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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Expenditure (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 60. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if new schemes will be introduced to assist in the upgrading of existing child care places or the provision of new accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31179/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he plans to implement to deal with the escalating costs of insurance premiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31511/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30839/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 355. To ask the Minister for Health the reason changes were implemented in a hospital (details supplied); the reason the waiting time for persons has been extended for two weeks when in the past persons were seen within a ten day maximum period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30935/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to put forward at EU level the need to protect the CAP budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31524/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he has had with the EU agriculture and budget Commissioners regarding the need to protect CAP funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31525/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Development (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the progress to date in advancing a greenway utilising sections of the disused Sligo and Leitrim and northern counties railway (SLNCR) route; the status of this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31071/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Development (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the position regarding the proposal to develop a greenway between Ballinamore, County Leitrim and Belturbet, County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31072/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Constituency Commission (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Smith: 665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he plans to introduce legislation to give effect to the recommendations for Dáil Éireann constituencies in the Constituency Commission Report 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31209/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: I emphasise that I am a realist and I know it is not easy to attract foreign direct investment to rural areas. An additional impetus is needed to try to attract foreign direct investment to the Border area, which has the skills pool and people required. At a time such as this, we must ensure there is good collaboration between agencies, North and South, as there has been over the years....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 10. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to assist enterprises that are heavily dependent on exporting to the British market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30430/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: I wish the Tánaiste well in her new role in Government. The agrifood, construction and engineering sectors are major players in our local economy in Cavan-Monaghan and the Border region in particular. That goes for north of the Border as well. Those sectors have already been impacted by Brexit, particularly with the reduction in the value of sterling. The Government needs to give out...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Tánaiste for her reply. I would like her to come to the region and meet enterprises. Over the years we have had particular obstacles in trying to attract foreign direct investment to Cavan-Monaghan and the Border region because of the troubles we endured as a community over many decades. Thankfully, during that period people with great entrepreneurial spirit developed...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Initiatives (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans for specific additional measures to assist job creation in areas such as counties Cavan and Monaghan which will face serious challenges due to Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30429/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding discussions with the US authorities on immigration reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30713/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to have further discussions with the US authorities at political and official level on the need to progress immigration reform in view of the concerns of many Irish citizens living in the United States of America who are anxious to have their status regularised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30714/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony Services (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the provisions that have been put in place to ensure that mobile telephone companies are implementing the new roaming charges regime approved by the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30705/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allocate additional funding in 2017 to Cavan and Monaghan councils for the non-national road network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30716/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 299. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to continue prescribing Lariam to members of the Defence Forces; if consideration is being given to the withdrawal of this medication from the range of anti-malarial medications made available to the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30521/17]

Anti-Malarial Medication: Motion (28 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: One of the most regrettable realities of the past six or seven years has been the political neglect of our Defence Forces. Political leadership of the Department of Defence was first relegated to being a part-time role exercised by a Minister holding responsibility for another major Department and more recently to being a job handed out to a Minister of State. When the Taoiseach, Deputy...