Results 22,181-22,200 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (23 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish revised terms for the housing incremental purchase scheme 2016 to make it more attractive to persons to purchase their local authority house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17312/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he plans to take to ensure that local authorities protect the status of the Irish language in Gaeltacht areas in the development and the implementation of county plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17311/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times he has visited Northern Ireland to date in 2020; the purpose of each visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17314/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with members of the executive in Northern Ireland in relation to the conditions under which segregated prisoners are held in HMP Magheraberry and other related issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17313/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to carry out a nationwide review of the full potential of rail services on Iarnród Éireann rail lines with a particular emphasis in the review on the potential reduction of emissions by the full utilisation of the lines and the diversion of commuters and intercity passengers from more carbon intensive forms of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the Office of Public Works to carry out works on an old mill (details supplied) in its care to enable it to open to visitors; the progress made with the plans to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18748/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that, in the event of schools not opening in September 2020, teaching online will be available to all pupils who wish to be taught online and have broadband access; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to meet with Letterkenny Institute of Technology and the Derry University Group to consider the way in which cross-Border third level education could be developed in the north west for persons form both sides of the Border; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18753/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Connemara ponies born before 2016 tested for HWSD in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18750/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 730. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reduction in the number of crèches providing care for children under one year old compared to the situation before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic by county; the steps he plans to take to support parents who require childcare and who have no crèche available near them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18749/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1028. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a product (details supplied) that constantly monitors glucose levels for persons with type 1 diabetes is not available under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18754/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the review she plans to carry out of the means testing of social welfare payments and payments under the community employment and rural social schemes to ensure means testing is not acting as a disincentive to saving money or to the increasing of employed or self-employed income; and if she will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since moving to the west many years ago and finding out about the means testing system, I have always believed it to be penal. We often speak of how the tax system can act as a disincentive to workers saving but it also fair to admit that the social welfare system does that more. I will give one example. In the case of most working age means tested payments, with the exception of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----€40,000 are considered as if they generated an income of 20% per annum.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Minister reads the question, she will see that it covers all means testing on social welfare schemes, community employment schemes and the rural social scheme. I presume she is aware that where a person on the jobseeker's allowance, for example, has income from self-employment other than farming, the Department means tests that self-employed income at 100%. In other words, if a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the very positive response. In the standard reply she provided, she implied that the rural social scheme is an activation scheme to help people get employment. That is certainly not the way the scheme was designed. It was designed as a supplementary income scheme in return for a substantial contribution to services in local parishes up and down the country by small...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Allowance (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the rules in respect of the treatment of savings for those on disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18539/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Allowance (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are back to my old hobby horse, that of means testing. There are people who are so disabled from birth or an early age that they will never be able to get employment or make social welfare contributions. The only social welfare payment open to them is the disability allowance. The way that income, capital and savings are assessed against these people is unfair. I would be interested to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Allowance (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let us go back to the cohort I spoke about, who are so disabled that this talk of getting employment just does not arise. I have come across cases where a parent dies and leaves, say, €100,000 to an adult child who has been disabled since birth. In that case the disability allowance payment dropped from €203 to €53 per week. If the parents leave €110,000 it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Allowance (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will give the Minister another example, a real-life case. A parent scrimped and saved throughout their life and wanted to make an extra provision for their disabled offspring. They bought a pension of €100 a week and gave it to the adult offspring. In this case, it reduced the disability allowance by €100 per week which meant the parent would end up saving the State money...