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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessibility: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Frank Feighan: I welcome everybody and thank them for the great work they do. Things have changed in the last five or six years regarding public and rural transport. The rural transport initiative has transformed the way we look at our towns and villages. I thank everyone for the great work being done. I acknowledge my colleagues in the Green Party as well for the work they are doing. I did not think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them for the great work they and the trade unions have done over many decades in bringing together workers North and South and pursuing workers' rights. They are right. Like us all, we were very concerned about Brexit. I remember being over in the UK with Deputy Brendan Smith, and any time politicians asked us what we thought of Brexit, we would always...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Frank Feighan: I apologise for being late but I spent a little more time trying to get into Leinster House this evening than I would have liked. However, I was following the meeting on my iPhone. It is great to have modern technology. I am delighted to see the DSG represented here and I thank it for the work it is doing. It is great to see that there are people with lived experience of disability in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (20 Sep 2023)

Frank Feighan: 513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in a housing development with developer-provided infrastructure for wastewater treatment plants that cannot be connected to a public mains in order that Uisce Éireann can take these over, if there are plans for this to be addressed by his Department to alleviate the burden that is been placed on residents of the estates...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (13 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: 278. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) will be afforded the opportunity to file form 11, 2022, manually and not on-line, given the person in question does not have access to broadband or the internet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34866/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: The witnesses are very welcome today. They have come with some problems but also with some solutions, which is very helpful. I congratulate Mr. Hennessy and thank him very much for his presentation. It was interesting. As he was cycling around Ireland, he decided, with the help of Headway, to start a business. There are issues and Mr. Hennessy has highlighted them. We do not have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: There is only one Fine Gael member here so-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. The witnesses are very welcome. This is an opportune time to talk about the Northern Ireland economy, in the times of all-island economy, and east-west, and being part of Europe. We have discussed universities. I grew up in Boyle in Roscommon. When I left college, out of 60 perhaps three went to university. One went to Trinity and the rest went to institutes...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Deputy Ó Ríordáin and the Labour Party for bringing this motion forward and I thank Members for coming here today. As a former secretary of Boyle Celtic, and the first to get a grant from the lotto of £20,000 for the County Roscommon District League in 1987, I can say that this a most important motion. Soccer has come out of the doldrums since the ban. I...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: 204. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is considering providing funding to deal with the non-payment of increments to staff working within the disability sector, including an organisation (details supplied), who, despite numerous meetings and appeals, to date have no indication the said increments will be retrospectively paid; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (12 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: 254. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is not progressing the sale of a property (details supplied) in County Leitrim to provide for a new health resource for the town in question; and if he will intervene in the matter with the HSE. [34555/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: 390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is currently considering applications under disablement benefit from former coal miners based in Arigna, County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32293/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (29 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the NTMA has only increased interest rates on three out of its seven national saving schemes under its control; and his views on whether it is important that the NTMA reflect the recent rise in interest rates by commercial banks and other institutions and review its own products and the interest rate it currently applies [31743/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently consider approving emergency works for a primary school (details supplied) in County Leitrim following recent damage caused by subsidence recently. [30499/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review the decision not to award an extra teacher to a school (details supplied) in County Sligo that now will have 34 pupils in junior infants from September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30763/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason it would take up to seven weeks in her Department's primary school payroll section to progress the paperwork on a jobseeker's application for a teacher (details supplied) who does not have a permanent full-time contract and is concerned about a seven-week or more delay in getting paid jobseeker's payment; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline what short and long-term measures his Department is currently seeking to ease the burden of energy costs for the constituents of Sligo Leitrim South Donegal and North Roscommon. [28876/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (15 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan; the number of premises that were passed and connected as of May 2023; and the way that he plans to accelerate the delivery of the plan in counties Sligo and Leitrim. [28875/23]

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak to the House on the issue of rural development as a Deputy representing one of the most rural parts of Ireland but one of the most successful parts of Ireland in attracting Government and Department funding in recent years. In 1999, I was elected as a member of Roscommon County Council and at that time, the only funding the local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (13 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: 282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, as part of the Irish Coast Guard search and rescue aviation contract offer to a company (details supplied) consideration has been given by his Department to the important role which Rescue 118, which is based in Strandhill, County Sligo, provides the people in the north west of Ireland as a critical patient safety transfer service...