Results 20,681-20,700 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to explain. The Chair will understand what I am saying and why I want to encourage before we rush in-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be very direct and I will conclude on this point. It is dangerous not to address the issue when it arises in a form such as this. Obviously, it is difficult early on to engage the public in light of all these dry words, but it will have massive consequences. At a meeting with the NTA yesterday, I sought an explanation as to why the cost per kilometre of fares to Claregalway or...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is approximately 250,000.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What time will we recommence because some of us got caught short the other time?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know but can the Chairman just give us a time, because a very important section of the Bill seems to have gone through very fast?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Give us a time.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I literally-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: As I said, these extraordinarily big changes to the Bill have come late in the day without any consultation with the wider public. If I had not noticed two issues in the Bill, one in Galway and another that came up yesterday, I probably would not have engaged in detail. I do not think anybody can argue with the idea, whether it is Carlow, Athlone or wherever, of trying to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it worth starting? I have a reasonable amount to say.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, that might be better. As an exceptional measure, as I will not be at the joint committee meeting tomorrow, can somebody let me know at what time the select committee is to reconvene?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to change the rates of payment from 2019 in the ANC scheme so that these rates reflect more the natural constraint of the land farmers are farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50978/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 33. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase the maximum area on which a farmer can receive payment under the ANC scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50979/18]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand we are discussing amendment No. 40. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I was beginning to talk about the new construct and the bigger part of County Roscommon being in County Westmeath. Counties Waterford and Kilkenny were also mentioned in that context. There is another very serious development which, if it were to take hold, would have huge ramifications for democracy. In recent years I have noted a move towards corporatism, a European idea of the 1930s...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I think this proposal is previous. What guides me in the first place is the report published by the expert group. The report and the letter accompanying it, and the press release issued by the expert group, were clear that, prior to any decision, it is the underlying money issue, not the money for the merger, particularly in Galway County Council but also in Galway City Council, that should...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The legal decision-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State talked about a process. The second interim report was issued on 26 April 2018. After it was issued we, as public representatives, were invited to a briefing rather than a consultation and were told that this is it and that we would have no input. Furthermore, it gives the game away in one important national aspect. There is talk about bringing the industrial agencies...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: In that case, I will ask one question of the Minister of State. I understand that he got a document containing two main points. The second point is set out in a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h and i format.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask the Minister of State to check because I was told-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Maybe we could avoid a vote if-----