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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (18 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance appeal lodged in respect of person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53577/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (18 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53597/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce specific provisions via legislation following receipt of a detailed analysis report by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners in respect of flat rate tax and possible over-compensation in the poultry sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52955/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (17 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the lease in respect of a school (details supplied); if he will consider awarding ownership of the lease to an organisation in the event the lease has expired and the fact that the school was closed in the early 1970s which would allow the organisation to apply for funding through the sports capital grant; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 26 November 2013, his views on confirmation by the Comptroller and Auditor General that a surplus profit made by Bus Éireann is being utilised being used in the day to day operation of the school transport scheme which contradicts the written response; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider conducting an audit of certain aspects of the school transport scheme with particular focus on figures referred to as uncommitted reserve accounted for in a report (details supplied); if the way in which the funds were spent by Bus Éireann can be confirmed through such a report; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (17 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application mechanism for a person who suffers from severe epilepsy and is seeking access to medicinal cannabis oil to treat the illness; the position regarding a mechanism being made available by which a person can apply for medicinal cannabis oil on the medical card or long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a request from organisations (details supplied) seeking a meeting; if the meeting will be scheduled as soon as possible in order to discuss matters pertaining to a recently finalised report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53163/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Aquaculture Licence Applications (17 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 552. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an application by a person (details supplied); if the application will be expedited in view of the length of time same was lodged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53211/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (17 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 664. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reconsider the policy in respect of the implementation of stringent funding agreements and rules within the community managed not-for-profit childcare sector in the context of recent compliance audits by Pobal (details supplied) following meetings with service providers in counties Carlow and Kilkenny and the general level...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: It was €3 billion. It may be €5 billion before it is over.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 12. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to improve service provision in rural areas in view of the latest CSO figures released in respect of measuring distance to everyday services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50370/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I ask the Minister to outline his plans to improve service provision in rural areas in view of the recent publication of CSO figures in respect of distances to everyday services and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: By the Minister's own admission, the latest CSO figures confirm that this Government is leaving rural Ireland behind with regard to service provision. The report published last week on the distance to everyday services in Ireland makes for very sobering reading. Rural dwellers face distances to most services that are at least three times greater than those faced by their urban counterparts....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I only quoted figures from the CSO-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Statistics are great and the way they are used-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The Minister is a great story teller and the way he tells it is great but for people living in rural Ireland, the story is not so good. I do not begrudge people in Dublin and other urban areas their fair share of Government funding. My issue is with the imbalance in terms of what is being spent in rural Ireland. We are crying out for broadband and for transport providing connectivity from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Will we go back to 1932 altogether?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: While it may be rumour, is there any truth to the suggestion that the ducting for cabling, toilet piping, etc., is too small? I only heard recently that it is not wide enough to carry all the necessary facilities going through these corridors, ducts, ducting or whatever one wants to call them to carry the electric cables, toilet pipes and all that. I have heard that the ducts are not wide...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I am asking because there was a bit of ruction here last week regarding a printer that was bought and did not fit. I was told that the same thing could have happened in the building of the children's hospital. I am just clarifying if this happened. Who makes up the design team for the building? Are they Irish or are they foreign?