Results 24,821-24,840 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (13 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, two small paragraphs of which related to the specific issue. I accept and always believed that planning permission would be required for this project. The Minister of State said in the answer that this would be applied for in the third quarter of this year. The third quarter is July, August and September. This is 13 July, and if the application...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the medical card income guidelines for all those under 70 years of age to the rate that pertains at present to general practitioner cards and abolishing the general practitioner card for those under 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made in relation to a felling licence application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway, given the initial application has been lodged with his Department since 2018; if he can assure the Deputy a decision will issue without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to increase the thatching grant in line with the actual cost of re-thatching houses given the small number of vernacular older thatched cottages that are still in existence and their historic importance; if he plans to remove the condition of the scheme that the house has to be the primary dwelling of the owner...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of older vernacular thatched houses still in existence; the amount paid out in thatching grants in 2021 under the thatching grant scheme; the number of beneficiaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38194/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work that has been carried out in the past year to review the terms of the various means tested schemes to make them more equitable and to increase the incentive to work for persons in receipt of means tested social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38516/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister will be aware, I have raised time and again the issue of means testing. What work has been done in the past year to review the various means-tested scheme to make them more equitable and to increase the incentive to work? We have discussed this matter a number of times and I believe we need urgent and radical reform here.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of those changes related to people who are severely disabled from birth. If the parents die and leave their estate to their children, the family home might be sold. If they leave, say, €200,000 to each of the children, in the case of the person in receipt of the disability allowance, what will happen once he or she receives that is he or she will lose the entire disability...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In regard to the incentive to work, if a self-employed person is on the jobseeker's allowance, 100% of his or her income from self-employment will be deducted from the jobseeker's allowance. Another situation I find totally anomalous is that if somebody is receiving a non-contributory pension, he or she can earn €200 a week and receive the full pension, but if he or she gets that from...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have raised this issue time and again through questions and Topical Issue debates and during Questions on Promised Legislation but to no avail. The Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016 passed all Stages in the Dáil and in the Seanad, where three amendments were made. The Ceann Comhairle has made it clear that it is possible to recommit a Bill at the Stage it was at when a general election...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They must be the three most examined amendments ever. They have been examined for two and a half years.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Foilsitheoireacht agus Léitheoireacht na Gaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (22 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Níl.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Foilsitheoireacht agus Léitheoireacht na Gaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (22 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ní raibh mé ann don chruinniú iomlán.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a new decommissioning scheme for fishing vessels will be announced; the conditions that will apply to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38514/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new acres agri-environmental scheme will be announced; the special conditions that will apply on designated land in terms of co-operation between farmers; if this scheme will apply to commonage land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasoning behind the method of assessing capital under the various means tested schemes; if she intends on reforming this to ensure a more equitable system of assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Events (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 23 June 2022, if he will follow up with the National Transport Authority; the reason that a detailed response was not issued which he referred to it for a response within ten days; if he will ensure in the future that such replies issue within the ten-day timeframe mentioned in the reply;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 283. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will change the 70% borrowing rule in relation to the minimum eligible amount of borrowing for the help-to-buy scheme to exclude the value of the site in assessing the gross value of the house for the purpose of the scheme and instead base it on a minimum of 70% of the actual construction cost of the house being borrowed in the case of single houses...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Minister of State at his Department or the Office of Public Works have yet convened a meeting with the Department of Transport and Mayo County Council in relation to funding the South Mayo flood relief scheme that is urgently needed; if not, when this meeting will be convened; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons whose houses were repossessed and sold are eligible to apply for local authority loans to purchase a new house; if not, if he intends to change the rules to afford these persons a second chance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39024/22]