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Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2022
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (9 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Má tá bean tí cáilithe le hochtar a choinneáil, coinneoidh sí ochtar.

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2022
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (9 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ní bheidh aon athrú. Níl an rud a bheartaigh an Roinn anuraidh le cur i bhfeidhm. Tá sé sin caite i dtraipisí go hiomlán do 2022.

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2022
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (9 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá moltaí na bliana seo caite i dtraipisí go hiomlán is go huile.

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2022
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (9 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Go raibh maith agat.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 85. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with spina bifida who are on waiting lists for operations by hospital group area; the longest waiting time on each list; the steps he is taking to eliminate these waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7954/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering suspending all reviews of the eligibility of existing medical card holders for the remainder of 2022 in view of the rapid rise in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7955/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the arrangements that have been made to ensure that persons who are in own-door direct provision will get the €100 plus VAT reduction on their electricity bills as passed by Dáil Éireann recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8443/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to reducing the fees for registration for the scheme for the regularisation for long-term undocumented migrants given that many of the applicants particularly those in direct provision have very limited means; the way that the scale of fees was arrived at; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be a new scheme in the future to regularise the situation for undocumented persons already in the country but who are here for less than four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8442/22]

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I must be honest and say that I have not read the report. I have not had the opportunity to do so. I will respond in more detail to the very detailed report when I get that opportunity. There are, however, basic principles I think we can lay down. I have long questioned the Minister about the issue of pay in the Defence Forces and the work burden that soldiers face. I welcome the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 229. To ask the Minister for Health when the new care unit replacing St. Anne’s, Clifden and Clifden nursing home will go to construction; the progress made with this project to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8691/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The last part of that question was going to be the first part of my question. When will this particular process be over? It has been going on for a long time. Will the Department provide a list of all the steps that will need to be taken before we can proceed to into construction? In the context of Inis Oírr, for example, the problem that arose was that planning permission had...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the scheme. It is a huge step forward. It is a no-brainer. We all recognise that capital expenditure of the past looks cheap, but in the future and the present it looks dear. If we delay this, it only gets dearer. I hope we have learned our lesson. I spoke last night about a pier that had planning permission in 2008 and was costed at €7 million. The budget estimate now...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On the essential needs payment, one of the challenges, in my experience of how it has changed over the years, is that the welfare officers, as they used to be called, used to have huge discretion to help a person if there was poverty, and it was not on the basis of a means test. That meant they could a family who had income coming into the house, which may have been a reasonably good income,...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There has been a useful debate on the local employment service but there are bigger issues involved here, specifically the internationalisation of bids for basic services in this country, which I believe is being driven by European agendas for some time. The other issue is the privatisation of fundamental services. I have serious concerns about that trend over the last 20 or 30 years. I...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will make one brief point. I am not surprised the Department is finding it hard to get people onto the rural social scheme at the moment. A change was made when the six-year cap was brought in. That cap, judging from what the Minister of State says, is now totally unnecessary because the Department does not have an over-demand for places, which was the argument in favour of the cap, that...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I appreciate that, but changing the farm assist means test improves being on farm assist but does not change the differential between being on farm assist and being on the scheme, which was crucial to its success in the early years. We will leave it there, however. I look forward to meeting the Minister of State to go through the detail and to give him real-life cases of how this thing...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I listened with interest to the Minister outlining the social welfare principle. It reminds me of the day I asked someone about somebody that we knew. He said: "The kind of guy he is, if you were down in a hole, he would pull you out, but if you went up a ladder, you were getting above yourself and he would pull you down." The Department of Social Protection seems to work on that...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to make a comment on this. It is estimated the Social Insurance Fund will be back in surplus this year. In the debate on pensions we have to take several things into account. No doubt the Commission on Pensions report was raised. The issue is a financial one. We already put a lot of Exchequer funds into welfare and quite rightly. The idea that straight Exchequer funds and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the problems that the commission faced was that the interface between auto-enrolment and the age that some could access the pension were not interlinked. I would look at this simplistically enough. The State has only a finite amount of money. I am one of those people who actually believes that it is finite. In the longer term, the Government can only spend what it brings in. It...