Results 11,701-11,720 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked two specific questions. First, no doubt when the Minister of State goes to his officials about the nice approach he is talking about, he will be told that we do not have enough manpower or womanpower. Has the Minister of State made any assessment of the staff he would need to implement his new, highly positive programme relating to NHAs, SPAs or whatever? Second, will funding be...
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister of State telling me that if farmers can prove that they have had to adjust their farming system since he imposed designations, he is guaranteeing compensation, as provided under the law? Lots of farmers - 70% of them - will never join GLAS. In fact, I think GLAS represents only 25% of farmers. I think the Minister's target is 50,000. Can we get an absolute assurance today?
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: Therefore, is the Minister of State telling me that the Department will continue flouting the law? Under the regulations brought in by Michael D. Higgins, when he was Minister rather than President, there was compensation to be paid to farmers. As the Minister of State's Secretary General will be able to tell him, for many years there was a scheme whereby, if farmers had a loss due to...
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: Unfortunately, the Minister of State is dodging the issue. The situation is very simple. Under the regulations which were introduced in 1997, a farmer was not obliged to join GLAS. As I said, the majority of farmers are not in GLAS. If their output was affected by the habitats directive, they were entitled to compensation. Is the Minister of State going to comply with the law and make...
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: That was ceased. Is the Minister of State going to reinstate it?
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: As such, the Minister of State is saying that a farmer-----
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: Finally.
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State is saying that if a farmer can prove that when the designation came in, he had 300 sheep and the Department reduced him to 200, he can now go back to 300 because no restriction has been brought in. Of course, the Minister of State knows that is not true, as do I. In reality, the Department, unilaterally and contrary to the regulations under the habitats directive, did...
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: And we paid.
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not getting answers.
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the point of being here if the Minister of State is not going to answer questions?
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: This is------
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: I know, and if he had answered the question, we could have moved on within two seconds. It is "Yes" or "No".
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a weak view from the Chair who is meant to be protecting the members' interests.
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: Are any of those special areas of conservation or are they all natural heritage areas, NHAs?
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: I have three short questions. What steps have been taken by the Department to ensure the upgrade of the N59 can progress? As the Minister is aware, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, has not yet agreed method statements on the Maam Cross to Oughterard section - I understand this comes under the remit of the Minister of State, Deputy Ring - and in the section west of Maam Cross I...
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: Am I right in what I said about special areas of conservation under European law? It would only apply if some natural disaster destroyed the SAC. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: County councils are putting preservation orders on everything, including barns. The idea that it is all happening in town and villages is inaccurate; it is happening throughout the countryside. I do not know what the hang-up is; everyone is talking about towns and villages as if everywhere else is in some kind of fantasy hinterland. The townlands of Ireland are as real as the towns....
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: May I make a suggestion? What do we have left to do?
- Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016) Éamon Ó Cuív: The next one deal with the Irish language.