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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Data (27 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I remind Members that we will get through more questions if people stick to the six-and-a-half-minute timescale. Deputies in the Chamber will not have their questions answered if people go over time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (27 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Tá an chéad cheist, Uimh. 31, in ainm an Teachta McConalogue ach tá sé le tógáil ag Teachta Cahill.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (26 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I am glad the Minister recognised this is a CCTV scheme for communities and not a scheme for the Garda. He allocated approximately €4 million to the scheme. Some 22 applications have been approved for funding totalling €566,000. The money allocated is not being spent in spite of the demand for schemes. I am here to support the Minister and the concept of community CCTV. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (26 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I am grateful for the opportunity to debate the issue of community CCTV schemes. This was a much heralded and welcomed scheme, which is not functioning properly or effectively and needs addressing and adjusting. I discussed this matter with the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and he concurred that the scheme is simply not working in Donegal and many other areas. The community-based CCTV scheme is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I make no apologies about raising this issue. I asked last week for the beef task force to be set up immediately and for some concession to be made on the credit issues that farmers experience across the country. It has to be in the Minister's capacity to make an 80% payment on the scheme, subject to all the inspections and satellite searches that have been made. This is causing major...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Administration (26 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 103. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives being taken to improve CAMHS in CHO 8 and also to ensure there is no service gap when a transition to adult services occurs at 18 years of age. [48858/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (26 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to expedite the provision of medical cards for cancer patients. [48857/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Page 44 of the programme for Government contains a commitment to increase the budget for local and regional roads by 50%. This morning, I will focus on class 3 local roads, often referred to as culs-de-sac, which are listed as council roads in each local authority's road schedule. That schedule legally obligates the local authority to maintain these roads, yet they have been ignored for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Not true.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Can we get an answer to the question?

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Christmas may be coming and the geese may be getting fat, but so are the numbers relating to delayed discharges, the trolley crisis and the bed crisis in our hospitals. Like Deputy O'Rourke, I wish to focus on the home care supports that would go some way towards alleviating the growing problems with delayed discharges. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Louth has 14,941 lost bed days, the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (20 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will intervene to speed up the process of ANC and basic payment scheme applications in circumstances in which land is selected for remote sensing, that is, satellite inspection; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a large number of applicants are awaiting payment due to a delay in carrying out the inspections;...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Page 110 of A Programme for a Partnership Government contains a commitment that farm families and rural communities "must feel the effects of positive economic and social change." Oireachtas Members, including my office, have been inundated with calls from farming families who are currently experiencing extreme hardship due to the non-payment of funding under the basic payment scheme, BPS,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a new 600 pupil post-primary school for south Drogheda and east County Meath announced in April 2018, which was to open in 2019, has not been built; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that temporary accommodation for the school can only accommodate 48 pupils; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that demand...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (19 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider increasing the age limit for applying to An Garda Siochána for members of the Garda Reserves only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47296/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (19 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department has reneged on a promise to meet with union officials (details supplied) in respect of the 2008 Labour Court recommendation in relation to community employment supervisors pension entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47236/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (19 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the persons or body with which liability stands for the upkeep of roads in cases in which a housing estate is not taken in charge by a local authority, does not have a management company and the builder is no longer in business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47507/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Remuneration (19 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funds being made available to local authorities to meet the costs of public sector pay increments in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47555/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Declan Breathnach: A Programme for a Partnership Government contains an explicit provision guaranteeing the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts. The decision of the Upper Tribunal in the United Kingdom in the DeSouza case in October highlighted that the foundational birthright guarantee, that is, the right of citizens of Northern Ireland to identify and be accepted as British or Irish or both, was not...