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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (26 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to exclude a student's part-time earnings from the family's income assessment for higher education grant eligibility; his views on whether the inclusion of a student's part-time earnings is a disincentive to work, particularly where family incomes are under pressure; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that such earnings have...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: North-South Ministerial Council (25 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council will be held and the issues to be discussed. [22470/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (25 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: 552. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided in 2017 to enable Transport Infrastructure Ireland to progress a proposed road project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31480/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK EU Referendum Result: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the presence of Mr. Sheridan and Dr. Soares. I compliment them and their colleagues in both organisations who have done exceptionally good work over the years, much of it under the radar. During the previous Dáil, they had the opportunity to make a presentation to this committee as well, which was worthwhile. I am very glad that both these witnesses are with us today to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Brendan Smith: I welcome members to this meeting, the first in the Dáil Chamber. Draft minutes of the meeting of 6 October 2016 have been circulated. Are the minutes of that meeting agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising from these minutes? No.

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: We meet today with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan. I extend a warm welcome to the Minister and his officials to the meeting, which is timely as a number of the issues to be discussed will have been considered at recent meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and, I am sure, formed the central part of proceedings at the Council meeting held on Monday last....

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 the Minister for his detailed presentation, which reflects the huge number of serious issues on the agenda of the Foreign Affairs Council. The continuing senseless loss of life, relentless bombing and inhumane attacks on civilians in Syria demand that the international community, through the UN and other international bodies, bring the horrific five-year war in that country to an...

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: One second, please. Deputy O'Brien must allow the Minister to conclude. He will get another opportunity to speak.

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 will bring the Deputy in 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: 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]