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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The amounts cited by the Minister for extra spending on rural development programmes add up to approximately €10 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The allocation for the rural development scheme is €15.3 million and the Minister indicated that approximately €5.5 million has been spent. Give or take, there is nearly €10 million to be spent in the remaining two months and 16 days of 2018. The Minister reduced the allocation for LEADER from €35 million to €23 million. I am now working on a base of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is great. I am glad the Minister is saying the country was booming in the years between 2008 and 2010. Most of us were of the impression that there was an economic downturn in those three years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am delighted with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I join in the congratulations to Minister of State, Deputy Canney. I ask for an outline of the specific responsibilities he has and I wish him well in the Department. It will be a challenge for however long the Government lasts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is up to my boss. It is not up to me personally, unfortunately. The Minister has abolished the revitalising areas by planning, investment and development, RAPID, programme. Other than Dublin north inner city, what programmes are there specifically to deal with the issues of intense social deprivation in what were the RAPID areas, which were the most deprived areas in the country and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am also pleased that the Minister is putting more money into libraries. Will he confirm that he has mature liabilities for all of that extra money? Will they will able to spend even more money if the Minister has it left over before the end of the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know the Minister may believe I am obsessed with money but the reality is, as we both know, that one fights very hard in the Estimates to get that money, so it is an awful pity not to spend it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I look with great hope across the table. The Atlantic economic corridor was mentioned. A person can take a train from Limerick and do very well until he or she reaches Athenry, when the train will stop even though there is a railway line in place. If one is driving from Limerick one will find that the motorway stops at Tuam. I look forward to working with both the Minister and the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Administration (16 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41984/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Correspondence (16 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a reply to a letter sent on 16 August 2018 (details supplied) will issue; the reason for the delay in replying to this letter despite reminders seeking a reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42132/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (16 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a reply to a letter sent to him initially on 3 May 2018 (details supplied) will issue; the reason for the delay in replying to this letter despite reminders seeking a reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42133/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 353. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for cataract surgery; when a reply will issue to the representation made on 2 October 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41773/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Correspondence (16 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a reply to a letter sent to him on 11 May 2018 (details supplied) will issue; the reason for the delay in replying to this letter despite reminders seeking a reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42134/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (16 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal by a person (details supplied) for partial capacity benefit; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41776/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Correspondence (16 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a reply to a letter sent to him on 13 July 2018 and subsequently on 20 August 2018 (details supplied) will issue; the reason for the delay in replying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42135/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (16 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 683. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a reply to a letter initially sent on 20 August 2018 (details supplied) will issue; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42137/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (9 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 463. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications received for the rural regeneration fund by the 27 September 2018 deadline; the process and timeline for assessing applications, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41217/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (9 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 464. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the maximum number of applications permissible for each local authority for schemes (details supplied) in 2018; the allocation of funds, by county, for each scheme in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41218/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Official Languages Act 2003 Compliance (9 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 566. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of State bodies that have not to date submitted a language plan under the Official Languages Act 2003; the name of each such organisation in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41219/18]