowners who have derelict properties nothing is happening to. The Deputy and I know well that there is a myriad of reasons that properties are left derelict. I often go into a town and ask why on earth no one is living in those houses. However, there is probably a story behind it....

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

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for her reply. I reiterate that this could work better and be even more effective than it currently is if there was a co-ordinated approach, such as ensuring businesses stay in place and thrive and that they are supported to a greater extent. To that end, I hope the Government will take on board the need to cut the VAT rate to 9% to keep some of those businesses in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Telecommunications Infrastructure (20 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty is that the task force has now been usurped by the Department of communications in terms of its own digital strategy, which is based on EU targets. These EU targets are based on continental Europe, where population densities are very different from what they are here. As the Minister knows, the telecoms operators have proposed a unified mobile phone network in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Telecommunications Infrastructure (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank Deputy Naughten. I am very happy to take on board his suggestions but, in fairness, much of the responsibility for this lies with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. The Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, sits on the task force. In fairness to Deputy Naughten, the then Minister, if I remember correctly, we set up the task force in 2016 and it was a...