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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am trying to be, but I am also trying to be clear about what exactly I am saying. The real problem is that there are well funded and powerful ecological groups. It is similar to the problem encountered with hillwalking, where a hillwalker would not win a court case after breaking his or her neck have fallen on a slippery rock that had been there since Adam and Eve. However, the landowner...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will, with two sentences. In relation to burning, those of us who live in rural areas have tried to explain this time and again. Most accidental burning of mountains happens in April, May and June during the dry weather. When one does not have controlled burning or control of overgrown vegetation, it becomes woody and then it is like a tinderbox when one gets into April, May and June....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister could clarify that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How is it different?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: People get killed on minor roads too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister indemnify the local authorities if they use their discretion against being sued by people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The second issue-----

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is an extraordinary Bill. I understand that many people have gone home today because of Storm Lorenzo, but after the Minister's contribution last night, there was no Government speaker. That shows either a lack of interest on behalf of the Fine Gael Party or that there is nothing of significance in the Bill. There was a time when, if a broadcasting Bill was before the House, there...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We run ourselves down so badly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise I could not get to the committee earlier. It is a busy day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I need to get out of here fairly fast as I have to get into the Dáil by 1 o'clock. The issue of social distance or separation or whatever one wants to call it is significant. I see it all the time. One of the challenges for the settled community is to create genuine friendships with people in the Traveller community. It should not be on an up-down but on an even level. It should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I withdraw that statement. The presidential election highlighted an issue that is very much in the public domain, namely, societal attitudes. If we did not have those societal attitudes, we would not have seen the result we got. I am not talking about the winner of the presidential campaign, who has been a friend of Travellers for many years. We cannot walk away from that reality. I find...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would my analysis reflect what Ms Kelly experiences where I live as being reasonably accurate and would it also reflect the possibilities of where we all live? I believe we must look at the possibilities of how we can achieve significant change in the future. Would the witnesses agree that unless one changes all of the issues, including culture, employment and housing at the same time, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Chair is a Seanadóir. Would it make a significant difference if a seat in the Seanad were reserved for a member of the Traveller community so there would be a permanent, guaranteed voice in the Houses of the Oireachtas? The whole idea of the Seanad is that it is not based on trying to capture the full electorate. There is a problem with that where there is a dispersed community.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (10 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of positions in the CHO2 health service in the western region in which applicants have received offers of a post but were subsequently informed by the HSE that the position is on hold due to budgetary restraints and continues to require the approval from the national director; the quarter in each case during which the offer of a position was...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to build on the case made by Deputy Troy. There are many ways of helping people and the reality is there is no point in getting the money in if people are paying out an inordinate amount of money unnecessarily. The reality is that the cost of living in this country has gone through the ceiling, particularly for those at the bottom of the scale, that is, those on lower incomes....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (15 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date in controlling spiralling insurance costs; the average increase in insurance costs in each of the years 2010 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the proposed further steps to be taken in 2020 to deal with this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42214/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Furniture Provision (15 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a scheme under the remit of his Department in which schools catering for students with special needs can receive funding for playground furniture and equipment, including from dormant accounts money and national lottery money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42094/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (15 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue from the school transport section of his Department to a letter sent to the section on 1 August 2019 and which was followed by a reminder on 3 September 2019 (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42216/19]