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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (7 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: 1098. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to issues raised by a local authority (details supplied) in relation to child care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45844/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I welcome our three witnesses and thank Ms Sandra Peake and Mr. Brian Gormally for the clarity in their presentations. We heard Ms Peake give an important presentation at the committee a number of years ago. In her concluding remarks, she spoke about the bodies of the disappeared and the three which were still, unfortunately, missing. Around that time also, the Commissioners for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the review of income eligibility limits for social housing has commenced; if so, the likely timeframe for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45087/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to improve income eligibility limits for social housing in areas such as counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45086/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 61. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has had discussions at EU level on the need to implement specific measures to assist businesses and enterprise in the Border region that will be adversely affected by Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44668/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 62. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions her Department is having with its counterpart in Northern Ireland on the need to implement programmes on a cross-Border basis to assist businesses and enterprise that will be affected adversely by Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44669/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the recent discussions he has had with the authorities in the United States of America on immigration reform; if he has put forward new proposals with particular reference to the undocumented Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Built Heritage Investment Scheme (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 139. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is specific grant assistance available towards the necessary upgrade of an old dwelling house which would be regarded as a heritage building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45416/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Incidence (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a higher instance of persons with haemochromatosis in specific parts of the country; if so, the variation between the different HSE regions; if there are standard procedures throughout the country for the treatment of such persons in view of the fact that there are substantial costs for persons attending hospitals as outpatients that do not have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that will be made in 2018 in providing additional respite services (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern about the inadequate services provided at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45605/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be implemented to deal with anomalies in the provision of services for persons with a disability (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45606/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had specific engagement with farming and agrifood interests in Northern Ireland on the difficulties that will arise for this sector due to Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45601/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Data (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of areas of natural constraint payments made to date in County Cavan; when the remaining payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45602/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Data (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of areas of natural constraint payments made to date in County Monaghan; when the remaining payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45603/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Committee of Public Accounts (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 238. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to have a company (details supplied) subjected to the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45521/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on correspondence from a local authority (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45522/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that will be implemented to ensure improvements on routes operated by Bus Éireann in which concerns have been brought to the attention of his Department (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45562/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Grant Payments (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 251. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is grant assistance available towards the provision of electricity supply to an outlying shed or farm building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45417/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposal to provide a new fire station in Ballybay, County Monaghan, will be progressed during 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45608/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to enable persons avail of the tenant purchase scheme that may not have a weekly income apart from a social welfare payment but are in a position from their own means or through family financial support to purchase their council family home; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the present criteria of...