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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The incremental tenant purchase scheme of 2016 is a total failure because a very small number of houses is being purchased. Houses cannot even be purchased when somebody can put the total purchase price down on the table. We have been promised a review of the scheme time and again. When will we have it? We keep getting the same answer, "soon", but it seems there is a new dictionary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State says the scheme suits many people. How many houses have been sold to tenants since the inception of the scheme in 2016? Can the Minister of State confirm that there is an income requirement of €15,000? This income is fair enough but there is a quibble clause stating that if most of the income is made up of a social welfare payment, even a permanent one such as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad the Minister of State clarified that where a couple is on the State contributory pension, or perhaps two State contributory pensions, their other income is regarded as secondary and they are excluded from the scheme, even if they can pay up front. We need to nail that issue today, because it is one of the most common queries we receive about this scheme. Some people have the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to introduce new rural housing guidelines in view of the Flemish Decree judgment of the European Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51116/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not over-endowed with members today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to thank the witnesses for their presentations. The first point I would like to raise is an issue in relation to finance. Is the proposed allocation for local authorities €10,000? If that is so, it is a significant decrease from the allocation in 2016, which I believe was €50,000. One would have thought it would have been the other way around, because 2016...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am all for academia and all the rest but these are not people's events. The people of Ireland are not celebrating that they independently chose to set up their justice system or diplomatic system. These commemorations involve all sorts of Departments but there do not seem to be any big public events to highlight these extraordinary developments under a Government that was operating under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That statement could be mirrored today but we will not get into it. Some Departments are still more successful than others.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: So am I. I want to be objective about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My argument is that although Departments and academia have done well, we seem much more reticent about any major commemoration that involves the public. I have always held the view that it is incredibly important for the wider public to be involved and to be educated in the facts, including that the First Dáil was not just a one-day event. The First Dáil set up a native Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It will not be like what happened at Banna Strand, which was a full State commemoration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: With all the events that took place in 1920 and 1921 in Tipperary, will Tipperary County Council need much more than €10,000 to satisfy all the communities that will be looking for a few bob? What is the view of Ms O'Grady on the matter I raised concerning monuments at all the different crossroads and the need to refurbish most of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are more resources required on top of the €10,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My understanding is that many people represented Ireland diplomatically across the world in the 1920 to 1921 period. They obviously were not getting paid for their activities but they were appointed by Ministers from the Dáil. If I understand rightly, they were quite spread out across the globe, especially in any country with an Irish population, so they went to the southern hemisphere...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Oideachas Gaeilge (12 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 13. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist aici athruithe a dhéanamh ar an scéim deontas le haghaidh ollscoileanna thar sáile ina múintear an Ghaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [51124/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (12 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to reconvene and reconstitute the Moore Street advisory committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51125/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (12 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance the investment made by the State in banks (details supplied) during the financial crisis by institution; the amount recouped to date from the institutions; the value of the residual investment by the State in the institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52288/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Data (12 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance the investment by the State in credit unions during the financial crisis; the amount recouped to date; the value of residual investment by the State in the credit unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52289/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Documents (12 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which taxpayers who do not have access to a computer or are not computer literate and do not have a Revenue Commissioners myAccount will be able to access their employment detail summaries for 2019 under PAYE modernisation; if they will be able to obtain the information by writing to the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Soláthar Iompar Scoile (12 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé sásta ticéid taistil scoile a cheadú do scoláirí ó scoil (sonraí tugtha) le dul ar bhus poiblí Bhus Éireann tar éis 5.00pm ionas go mbeidh deis acu páirt a ghlacadh in imeachtaí iar-scoile, ag cur san áireamh nach bhfuil aon bhus níos luaithe...