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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Enterprise Sector (30 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 793. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a plan in place for the survival and viability of social enterprise and funded community service programmes which provide essential services to the community, due to lost income and the added costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13709/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 867. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if artists will be allowed to take up short-term projects and work to remain on the pandemic unemployment payment in view of the fact the sector will not open properly until 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13708/20]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to commend the Minister of State, Kevin Boxer Moran, on the work he has done with the OPW in dealing with local authorities. If possible, I ask the Minister to pass that on. As a Louth county councillor, I met the Minister of State a number of times. He has done some works and site visits. At Balmer's Bog, for example, the preliminary works are already about to start. We are...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Does the Minister want me to repeat them now?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: They are Dundalk and Blackrock south, Carlingford-Greenore, Drogheda, Baltray and Ardee. Could we also have an update on Annagassan and Termonfeckin and the Meath-Mornington CFRAM operation? That would be brilliant. What are the guarantees in the context of ensuring that this all happens as we move from the current Government to the next?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 716. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the circumstances of a discretionary medical card appeal by a person (details supplied) being turned down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11572/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1083. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider classifying casual trading fees paid to councils as commercial rates in order to allow businesses to claim the restart grant, rates write-offs and other supports being administered by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11520/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1084. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing temporary casual trading by-law measures in order to allow businesses that require mobile trading space due to social distancing measures to quickly get additional casual trading spaces in local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11521/20]

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I hope the Minister of State is correct that there will be no need to plan for Border installations. However, I come from north Louth where, with south Armagh, there is not a great level of, shall we say, respect for the British Government or trust in it what it will do. That leads to certain difficulties. Everyone is very worried about the trade impacts if the Irish protocol does not come...

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate that. On the other matter I raised, can we get reassurance for my constituents, North and South, who have approached me?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I really appreciate the Minister's response. Will he provide me with a very quick answer with regard to the necessity for a multi-agency approach to fire response or an updating of plans for dealing with forest fires?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will I be able to make my contribution in two parts?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Conservation and biodiversity are rightly core tenets of any State response to the major challenge of climate change but what we are looking for is an overall Government plan on forestry that is multi-departmental to do all that is necessary, including planting trees on State land. That is an improved scheme, as has been mentioned, in respect of farmlands, which would take into account the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (9 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 394. To ask the Minister for Health if the list of high-risk nursing homes drafted by HIQA and sent to the HSE at the end of February or early March 2020 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10134/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (9 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 395. To ask the Minister for Health the nursing homes to which the 45 patients were transferred to from Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, County Louth from 1 March to 6 May 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10135/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (9 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 396. To ask the Minister for Health the nursing homes whose operational control was taken over by a hospital group; the nature and extent of the assistance provided by the hospital group; the time frame of the intervention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10136/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (9 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which CHO8 made a determination to contact the RCSI hospital group and for the group to take over operational control at a nursing home (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10137/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (9 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of the Coillte contract for the private hire and use of helicopters for firefighting on Coillte land; the amount spent on the use of helicopters for firefighting purposes by Coillte in each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019; the amount budgeted for same by Coillte for 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Contracts (9 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the tender process for local authorities for the hiring or purchasing of plant machinery; if contracts for plant machinery for local authorities have to be tendered on a yearly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10138/20]

Covid-19 (Foreign Affairs and Trade): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. I think it was-----