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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to have a higher rate of grant and higher threshold of cost for householders, together with a lower threshold of turnover for contractors, based on islands under the national home energy upgrade scheme and the retrofit scheme to ensure the challenges of island life relating to cost, scale and income...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister might remember a previous time he was a Minister and there was a higher rate of grants for retrofitting on the islands through the warmer homes grant and so on. Is the Minister going to go through the same process now? Will there be higher ceilings for the maximum expenditure and lower thresholds for island contractors who would not have turnover of €1 million? Those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am very disappointed with that reply, which seems to fail to recognise that getting any goods or labour onto the islands is far more expensive than trying to do the equivalent on the mainland. For example, to bring cargo from the mainland, one has to pay a cargo fee and VAT on that cargo fee. Those are extra costs. Thereafter, one has to move the cargo from the harbour to wherever on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Many people living on our islands are not in receipt of fuel allowance because they have incomes. This is something we have been working hard to address over the years. There are huge extra costs involved in living on an island. There were three parts to my question. One concerns the need for a higher rate of grants and the second relates to the maximum cost allowed. It is more...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is not a matter for the Minister's Department.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 15. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén leagan amach atá i gceist maidir leis an dul i gcomhairle maidir le hÚdarás na Gaeltachta agus struchtúr an Bhoird; cén uair atá súil aige a bheith in ann cinntí a dhéanamh faoin gceist seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [10472/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 51. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a thagann deireadh le tréimhse na gcomhaltaí de Bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta atá ann faoi láthair; an bhfuil sé dóchasach go mbeidh structúir nua boird i bhfeidhm roimh an dáta sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [10473/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of premises passed by the roll-out of the national broadband plan to date compared with the number that were originally planned to be passed by February 2022; the projected number of premises that will be passed by the end of the year under the roll-out compared with that originally planned; the actions he...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made since the granting of planning permission by an Bord Pleanála with the N6 Galway city ring road motorway scheme 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10655/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Archaeological Sites (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works intend to visit the Dún Aengus fort in Árann in 2022 to see at first hand this extraordinary site and the lack of parking and other facilities serving the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10656/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans to clear the backlog of applications for foreshore licences awaiting decision in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10643/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new legislation on foreshore licences will be implemented; the responsibilities transferring to local authorities and the responsibilities transferring to MARA; the resources that will be made available to ensure that speedy decisions will be made on future foreshore applications; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 279. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are issues and delays updating the passport tracking system; if so, when the system is likely to be made fully functional again in order that applicants can monitor the progress of their applications as they are finding it difficult to get in contact with the Passport Office by telephone; the reason, despite the additional staff...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeltachta (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills céard iad na hacmhainní airgid breise atá á gcur ar fáil in 2022 leis an mbeartas nua don Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht a fhorbairt; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [10641/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeltachta (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé mhéad airgid a caitheadh go sonrach ar chur i bhfeidhm an bheartais Oideachais Gaeltachta anuraidh; cé mhéad atá curtha ar fáil chuige seo i mbliana; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [10642/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 474. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will meet as a matter of urgency in the coming weeks with a delegation from Inis Meáin and with local representatives to discuss their concerns with the slow progress being made with the development of An Caladh Mór in view of the ongoing serious safety concerns and constraints with the present arrangements for...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Seirbhísí Farantóireachta (24 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 475. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development an bhfuil i gceist aici go mbeidh coinníoll sa chéad chonradh farantóireachta paisinéirí eile chuig Oileáin Árann go mbeidh deis nó gléas ann le boscaí agus málaí a iompar isteach agus amach as an mbád go sábhailte; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First of all, I was very interested in the matter of the battery trains. It is like going back to the Drumm battery trains of the 1930s which ran on what is now the green Luas line. I note in the statement that the rail strategy is to support balanced regional development. I presume that, if this is an all-Ireland strategy, this big black hole will be a big focus. Mr. Meade might confirm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Mr. Meade address the issue of frequency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about Galway and Limerick, even nearer to home?