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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 415. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if each policy action for each of the 276 actions in the action plan for rural development corresponds to an item previously announced by her Department or another Government Department or if it is a new policy action; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4217/17]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 416. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the 2017 Government budget allocation for each policy action for each of the 276 actions in the action plan for rural development; the supplementary funding for each action which will be needed in 2017 to meet the cost of fulfilling these policy actions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4218/17]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 417. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding carried over by her Department to 2017; the subheads it was carried over under; the expenditure of this money to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4228/17]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 418. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding paid to local authorities before the end of 2016 for works that had not been completed and for which no mature liabilities existed; the amount of this expenditure for which proof of the work being carried out has since been provided; if she will provide a full account of the expenditure provided; the number of...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 419. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the detailed list of projects approved for funding and paid for to local authorities under the 2016 CLÁR programme has not yet been published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4230/17]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 420. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she intends to take to control mink around Lough Corrib in view of the damage this animal is doing to the population of curlews that traditionally nested safely on islands in the lake; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4231/17]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 421. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to introduce the renovation grants to restore properties in small towns and villages as was announced as part of the action plan for rural development; when details of the grants and application process will be made available to members of the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4232/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Buiséad Údarás na Gaeltachta (31 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 442. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a chuirfear in iúl do na comharchumainn agus do na heagraíochtaí pobalbhunaithe eile cén t-ardú a thiocfaidh ar a ndeontais bhliantúla i bhfianaise an mhéadaithe a tháinig ar an soláthar airgid ón Roinn chuige seo sna meastacháin i mbliana; agus an ndéanfaidh...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 443. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the studies carried out by her Department on the potential damage pike can indirectly cause to the pearl mussel population particularly in the Owenriff river, near Oughterard, County Galway; the steps she has taken to consult with IFI and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment on this matter; if a policy...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 444. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé ar intinn aici airgead a chur ar fáil chun an plean infheistíochta, a comhaontaíodh idir 80 grúpa Gaeilge, a chur i bhfeidhm go hiomlán, rud a chruthódh breis is míle post agus go leor deiseanna úsáidte Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan (31 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 695. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the area to be covered by the national broadband scheme will have to be modified in view of recent increases of coverage by telecommunications companies of rural areas and small towns with high speed broadband and their stated intention to increase this roll-out rapidly over 2017 and 2018; the delay a remapping...

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have heard scripts but I have never heard one as poor as the one the Minister of State was asked to read out today. This is so sad. If I had time, I would go through the 276 actions. The action plan states, for example, that €1.2 billion per annum will be paid out in single farm payments. I will not say what I would like to say about that in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This...

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agreed it includes provincial towns. However, given we have the reheating of some actions for towns, will the Government give us the plan for rural Ireland? Does the Minister of State realise there is one town in the whole of Connemara, which he represents, with a population of more than 1,500 people, namely, Clifden? Does he realise there are 980 towns in the country with a population...

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Roads, water and sewerage might.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It will not be.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is reheated dinner.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is nothing new.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government wants to do away with one-off houses.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm go bhfuil an tAire Stáit anseo tráthnóna. Mar dhuine as Chonamara agus atá ina chónaí i gConamara, tuigfidh sé cén fáth go bhfuil díomá orm maidir leis an bplean seo. I feel sorry for the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, in terms of the way in which he has been put in the position of trying to defend a plan that...