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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 329. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications in hand to date from urban and rural community groups for assistance under schemes available through her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21133/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 330. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she expects to extend the criteria whereby urban and rural community groups might be expected to more readily qualify for grant assistance from her Department depending on the need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21134/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 331. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department continue to encourage the creation of digital hubs outside of the main areas of investment with a view to lowering the pressure on transport and communications in those areas most densely populated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21135/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 332. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the full extent of awards made by her Department under the town and village renewal scheme throughout Ireland; her expectations in respect of this or similar schemes in the course of the current year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21136/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 333. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she might consider broadening the eligibility for the various rural community schemes operated by her Department in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21137/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Participation Networks (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 334. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent of her Department's support through the public participation network for various groups and communities around the country over the past two years; her future proposals in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21138/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 335. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expenditure to date under the rural regeneration and development fund; the extent to which the fund has attracted local indigenous support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21139/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Priorities (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 336. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which her Department continues to address the issue of urban and rural isolation with particular reference to those who live alone and depend on community support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21140/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 32. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent conversation with the British Prime Minister. [16765/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [19205/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The spectre of parental alienation still roams across the country and is being used regularly to inflict the maximum amount of punishment on parents and children and continues to be used with increased vigour. I have been promised by the Minister for Justice, who is well-meaning, that she will deliver with regard to a change in regulations to prevent this atrocity from happening. Will the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Make an apology.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am afraid I have to disagree with my colleagues on this particular area. The Minister of Finance has a duty and a job that is strictly laid down in legislation. We can speculate all we like about the precise amount we have available to us at any given time. That may change from year to year and that has always been the case. Yet, it is the responsibility of the Minister to deal with the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This is a serious subject. There are two elements that we need to keep in mind. There is no doubt that the Government’s policy is working but the problem is that it is working too slowly by virtue of a whole series of things that are happening. For instance, there are people living in houses where there was no benefit from selling the house and moving on, and no need to do so....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Okay.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputy Doherty for identifying the difference between his views on the subject and mine. He did not say who was right, however. That also has to be evaluated. I would claim that I am right and I know a fair bit about this particular subject, having dealt with it at the coalface in an area that has suffered from a very significant amount of development over the past 20 years. We...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: You promised to bring me in, Chairman, on climate and the nature element before we conclude. I will not delay the meeting but I want to make a couple of observations.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 39. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent special meeting of the European Council. [17774/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 48. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the president of the European Commission. [16767/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware it is alleged that our country has a relatively low win rate of the lotto in comparison to lotteries in other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20694/24]