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Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An Ghaeilge mar Theanga Teaghlaigh: Plé (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Déanfaimid é sin.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An Ghaeilge mar Theanga Teaghlaigh: Plé (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Luaigh na finnéithe fadhb na KPIs. Tá an ceart acu. An dearcadh atá agamsa faoin obair seo ar fad a chaithfimid a dhéanamh le cúrsaí teanga ná go bhfuil seans maith nach mbeidh toradh le feiceáil go ceann scór bliain. Tá sé sin feicthe thar na blianta agamsa, agus mar a deirim, tá go leor déagóirí a iompaíonn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach inniu. D'éist mé go cúramach lena raibh le rá acu. Mar is eol dóibh, tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach go mbeidh leathanbhanda ar fáil ag gach uile dhuine. The first thing I notice here is the highly unambitious EU target of 30 Mbps for which we were working for a long time. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to get to the nub of this issue. Electricity was initially generated on the islands, as Mr. Ó hÓbáin knows, but it was subsequently considered better to bring in cables. I am not sure about Inishturk but Tory Island and all the rest are connected by subsea cable because it is better than other options. Fibre is better than any radio system. The question then, and it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: With respect, the locations of the BCPs seem coincidentally to be the same areas where if one puts in one's Eircode postcode, 2025 or 2026 is indicated as the timeframe for availability. For a large part of the area I represent, including parts of counties Galway and Mayo, that seems to be the timeframe when one checks it on the computer. They are also areas in which BCPs are located. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a case which is typical, I think, of what we have talked about but which is a specific and quite interesting one. In this case NBI advises that the connection date is January 2025. The person concerned then went to Eir. What they are getting at the moment is a service of between 0 Mbps and 8 Mbps and it is costing €69 a month. The Eir engineers have confirmed that there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry, but could Mr. Ó hÓbáin indicate whether we are talking about the type of scenario in which the market might be interested because a premises is adjacent to someone who might be willing to put a paw into his or her pocket?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses for their answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome everybody to the meeting. Apologies have been received from Deputies Denise Mitchell and David Stanton, and Senator Eileen Flynn. As I am the only person in the room, and I will not forget, I will skip the piece on sanitisation. Before we hear from our witnesses, we have some business to attend to regarding the rules around privilege. I remind members that they must be in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Ms Costello. Now I call Ms Maria Joyce from the National Traveller Women's Forum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Ms Joyce. I now invite Ms Fíona Ní Chinnéide of the Irish Penal Reform Trust to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I call Mr. Barry Owens, of the Irish Association for Social Inclusion Opportunities, to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will now go to members. I call Deputy Joan Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ms Costello mentioned driving offences. Has she any idea what kind of offences those are? Are we talking about driving without insurance or something?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: All of our guests probably have answers to offer on this. We will begin with Ms Costello and work our way through them. There are about 15 minutes remaining and, in that context, I would like to ask a few questions before we wind up. If our guests keep their answers fairly focused, we can come back in on other issues. I want to give Deputies Joan Collins and Ellis another opportunity to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are in the 60-second question time now because we have approximately four to five minutes left. What we have heard all afternoon has been very interesting. But for literally two to three minutes, I would like to come at this issue from a slightly different point of view. Is prison the answer in the first place? Could we do a great deal more through community service and if I might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the mothers and the fathers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The time is up. I will have to be very strict. I call Ms Joyce.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will conclude this session and we will take a five-minute break. I thank all the contributors. We could have spent a lot more time on this but we just do not have that time. It is an issue we will address in our reports. It is one that is very central to the work we are trying to do, which is to deal with the challenges faced by the Traveller community and how things could be done...