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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the level of grant aid to assist in the provision of childcare facilities both for community and private childcare providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29899/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 86. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the level of grant aid to assist in the provision of childcare places; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a need in some communities to undertake large scale projects either in the expansion of existing childcare facilities or in the provision of new childcare facilities; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Northern Ireland (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the authorities in Northern Ireland and with the EU Commission about the proposed PEACE PLUS programme; the projected timeframe for its introduction; the measures that will be included in the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30392/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30397/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated in 2020 to enable the further design and development of an essential road project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30393/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated in 2020 towards the planning and design of an essential road project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30394/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 364. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when funding will be allocated towards the necessary provision of a refuge centre in counties Cavan and Monaghan for victims of domestic abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30395/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Funding (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 381. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated for the 2014 to 2020 LEADER programme; the expenditure to date; if he is satisfied that the total funding will be drawn down by the end date for the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30420/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Administration (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process of nominating members apart from local authority nominees to education and training boards; if membership of such boards varies; if so, the composition of the Cavan and Monaghan ETB, the Louth and Meath ETB, and the Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30046/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 719. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the programme support payment will ensure appropriate financial support to childcare providers in respect of the substantial costs in the administration of the TEC, CCSP and ECCE schemes as announced in May 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29951/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 720. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the programme support payment does not provide for the registration of children after 31 December 2018 to August 2019 in respect of TEC and CCSP and to June for ECCE; if the scheme will be amended to recognise the additional time required for childcare providers to complete the administrative work associated with the scheme as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the stage the proposed North-South interconnector is at; the status of the planning process in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28552/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: I have previously outlined to this Minister and his predecessors the absolute opposition of communities in Meath, Monaghan and Cavan to the proposed North-South interconnector. Those views are shared in the affected areas north of the Border too. Eirgrid has not listened to the views of those communities and neither has the Department, nor the Minister's predecessors. A clear message from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: Does the Minister of State have any idea when a determination will be finalised in respect of the planning project in Northern Ireland? How can a procurement process proceed even in its initial stages if there is not planning permission? I recently mentioned to the Minister of State's colleague that we were told some years ago that the lights would go out in Northern Ireland if the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: That planning permission was granted by a public servant in Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, there is no political system in place there due to the intransigence of the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, and Sinn Féin. This is not a matter of opposition to the development of the all-Ireland electricity market, far from it. The landowners and people living in those communities, who are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: That is not true.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: There is zero acceptance of these proposals.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: There is no planning permission to enter 584 holdings.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: I am not. I am just stating the facts.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (4 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position in relation to the talks between the Irish and British Governments and the Northern Ireland political parties in relation to the need to have the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29008/19]