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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My apologies for missing the earlier part of the meeting. I refer to the CCMA. Some of my questions may have been addressed already but I will take that risk. The written submission provided by the CCMA states: "It should be noted that increasingly, greater expenditure from the maintenance budgets is being used to clean up increased levels of dumping on all sites." On the various sites,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My understanding is the Department will give money to implement the report, which includes transient halting sites. It is not, therefore, coming out of the pot that will go into permanent housing. I will put it this way. If you are building an ordinary housing estate, you will put recreational facilities and public parks or whatever in. You will not say it is houses or public parks. You...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am very concerned that the past ten years have seen very slow progress for the islands. The officials referenced the interdepartmental committee 23 years ago. It had very little influence on what happened subsequently. I worked on this document, which was the manifesto on the islands I wrote for the 1997 general election. I was the Minister responsible for most of the period from 1997...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How much was given out in 2021 and 2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In my experience of dealing with islanders, the biggest barrier to housing is planning. What discussions did the Department have with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage about planning? There are new rural housing planning guidelines coming out. My view is anybody who can establish that he or she is or is likely to be a permanent dweller on the islands and likely to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That relates to social housing needs. Planning was the big issue I raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did Ms Nic Aongusa's Department offer co-funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If baffles me that there could be a con to putting fibre onto an island. My two questions are how much it would cost and how much the Department would need. Let us get on with it. It is all coming out of the same pot in any event. It is just a question of how to get a mechanism that allows us to get on with the job. I accept that NBI probably does not have a fibre contract for all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I can tell Ms Nic Aongusa from experience that this works an absolute treat. The Department need not waste time worrying about the pros and cons of these things. We labour a long time over the obvious. Everybody knows that anybody who went to a deal with money in their pocket came out a winner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the total capital allocation for next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Department provide a year-by-year breakdown since 2000 of capital expenditure on the islands?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about in 2008?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What kind of budget line is envisaged for the whole project? Would it be €50 million or €100 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. I know that Inis Oírr will cost approximately €17 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has gone up. It would have cost €17 million if we had done it in 2008.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Ms Ní Chonghaile mean that it will be under €20 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If they come back and say that the optimal design is €50 million, will the Department do it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about Roonagh?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad to hear that the islands are under the same Department as community development. Has a decision been taken yet that the next LEADER programme will be awarded in parcels in order that all of the islands will be included under Comhar na nOileán or one island as a base bidder? The rural development plan has been mentioned a number of times. When was it published? How many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that. That is not the question. A bid will be put out soon.