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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Jul 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 514. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be transferred to Galway University Hospital to undergo an operation; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19324/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 521. To ask the Minister for Health to provide home help hours for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19335/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Jul 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 543. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide an operation for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a date for this procedure; if the person can undergo the procedure on the treatment purchase fund scheme or in any other way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19446/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (5 Jul 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings the interdepartmental agency group set up to oversee the implementation of recommendations contained in the review of the nursing home support scheme has held; the dates of the meetings; if and when it will afford the IFA an opportunity to make an oral presentation to the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19708/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (5 Jul 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 630. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his policy to ensure that micro-generation by persons is encouraged and that particularly where micro-generation is taking place persons have access to the national grid and get paid a fair amount by way of credit on their bills by their electricity supplier; his plans to introduce legislation to change the regulatory...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We always hear the mantra that if we tax very wealthy people over 50%, the incentive is removed. Does the Minister accept that the same principle must apply, even more so, when we means test over 50%? When we means test at 100%, which has been the tradition in the Department, we remove all incentive. We recognise this in other schemes where we means test at 50%. Does the Minister accept...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is moving in the right direction.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept the point the Minister makes about other self-employed persons, but they should have become more like those on the farm assist scheme rather than having a 100% penalty on income earned if one is poor. As I was beginning to despair that the Minister would just read out the standard answer we get to these questions, it is welcome that he is reviewing the scheme. Is he willing to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister willing to consult with the Irish Natura And Hill Farmers Association, which, for a small organisation, probably represents a disproportionate number of farmers on the farm assist scheme? Further, when he reviews the farm assist scheme and the means test, could he also consider the rural social scheme in tandem with it? This scheme was also subject to a very regressive means...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Finally, does the Minister agree that there is a perception that farmers in some way can hide their income but that the reality is totally different? His Department-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have 55 seconds on the clock.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise. The Department owes exactly the income from the grants because it gets the statement from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The Department of Social Protection also knows how much stock was sold because of the animal identification system, AIMS, which is under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; therefore, the Department knows...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The farmers would not think so.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 6. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reverse the cuts imposed on the payments made to persons by the previous Government under the farm assist scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18706/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Farm Assist Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Under the farm assist scheme, a scheme to help small farmers to make a viable living, for every euro earned on the farm €1 is taken from the payment, which takes away any incentive to farm profitably. Is it the Minister's intention to reverse the cuts to the scheme and go back to the situation where farmers got to keep some of the fruits of their labour?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to expand and improve the rural social scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18705/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 136. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the minimum amount of public liability insurance cover that community employment schemes are required to have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18924/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seirbhísí Farantóireachta (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 147. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a lorgófar tairiscintí le haghaidh na seirbhíse farantóireachta chuig Toraigh; an mbeidh sé mar choinníoll sa chonradh gur ón oileán a bheidh an chéad seirbhís fhóirdheonaithe den lá agus gur chuig an oileán a bheidh an ceann deireanach; agus an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Applications (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in approving targeted agricultural modernisation scheme applications under tranche 2 for the low emission slurry spreading scheme; when it is expected these applications will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18921/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (30 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the possible withdrawal of approval for glyphosate by the European Union; if he supported this in the European Union Council of Agriculture Ministers; if the decision taken by the EU was in line with the position adopted by Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18922/16]