Results 25,081-25,100 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that persons with e-mail addresses (details supplied) were not issued with emails to confirm their registration for a bus ticket in July 2022; if she intends instructing Bus Éireann to issue these applicants with bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57137/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request Bus Éireann to issue school bus tickets to late applicants who would otherwise have been eligible for school transport in view of the fact that the Bus Éireann website was down for reprogramming earlier in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57143/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any outstanding applications with her Department from Bus Éireann for approval of either extra or larger buses for school transport in order to meet the demand; if there are applications outstanding; the details of the applications; when the applications are likely to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is intended to reduce the distance that a student has to reside from a primary and secondary school in order to qualify for school transport for the 2023-2024 school year and onwards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57145/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Priorities (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that he will take to ensure that online queries raised through MyWelfare accounts are responded to in a reasonable timeframe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57178/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 242. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the views outlined by the United Nations special rapporteurs on 23 September 2022, expressing concern that children of African and Irish descent were subjected to differential treatment in mother-and-baby homes due to their race and colour; if special redress will be provided...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 299. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends raising the income thresholds to qualify for a medical card for persons over 70 years of age in view of the 10% rate of inflation during the past year and the consequential rise in State and other pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57155/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calafoirt agus Céanna (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine an dul chun cinn atá déanta go dáta le forbairt céibh dhomhan mhara i Ros a Mhíl; cén uair a mheastar a thosnófar obair ar an dreideáil agus ar an gcéibh féin; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [57154/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Before I commence my Topical Issue matter, my understanding is that, under Standing Orders, if a Minister cannot come into the House to deal with a matter, he or she should notify the Deputy concerned, who is meant to have the opportunity to get the matter deferred until the Minister is able to come to the House.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I checked all my emails when I came down here this evening from Belfast. I cannot find an email from the office of the Minister, or from anybody else, to say that the Minister wanted to defer the matter. I have been waiting weeks to have this matter taken. That decision is at the discretion of the Ceann Comhairle and I accept that. However, I find it totally unsatisfactory that when I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State said, "As is the case with the current LEADER programme, the subregional areas for the new LEADER programme will correspond ... [to] county boundaries." The Acting Chair can tell him that the LEADER programme in Cork corresponds to the county boundaries but in three parts, which are contiguous. I will address the matter of Galway in the context of the county boundary...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cuirim fáilte ar ais arís roimh an Cheann Comhairle.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I note this Bill is not going to the select committee. I do not know whose decision that was and I presume it was the Business Committee, but would we dream of doing that to the Finance Bill? Is it because one deals with the big people and the other with the small people? This is the Bill that every year deals with the small people on the ground, for better or worse. I will certainly be...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I stand corrected. I was told it would not be going to the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (15 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total underspend on capital allocated to Departments to the end of October 2022; the steps taken to streamline and speed up capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Language (15 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps taken since the enactment of the amended Official Languages Act 2021 to increase the intake of civil servants who are capable of doing their business through Irish and English; the number recruited to date in 2022 with such a competency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56384/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wind Energy Generation (15 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date with the development of a ports policy for the wind energy sector; when the policy will be published and implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56418/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the present carbon tax and excise duty charged on biofuels used for home heating; if he intends eliminating the carbon tax and excise duty on these biofuels when used as a substitute for diesel or kerosene as home heating oil in order to encourage a reduction in Ireland's carbon emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56652/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (15 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 315. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress made in selecting a location for a base for the Naval Service on the west coast to service the immense area of Irish waters off this coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56417/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (15 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the next naturalisation ceremonies will be held; the locations in which they will be held; when participants in the ceremonies will be notified; the reason for the delay in same given that in many cases persons need to make arrangements in relation to family, education and work commitments in order to attend; and if she...