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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 733. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made in relation to an application for a visa in respect of a non-national (details supplied); the reason for the delay in making a decision on this application; the need for the visa to issue urgently to enable the applicant who has secured employment in Ireland, to take up this position; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 738. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made in relation to an application for a visa in respect of a non-national (details supplied); the reason for the delay in making a decision on this application; the need for the visa to issue urgently to enable the applicant who has secured employment in Ireland, to take up this position; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 867. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date in the development of an emergency department and women’s and children’s block in University Hospital Galway; when the business case was submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; when a decision will be made on same; the progress to date with the Strategic Assessment Report for the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cúrsaí Gaeilge (29 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 36. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i gceist aici coiste a bhunú ar a mbeidh ionadaíocht leathan ag earnáil na gColáistí Gaeilge, ar coiste é a dhéanfadh moltaí faoin gcaoi is fearr na coláistí a chur in oiriúint don saol comhaimseartha agus todhchaí na gColáistí a chinntiú ar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (30 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special language supports in Irish and English that are being given to children from Ukraine who are attending Gaeltacht schools that are part of the implementation of the Polasaí Oideachas Gaeltachta; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34170/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to provide capital funding under the devolved scheme to upgrade primary schools that were built many years ago and were not substantially refurbished since to bring them up to modern standards, including providing en-suite toilets in each classroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34140/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (30 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 140. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when payment of a capital sports grant will be made to a club (details supplied); the reason for the delay with this payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35121/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to announce changes to the household income eligibility for local authority housing before 15 July 2022 given the urgent need to do so; when these eligibility thresholds were last set; the reason for the delay in changing them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35159/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (30 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason fishers who could not achieve the 30 days at sea over the specified period in 2021 due to the closure of the hook and line mackerel fishery in June 2021 a few days after it started are excluded from applying for the Brexit compensation grant; if the scheme will be amended in order that the days of closure of the fishery...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I welcome some of the recent changes. They are definitely incremental steps in the right direction. However, I will say, as would all my colleagues, that it is still probably too little. The witnesses might be able to tell me how many people are long-term unemployed. In other words, how many people have been on jobseeker's allowance for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Officials or the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is very rational and knows it is the gross budget for social welfare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ms Hurley has not explained the present rationale of the CE-Tús configuration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry to interrupt. I beg Ms Hurley's pardon. She can check the record. The reason it was introduced was the exact opposite. It was as I outlined. It was meant to be a follow-on permanent scheme to go onto. It was the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that changed and destroyed it. Therefore, I wonder what the present rationale is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I may be tied to a location, for example, although I am not physically feeding or toileting people all the time. People may have to be there because the person being cared for has a dicky heart or is at risk from a brain haemorrhage. The person may have advanced Alzheimer's disease and be at risk of going out the door. I could, for example, be sitting down to watch a television programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could the operational rules be made available to the committee? I do not wish to keep interrupting but it is useful to get that information. There is nobody here who would not love to see that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was asking the following. Nearly one from two on the farm assist programme has a dependant, whether adult or child. Most of the people have a dependent adult and many of them would have children. If I look at the people recruited since 2017, will I find that one in two will have dependants or will I find the vast majority are now singles going in? For a participant with a partner or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be very helpful.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (5 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ongoing contact she or her Department has with the Northern Ireland Justice Department on matters of North-South interest; when she last met the Minister of Justice in that jurisdiction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35994/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (5 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would ask the Minister about the interaction between her Department and the authorities in Northern Ireland. As she knows, I have worked for a long time quietly in the background trying to promote dialogue and discussion and trying to persuade people that the way forward for us all on this island is through that dialogue and political activism. I would like an update from the Minister on...