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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am looking for information on the disability responsibilities that have transferred to the Minister’s Department and the budget involved. Where exactly is the dividing line between his Department and the Department of Health?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister. He has given a very comprehensive and clear answer to the question. I take it from him that, as of now, the services delivered on the ground are still delivered by the Department of Health but they are to be transferred through the complex legislation, which he said is to be passed early this year. In the real world, allowing for all the delays and the processes in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome that because I have fought for a long time to ensure the disabled would not be considered as having an illness but as a community or group of people who have to be supported so they can live their lives fully. Can I take it that responsibility for all those with mental and intellectual disabilities and so on will be transferred to the Minister and that acute medicine will remain in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is intended to review the operating rules for the rural social scheme particularly as they relate to the length of time participants can spend on the scheme and means testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4637/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her proposals in relation to the future of the pandemic unemployment payment in view of the changed circumstances in relation to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4638/22]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My first question is on the rural regeneration and development fund, RRDF. There is an idea floating around that we need to do something very strategic with that money. It is quite a significant amount of money over a number of years. One of the ideas we are exploring is that an application would be sent in under the RRDF by Mayo and Galway county councils to part-fund the reopening of the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since I believe in taking one step at a time, what I have in mind in terms of the RRDF is an application from Mayo and Galway that would once and for all see a full survey being done of the railway line, thereby ascertaining the exact engineering work that has to be done in order that we can have an accurate budget. There are figures of €60 million and €70 million flying around...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When is the Department opening category 2? There are many Deputies from-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: For applications.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (8 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he intends taking to ensure that more students entering third-level education have access to the course of their choice and that the enormous pressure on students to perform well in the leaving certificate would be reduced as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6328/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (8 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions that have taken place between his Department and the Department of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and the Media to ensure that there will be a sufficient supply of graduates with a competency in Irish across a broad range of disciplines in order that the Official Languages Act (Amendment) 2021 can be fully...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inshore Fisheries (8 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he received a high-level plan in relation to the preservation of the great western lakes of Corrib, Carra and Mask as primarily salmonid fisheries; when he intends making a decision on this plan; if primary or secondary legislation will be required to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if changes to public roads through widening and so on, under BusConnects, is considered as roads expenditure or public transport expenditure in relation to the two to one split in capital spending on public transport versus roads expenditure; the category under which the provision of dedicated bus lanes on other public roads is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a portion of the expenditure on rural roads on which footpaths and dedicated cycle routes are developed adjacent to the road is considered to be expenditure on active travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6332/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an amended application form and guidelines in respect of the tenant purchase scheme are currently available following a review of the scheme; if not, when these forms will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6101/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 767. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent dental appointment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in Shantalla Health Centre, Galway in view of the person's exceptional medical circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6583/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when grant aid under the TAMS II scheme will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6563/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As a Taoiseach is aware, delays in planning are causing huge problems for individuals and businesses. This is particularly acute with An Bord Pleanála where many of the appeals, I would say the majority, are not dealt with within anything like the four-month statutory target. It can take over a year to get permission for leave to seek substitute consent, for example. When one finally...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has not come through the Dáil.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of planting, felling and road licences issued for forestry operations in each of the past five years; the volume of timber licensed for felling; the number of hectares licensed for planting; the length of road granted permission for construction in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6339/22]