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Other Questions: Brexit Issues (14 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: The Minister of State is aware, of course, that regional and rural businesses are extremely vulnerable and susceptible to the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, particularly given how the negotiations are drifting. In the Border region this is particularly pronounced but it is also apparent right across the country. It is extremely difficult to perceive any upside in respect of the current...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (14 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: We need a very close working relationship. In the context of our exports and imports, there is great interdependence and has been for years. There are people travelling and the common travel area is obviously protected. The relationships are significant and, as Deputy Martin Kenny said, we are intertwined at all levels, even at micro level. I read an interesting article in the Sunday...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Banking (14 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 31. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will report on the outcome of the public banking investigation; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25721/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (14 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 24 April 2018, the steps he will take to address the points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Banking (14 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 213. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the public banking report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24821/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Claims (12 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance when the legislation which will permit the compensation of victims arising from road traffic accidents which involved vehicles which were insured with a company (details supplied) will be brought before Dáil Éireann; if same can be expedited in the context that such accident victims to date are only receiving 65% of their due compensation; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when legislation which will permit persons in the public service that have reached retirement age to continue working and accrue benefits will be brought before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24991/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consequent to the carrying out of the M4-N4 corridor study pertaining to the provision of secondary school accommodation, if a further evaluation of the findings have been made in the interim; if the provision of secondary school accommodation for Kinnegad will be considered due to significant population increases; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Horses (12 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if prosecutions have been taken by local authorities or his Department in regard to abandoned or neglected equines across the country; the follow-up steps taken to ensure that owners of these animals are held legally responsible for same rather than only having animal seized and impounded; the level of resources available to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (31 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work his Department has carried out with An Post regarding the future of the rural post office network. [18911/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (29 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 108. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide for pay restoration for persons working for publicly funded organisations that took pay cuts during the economic crisis; his views on whether staff should have their salaries restored on a parallel basis to civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21711/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (29 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions which have taken place since the Dáil Éireann motion to provide community employment supervisors and assisted community employment scheme supervisors with pension provision; the plans being formulated with a view to dealing with this issue, which has gone on for over a decade; if the high level forum has met...

UK Withdrawal from the European Union: Statements (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: It is almost two years since the people of Britain made their momentous decision to exit the European Union. In a debate in the Dáil some months afterwards, I made the prediction that they would not be disentangled from the EU framework for at least five or six years. It is beginning to look like a gross underestimate if one factors in recent discussions pertaining to the likely...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Film Industry Development (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the conditions that surrounded the sale of the State's stake in a studio (details supplied); the way in which this fits into the strategy in respect of securing Ireland as an attractive location for film production into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20006/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 140. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that children in County Westmeath are waiting up to 12 months to access the community ophthalmic physician, COP; the steps he will take to permit these cases to be dealt with by optometrists which will enable children with more severe problems to be seen sooner and more frequently by the COP; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that sixth class visual screening which has been abolished by the HSE in counties Longford and Westmeath is replaced by an alternative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to roll out a national scheme to allow children whot do not need medical or surgical management to be examined in the community by an optometrist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to roll out the award winning Sligo cataract scheme across the country with optometrists and hospital eye departments working together, which would significantly reduce the waiting time of 18 months which many persons with cataracts have to endure between being referred and having the surgery to restore their sight; and if he will...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I am glad to have the opportunity, on behalf of the Labour Party, to contribute to this debate, which centres on the implementation of SI 89 of 2018, the European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations, which appears to supersede SI 125 of 2016 which was signed into law on 1 March 2016 by the predecessor of the current Minister. There has been a significant amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I welcome the officials and thank them for their presentations. However, I broadly concur with some of the comments made by my colleagues, Senator Coffey and Deputy Fitzmaurice. We all experience frustration dealing with bureaucratic bodies. That is the perception of the witnesses' organisations. Rather than engage with stakeholders or affected persons in a practical way, much of the time...