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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating theatres for orthopaedic surgery available in Galway university hospital; if these theatres are on the Merlin Park campus; if not, the reason the theatres that were on this campus are not available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42731/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 350. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for orthopaedic surgery at Galway university hospital for more than two years and less three years, for three years and less than four years and for four or more years; the steps being taken to reduce the waiting time for such operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42732/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons referred under the treatment purchase fund in 2017 for orthopaedic operations in the Galway region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42733/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 406. To ask the Minister for Health if, in assessing home care packages for persons being discharged from hospitals, there is an assessment carried out of the home situation; if there is a visit to the person's home to assess the help available, the physical conditions of the person's home and the suitability of the person's home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42198/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a regulation making it mandatory for a declaration to accompany Connemara ponies put up for sale stating whether the animal has been tested for HWSD or not (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42196/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase the funding in 2018 for the ANC scheme; his further plans to change the rates of payments for different types of land in line with the constraints on each type of land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42197/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the independent costing and review of the western rail corridor phase 2 between Athenry and Claremorris for passenger and freight use will be completed; the group appointed to carry out this independent costing; the terms of reference of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42194/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 573. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken, including contact with local authorities, along the western rail corridor to ensure that no measures are taken to prevent the future reactivation of the western rail corridor for rail use as set out in the McCann report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42195/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 640. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of moneys prepaid by his Department for all schemes to local authorities towards the close of 2016 for work to be carried out in 2017; the amount of expenditure allocated to each county, by programme; the expenditure that had been incurred up to the end of September in each case; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Offices (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 641. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the location of the headquarters of his Department; the number of civil servants based there; the number of civil servants based in each location where his Department has an office; the town in which each one of these offices is located; the reason that the headquarters of his Department is not located in a rural area; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Dumping at Sea (10 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 13 December 2016, if his Department has received the final legal advice referred to in same on the placing of material on State-owned foreshore without consent at a location (details supplied) in County Galway; the actions taken since to address this matter further to such advice;...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when it is expected a contract will be awarded for the national broadband scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41703/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hope the Minister does not read the answer he gave previously to very similar questions and that we start to get into the nitty gritty of this. Caithfidh mé rud amháin a rá i dtús báire. Ní haon mholadh é féinmholadh agus ba cheart don Aire cuimhneamh ar sin. Nowadays fibre is no more complicated than copper was 20 years ago. It is a little thing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister confirm that not one house in this country has been connected to fibre or anything else under his national broadband scheme?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Before Eir signed a contract with the Minister it had committed publicly to rolling out fibre broadband to 300,000 houses. Can the Minister confirm that Ireland is unusual in having a very high percentage of the population living in non-agglomerated areas? People call them rural areas, I call them the people with bigger back gardens. One would think there was some awful magic at work...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister give me an estimate of when he hopes to sign a contract for the national broadband scheme? It is a very simple question. I do not know what is wrong with the international experts that they think there is anything revolutionary or physically difficult in putting a little bit of fibre into every premises on this tiny island. If they have a problem with that, the kids on...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): National Broadband Plan Implementation (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That was not the question I asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates For Public Services 2017: Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An bhféadfaimid tosú leis an mórphictiúir? Can we start on the big picture?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates For Public Services 2017: Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, an caiteachas. In the end of the day the programmes of the Department have been discussed here recently as part of the Estimates process. I am concerned that we are into the last quarter of the year and looking at what the Department did for the first seven, eight or nine months. There is a very serious underspend in the Department, even against its profiles which themselves are...