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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 693. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department have interacted with various community based groups in County Kildare with a view to easy access to LEADER or other support funds in 2020 having particular regard to the challenges of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43506/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 694. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps she has taken or plans to take to reach out to locally based community and voluntary organisations throughout the country with a view to ensuring access to available support from her Department in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43507/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 695. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department have provided funds for rural and community groups throughout County Kildare to date in 2020 whether through Covid-19 support payment or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43508/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 696. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost value of supports made available by her Department to date in 2020 to rural community-based groups throughout the country in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43509/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Initiatives (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 697. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which her Department has focused on specific areas of deprivation in urban or rural community sectors; the extent to which she has been in a position to offer assistance in one way or another to date in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43510/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 698. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department have identified specific areas or instances of urban or rural isolation throughout the country in the past year; the efforts made to assist current or pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43511/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 703. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department have focused on rural isolation with a view to remedial measures; the extent of assistance offered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Initiatives (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 699. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which her Department has identified specific local initiatives throughout the country worthy of support by her Department since its inception; her ongoing proposals in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43512/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Initiatives (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 701. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which her Department has identified specific local initiatives in County Kildare worthy of support by her Department since its inception; her ongoing proposals in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43514/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 700. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications nationwide for various supports available to her Department received in the past six months; the extent to which she has been in a position to respond to such requests; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43513/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 702. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications from County Kildare for various supports available to her Department received in the past six months; the extent to which she has been in a position to respond to such requests; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43515/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 704. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll out of the libraries programme; the progress to date in respect of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43519/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues in Ireland: Central Bank (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for appearing before the committee and giving us the benefit of their knowledge. I, like others in this room, have been critical of the Central Bank over a long period in the past. This is not personal and I do not want any of the witnesses to take it as personal, but there are issues which public representatives have had to face which were unusual, to say the least....

Prohibition of Sulky-Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: This race has now concluded.

Prohibition of Sulky-Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 16 December 2020.

Personal Explanation by Minister (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Before proceeding with the debate, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine has informed the Ceann Comhairle that he wishes to make a personal explanation to the House pursuant to Standing Order 56.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for her helpful reply. My immediate response is that the location, site and infrastructure will be determined in the first instance by the local authority and its road traffic management proposals. A previous proposal was unveiled a year or so ago and it was not acceptable because it did not deal with the traffic problems at all. It is important to remember...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for facilitating the Members from north Kildare on this particular issue, which arose from a public meeting we had with the various school authorities in Celbridge in the past week. As we are all aware, heretofore Celbridge has experienced considerable pressure in terms of an increased population and will continue to so do for the foreseeable future. St....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Given the importance of the housing issue, what is the status of the proposed affordable housing amendment legislation and what impact is it expected to have on the housing issue?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which extra Garda resources can be deployed to counter an increase in crime including organised crime in the approach to Christmas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42499/20]