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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: I compliment the Minister and the Minister of State on rolling out a very comprehensive sports capital programme. It is to be hoped those applications can be processed and approved at the earliest possible date. We are all aware of the huge commitment of the many volunteers in our sporting clubs across all disciplines throughout the country. People work very hard to provide coaching...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I again advocate for the regions with regard to large-scale projects. He is familiar with the project we are working on in County Cavan. It will be multi-sport and will cater for many sporting disciplines. As the Minister of State is well aware, there are no major sporting centres between counties Sligo and Dublin and Belfast and Galway. A...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 13. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress to date in rolling out the most recently announced sports capital programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 97. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date in implementing the measures to assist businesses to meet additional costs, as announced in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 103. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that will be implemented to assist businesses, particularly in the hospitality and retail sectors, and also small-scale manufacturing, to meet additional costs and protect employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16980/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: Cuirim fáilte roimh Dr. Mitchell. Tá brón orm nach raibh raibh mé anseo ag tús na díospóireachta mar bhí mé ag plé ceisteanna sa Dáil. Dr. Mitchell is very welcome. I apologise that I missed the earlier part of her contribution as I had questions in the Dáil Chamber. I have not had the opportunity to read her book but I find her...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [14157/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any grant-aid is available towards improvement works at primary schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16617/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: I welcome Mr. McCord and his colleagues, Mr. O’Hare and Mr. Farrell. As the Cathaoirleach said, it takes a person of great character and substance to be able to come before a parliamentary committee and outline what his family has been going through since 9 November 1997 when Raymond Jnr was murdered. None of us have the words to comprehend adequately the grief that Mr. McCord and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: I see Deputy Wynne, who was online earlier, is now in the Dáil Chamber. Do other members wish to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: If Mr McCord does not want to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: Is this information in the public domain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: It is already in the public domain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: We just want to be careful. I am not doubting anything but we do not want to stray into anything that might do damage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank Mr. McCord very much. I have listened to him on previous occasions and in public forums. He is a person of great strength to be able to come and address an issue that is so personal to him and his family, the terrible loss of his son. The criminal activity that still goes on has been discussed by this committee on a number of occasions. There is a committee, the name of which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: Mr. McCord may want to leave that issue .

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the current temporary waiver of development contributions and the refund scheme for Uisce Éireann water and wastewater connection charges will be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15719/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the income eligibility limits for social housing in areas such as Cavan and Monaghan will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15718/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (11 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a school will be included in a programme (details supplied) with effect from September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (10 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will bring forward amending legislation to address the anomaly whereby retrospective payment to pension claimants is limited to six months, even though her Department has been in possession of all the facts relating to the claimants' eligibility from the date of pension application; and if she will make a statement on...