Results 23,241-23,260 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (18 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 740. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to visit Clare Island in the near future to see at first hand the challenges facing the island; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (18 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 741. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it is planned to build an all-weather pier at Roonagh pier which acts as a mainland port for ferries to islands off the coast in view of the number of sailings each year that cannot land at the pier; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (18 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 742. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the daily number of Department contracted sailings to islands (details supplied); the reason for the differences in the frequency of services to different islands and the factors used to arrive at this frequency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26287/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank all of the contributors for their contributions to this debate. In five years' time, we need to be able to say that the percentage of Travellers who are unemployed has decreased. In other words, if actions do not lead to results, those actions are not good enough. It is as simple as that. What strikes me from today's debate is that the approach must be multifaceted. I was on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the big problems that I find with the medical card is that it is given for three or four years but after a year and half there is a review. Let us say we introduce a fixed term for a medical card of three or five years for all of society, irrespective of income changes, that period would be sustained so people would have a guarantee of the time they would have a medical card and would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be brief and only ask about a few things. Mention was made of extra complexity to the back-to-work scheme. When I was in the Department, I always said that big policy is easy but problems arise in the detail. Most schemes have become more complex just because somebody somewhere might have got something to which they were not fully entitled. It would be useful for us if somebody...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Which prison would be best to visit in this regard?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhís Craolacháin Gaeilge: Plé (19 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm go bhfuil an plé seo ar bun. Aithním go bhfuil méid áirithe déanta ag an Aire laistigh de bhliain maidir le cúrsaí Gaeilge agus go dtógfaidh na hathruithe móra a theastaíonn am. Is é an chéad rud a gcaithfidh muid breathnú air, áfach, ná céard é fís na tíre agus fís an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions and Considerations (Resumed): Irish Local Development Network (19 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will raise a number of issues. I agree with the proposal that the LES should be extended to cover the whole country because there are issues in relation to employment everywhere. I have always abominated the situation we had initially when I became Minister, where some areas were covered by partnerships and others were not, even though there is poverty, deprivation, disadvantage or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to provide ring-fenced funding for the provision of additional courses in third level colleges in cases in which the tuition would be through the medium of Irish to ensure there will be sufficient persons available with third level qualifications to meet the likely requirements of the Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019; and if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This question is very simple. Is it intended to provide ring-fenced funding to the Higher Education Authority, HEA, to ensure more courses are taught through the medium of Irish? I am not talking about courses teaching Irish but about courses provided at third level through the medium of Irish. There will be a demand for people who are qualified professionally in Irish or through the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his offer of engaging with me bilaterally and I will certainly take him up on it. I listened to his reply but we are a long way from where we need to be. I have a pragmatic and practical view of this. It is worth noting that NUI Galway, or UCG as it was at the time, was only kept in the 1920s to provide an Irish language university. Even into the 1960s most of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we engage with this issue we will do so at three levels: courses through Irish; courses teaching the Irish language; and courses in professional Irish for certain occupations. For example, GPs, veterinary surgeons, nurses, speech therapists and all the other practical professions working in the Gaeltacht would need to know the language of their profession as well as a general competence...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome this Bill. I did not get a chance today to count all the parliamentary questions I submitted over the years concerning when this Bill would be introduced. It was promised and promised, and yet, like many things, it never happened. The Minister of State is less than a year in government and she has already brought this Bill before the House. I congratulate her on doing that....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an analysis has been carried out by his Department on the relationship between the value of entitlements and stocking density on livestock farms; if so, the result of this analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans sanctioning the building of a deep-water pier in Ros a’ Mhíl soon in order that it can be built before the planning for the pier runs out in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26489/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to increase the proportion of dedicated research funds that are provided annually towards blue skies research to ensure that Ireland attracts and retains top scientists in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scrúduithe Stáit (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an mbeidh dátaí na harteiste a chuireann isteach ar an scrúdú Ard Teiste i mbliana agus a roghnaíonn an dá rogha idir gráid réamh-meastach agus an scrúdú a shuí in don an ceann is fearr de na torthaí a roghnú ábhar ar ábhar nó an mbeidh orthu rogha a dhéanamh...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person from this State and serving a prison sentence in Northern Ireland can apply under the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Act 1995 to serve the prison sentence in this jurisdiction; the conditions under which such an application can be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person who is Irish and lives ordinarily in Northern Ireland and is serving a prison sentence in Northern Ireland can apply under the Transfer of Sentenced Person Act 1995 to serve the prison sentence in this jurisdiction on the basis of their Irish citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27252/21]