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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism - An Industry Strategy for Growth to 2025: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I want to touch on the thorny issue of raising tax on a regional or intercity basis. No one can compete with Dublin. How can we make the regions more attractive? If one visits a major city in another country, one pays a higher government tax than one would pay in a smaller town in the countryside. Do the witnesses believe such an idea would be attractive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism - An Industry Strategy for Growth to 2025: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: In terms of the tourism sector, many hotels and restaurants benefited from the change in the VAT rate. In Italy, for example, tourists pay a higher rate of tax in Rome than, say, in Naples. Could that be applied here to attract more people to areas in rural Ireland such as Youghal in east Cork or Ennis in Clare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism - An Industry Strategy for Growth to 2025: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: There are very few Temple Bar type areas out in the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism - An Industry Strategy for Growth to 2025: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Will I bring a team with me?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: To be fair, we must thank the Minister for immediately bringing whatever information has come to hand to the Dáil. We must commend the bravery of Vicky Phelan. Even in her recent interviews, she mentions her determination to keep fighting this terminal disease. We wish her the best. One of the issues is the need for mandatory disclosures. We, as legislators, should set about dealing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (1 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 258. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the fair deal nursing home scheme (details supplied) which is due to be amended. [18774/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (1 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by persons (details supplied) under the fair deal nursing home scheme. [18999/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (1 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if additional resources have been provided to assist farmers whose herds are restricted and suffering from the fodder crisis. [18613/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (1 May 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 361. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the M20 Cork to Limerick motorway project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18819/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a date has been set for a meeting of the high level forum on community employment supervisor pensions; if his attention has been drawn to the anger and frustration of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; his views on the fact that their contribution to improving the life chances of scheme participants and to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that works recommence to complete an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Cork in order to provide critically needed additional accommodation for staff and pupils; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the contractor has been placed in examinership; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (26 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if works to replace a central heating boiler in the housing aid for older people scheme will be included in view of the fact that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland no longer provides grant aid for this work since January 2018 and the current housing aid for older people scheme only grant aids the installation of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: The question is can we get Irish Water to fast-track the upgrade of the wastewater facilities in Mitchelstown.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: My question is for the Taoiseach or perhaps the Minister, Deputy Murphy. One of the pillars of the Rebuilding Ireland programme is to get new houses built. However, in Mitchelstown we have various planning permissions being approved and granted for new house builds and new estates to be built, but nothing has been able to move in recent years because the Irish Water facilities are not up to...

Other Questions: Recycling Policy (25 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a strategy in place or planned to provide incentives to establish a plastics recycling unit here. [16262/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (25 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be assisted in transferring to a specific unit which would be more suitable for the person. [18189/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if a day procedure appointment will issue to a person (details supplied). [18257/18]

Other Questions: Road Network (24 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I support my colleague, Deputy Troy. The Minister commented that more money is going into capital infrastructure. We welcome that, but there is no point in robbing Peter to pay Paul where the overall upgrading of our roads is concerned. The roads in east Cork are so damaged that it is as if a bomb was detonated. I have raised the issue with the Minister a few times. It is all fine...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (24 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [17468/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) will be placed in school from September 2018; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that home tuition will not help the child progress; and if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the child has been on a placement waiting list for three years. [17603/18]