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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (31 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 40. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the need for continued EU financial support for cross-Border programmes at his recent meeting with the President of the European Commission in view of the benefits that accrued to communities in Northern Ireland and the border region from such investment since the mid 1990s. [3360/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (31 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the issues raised in the submission by the Northern and Western Regional Assembly will be given consideration in the preparation of the national planning framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4531/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (31 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the potential of smaller towns to expand to enable population growth and provide for increased economic activity will be ensured and not constrained by the national planning framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4532/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 239. To ask the Minister for Health if additional services will be provided at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4910/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (31 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 240. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be provided in order to ensure maximum utilisation of capacity at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4911/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 247. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical appliance (details supplied) will be restored as an item covered by the medical card as was the position previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4955/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (30 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the outcome of discussions to date with the European Commission on cohesion funding post 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3936/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Planning Framework (30 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if structural funds post 2020 will be aligned with priorities identified in the national planning framework and regional and spatial economic strategies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3937/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there have been discussions at the European Agriculture and Fisheries Council on the need to have fertiliser costs reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3989/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Medals (30 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 663. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason some personnel who participated in the 1916 centenary commemorations were not recipients of commemorative medals in view of the fact their colleagues in other front-line emergency services were awarded such medals; her plans to rectify this anomaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4540/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Medals (30 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 664. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria regarding the award of commemorative medals for front-line emergency service providers; the reasons all such personnel were not considered for inclusion in this programme to mark their contribution to the centenary commemorations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4541/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: I compliment the witnesses on the excellent presentation and the appropriate manner in which they put forward the details on an extremely difficult issue. I am very glad, as I did in 2012, to have suggested for the 2018 work programme of this committee to invite the representatives of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains to make a presentation to the committee. My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: Nobody is entitled to shoot anybody.

Other Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: I fully agree with the Minister. Properly marking the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement will remind us of what we all risk losing in the longer term owing to the short-term partisan gains of two political parties. This year, 2018, marks the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the 50th anniversary of civil rights, the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of...

Other Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had discussions with political parties, statutory agencies or Departments in respect of an appropriate commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. [1626/18]

Other Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to date with regard to an appropriate commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. [1625/18]

Other Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: In marking the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in a significant and comprehensive manner, we would be doing more than just commemorating the successful completion of an historic agreement. We would be reminding people in leadership roles in all parts of these two islands of the crucial importance of the three strands of relationships that fundamentally underpin the Good Friday...

Other Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his positive response. I welcome the fact that he intends to hold commemorations and events on our island, in Washington and elsewhere. We should also press for a significant input from the European Union to mark the achievement. The EU is not explicitly mentioned in the Good Friday Agreement but it also underpins the agreement. The chair of the negotiations...

Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: I compliment my colleague, Deputy Thomas Byrne, on putting forward a comprehensive and practical motion. I hope that the Minister can give it favourable consideration. The motion is comprehensive. It deals with all aspects of the crisis facing second-level and primary schools in regard to teaching replacements. From speaking to a principal and a deputy principal of a large second-level...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (24 Jan 2018)

Brendan Smith: 42. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the numbers serving in the Permanent Defence Force at the end of 2017; the projected number of enlisted personnel for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3357/18]