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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (16 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 157. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the up-to-date figures relating to TV licence fee renewals and new licences; if she will provide a month-by-month comparison, in tabular format, between 2022 and 2023 showing the number of licences renewed and each new license in each respective month by all transactional methods, and the associated revenue generated by these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 171. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a child benefit payment in respect of a person in Co. Kerry (details supplied) will be reinstated and backdated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50409/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Pensions (16 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 231. To ask the Minister for Health whether the signing of the annual pension allowance declaration form under the Appropriation Act 1962 and relevant pension scheme rules is necessary for those over 65 years until a claimant's death; whether a notice could instead be sent to the applicants advising them of the need to contact the HSE if circumstances change; if he accepts that seeking...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (16 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a further response on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50315/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regeneration Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Yes, I am substituting for Deputy Farrell. I thank the Minister for what she has done to date, including on the local improvement schemes. She has somehow found money and pumped it into the town and village renewal scheme, which is very important. I remember that in my time in the House between 2011 and 2016 one could not get a penny for anything like this. There was not even a remote...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regeneration Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I hope there will be a few bob left over for Kerry after Mayo gets sorted out because covering all of those projects could blow the whole budget. The importance of this scheme cannot overstated given that it would just not be possible otherwise to generate this type of finance in the towns and villages that benefit from it. Some relatively small villages are included and this investment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: She has allocated €30 million this year, on which she has to be commended, but the Department of Transport really needs to look at itself.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Tá an scéim seo go han-tábhachtach do bhóithre áitiúla. Tá na daoine atá ina gcónaí ar na bóithre seo ag fanacht rófhada ar fad, go háirithe i gContae Chiarraí, in áiteanna cosúil le Corca Dhuibhne. Tá níos mó airgid ag teastáil uainn, agus caithfidh an Roinn Iompair airgead a thabhairt don...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 12. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for details of the latest local improvement scheme, LIS, waiting lists, including number of roads and estimated costs per local authority; if she has received a response from the Minister for Transport regarding whether his Department will co-fund the scheme in the future; if she has considered opening the scheme to private...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister for her response. If I heard her correctly, she said more than 3,000 roads nationwide are on lists.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: By my estimation, almost one in five of those are in County Kerry. I constantly meet people who were down at 500 or 600 on the list. At the current rate of approximately 25 a year, the Minister and I will probably be long gone from this House by the time those roads are reached. Something needs to be done to address that. I drove around my own parish of Keel last weekend. I drove up a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 24. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she expects the next tranche of successful CLÁR funding applicants to be announced; how much she expects to announce in these allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49311/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if works will be carried out at a location in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49328/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a timeframe on a project for County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49332/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49336/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Promotion (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the current situation regarding the use of an IDA advance facility in Kerry (details supplied); his views on whether the county is being badly served by the arrangement; the cost to the IDA and taxpayer of developing this facility in the first place; what contractual arrangements, if any, the IDA has with the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a housing scheme for County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49331/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 292. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for invalidity pension will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49453/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for carers allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49477/23]