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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: What tools is the Minister of State putting in place to measure the success of Bliain na Gaeilge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: Are there any specific measures for the end of Bliain na Gaeilge to see how the language has been promoted? How many more schools, for example, have come about as a result of this? Is there a measurement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: I am only using that as an example and I am sure the Minister of State has his own examples.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: It is a pilot scheme, so what measures are being put in place to see that this is being effective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: There is constant monitoring.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: Go raibh maith agat. We are now moving on. Tá brón orm, tá an Teachta Canney ag iarraidh teacht isteach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: I congratulate the Minister of State. I am passionate and, like Deputy Canney, I have been trying with the language. I was up in Donegal last year at the Gaeltacht at Oideas Gael-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: If anything, it gave me a love of the language again even though I am not proficient. In Cavan, we look at Monaghan with envy. It has four primary schools, namely, those in Clones, Monaghan town, Castleblayney and Carrickmacross. There is also the fabulous Coláiste Oiriall secondary school in Monaghan town. We have just one primary school, namely, that in Cavan town. Perhaps the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister of State. We are almost at the conclusion of our meeting. We still have programme D. We have the Minister's speech on it, so perhaps we could just note that and if any members have questions, we could email them to her directly. Would that be acceptable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: Is that agreed? Agreed. I thank everybody for attending.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: The housing crisis also exists in rural counties, including in my constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. Hundreds of people have been on housing waiting lists for years. In the past two years Cavan County Council has delivered 120 social houses. Of that 120, only six are houses the local authority built itself. There is something fundamentally wrong when a local authority can deliver only six...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: It is not happening. There have only been six in two years.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rebates (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 25 September 2018, if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40286/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures taken to meet and engage with insurance companies regarding excessive premiums being charged to consumers, particularly in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [40257/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: 121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the construction works at the new Bailieborough Garda station; the completion date for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40194/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40231/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); when a meeting will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40264/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: 157. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the most recent occasion on which the IDA visited counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath; the number of new jobs that have been created by the IDA in the past 12 months; the steps it is taking to attract companies to the counties; the success it has had with the strategy for the counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to develop a service (details supplied); his further plans for investment in disability services at this site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (3 Oct 2018)

Niamh Smyth: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions that have taken place with an organisation (details supplied) in respect of setting up a centre in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40229/18]