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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 622. To ask the Minister for Health if funding at present is allocated to services (details supplied) in counties Cavan and Monaghan; his plans for investment in either county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18194/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: North-South Interconnector (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 720. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a scenario (details supplied) is correct in view of the passing of the Fianna Fáil Oireachtas motion concerning same and the stay currently imposed by the judicial review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18158/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 735. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with Bus Éireann staff in counties Cavan and Monaghan regarding the resolution of the ongoing strike; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17560/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I support my colleague in calling on the Minister to approve this project. It is a unique and important school for Cavan and Monaghan that caters for pupils between the ages of four and 18 years and is located in Cootehill, which we like to call the hub of education, given how it lies on the Cavan-Monaghan border and provides for that catchment area. Its pupils have severe and profound...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister for his positive response. It was not long ago that he was in Kingscourt visiting our new ETB school, Coláiste Dún an Rí, which we look forward to being open, so he knows that we make good use of money when it comes in our constituency's direction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: What I wish to say is more of an observation than a question. I represent the Border constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. The wonderful relationship we have built up over the years is of huge concern to anyone who lives in the Border area. We do not even think about the Border, which is completely invisible and intangible in comparison with what it was historically. I can empathise hugely with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I would like to go first because I have a meeting to attend. I thank Ms McIntyre for her presentation. I am very familiar with the Special EU Programmes Body's Castle Saunderson project and obviously the wonderful work the peace links are doing. That is a real tangible result of PEACE funding. She mentioned eight capital projects to come on stream relating to shared spaces and derelict...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I am thinking of spaces which may provide activity for young people. Monaghan County Council has big plans for a peace campus. Is Mr. Greer talking about such projects in that stream of funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: The two projects in which the Special EU Programmes Body has been involved with the peace links and the Castle Saunderson have been game-changers and are wonderful places for young people, in particular, to go. They may not carry the baggage that the older generations may have done in the past. They are making significant inroads on improved relationships across our communities in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I look forward to that. I congratulate the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Heading (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress being made on reducing the social housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16799/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will address the inadequacies with the new housing assistance payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16800/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17169/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 219. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider amending section 51 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in order that battle sites that do not necessarily include a built or ruined structure are afforded protected status; and if all planned works at such sites will be subject to rigorous archaeological scrutiny. [17167/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 230. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter (details supplied); if more hours can be provided at the hospital in Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17190/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Ministerial Meetings (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 292. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason he is not willing to meet a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17189/17]

Brexit: Statements (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I am delighted that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, and the Minister of State, Deputy Helen McEntee, are in the House because I have had many conversations with the Minister about Brexit and how it might affect Border counties. It is one of the biggest challenges the State has ever faced and numerous reports have indicated that a hard Brexit...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this important issue and I thank Deputy Catherine Martin, who spoke powerfully and emotionally on the motion. I am delighted to support the motion, which is to extend maternity leave and maternity benefit for mothers of babies born prematurely. We were informed this morning in a wonderful presentation by Dr. Claudine Vavasseur, and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (5 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is actively working and co-operating with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on research and development at Cavan Institute or Monaghan Institute on initiatives to attract jobs to Counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14434/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (5 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will contact a bank (details supplied) to retain its ATMs at its branches in Arva and Cootehill in County Cavan and if it will consider introducing an ATM in Carrickmacross, which were all announced for closure last week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16896/17]