Results 20,001-20,020 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a reply will issue in respect of a query (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28115/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be honest that when the Western Development Commission was established, I thought it was a token agency. Unfortunately my view has not changed. I am not saying that the people there are not doing their best with the tools given to them but the Government refused to take the west seriously. It was set up to deal with an urgent problem that was there at a time of the famous bishops'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Dr. Garvey know the story of the TEN-T? Has it been analysed? Has it been researched?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It failed because the west was taken out. Did the criteria applied in Brussels make that decision inevitable or did the Department want to take the west out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, I was just curious. I was wondering if anybody knows because I have my suspicions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The individuals in question would not necessarily have to be in the west to avail of the talent tool.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know something was sold.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How quickly will the money be used? The commission is not a bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, outside Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The reality is that Galway has high visibility, with a chamber of commerce and so on. Politicians are often lobbied by chambers of commerce, for example, the Westport or American chambers of commerce. They are organised. I will name a company, which will not mind because it is blue-ribboned in every way. The manufacturing firm, McHale, is local and creative, operates in a competitive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not mean to interrupt Mr. Brannigan but I have an interesting statistic. The Athlone and Limerick lines converge in Athenry. Athenry has a population of 3,950. Some 300 people a day travel from Athenry into Galway city. The rail census November tells me that. It was taken in November so these people are not tourists. If we then consider Ballinasloe and Athlone, Athlone has 27,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How much did we get into the regions in the past five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are we talking about €5 billion, €500 million, €100 million, or €5 million or €10 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is in the hundreds of millions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Into what does that money go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be spent on hard infrastructure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have to get that information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mr. Brannigan is saying that our region got €200 million or €300 million over seven years. We will say €400 million. We will be generous to them. If we divide that by seven, it is €50 million or €60 million a year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In addition, the State spends €3 billion or €4 billion on capital spending every year and, therefore, it is not a big player in the game. If we want to redevelop the roads and the rail system in the west, looking to the seanbhean bhocht atá ag teacht thar sáile is a waste of time. We should just look to the Exchequer and get on with the job. We can let the Exchequer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (28 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 55. To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken to reduce outpatient waiting times for neurology consultations in Galway University Hospital in which 466 appointments are outstanding for more than 18 months. [28196/18]