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Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: An Ghaeilge agus Seirbhísí Dátheangacha: An tSeirbhís um Cheapacháin Phoiblí (19 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Má chuirim isteach ar an dá phainéal, an mbíonn orm dhá agallamh a dhéanamh nó cén bealach a chuireann duine isteach air?

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: An Ghaeilge agus Seirbhísí Dátheangacha: An tSeirbhís um Cheapacháin Phoiblí (19 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Seo í an fhadhb i gcónaí le bheith mar Ghaeilgeoir. Seachas é a bheith ina bhuntáiste, cuireann sé tuilleadh anró ar dhaoine. Don duine atá dátheangach, ba cheart go mbeadh sé ina bhuntáiste, ní ina mhíbhuntáiste. Ba cheart go mbeidís in ann pacáiste leis an dá rud in éineacht a fháil le...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: An Ghaeilge agus Seirbhísí Dátheangacha: An tSeirbhís um Cheapacháin Phoiblí (19 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Aontaím go gcaithfidh an tSeirbhís um Cheapacháin Phoiblí daoine le Gaeilge a earcú ach ná smaoiníodh muid riamh ar dhaoine le Gaeilge go bhfuil siad gan Béarla. Tá Béarla acu. Áfach, smaoinímid ar dhaoine le Gaeilge agus nach bhfuil Béarla acu. In ionad é a bheith ina bhuntáiste go bhfuil Gaeilge agus Béarla...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It seems to me that we need to turn a vicious circle into a virtuous circle. One of the challenges we face as we seek to get people to engage with education generally is that some people do not see education as having any benefit for themselves. We all know people who ask what the point of learning Irish or Latin is, because nobody speaks those languages. They do not see the point of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree totally. When one looks at comparative models, one sees the provision of intensive State support. That is what is required in this instance. Education is required for the whole of society. Most schools have teachers of the same quality who have been to the same training colleges, but the outcomes are vastly different across socioeconomic groups. When one looks at other things to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There must be positive discrimination. When we give Travellers the same as everybody else and they succeed, it will deny the effect of their socioeconomic background for many years.

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not have enough time to do justice to these issues, but I am grateful to my colleagues for raising them. The large number of speakers on this side of the House demonstrates the scale of the crisis. As my colleague, Deputy Rabbitte, said, University Hospital Galway is a disaster. The latest dream is that we are going to get a brand new hospital. I would love to have a new hospital in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (20 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected increase in the net contribution by Ireland each year to the EU from 2021 to 2027 in the event of Britain leaving the EU with a deal on 31 January 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47905/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme (21 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 19. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the policy he has to radically improve rural transport particularly for commuters from rural areas to the regional cities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48009/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Provision (21 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when approval will be given to Iarnród Éireann to purchase new rolling stock in view of the critical shortage of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48010/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (26 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of taxpayers who were exempt from income tax in each year since 2008 to 2018 and to date in 2019; his views on whether taxpayers should be required to pay income tax irrespective of income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48983/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I came up to Dublin late last night because I had other things to attend to. I have no comments at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Ms Rooney for her comprehensive outline of the fund. I have a number of preliminary questions on which she might be able to give me information. Can she confirm that any proposal received by the Department that has an enterprise element is subject to state aid rules? Ms Rooney has said that a State-funded agency - I understand that this means a body like a local authority, IDA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The question on state aid was first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That does not clarify the matter. This is a rural development fund. My understanding of state aid rules is that, as the people involved in LEADER will be able to confirm, permission is needed for anything above €200,000 that is enterprise-related. That is a general rule. As such, Mr. Forsyth is saying that any project that would create actual jobs and exceeded €200,000 would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many of those applications were successful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is important. I have a funny feeling that there is a distortion because of the State agencies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked about the Minister's role.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We had a similar process in the Department I was in previously; it was not totally dissimilar to Ms Rooney's Department. At ministerial level, a request we always made of the advisory board was in respect of all the applications that were refused. In a number of cases, the officials and I sat around the table to determine the basis for refusal. We asked the advisory board to clarify the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many decisions to refuse have been turned into a "Yes" having been looked at it again?