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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...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (28 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if specific additional funding will be provided for road development in areas such as counties Cavan and Monaghan in the review of the capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30471/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (28 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to the provision of additional funding from the EU cohesion funding programmes for road infrastructure development in areas such as counties Cavan and Monaghan which will be impacted adversely through Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30472/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Exports Data (27 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 118. To ask the Taoiseach the volume and value in money terms of agrifood products exported in 2015 and 2016; and the percentage of these products that were exported to Northern Ireland and Britain. [29460/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Exports Data (27 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 119. To ask the Taoiseach the volume and value in money terms of products in the construction sector exported in 2015 and 2016; and the percentage of these products that were exported to Northern Ireland and Britain. [29461/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Exports Data (27 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 120. To ask the Taoiseach the volume and value in money terms of products in engineering sectors exported in 2015 and 2016; and the percentage of these products that were exported to Northern Ireland and Britain. [29462/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland (27 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 125. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the discussions with Sinn Féin and the DUP on the need to have the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Executive restored. [29773/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland (27 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 126. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to meet with the SDLP, the UUP and the Alliance parties on the urgent need to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Executive. [29774/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (27 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, further to previous representations made to his Department and parliamentary questions on a number of occasions on the urgent need to approve grant aid in respect of necessary upgrading works, particularly window replacements, at a school (details supplied), he will expedite the necessary funding; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Business of Joint Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: I welcome members to the meeting. Apologies have been received from Senator Billy Lawless. Before we proceed to the main business of the meeting I would like to pay my respects and that of the committee and extend condolences to the people of Portugal and, of course, the people of Britain following recent tragedies in both countries. May I extend on my own behalf and that of the joint...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Ukraine: Mrs. Olena Shaloput (22 Jun 2017)

Brendan Smith: I extend a warm welcome to Mrs. Olena Shaloput, chargé d'affaires, and her colleague, Mrs. Iryna Sokoloska, third secretary, Embassy of Ukraine to the meeting, which gives members an opportunity to hear of the current situation in the Ukraine. The format of the meeting is that we will hear Mrs. Shaloput's opening statement before going into a question and answer session with members. ...