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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (20 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: Deputies Darragh O'Brien, Seán Crowe and Maureen O'Sullivan and Senator Ivana Bacik have indicated that they would like to ask additional questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (20 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: I thank Deputy O'Brien. We are pushed for time so I call Deputy Seán Crowe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (20 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: Perhaps the Minister could communicate with the Senator later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (20 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: Like my party colleague, Deputy O'Brien, I welcome the fact that the Minister will be in Derry before the end of the week to engage with civic society in regard to Brexit. I was in Enniskillen last Monday evening to meet people from Fermanagh and Tyrone who are involved in business and politics. There is a genuine concern in those communities about the urgent need to ensure their interests...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Issues (20 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 192. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the restoration of the Ulster Canal; the timeframe for the provision of a jetty by Waterways Ireland at Castle Saunderson, County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31330/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 307. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capital funding that will be available in 2017 towards the provision of community child care facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31234/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: I wish to pick up on a few of the points made by my colleagues Deputies Frank O’Rourke and Jack Chambers. There is some fairness in the budget in the disbursement of funding that became available, commonly known as the fiscal space. It is welcome that there will be an increase in pension payments and other social welfare payments because since 2011 the hallmark of budgets was not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 114. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals in place to increase the number of home help hours in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30675/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (18 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 127. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the September 2016 figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund which showed that 1,137 persons are waiting more than 12 months for an outpatient appointment in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30674/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (13 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils at primary and post-primary levels that lost out on school transport for the 2016 to 2017 school year due to a change in the criteria for eligibility for such transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30180/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (13 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the total drainage works programme of the Office of Public Works in 2016 in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30182/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (13 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his proposals to allocate funding in 2016 to Cavan County Council to enable it to undertake drainage works to deal with flooding in a number of areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30184/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (13 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his proposals to allocate funding in 2016 to Monaghan County Council to enable it undertake drainage works to deal with flooding in a number of areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30185/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (13 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the total drainage works programme of the Office of Public Works in 2016 in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30186/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Leader Programmes (13 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 115. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will amend the criteria pertaining to the Leader programme to include the provision of community child care facilities as potential eligible projects, since some rural areas lack preschool care places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30041/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Health when additional staff will be recruited to enable the full capacity of a centre (details supplied) to be utilised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29977/16]

Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (6 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for her reply. I ask her to pass on to her colleague in government, the Minister, Deputy Bruton, my repeated request that should capital funding become available within his Department between now and the end of the year, this is a project in respect of which any funding provided would be put to good use. As the Minister is aware, there can be delays in some capital...

Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (6 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: I appreciate the Office of the Ceann Comhairle giving me the opportunity to raise this subject. It concerns the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Skills to approve funding of €50,000 towards the replacement of windows in Bunscoil Louis Naofa, Cloughvalley Upper, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. This is an issue I have pursued with the Minister, Deputy Bruton, through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management: European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management (6 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: Today, we meet Mr. Christos Stylianides, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management. We are delighted to welcome the Commissioner to the committee to discuss matters of mutual interest. The European Union is the largest donor of humanitarian aid in the world. Its role in co-ordinating and building close working relationships with key partners in its humanitarian work,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management: European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management (6 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Commissioner. The Trócaire representatives present will be pleased that he mentioned the organisation. Trócaire and many other Irish NGOs, with their sister organisations throughout the world, do excellent work in assisting the most underprivileged and disadvantaged communities. The crises in many parts of the world are clearly demonstrated in the Commissioner's...