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Other Questions: Arts in Education Charter (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I presume that when organisations are starving they are usually pleased to see a few extra crumbs from the table. With regard to this question, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, recently published a document concerning the arts and the cultural participation of children and young people. It highlighted the benefits children get from cultural engagements, including confidence...

Other Questions: Arts in Education Charter (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister and I agree on the fact that there are major benefits for young children from access to the arts in that sphere of their lives. The report indicates that children from working-class backgrounds have less access to the arts and those benefits. Children with disabilities, especially in their younger years, have good access to the arts, but when they reach nine to 13 years of age...

Other Questions: Arts in Education Charter (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: In any debate the Government can always point to a number of programmes which are good, no matter what we discuss. However, the point is that the general situation is not good. If one examines the sector in its entirety, there is not a positive delivery to different sectors, particularly disadvantaged sectors. The Minister has given a nebulous promise that at some time in the future the...

Other Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I will do my best to see if I can represent the Acting Chairman here. With regard to broadband, I have major concerns with the Government's broadband plan. We know from conversations we have had with the Minister previously that it is likely the due date for broadband right across the State will be broken. There is no Government confirmation that this due date will be achieved. In five or...

Other Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State studiously avoided answering my question about the Government's plan to close further post offices in the next number of years. It does plan to close a number of post offices in rural areas in the next number of years. Unfortunately, it is now too late to transfer the motor tax service to the post offices. If people were to go to a county council office to pay...

Other Questions: Regional Development Initiatives (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government does.

Other Questions: National Spatial Strategy (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I suppose when this Department was created there was a hope that it would be for real, that regional development and rural affairs would be taken seriously by this Department. It is clear this Department is a hollow husk, that in the end of the day the Department is almost an elaborate press statement to pretend to the people that the Government is doing something on this issue. For...

Other Questions: National Spatial Strategy (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: My heart goes out to the Minister to a certain extent. If Deputy Humphreys does not have the budget to deal with these issues, unfortunately, all the joined-up thinking in the world is not worth a damn. The level of capital investment in this State is one of the lowest anywhere in Europe. With regards to the €6 billion that is going on roads between 2016 and 2021, 75% of that is...

Other Questions: National Spatial Strategy (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 6. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will be taking a role in the development of the new national spatial strategy. [31135/16]

Other Questions: National Spatial Strategy (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: This State is in a state of spatial crisis. Services are being closed down on the western side of our country and rebuilt on the eastern seaboard. There is an overconcentration of economic activity and limited resources in a small space on the east coast, which is depopulating much of the west coast and causing bottlenecks in infrastructure on the east coast. What will the Minister do,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Moore Street battlefield site is the most important such site in contemporary Irish history. In many ways, it represents the collision of two Irelands, the Celtic tiger developer Ireland and the selfless sacrifice of the Volunteers of 1916, colliding in one space. It has been a long-running sore. I am very concerned about the role of CCJV because I understand it is an associate company...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: We received a brief outline of the management flow of a particular project and the interface between the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and the rest of the project, under CCJV, which is an affiliate of Chartered Land, the company that wants to build a gigantic shopping centre on that space. This is at the heart and the crux of the battle between this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Government loses in the Supreme Court will it go to Europe?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the Office of Public Works is not employed to carry out the current works at the national monument on Moore Street (details supplied). [31237/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand the Government and the State own the buildings at 14, 15, 16 and 17 Moore Street. Yet, a company called CCJV is operating on the site. I got a chance to examine the management flowchart for that site. It sets out exactly where responsibility lies and who people report to. It is clear that the Government is in one place and CCJV is in another, with the other organisations...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, should look somewhere else.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 22. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad scéim teanga atá séanta aici. [31133/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Post Office Network (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 26. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role she envisages for post offices in rural Ireland in the future. [31134/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Clár Tacaíochta Teaghlaigh (20 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad airgid atá á chaitheamh ag an Rialtas ar sheirbhísí tacaíochta le haghaidh teaghlaigh atá ag tógáil a gclainne le Gaeilge taobh amuigh den Ghaeltacht. [31132/16]

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire mar gheall ar an mBille seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Déanaim comhghairdeas freisin leis an Teachta Fitzmaurice mar gheall ar an obair atá déanta aige ar an bhfeachtas seo. This Bill allows for the de-designation of bogs that were identified as natural heritage areas, NHAs, in 2014. It will allow for a new protected NHA bog network...