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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I will ask a quick question at the very end. Will the witnesses provide the committee with some of the figures from the feasibility studies that were carried out on the routes? The capital cost of the DART underground is €4.5 billion. Could we get the feasibility study on that? The critical performance indicator there would be the cost per projected footfall. That would allow us...

Other Questions: Banking Sector (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Not in action.

Other Questions: Banking Sector (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Credit is crucial as it is the lifeblood of rural enterprise. We have had this huge problem with regard to credit in rural areas for many years. The commercial banks have been retreating from rural areas, purposely to retain their businesses in the large towns. They have been facilitated in doing this through the Government's creation of two pillar banks. Some 90% of business is done with...

Other Questions: National Museum (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: It will not be fixed

Other Questions: Rural Development Programme Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 50. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of new money that will be used to fund the Action Plan for Rural Development. [4173/17]

Other Questions: Rural Development Programme Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: This question refers to new money in the rural development plan. The Minister of State, Deputy Ring, did a great job in impersonating an Opposition Deputy when he told us what the Department needed to fix the problems. He has correctly identified what we need. The only thing he did not identify were the funds required. Over the past eight years we have had an investment famine in this...

Other Questions: Rural Development Programme Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The great lie that this Government has managed to spin over the past number of years is that the economic crisis is over. The truth is that the economic crisis has been rolled into a 40 year debt. Every year this State spends about €7 billion just to service the interest on that debt, a situation which will continue until about 2050. That €7 billion invisibly robs this...

Other Questions: Rural Development Programme Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree that the 1916 commemorations were successful. They got off to a jittery start, it is fair to say, and the Opposition made a good job of putting a light on the Government to pull up its socks. The Minister cannot say roads are a matter for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport while at the same time stating the report is a whole-of-Government report. We are able to...

Other Questions: National Museum (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 49. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the management of the National Museum of Ireland. [4174/17]

Other Questions: National Museum (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I thought long and hard before raising this question because I do not seek to cast aspersions on any individual in the National Museum of Ireland. I had hoped the Department would grab the bull by the horns on this issue and fix it. The difficulty is there but that has not been the case. Even though we have very good people in the museum and a new chair is on the board and trying to fix...

Other Questions: National Museum (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that two finance staff of the museum, including the former financial manager, have taken personal injuries cases to the High Court for bullying within the National Museum of Ireland and that these cases were settled out of court by the museum. A finance manager was made redundant recently and the finance department of the museum is now populated mostly with agency staff. It is...

Other Questions: National Museum (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I am not casting aspersions. There are some great people there doing great work. The fact is that I received an internal HR report through an FOI request. It measured six key areas with regard to the level of management. In those areas, the report stated the services were well below average and there were clear psycho-social risks within the workplace in five separate areas, namely,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like the Minister of State to address the following question. How much money does he believe is necessary to develop the Atlantic corridor? What is the ballpark figure? We are not asking for a commitment from the Government, but roughly how much money will be necessary? The document produced last week by the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, stated she seeks to accelerate preparation...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she will take to prevent the emptying of the west of Ireland and the further over concentration of economic activity and population in Dublin. [4579/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Per capitagrowth in the west is one quarter of what it is in Dublin. Unemployment is almost three times higher along the Border, and in the Minister's constituency, than it is in Dublin. Broadband speeds are 36 times higher in parts of Dublin than they are in parts of the regions where they cannot get broadband. The north-west quarter of the country is without rail or motorway service...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: It is important to focus on where we are at now. A national spatial plan that was developed in 2002 is defunct now. We have a lopsided, two-tier economy and a damaging over concentration of population and economic activity in the Dublin area. In Dublin, we have rising house prices, rising rents and a commuter belt currently in gridlock in terms of motorways such as the M50, which affects...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 60. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the fact that the investment criteria for the Irish Arts Center in New York has been dropped. [4175/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 77. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff within her Department that have fluent working Irish. [4176/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 80. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason trained underwater archaeologists using an archaeological methodology were not used on a recent dive on the Lusitania. [4172/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have been approved for mortgage to rent but have not had an interested institution buy their property; and his plans in this regard. [4472/17]