Results 1-20 of 285 for going forward speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., the people who have shared all their assets are penalised over those where the primary earner just holds on to it for themselves, so it solves one problem but creates another. We need to move forward in steps. The first step is individualisation. In the much more complex world in which we live, there is a huge attraction to that. The question is how we can get there and where we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (23 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I believe the Minister would agree with me that on the make up of the commission, there was an interest in the Government in an appointment, but there was also an appointment with the Executive from the British Government and so on, as well as a competent chair. They are all excellent people. Would the Minister agree they are the kind of people who come from different traditions but, having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the income earned by the poorest of farmers on farm assist. I am trying to explain where I come from on this. I represent an area that has many small farmers. I have read the papers and I think we are all going in the same direction of travel, but one thing that our guests have emphasised is simplicity, with which I agree. There are different versions of the exemption for farm grants....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that, over the years, the State has been encouraging couples to have joint accounts. If there is one full-time homemaker in an earning couple, it is generally perceived in society that it would be good practice for the couple to share all the income because it is just a particular division of labour as to how they organise their lives. Generally-speaking, the Department does not count...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I look forward to getting the detailed information as requested in the question. I will not come back on the Minister if there proves to be slight tolerance required or inaccuracies in the reply. My question is on wave and tidal energy. My understanding was the research on wave energy is ongoing. Ten years ago or more, Wavebob was carrying out tests in respect of wave energy in Galway...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leo siúd a labhair anseo inniu. Bhí mé sa Seanad anseo ón 16 Lúnasa 1989 go dtí Mí na Samhna 1992. Bhain mé an-taitneamh as a bheith sa Seanad ach bhí mé sásta dul go dtí an Dáil freisin. I spent six years on Galway County Council and I was unusual in that I actually got into...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...orm deis a bheith agam cúpla focal a rá ar an mBille seo. There are two parts to this Bill. It is not the first time a Bill has had two very disparate parts and I understand why that was done, so I am going to treat them separately. I remember suggesting when they were talking about an Irish language Act in the North that there should be two parts to that language Act, with...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On that point, in everything we say we have to have two levels of operation. These are the immediate and the longer term and they have to work in parallel. If somebody is going to bed in a freezing caravan tonight there is no point in having a plan that will take three, four or five years. Some things have to be short term and others long term but it is not a case of one or the other as it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Paramilitary Groups (12 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive answer. It is very useful. That recommendation is key in the report because if you can persuade people to move forward, it is an enduring way of creating a circumstance in which these groups would disband or would not operate. Will the Minister indicate whether the British Government is fully bought into this concept? Does she think progress can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will come back to those later. I will just finish this module because I think we are making good progress. From the CRU's point of view, could Uisce Éireann make a decision that, like ESB Networks, it would socialise half of the cost of putting this public infrastructure in the ground up to a certain distance, perhaps the 500 m that applies with ESB Networks? Furthermore, could it...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the fact that the domiciliary care allowance ends at age 16. This is probably one of the trickiest payments for us to do the right thing because some parents like the €220, even though it is going to a child, but a lot of parents do not like it because it is going to the child. Sooner or later, society will have to grasp the nettle here. I accept that we need to work this...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...legally, the problem would have been easy to avoid. Some of these changes could be done quickly, would not have huge cost implications and would make for a fairer system. I am really looking forward to seeing the report. It will be great reading. If I have to go to Boston, Australia or somewhere like that, I will read the report on the aeroplane where nobody can get at me. That is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...have needed to wait much longer in the queue due to cost-benefit analyses by the various providers if we did not have an island fund that could be used in so many creative ways to push projects forward and make them attractive? Previously, 50% funding was provided for health centres, which made it attractive for the HSE to move to somewhere. A cost-benefit analysis would usually decide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 134. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is intended to apply increases in line with the public pay agreements to general practitioners in receipt of DMO salaries going forward with also an element of retrospection, as these salaries have not been increased since the benchmarking pay increases of in 2008; whether such increases would also apply to retired GPs who have DMO salaries; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...we are trying to achieve here. When partial capacity was introduced back in the budget of 2011, the thinking at the time was that it would extend the disability allowance and that we would move forward from where we were. I agree with the basic or big principles, but of course, like everything else, the detail is what really counts at the end of the day. That is what the argument is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the carer's allowance and the challenges of bureaucracy . As members of this committee will know, it is my hobby horse to point out that marginalised people face significant intrusion, whether they are going for social welfare, a means-tested payment or whatever they are going for. People on the disability allowance go through this rigmarole too. It applies to a huge class of people...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 336. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made by the Interdepartmental Group led by the OPW in putting forward solutions and policies to deal with coastal erosion; if this group considered, as part of its work, necessary remedial work that need to be carried out in a small number of coastal communities along the coast where ever higher tides cut them off more...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm go bhfuil deis agam labhairt ar an ábhar seo agus gur éirigh liom deis mhaith a fháil laistigh de 11 nóiméad. The first thing I must say is that although I am only stating the obvious, throughout my life I have been opposed to violence no matter where it is used. I have always made my best endeavours to discourage people from seeing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What was the carry forward or underspend of the Department last year? Does the Minister of State agree that if one is going to reallocate money, one must do it in July. Doing it in September, October, November is a total waste of time; it is too late.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Election of Cathaoirleach (21 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...fire, because the Senator was new to the House. I know that when a new Member comes in it can be a very strange place to be, but the Senator did a fantastic job as Cathaoirleach of the committee. Good progress was made. We have the report. There was a key line in that report that said there are plenty of reports, but action on the ground is now needed to make a material difference to...