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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Investigations (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 663. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has set up an inquiry under section 31(2) of the Prisons Act 2007 to examine a category A complaint on foot of a report of allegations of serious malpractice made by the Inspector of Prisons regarding events in the Dóchas Centre; if so, if the report will be received from the inquiry; the actions taken in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 839. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to ensure that adequate supplies of flu vaccine are available to all general practitioners to cover all target groups - the old, the pregnant and the disabled - and other vulnerable persons with serious underlying conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36989/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 768. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE in the CHO 2 community care area has made a decision not to provide further occupational therapy reports in support of applications for housing grants such as mobility aids grants and housing adaption grants for persons with a disability to Galway county and city councils in view of the extra cost burden this will put on vulnerable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 846. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay on the part of the HSE in replying to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 15 October 2020, referred by him to the HSE for reply; the protocols in place to ensure speedy replies to questions referred to the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37008/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he plans to take to limit access of large boats to within the 6 mile coastal waters in view of the recent decision by the Supreme Court and in further view of the effect of same on small coastal fishers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36988/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank our guests for their presentations. I have had a long connection with Coillte, first in the sawmilling business and subsequently with rural recreation. I have to say that Coillte has, basically, done a good job on both sides. My questions are specific. How many applications has Coillte in with the Department at present, by number and volume? In other words, is Coillte ready and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Have the witnesses any idea what percentage of timber is being sourced outside the island of Ireland and what percentage comes from inside? How much are we importing from Scotland and Russia?

Rural and Community Development: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bhí an-spéis agam sa mhéid a bhí le rá ag an Teachta romhaim. Tá cuid mhaith den cheart aige. Mar, ar ndóigh, tá ollfhadhbanna sna cathracha, go mór mhór i a Dháilcheantar féin. Before the Deputy leaves, I would just like to say that I listened very carefully to what he said, and he is absolutely right that there are mega-problems...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Dátheangacha agus Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2020: Foras na Gaeilge (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Dátheangacha agus Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2020: Foras na Gaeilge (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ag éisteacht leis na finnéithe, is í an tuiscint atá agamsa ná gurb é bun agus barr an scéil ná nach bhfuil dóthain airgead ag Foras na Gaeilge leis an méid rudaí ar mhaith leis a dhéanamh agus go bhfuil an Foras ag iarraidh na dualgais sin a roinnt. B'fhéidir go bhféadfadh na finnéithe é sin a dheimhniú ach...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Dátheangacha agus Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2020: Foras na Gaeilge (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An bhfuil aon fhigiúirí ar fáil maidir leis an méid daoine a bhreathnaíonn ar tuairisc.ie?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister of State for the presentation. On the Dormant Accounts Fund, has the Minister of State any idea of the unallocated funds? There is the reserve. Putting that aside, there are funds that have been allocated but have not been spent for which one must make a contingency. Then there are the unallocated funds. Has the Minister of State any idea where those stand at at...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How much of that has been allocated but not spent? Once one allocates money to a project, one has to keep money, aside from the reserve, for that as well. How much loose money is in it? I presume there is not €211 million. Does the Minister of State understand what I am saying? The Minister of State said there was €312 million, with €101 in the reserve. That is a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My understanding is also that, bizarrely, there is a contingent liability on all the money. In other words, it is still on the State's book. When the Minister of State spends the money and goes to the Department of Finance looking for permission to spend more money, the Department will tell him that there is a still a contingent liability on the State for all of the money that was ever...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have no problem with the reserve being the reserve. That is the cushion. However, holding onto the entire amount from day one is wrong. A new formula should be worked out, one in which the reserve is untouchable. That is the rainy day fund. To say that everyone who ever put money into a dormant account will one day walk into a bank is stretching credulity, though.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This has been a useful debate.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we were discussing this matter with the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, I put forward the idea that we already have a lot of decentralised Civil Service offices around the country, from Buncrana to Na Forbacha, all the way around. The reality is that I am not sure whether all those buildings are fully utilised. I asked that question of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: May I make one further, final point? I take it the Minister of State is responsible for Pobal.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we can travel again, I suggest that the Minister of State visits Clifden. There is a Pobal sub-office there that makes all the rural social scheme, RSS, and Tús payments and so on. The amount of travel amounts to one or two people going to Dublin occasionally, or that was the case before Covid and that has now probably proven to be an unnecessary journey. It is providing steady...