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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 35. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the significant overcrowding in the emergency department in University Hospital Galway during April 2019 [20823/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry that I missed the first part of the meeting. This place is a little crazy at the moment. We are like a school that has exams coming up next week. We are focusing on the studying but this week that is happening on the doorsteps of Ireland, not in the committee rooms, unfortunately. We are being pulled hither and thither. This issue is terribly important. State bodies often...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will make one other point. In the old days, I could decide on a Tuesday to ask the local community council to get people out and about to pick up the rubbish at the side of the road. Community groups are afraid to do that type of work now, so please do not suggest that there is a voluntary solution to this issue. It does not work any more because the same rules and vulnerabilities apply....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The same problem is found with Údarás na Gaeltachta's schemes in the west of the county. All of Galway is affected and my research has shown that this situation is affecting other counties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The grass will not be cut.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Given that we are responsible for introducing safety laws and so on, we cannot state that the delegates do not have to comply with them. First, we need the bodies opposite to develop a manual outlining what circumstances require training, signage, safety equipment and so on. Having decided that, the next question is how groups, including voluntary ones, will comply – we have problems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a fair point. With Tús workers it should simply be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will come to that in a minute. It is the third item on my list. As far as I am concerned, we need to arrange for the training to be carried out and to get the required people. I do not know if this is still the case but in the original rural social scheme, RSS, the working time did not have to be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. if the workers agreed. People used to come to football pitches at 7...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It should be the other way round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Unfortunately I have to leave but my view is that there is a lot of technical material here under different headings. An emergency is different from an ongoing situation. I cannot see one avoiding, legally and from an insurance point of view, compliance. To comply is a no-brainer, that is the end of the story and it is the law of the land. I make a plea that we have a working group of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to visit the Oranmore, Maree and Clarinbridge area of County Galway soon or to ask the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW to do so to see at first hand the coastal erosion problems in the area and to meet local persons affected by this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22078/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plan to publish the cost-benefit analysis study carried out on the Ardfry coastal erosion problem in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22079/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in considering a protected disclosure (details supplied); when it is likely that the consideration of this matter will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22080/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Earcaíocht sa Gharda Síochána (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality cé mhéad iarratas a fuarthas sa trí bhabhta dheireannacha earcaíochta a bhí ag an nGarda Síochána; cén líon acu seo i ngach cás a bhain leis an ngnáthshruth earcaíochta agus cén líon acu a bhain leis an sruth sainiúil Gaeilge; cén líon...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 463. To ask the Minister for Health if doctors involved in the general medical scheme can charge patients for a routine blood test in circumstances in which they have a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22077/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Social Media Regulation (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 503. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce legislation to provide independent oversight of the social media sector to ensure that it operates its policies to remove content from social media in a fair and equitable manner and to provide a mechanism for persons to appeal its censorship decisions to a State agency that would be...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide enhanced funding to a group (details supplied) to carry out youth counselling work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22081/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 679. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason income from the working family payment is not taken into account as reckonable income under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22074/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants (21 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant funding available to householders that cannot connect to the public water mains or a group water scheme to upgrade a well; if consideration is being given to increasing this grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22076/19]