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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 2053. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if applications for funding were received by her Department from Mayo County Council for the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund announced on 7 January 2022; and if so, if the Council was successful. [1667/22]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas le hAilish Bhreathnach agus gach duine ó Chomhairle Cathrach na Gaillimhe. Bhí sonraí móra aici. Is í Gaillimh príomhchathair na Gaeltachta agus na Gaeilge. Tá dúshlán mór roimh an gcomhairle an Ghaeilge a spreagadh agus na daoine le Gaeilge atá ag iarraidh a bheith ina gcónaí agus ag fanacht i nGaillimh...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: Labróidh mé as Béarla mar gheall gur bhain Caroline úsáid as. I get all that and I get the need for extra grants to protect the 700 structures, but Galway has a unique status. Galway is the capital city of the Gaels. It is a regional city but it is also the capital city of Gaeilge and an Ghaeltacht. It is all very well to encourage and facilitate commuting, but...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: We are looking for ideas too. That is the work this committee is doing. The witnesses are the ones dealing with this issue day to day. They are engaging with developers in the case of the city council, and their colleagues in the county authority are dealing with potential homeowners and so on. Based on their day-to-day interactions as planners, if they have the ambition to do this, they...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: I will speak in English. How can you call your city bilingual when it only has 2%? I wish to come back to the point I made at the beginning of the meeting. The council seems to be confining itself to a planning authority. It is more than that. It is the prime development body of the city, the prime development body of my regional capital and the prime development body of the principal...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: Táim sásta leis sin. Tá ár bhfinnéithe ón gcomhairle cathrach i láthair na faidhbe agus tá na deiseanna acu anois chun a dtuairimí a chur os ár gcomhair. Más rud é go bhfuil siad ag iarraidh a bheith bríomhar, táim cinnte go mbeidh siad in ann é sin a dhéanamh. Tá deis ag cathair na Gaillimhe nach bhfuil...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (16 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State. I would like some detail on that review process and its timeline. Will that happen in the first quarter of next year? Will the recommendations the Minister of State is hoping to bring require legislative change? If so, do we have any sense of a timeline on that? A number of us met with credit union representatives a few weeks ago and the Minister of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (16 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: Those recommendations make complete sense. The Minister used the word "promptly". Those recommendations were made in 2017 and we are now in 2021. Will the new proposals mirror some of those recommendations? Where did that resistance come from?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (16 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the credit union’s common bond. [62244/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (16 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: I would like the Minister of State’s views are on the common bond for credit unions. Has the Government any plans in this space? We also might have an opportunity to discuss the work that the Minister of State doing on credit unions. He is putting significant work into this. In yesterday's update from the Central Bank of Ireland, the ambition and the hunger of the credit union...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in counties Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal, respectively, currently being supported by the employment wage subsidy scheme; the number of businesses in each county currently availing of the business resumption support scheme; the number of businesses in each county currently availing of the Covid restrictions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement on EU Cohesion Policy and Ireland: European Commission (15 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: That will not be a challenge for me, Chairman. I thank Mr. Sobral for his contribution. It was clear and concise. Unfortunately, it is clear and concise coming from Brussels, but when it gets to Dublin, that is where the problems start. I come from the northern and western region of this country. We were a developed region and now have slipped to being "a region in transition". For us...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: 201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reassess his views on the employment wage subsidy scheme rates and revert to those rates of November 2021 in view of the impact of the CMO statements, of NPHET recommendations and subsequent Government restrictions and their consequences on November and December bookings and business in the hospitality, events and entertainment industry and as a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (14 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the work being done to date to implement a programme for Government commitment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61132/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (14 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will respond to correspondence from Mayo County Council in relation to a school (details supplied); and the steps she has taken since meeting with the same school in Spring 2021. [61368/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: 784. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 743 of 30 November 2021, his views on assessing a case for a frost recon scheme which has been ongoing since 2019; the reason his Department has not utilised the €7 million unused forestry budget for the frost recon scheme to support forest owners whose forests have been damaged by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (9 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: I welcome that. We could take the entire €140 million in the west. Will the plans encompass the Government's new climate action priorities, particularly in the west? There is much rather lazy focus on wind energy, but much more could be done with hydrogen production and advancing the infrastructure of the area in a climate-friendly way. Will the enterprise plan include specific...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (9 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: I acknowledge the Minister of State's work and assistance in this area. However, Deputy Ó Cuív is right. We have gone the full circle. There are families and people across the country for whom we could not get home help hours for a long time because the resources were not available. Now the hours are available, but we do not have the people. Families are being left in appalling...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (9 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: 89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to support regional enterprise in the aftermath of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60792/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (9 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: I am inquiring about the status of the regional enterprise plans, many of which were completed in 2020. Can I get an update on them, particularly in the context of Brexit but also in the context of the Covid pandemic, and the benefits there have been for regional enterprise?