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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in providing a new school (details supplied) for a substandard school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47257/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (14 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the category a farmer should put down on the BPS-ANC application form in respect of tenure of land in a case in which the farmers is in adverse possession of land without challenge for a long time but does not have legal title to it; if such land is considered eligible for consideration as regards this and the GLAS scheme; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (14 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on when the total contribution system will be introduced for the State pension; if there will be a requirement of 30 or 40 years of contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47369/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: An Chomhairle Mhúinteoireachta (13 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a chuirfidh an Chomhairle Mhúinteoireachta uimhir mhúinteora ar fáil do mhúinteoir (sonraí curtha ar fáil) a rinne iarratas ar a leithéid i mí Lúnasa; cén chúis atá leis an moill í a eisiúint; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [47190/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (13 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 456. To ask the Minister for Health when the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 will be fully implemented; the reason for the delay for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47193/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when illness benefit arrears owing to a person (details supplied) will issue; the reason these arrears arose in view of the fact that all medical certificates were submitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47192/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Protected Disclosures (13 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a detailed and full response will issue to a person (details supplied) who made a protected disclosure to his Department a number of years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47191/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I admire the Minister's hope. Does he recall when Deputy Howlin was Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: He put money aside for a shovel-ready project for a pier on Inis Óirr that had planning permission in 2016. It has not started and it is not likely to start, even next year. I will believe projects are shovel-ready when I see them. What is the Minister's definition of a shovel-ready project? My main doubt is that they are as shovel-ready as the words would seem to imply, that is,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister saying that the projects that will be approved will all have gone to tender and have contractors in place? From the time one advertises a tender, receives and assesses them, get in the necessary bonds, including insurance bonds, and all the other documentation that is required for such projects, one could be talking of a period of five or six months. Will the tenders be in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund Management (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 21. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the net amount of funding that has come into the dormant account funds in 2018 after repayments to the banks of reclaimed funds; the amount it is proposed to spend on projects from the fund in 2018; the spend to date; the amount of uncommitted funds on hand, not including the statutory reserve; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund Management (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister of State tell the House how much money has gone into the dormant accounts fund in 2018, net of repayments made to people who have claimed back the money? Will he tell the House how much of the money the Department intends to spend this year? What is the total amount of uncommitted funds in the account?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund Management (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It seems that the inflows are very healthy. Every year there is an inflow. In the new year the outflows exceed the inflows. The dormant accounts fund has received €49 million, of which €30 million has been committed. Therefore, the value of uncommitted funds this year has increased by €19 million. Is that a fair summary? The money was intended to be spent on people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund Management (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On arriving in the Department the Minister of State must have been puzzled to find that he had a fund of around €200 million of uncommitted funds. There is more money coming into the fund than going out and it is growing every year. The money was supposed to be used to tackle disadvantage and for people with a disability. All of the reports recommend caution and state we should not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund Management (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a way of throwing caution to the wind without being irresponsible. The Minister of State knows that there is €200 million lying there, which is no good for anybody. It could be spent to undertake important work, if only the Minister of State would not allow himself to be ruled by an overcautious approach in the belief that doing nothing is safer than doing something. Is he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 24. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when decisions will be made on applications made under the rural regeneration and development fund; the number of applications received to date; the funding approved in budget 2019 for the scheme in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45955/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister agree that it is absolutely vital that approval be given in the near future? In most cases, it takes well over a year for projects to spend. Is the Minister concerned, given the slow rate of approval, that the €55 million will not be spent in 2019 and that there will be a replication of what has happened under the LEADER programme, with money being returned to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 20. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent to date under the present LEADER programme on projects; the amount spent to date in 2018 on projects by local action groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45956/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This question relates to the LEADER programme, which the Minister covered comprehensively in response to Question No. 12, in the name of my colleague, Deputy Brendan Smith. How much money has been spent on LEADER projects so far in 2018?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (8 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister should take his time.