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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: Back in the day, we put out one bid lot to provide all of 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: -----with the services. Is this the way it is going to be the next time? Will the islands be one lot?

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: Yes, I know. We are going around in circles.

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: Have the islanders asked that it would revert to what it was before the most recent LEADER situation whereby there would be one parcel and local action group for the islands? Ultimately, we have to follow EU law but I doubt whether EU law would preclude the Department from doing something sensible such as having the islands as one parcel. After that, it will be for the Minister to make up...

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 will be a decision for the Minister.

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: The Minister can accept, amend or reject proposals.

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: The Minister does not have to accept the proposal from the Department.

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: The Minister does not have to accept every proposal from the public service. The Minister can accept, amend or reject. This is my understanding.

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 is good. We will keep the pressure on the Minister because she will be responsible for this in the end. All of these processes are fine but when there is something as obvious as this, I cannot understand the big obfuscation about it. I also asked about the rural development plan.

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: There was one before that. The former Minister, Deputy Ring, published one.

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: Then we got a new plan in 2020. We are spending more time planning than doing. Anyway, I will leave it there.

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: By the way, no criticism. I want to repeat here that I am criticising the political system that allows this to happen, not the public servants who are doing, presumably, what they are instructed to do by their political masters. I want to be absolutely clear. I am not trying to shift the responsibility onto public servants who are doing exactly what it says on the tin. They are there to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the previous Dáil, a Wildlife (Amendment) Bill was published and the effect of it was to reconfigure the bog natural heritage areas, NHAs. This Bill first came before the Dáil in 2016 and it was passed by the Dáil in December 2018. It then went into the Seanad on the same day and was passed by the Seanad on 6 November 2019. The final stage was to come back to the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Third, is this gone into the MAD file? The Taoiseach knows the definition of the MAD file - the maximum administrative delay, do nothing, buy time and do not deal with the issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is the Bill to reconfigure the natural heritage area, NHA, bogs, and to take some out and put others in.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the benefit for 65 year old payment will be eligible to apply for the fuel allowance payment; if the payment will be included as a qualifying payment for fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51535/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the benefit for 65 year old payment will receive the Christmas bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51536/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as teacht isteach cé go bhfuil díomá orm nach bhfuil an tAire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta anseo anocht. The problem with the current system of distribution of the equalisation fund is that it is neither open and transparent nor equitable. Persistent questions from me over the years have failed to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the Local Authority Times, a publication of the Institute of Public Administration, IPA, two researchers came to the following conclusion: Equalisation is a key element of a country’s inter-governmental fiscal arrangements where functions and funding are decentralised to subnational government. Although Ireland is a highly centralised country with limited responsibilities and...