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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: North-South Ministerial Council (19 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 922. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date for the next meeting with her counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive in sectorial format, as provided for in the North-South Ministerial Council; the issues to be discussed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22856/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I take the opportunity to compliment the staff in Cavan General Hospital, many of whom I know personally. All the staff, regardless of the discipline they work in, work extremely hard under a lot of pressure and stress and they are diligent and committed to their patients. As I said earlier, fortunately, there was major development and...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: I am very concerned about the media reports that appeared last weekend about the status of the emergency departments in nine hospitals, including Cavan General Hospital. The huge number of people attending the hospital in Cavan every week clearly indicates the need for its emergency department to retain all services. Only last May, in parliamentary questions, I raised the need to provide...

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his response and indicating that he will provide for a USO. I hope his departmental officials, in their discussions with ComReg, will stress the urgency of this matter. The Minister has mentioned that he has raised it with his colleagues at the Council of Communications Ministers. I hope progress will be made more quickly in this instance than in the case of...

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: I stress the need for the broadband plan to be rolled out as rapidly as possible in areas such as mine. It is drumlin country in which there is poor mobile phone coverage. The Minister mentioned that there was a USO in respect of voice telephony. I presume that this includes mobile telephony.

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: It is not included. Although I am broadening the question, people nowadays remove landlines from their homes because of the costs involved and their daily business is transacted on mobile phones. Will the Minister consider trying to ensure telecoms companies which generate significant revenues from their mobile phone services will provide an adequate service? Regardless of where I travel...

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: Companies could co-locate more effectively.

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: Co-location has not been maximised by the companies involved.

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 601 of 8 June 2016, if he has had discussions with ComReg regarding the application of a universal service obligation on broadband telecommunications providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21511/16]

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: I have previously raised the possible application of a universal service obligation on telecommunications companies to provide broadband. I am concerned that rural, thinly-populated and isolated communities will not get the service they need and that companies will cherry-pick the populated areas. As such, an obligation should be placed on them to provide a universal broadband service...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to improve the broadband telecommunications service throughout counties Cavan and Monaghan; if he is aware that households, educational and business interests, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, are concerned about the inadequate service that exists in many areas in these counties; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Trials (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 187. To ask the Minister for Health his proposals to licence and authorise the drug Ampligen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21797/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (14 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 222. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that there will be no change to the status of the emergency department in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21903/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 152. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review an application for funding from a community project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21578/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Peace and Reconciliation Programme (13 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the new PEACE programme will be operational; the funding allocated to this programme; the financial contribution by the European Union, by the Irish Government and by the British Government.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21581/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (13 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the new INTERREG programme will be operational; the funding allocated for this programme; the financial contribution by the European Union, by the Irish Government and by the British Government.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21582/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (13 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to confirm that there will be no delays to projects funded through cross-Border bodies where contracts are due to be finalised within the next few months; if the result of the recent British European Union membership referendum will have any effect on the roll-out of these programmes.; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 51. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals there are to increase the number of home help hours in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [20979/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the substantial increase between December 2015 and May 2016 in the number of outpatients waiting more than a year for a consultation in Cavan General Hospital. [20978/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (12 Jul 2016)

Brendan Smith: 150. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her proposals to provide additional resources to the Garda vetting unit in view of the delays that occur in the processing of applications which causes problems for persons taking up new employment or changing employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20738/16]