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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister will wind up in this dilemma and it used to drive me crazy. I accept it is a perennial problem and not so easy to resolve but I will highlight the issue. A bill will come to the Minister on 10 December and she will have money left over. Bills are held back. In theory there should be an entire process before there is clearance for payment, including getting out inspectors and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Switch off the street lights in Dublin and they will find out.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: For the energy scheme.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I read this right with regard to the energy scheme coming up to Christmas, it states in order to be eligible for the scheme a community organisation must have a service supply and a meter point reference number, MPRN, and so on.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If an organisation makes an application to the Department that should rightly have gone to the local authority and it is sent on the last possible day, as many Irish people tend to do with schemes, will the Department automatically send it on and say it was on time or will that organisation get caught because it did not realise the fine line details? People often get confused with these and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Automatically?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My point is there is a closing date.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If Pobal gets an application on the closing date by the time it sends it on the closing date will be gone for the local authority.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the organisation be caught?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a pity it is not a one-stop-shop.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The modern world always seems to make the simple complicated.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, a rule is a rule is a rule. We are finding it more and more. There was a time when social welfare appeals were flexible.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister could have done so. She could have said that registered and unregistered bodies could go to Pobal and that Pobal would become the post box. All of the applications received by a certain date would be included and Pobal would send them right or left to the appropriate local authority or the Department.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad the Minister of State is in the House to listen to this. What he has to try to get into his mind is what it would be like if tonight the people who are here had to sleep in a 20-year-old caravan or mobile home that is damp, in this kind of cold weather, and had to do this on a council halting site in this day and age. Quite rightly, we give out about the conditions for people...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the words of Greta Thunberg, this is just, "Blah, blah, blah". I represent Galway West and in Galway city alone, there is a need, so that people can go to bed and sleep in a comfortable caravan. There is a need for 24 caravans now. What are we getting? We are getting process after process. We are spending billions of euro in this State accommodating people, and rightly so, but when it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State should be under no misunderstanding. The Department allocated the four caravans to Galway, not the local authority.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was the Department that allocated the four caravans. The problem is the Department; that is why we are here today. The local authority and the Ombudsman will sort it.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes that are being proposed to the income limits for eligibility for approval on local authority housing lists; the dates when these income limits were last set; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59622/22]