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- Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: Where suitable.
- Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: And exclude their own public representatives
- Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: They are not.
- Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: And their representatives. It would not have happened without them.
- Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 7. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to resolve the concerns of owners of land between Athlone in County Westmeath and Aughrim in County Galway relating to the routing of the new Dublin-Galway cycleway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23245/15]
- Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: At the outset, I note that I support the principle of a coast-to-coast greenway. However, the Minister and his officials have gone about this the wrong way. They have taken the wrong approach and the wrong attitude and, as a result, stopped any progress on this project. I want to know why the NRA looked to lands in public ownership between Dublin and the River Shannon, but adopted a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: People will always welcome a scheme that will improve profitability in the suckler herd, because most suckler beef farmers are losing money at present. The aim of this scheme is to achieve in six years in the suckler beef industry what has taken 20 years in the dairy industry, with a much older cohort of farmers. Farmers who are less open to change now have to face far more challenges. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: It would have been better if producers, particularly small suckler farmers, had been consulted before the Department went to Brussels, thus avoiding this situation. I want an answer to the following. If one buys a bull with a two-star rating, and one is a good judge of an animal, yet the bull turns out to be a four- or five-star animal down the road, is one complying with the rules of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: I will have to hobble to the Chamber. I congratulate Mr. Seán Finan on his election. It is great to see a Roscommon man as president of Macra na Feirme. I thank Mr. O'Brien for the work he is doing on this issue which affects 4,000 farmers. A large number of farmers have fallen between the cracks, with one in five farmers under the age of 40 falling into this category. All the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: I propose that a new category of disadvantage be established for all farmers under the age of 40 years in receipt of low payments established prior to 2008. It will be impossible to secure agreement in the committee today, but perhaps it might be approved by it at the next meeting and referred to the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: We will not be voting on the issue. Whatever else we are doing, we cannot be in two places at the one time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: The Opposition has done well.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeline for the roll out of high speed broadband to rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22964/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps being taken to support the maintenance of the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22963/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on a review of carer's allowance; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23155/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 565. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of refurbishing the new ambulance station in Loughglynn in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23184/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the west Roscommon and east Mayo ambulance blackspot is not to to have an ambulance permanently appointed to it, as is the case in Tuam and Mulranny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23185/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the implications which the new rehabilitation unit at Roscommon County Hospital will have on the operation of the hospital's helipad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23186/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 568. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the capital project at Roscommon County Hospital to develop a new central sterile services department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23187/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (16 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 878. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure that the national car test takes due regard of medical adaptions to vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23250/15]