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Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure that next generation uncongested broadband is rolled out in County Kerry [30300/11]

Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: I thank the Minister for his reply. No part of County Kerry has yet been upgraded to next generation uncongested broadband. As the county is the main tourism hub in Ireland, it is imperative that this is rolled out in the short term. The problem was highlighted at the recent Irish Open golf championship in Killarney. The broadband speeds available for visiting journalists fell far short...

Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: Pilot schemes are operating in Dublin and Wexford for next generation uncongested broadband and I believe Kerry would merit this service.

Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

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Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: We are very dependent on tourism. We also have our small businesses, industries and farmers who need to expand their businesses and livelihoods. They are being greatly inhibited in job creation and so on by what is available owing to our peripherality. There was a recent survey by the Kerry Community & Voluntary Forum.

Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: It really spelled it out and I will present it to the Minister's office because it deserves consideration. It states that public statements about the national coverage of broadband are patently incorrect when it comes to County Kerry. As can be seen from the report, large areas of the county have no or at best limited coverage. There are other facts and figures in the report and I ask the...

Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: There is optic cable lying idle in County Kerry at the moment.

Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: I ask the Minister to approach Eircom to come back into the business of providing broadband. With its expertise-----

Telecommunications Services (19 Oct 2011)

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Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to address the long waiting lists for MRI scans in County Kerry, which are currently at a standstill, as a result of the withdrawal of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the implications this withdrawal has for the contract between Kerry General Hospital and the Bon Secours Hospital in Tralee. [30529/11]

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: The ongoing debate regarding arrears in mortgage repayments, personal loans and utility bills is often trivialised by some commentators who prefer to link the problem to that of over-borrowing. People who use this simple but incomplete argument are not being thorough in their examination of the scale of the problems facing families today. A number of reports published by the European Union...

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (25 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 514: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider reintroducing the reforestation grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31558/11]

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: This is more serious than furniture.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (2 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social Protection to allow a theatre company (details supplied) in County Kerry to retain an allocation of €373 surplus, full-time equivalent at the end of 2011, due to the reduction of PRSI rate to 4.25 from July 2011. [31837/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [32336/11]

Written Answers — Farm Management: Farm Management (3 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 103: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will extend the 31 October deadline for the spreading of farm slurry, due to the continuation of extremely high rainfall, which prohibited slurry disposal on land from mid-October in many areas and especially in the south west. [32633/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 554: To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for all procedures or treatments in Kerry General Hospital; and the measures he proposes to address same. [33278/11]

Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: I refer to legislation pertaining to the nitrates directive. There is a crisis in rural Ireland at present whereby people in the farming sector are totally prohibited from spreading slurry, which is full to capacity in their farmyards. This is an emergency that I have drawn to the attention of the Ministers in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as well as to the office of...

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (10 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate the Collawa river, Rathmore, County Kerry, a tributary of the River Blackwater, as it is subject to intermittent flooding affecting adjacent landowners on its banks and households on the Railway Road; and if he will make emergency funding available to dredge the section of river from the Bridge Bar to...

Written Answers — National Broadband Scheme: National Broadband Scheme (15 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the take up by subscribers to the national broadband scheme in view of the fact that the anticipated number countrywide was 126000; the anticipated number of subscribers for County Kerry; the number that have joined to date in 2011; the percentage of the country that is now provided with adequate coverage; and...