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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was listening upstairs, so I am aware of what was said in the submissions. We are a social welfare committee and it is obvious that other issues that have been raised are more appropriate to the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I will, therefore, focus solely on social welfare because that is where we can give the most help. The no-brainer at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The pension contributions is the big one that we would need to look at to get the ten years up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I think so. The problem is if the person does not do this in the first two years, then he or she is out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am nearly certain, but like everything else, I always come back to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Voluntary contributions cannot be used to make up the figure of 520 contributions. The 520 contributions have to be accumulated from self-employment or paid employment. The committee should find out if many people get trapped in that. If not, it would be a matter of having the carer’s credits amended. If that is catching a lot of people, there is a separate issue of the lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hear what Ms Bond is saying. It would obviously be much better to have it as a contribution, but it is a bigger leap for welfare. This is where we have to try to calculate where we are likely to make the most gains. Making massive demands without succeeding is not much use. When someone comes in with a pension contribution record, the first step is to count whether he or she has 520...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I should point out that people can pay voluntary contributions within five years of their last payment. I do not want anything on the record that is not accurate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Those on jobseekers benefit, illness benefit and so on can also pay voluntary contributions. For anybody who is interested in making voluntary contributions, the best thing to do is to look up the rules to ensure that they are getting it right. I was slightly wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would not say the witnesses have it today, but it may be helpful to the committee if they could come back.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance the rate of tax being paid by financial investors on the profit from rents in apartment blocks and other residential property; the rate of tax paid by persons on the profits from rents from apartment blocks and other residential property; the reason for the difference in these rates of tax; if a radical overhaul of this is being examined given the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the rule in relation to teachers on career breaks doing unlimited hours of substitution teaching in the coming school year has been changed; if it is intended to review this decision if there is a shortage of substitute teachers available during the coming school year; the maximum number of substitute hours that will be allowed...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (21 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 640. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he has taken to reduce the cost of childcare in these inflationary times; the steps he has taken to control the increase in childcare costs in the summer months when the early childhood care and education programme is not running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32795/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (23 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Every time I fail to get a passport for somebody, I think of the unique and serious situations involved. People must travel sometimes for funerals and other times for holidays, but costs and disappointment are always involved in these cases. We should never lose sight of the human situations that arise when people do not get the service. I notice that the State often requires people to do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (23 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Looking at systems, the vast majority of people, as the Minister rightly points out, do not have to come to us. When a system is operating like that, one always looks for the part of the system that is failing and where the logjams are occurring. I think most of us would say that an awful lot of the logjams relate to children. It seems to me basic, therefore, that if that is correct, a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On 17 June last, the rich states, including the EU, killed a vaccine waiver despite the fact that President von der Leyen of the European Commission said that vaccines will be our common good. She said that two years ago. The EU Council president last year said that immunisation is a global public good. The reality is that only 18% of the poor countries have received the first vaccine...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Events (23 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to develop a policy to ensure that as far as possible patrons of large sporting events will be able to travel to these events on public transport; the discussions that he has had with the sporting bodies and the National Transport Authority in relation to this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33436/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Events (23 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 200. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the discussions that she has had with the sporting bodies and the Minister for Transport in relation to the need to ensure that large sporting events are held in the locations that minimise the distance that supporters have to travel to attend and that have good public transport links in place for them in order to reduce the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (23 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 201. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil an Coiste Comhairleach um Sheirbhísí Gaeilge bunaithe mar a shonraítear é in Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2021, ó tharla go bhfuil an tAcht i bhfeidhm le sé mhí anuas agus go sonraítear san Acht go mbunófar a leithéid laistigh de shé mhí den...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (23 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the caravan loan scheme for Traveller families was extended nationwide; if the local authorities have been informed of the terms and conditions of the scheme; if it is intended to publish them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33438/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (23 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Traveller families will be able to avail of the caravan loan scheme on a nationwide basis; the maximum amount available for each mobile home or caravan under the scheme; if local authorities will be fully re-imbursed for the cost of the scheme; if the scheme will be confined to new caravans only; and if he will make a...