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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Expenditure (29 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: 539. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount allocated to each local action group, LAG, under the 2014 to 2020 LEADER programme; the amount expended under the programme in each LAG as at 31 December 2018; the percentage of the total spend to date of the amount allocated to each LAG as at 31 December 2018; the amount expended to date on project costs by each LAG as...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (29 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: 540. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount allocated to each local authority under the town and village renewal scheme in each year since it was established; the amount expended by each local authority at the end of each such year to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4192/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: I join all of my colleagues in congratulating the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, and wish him well at this time. With reference to the previous discussion, we need to provide reassurance - to use the Tánaiste's word - on two issues, the first of which is the backlog. Will the Government publish the medical advice the Minister for Health was given before he took the decision to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: Will he publish the advice he received?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: It was the opposite.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: The issue of capacity in the labs is essential and the Government cannot continue to say there is a capacity issue while not outlining any plan to deal with it. I understand one of the labs has reduced its staff complement from 16 to four; demand for screening has gone up by a third but it cut staff by 75%. As the Government was made aware of the backlog on 18 October, what did it do to get...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: It was three hours later.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: It is €450,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: Last April and May, the CervicalCheck controversy shook our nation's faith in our health service right to core. The heartbreaking stories of the families, and their courage and dignity in the face of what was facing them was seared on all our minds at the time. The Government and the Minister for Health made many promises in the immediate days and weeks after the controversy broke. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: The Tánaiste spoke about reassurance and about providing full transparency. These are essential to rebuilding trust and confidence in this necessary programme. This information, however, has had to be dragged out yet again. It was not provided through the HSE or primary care practitioners but on “Morning Ireland”. Surely the first port of contact should not have been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: That was a once in a century event.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: LEADER Programmes Expenditure (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: 11. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent to date under the present LEADER programme on projects; the amount spent in 2018 on projects by local action groups, LAGs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3029/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: LEADER Programmes Expenditure (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: It is time to sound the emergency bells on LEADER funding. The programme was supposed to end at the end of 2020, which is next year. It is a €250 million programme but the figures for the end of 2018 show that while €38 million was spent, only €13.6 million of that was on natural projects. Will the Minister provide the Department's most up-to-date figures on LEADER...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: LEADER Programmes Expenditure (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: While I welcome the increase in expenditure on projects during 2018, we have had these assurances before. The Minister said 1,644 projects are worth €55.8 million. When is that money anticipated to be drawn down? Will it be during 2019 or 2020? With only two years remaining, does he envisage an extension to the LEADER programme? What is the final date on which he expects LAGs to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: LEADER Programmes Expenditure (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: The team is doing its best but it can deal only with what is coming into it. The Minister again referred to approvals, which are super, but the funding needs to be drawn down. What changes will he make? I welcome his plans to have a seamless transition to the new LEADER programme, which is essential, but what changes will he make to a new programme to ensure we do not have difficulty in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: I agree with the Minister about Ballycastle, but that has been led by the community and not by the local authority. Out of €53 million drawn down, €13 million has been spent. The Minister needs to start kicking heads. Local authorities are great at showing up for openings but there is no sense in the Minister allocating money that is not being drawn down and spent in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timetable for the roll-out of the town and village renewal scheme in 2019 in terms of the applications process; when project funding approvals will issue; and the timetable for implementation of the scheme to encourage residential occupancy in rural towns and villages as committed to in the Action Plan for Rural Development. [3395/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: The Minister does not need to be told that towns and villages are under significant pressure in facing not just the challenge of depopulation but also online trading. For those who do not understand that challenge, I encourage them to listen back to the recent "Drivetime" reports by John Cooke who gave views from the ground. I want to discuss with the Minister how the town and village...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: The Minister has said funding of €53 million has been approved for the town and village renewal scheme. Will he confirm for the House how much of that sum has been drawn down? The replies to parliamentary questions to the Minister indicated that there had been a €2.5 million underspend under the programme in 2018. Will he confirm whether the money has been spent since and if...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme Data (23 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: 21. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of rural roads that have received funding under the LIS in each of the years 2016 to 2018, by local authority in tabular form; and the projected number of road projects to be completed in 2019. [3028/19]