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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (19 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when 2017 and 2018 GLAS payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53782/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (19 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2018 GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53859/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbour Fees (19 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the harbour charges in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry for a period in which a fishing boat was categorised as a pleasure boat will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53866/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (19 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: The National Development Plan (NDP) and the National Sports Policy contain a commitment to establish a new “Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund” (LSSIF) with at least €100 million available over the coming years. The LSSIF opened for applications on 19th November and the closing date for applications is the 17th April 2019. Full details of the scheme and application...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (19 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53590/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (19 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53614/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (19 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53978/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: To be as frank and open as I possibly can be, someone somewhere in the Department dropped the ball on this one. I was given details of a question asked by a different Deputy Moynihan on a different national road. This is why I do not have a specific briefing on the N72. It is not acceptable that a Deputy asking a question on a Topical Issue matter would not be given specific answers.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: It is not acceptable. I am not defending it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: In my defence, my understanding was that I was answering the other Deputy Moynihan on a different question and I was filling in to answer that question.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: It is not acceptable that the wrong response was given to the Deputy. For this reason, I have undertaken to immediately pursue this specific case. That the Deputy has raised it on the floor of the Dáil indicates the matter is clearly important in his constituency. I acknowledge he frequently makes requests on road safety issues in various locations in his constituency and it is only...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: I will have to receive clarification on that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: As I said, I have given a very clear undertaking to give the matter my urgent attention I will raise it with the senior Minister and seek an urgent response for the Deputy.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: It is not acceptable to the Deputy or the House that the wrong response was given.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: I am responding on behalf of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, because there is a Cabinet meeting taking place. I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. I am quite familiar with the N72. As the Deputy knows, it extends from Killorglin and Killarney to east Kerry, through Rathmore, and then over to the Deputy's constituency. It is a road I often take if...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (18 Dec 2018)

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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: Funding for local and regional roads will be announced early in the new year, which is earlier than usual. All going well, there will be an announcement in the first fortnight of 2019.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: As the Deputy may know, the scheme announced during the summer was a pilot scheme. That scheme will come to an end on 31 December. The success or otherwise of such schemes will be assessed. In 2019 we will be reviewing the position, with a view to continuing the scheme in the future. The pilot was to assess how the model might work in rural communities.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a request by a school (details supplied) for funding to build a new school on a greenfield site in view of the fact that its existing site is not suitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52733/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 13 November 2018, his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53308/18]