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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 538. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made in the past month in relation to making information available from the evidence collected in the preparation of the mother and baby home report to persons seeking to find out about their children who were in the homes or children born in the homes trying to trace their parents; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 539. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the report into the mother and baby homes is expected to be published; the preparations being made for this in terms of support for victims and the provision of information under GDPR to persons affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40445/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 641. To ask the Minister for Health if the client registration unit will accept a late review request on a medical card application by a person (details supplied) due to difficulties in gathering supporting documentation as a result of the exceptional circumstances surrounding Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39639/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services (1 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list for audiology appointments at present in the community healthcare organisation 2, CHO 2, region, Galway; and the measures being taken to reduce the waiting times. [40052/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (1 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 716. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be provided to persons on waiting lists for residential care placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40103/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax year income from the pandemic unemployment payment paid since March 2020 to 31 December 2020 will be assessed for income tax purposes for persons who make self-employed tax returns based on an accounting year from 1 April to 31 March each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40704/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax losses made in the tax year 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic will be able to be offset against profits for the tax year 2020 for persons whose tax returns are based on an accounting year from 1 April to 31 March each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40705/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if qualifying goods as referred to in section 64 of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020 includes all purchases for export being made by a qualified person while on vacation in the State or the purchases in one premises or shop for the purposes of the €75 minimum expenditure provided for in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to amend the process by which joint savings are assessed as part of the means assessment for dependent adults of recipients of the State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40762/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there are different rules pertaining to the assessment of a spouse’s means from employment and from an occupational pension for a claimant for jobseeker’s benefit; her plans to review same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40763/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if income from the pandemic unemployment payment is assessible for the purposes of means assessment for SUSI grants in 2020 in which a student seeks a review of their application based on change of circumstances; if the student grant scheme regulations provides for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40706/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 173. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements being made to ensure Irish citizens will still be able to get reimbursed for qualifying medical treatment provided to them in Northern Ireland, after Brexit, given that the cross-Border EU directive will not apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40709/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Dr. O'Connor for the presentation. I presume he is working in consultation with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications on this matter. I welcome the hubs but I have a fear at the back of my mind that some people think hubs are a substitute for bringing fibre to every building and home. I am concerned about the fact that because the hubs are located in very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, not that one. We could figure that out easily enough, where Eir did not cover, the rest of the country included and then one could make a guess that from the patterns worked to date that they are working out from the centre and there are a lot of nodes outwards. The map I am looking for is the mobile phone coverage map, but we do not need it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but when one looks at the map, what one is going to find is that the hill areas are the places with the worst service geographically. Unfortunately, if I understand it correctly, Dr. O'Connor’s group cannot do anything about it because this was a mistake made by the Government in giving licences to mobile communications providers. In other words, they had to cover a percentage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry, that was not really the question. A BCP is not going to be put in Moycullen or Bearna, for example, because the fibre is being rolled out fast in those areas. By the time the BCP was in operation, the fibre would be in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the national broadband plan, and the BCPs come under that plan, can I take it that the reason the BCPs are located in these "remote areas" - and I do not accept anywhere is remote in Ireland because nowhere is more than 30 or 40 miles from a major town or city, compared to the north of Finland, for example, where people would be laughing at us for saying that - is because they are going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not agree. I live in a community-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will finish on this point. I live in an isolated, back of the mountains area and some 100 of our houses already have fibre, while 300 do not. Nobody can understand how Eir went 300 or 400 yd. farther down that road, where there were three or four houses, and then suddenly stopped. It does not make sense. It would have been possible to roll out the national broadband plan from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It seems to me that we are serving two separate markets. BCPs are for areas without broadband, and the hubs are for areas with broadband where people want the socialisation of work and to work in good workspaces. These are very different requirements. On the wider issue, people work where they are. I think most Deputies have been doing this for years; I certainly have. For example, I...