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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the financial allocation in 2018 for home support, home help and home care packages in counties Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26992/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the initial financial allocation in 2017 for home support, home help and home care packages in counties Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal; the expenditure incurred to year end in the programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26993/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 420. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the need to provide access to new medicines for patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26835/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Cross-Border Projects (14 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 23. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to have further discussions with his counterparts in Northern Ireland on the development of cross-Border projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25853/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Cross-Border Projects (14 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 27. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the discussions his Department is having with its counterparts in Northern Ireland on the development of cross-Border tourism projects that would be of particular benefit to rural communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25854/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (14 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if services will be restored to cover a geographic area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26021/18]

Other Questions: Child Care Services Funding (13 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the commitment to further consultation with private and community childcare providers made by the Minister. I have already made written representations to her office about specific concerns I have in my constituency and would be glad to take up her offer of a meeting to discuss those particular projects.

Other Questions: Child Care Services Funding (13 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a new childcare capital grant scheme in 2018 to assist childcare providers to extend or provide new facilities in cases in which there is an identified need for additional places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25642/18]

Other Questions: Child Care Services Funding (13 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for her reply and I welcome the recent grant approvals. In any grant scheme there will be some disappointed applicants. 12 o’clock In previous replies the Minister gave a commitment to have a widespread consultation with both community childcare providers and private childcare providers on the 2019 capital grant scheme. More grant aid is required to assist in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (13 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 50. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase substantially the maximum level of grant aid in respect of the provision of new childcare facilities in cases in which there is an identified need for additional places and in which the maximum level of grant aid under the present scheme would be inadequate to support a community childcare organisation to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Cross-Border Co-operation (13 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had contact with the British Foreign Secretary following the comments by him in relation to the importance of cross-Border trade and the interdependence of business and commerce North and South; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25875/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (13 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent proposals put forward by Britain to the European Commission in relation to the proposed backstop following Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25877/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Smoking Ban (13 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the deadline for the introduction of the ban on the sale of smoky coal nationwide; the means by which he will be introducing the ban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25869/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Smoking Ban (13 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to prevent the importation by distributors and or consumers of smoky coal from Northern Ireland following the introduction of the nationwide ban on smoky coal. [25870/18]

Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: Like all other members, I again convey my sincere sympathy to the O'Farrell family on the tragic loss of Shane. I do not have the words to describe adequately the immeasurable loss to the O'Farrell family of Shane's passing. He was a much loved son and brother. The local community in Carrickmacross holds the O'Farrell family in high esteem and Shane's untimely passing and tragic death is a...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (12 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the necessary upgrading of national and regional roads in the Border region will be prioritised for investment due to the particular economic challenges that will arise for the region following Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25397/18]

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (12 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: I will take just one supplementary in order to facilitate other members. I welcome the fact that the Minister has committed to visiting the Border region during the summer months to see at first hand the interdependence of the road network in the North and the South and the huge challenges that businesses and commerce in general in the Border region face due to the adverse impact that Brexit...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (12 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his reply. I referenced in particular the need to develop the east-west route. Unfortunately, this project is not referenced in the section of the plan dealing with investment in the Border region. It is regrettable that this is not a priority project. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss in this Chamber with the Minister the need to develop to east-west...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (12 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the Minister's commitment to visit the area. I would be happy to show him the roads concerned. Traffic from Cavan to Clones passes through County Fermanagh three times. From the point of view of the transport industry, the concerns of which the Minister will be aware of in terms of possible tariffs and barriers to the free movement of goods, people and services, economies North...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (12 Jun 2018)

Brendan Smith: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the particular concerns of communities throughout the Border region regarding the adverse impact Brexit will have on the area and the need to upgrade infrastructure such as the road network in order to assist businesses to remain competitive (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...