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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I very much welcome the Department's input in the response to Covid-19 and to the challenges that Covid-19 has posed for rural communities throughout the country, and the central role the Department has played in the Community Call to roll out a stability package for communities. The accelerated measures under the town and village renewal scheme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: We have to move on. Senator Burke is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: I will bring Deputy Ó Cuív back in now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: They were involved in the Community Call, and very much so in County Clare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: I will bring in Deputy Kerrane now. Mr. Parnell has agreed to answer questions on LEADER and we will move on to that issue after he has responded to Deputy Kerrane’s questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: I thank Mr. Parnell. I have a couple of questions for him in regard to the LEADER programme. Has the Department undertaken a review of the administrative budget requirements to maintain the operation of the local development companies in 2021 and into 2022? Has a core funding model to sustain the local development companies been explored?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: Was that engagement with the Irish Local Development Network, ILDN?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: Was there any discussion on the programmes and initiatives that local development companies could roll out given their record in terms of their response to the Covid-19 pandemic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: The Minister committed to providing funding to maintain the staff of local development companies. When will this funding be formally communicated to staff members because some of their contracts are due to expire on 31 December?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: Has an independent cost-benefit analysis been undertaken of the new structural arrangements put in place for the delivery of the current programme involving local authorities and Pobal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: Mr. Parnell has confirmed that the new programme will not commence until 2023, which was communicated to the committee a couple of weeks ago in a briefing note from the Minister as well. Is the Department preparing a multi-annual programme to get us to 2023? If so, will it be over two years or three years and what budget will be made available specifically for delivery of those projects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: Does Deputy Kerrane want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: I thank our witnesses, Mr. Parnell and Ms De Brúch, for their contributions and engagement with the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Employment Rights (8 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: 89. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the progress in relation to updating national remote working policy following the recent public consultation with employees and employers on remote working guidelines; the type of incentives that will be required; when these incentives will be in place to underpin blended work in a post-Covid Ireland (details supplied); the role...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (8 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 25 November 2020, the process and timetable for the examination of the submission; when he will be in a position to refer the matter to the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42033/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (8 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41465/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Capital Programme (8 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: 239. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the payment of a sports capital grant (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41555/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (2 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 1153 of 24 November 2020, if he will provide a detailed timetable of when each multiple of the 22,592 individual premises identified in the intervention area of the national broadband plan in County Clare will have completed each of the four stages of the plan; the townlands...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: I thank Dr. O'Connor for his presentation and engagement with the committee. I welcome the allocation of €5 million in this year's budget for the further development of the network along the Atlantic economic corridor, because it is key. We must work together and put a strategy in place so that there is no overlapping of services. As Senator Garvey mentioned, there was a case where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges for Ports arising from Brexit: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Joe Carey: I will focus attention on the Shannon Foynes Port Company in relation to Rosslare Europort. Will Mr. Keating provide an update on progress on the potential to develop an offshore renewable energy hub? That ties into the work proposed for a Shannon Estuary task force. Will Mr. Keating bring us through that and the opportunity to develop a Foynes logistical hub and global transhipment...