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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school (details supplied) in County Cavan will retain its present teaching staff complement and learning support hours, in view of the particular circumstances in relation to the enrolment of this school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12309/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Improvement Scheme (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if further consideration will be given to the request by Cavan County Council to have the Local Improvement Scheme re-instated, in view of the importance of this particular scheme to rural communities, and the need to bring laneways up to an acceptable standard to provide access to persons homes; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Improvement Scheme (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will accede to a request by Cavan County Council for a meeting to discuss the need to provide additional funding for the road works programme for 2015, and to re-instate the local improvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12318/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Mobile Telephony (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The response from the European Commission, which the departmental officials have accepted, is not acceptable. The Minister of State said “If service providers are prohibited from recovering those wholesale costs directly from retail users, it is inevitable they will seek to recover the costs from other users or reduce volume...

Topical Issue Debate: Mobile Telephony (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: I have had that experience. On the network I use I am not supposed to be charged, but every time I go North of the Border and every Friday going to do clinics in Monaghan, I have that extra phone bill. We are all being codded by the science and terminology these companies bring out.

Topical Issue Debate: Mobile Telephony (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the decision to allow me to raise this issue. I am glad the Minister of State, Deputy Joe McHugh, is here as he should have great empathy for consumers in the Border areas, which are once again the victim of bad decision making in Europe. It is extremely regrettable that EU Ministers have agreed to delay the abolition of mobile phone roaming charges...

Protection of the Environment (Criminal Activity) (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the amendment of the Protection of the Environment Act 2003 in order to establish a cross-Border statutory agency to investigate and report on fuel smuggling and other criminal activity in counties adjacent to the Border between Northern Ireland and this jurisdiction.In this Bill, I propose the establishment of a...

Protection of the Environment (Criminal Activity) (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 222. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the preparation of guidelines for the labelling of products from Israeli settlements, taking into account that the former Minister for Foreign Affairs in January 2014 stated that if progress was not made at European Union level in respect of the preparation of guidelines then the development of such guidelines would...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 223. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans, through Ireland's participation on the United Nations Human Rights Council, to seek accountability for potential war crimes committed by all participants in the conflict between Israeli, and Palestinian factions, in summer 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11000/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 224. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the criteria used to decide on the recent reductions in Irish Aid funding, for Irish non-governmental organisations; the criteria used in respect of the Irish Aid budget for the European Development Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11016/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 225. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the greater demands on the Irish Aid budget, for emergencies such as the Ebola crisis, the ongoing Syrian crisis and the growing number of natural disasters, is impacting on the level of funding made to Irish non-governmental organisations; if there is a specific arrangement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if grant aid is available for small-sized primary schools to provide assembly areas, general practitioner rooms and physical education facilities, where there are very limited or no sporting and recreational facilities available at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11002/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (12 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure there will be no reduction of the staffing complement of a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; if she will further ensure that all the relevant issues outlined in recent correspondence from the school to her Department pertaining to the distance of this school to the next nearest primary school and the remote location...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on EU Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his detailed outline of the issues discussed at the Foreign Affairs Council. With regard to the Ebola outbreak, I want to put on the record our recognition of the important role played by officials in the Minister's Department and by Irish NGOs. Both Ireland and the EU have been substantial donors in regard to dealing with this outbreak. Does the Minister know what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on EU Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: May I raise a point with the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on EU Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: I presume the Minister is travelling to the Unites States next week and I hope he can again raise the proposed immigration reform legislation. Pessimism is setting in again among families who have family members in the United States who are hoping to be beneficiaries of the proposed legislation. We need to send out a message to our communities and families throughout the country that every...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (11 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of staff at Waterways Ireland, and also the staff of other All Ireland Bodies, in relation to the proposal to impose an extra pension contribution on them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10700/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (11 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide consideration to a motion adopted by the Carrickmacross-Castleblayney municipal district, County Monaghan in respect of funding for road improvement works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10679/15]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Brendan Smith: The people had their say.