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Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I agree in general with the comments of Deputy Hourigan. There are those outside this House who would advise that this was a done deal which cannot be reversed, that Europe has responded favourably to it and so on. It is amazing that a country outside the European Union, where this particular financial house resides, has the ability to overstep the border and make a sizeable investment that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I wish to raise the contentious issue of the large number of women throughout the country who are involved in custody battles and find themselves forcibly removed from their children, sometimes arrested, sometimes imprisoned, and sometimes this happens to their children likewise. I want to ascertain to what extent efforts can be made to dislodge the use of a pseudo-condition introduced by an...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Both.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 14. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she continues to take to ensure that tourism is given every opportunity to develop and grow in the future notwithstanding the future challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3639/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: My question seeks to ascertain the extent to which the Minister can encourage the tourism industry to expand to meet the widest possible market and to encourage various aspects of tourism where an advantage can be gained. I ask that in the context of our recovery from the Covid-19-related lockdowns and the industry's prospects for the future.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply. There are two aspects I would like to concentrate on by way of a supplementary question. The first relates to niche tourism and particularly the use of large country houses. There is considerable scope for niche tourism in that regard. Some of those houses have taken those opportunities and others have not. I also raise the development of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I acknowledge the Minister of State's reference to Kildare North, which is his neighbouring constituency. I ask him to keep it in mind because of the rapidly increasing population and the demand that follows that in terms of sports capital grants, equipment grants and swimming pools, on which we were unfortunate in the past. I ask the Minister of State to look favourably on his next-door...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: And Kildare.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 62. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she expects to be in a position to continue to assist the sporting sector given the increased importance of sporting activity in terms of health and well-being; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3640/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which extra methods and means can be employed to provide extra housing in sufficient volume to meet requirements to address homelessness, child homelessness and family homelessness; if he continues to identify extra measures likely to positively impact in this situation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can identify through the various local authorities suitably developed sites on which builders can be contracted to provide extra homes in the shortest possible time and utilising variations of housing proposals to achieve these including modular homes, log cabins as well as conventional methods to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 204. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which it is anticipated to assist the sporting sector by way of grants or other means, given the need to assist in its recovery notwithstanding Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3909/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 207. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the emphasis she expects to place on Sport in the coming year, with particular reference to the need for facilities in all areas throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3912/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 208. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects to be in a position to offer capital sports grants in the current or future years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3913/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 209. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of valid applications received by her Department for sporting and recreational grants, with particular reference to major and minor grants which might be payable in the course of the current year; when the allocations are likely to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3914/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Priorities (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 205. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department continue to monitor developments in the media, with particular reference to the need to ensure that local print media and radio stations are not endangered by unregulated entities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3910/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Priorities (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 206. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she continues to liaise with local community groups in County Kildare and throughout the country, with a view to ensuring that adequate support is available to facilitate their ongoing requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3911/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Priorities (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 213. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she continues to liaise with voluntary and community groups throughout the country, with a view to assisting by whatever means is appropriate in the course of the current year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3918/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 210. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects to be in a position to continue to support the arts in the current year at local level by way of a particular scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3915/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 211. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects Irish culture to continue to be promoted for economic as well as cultural reasons in the course of the current year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3916/23]