Results 25,201-25,220 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made to date in reforming the method of providing Exchequer funding from his Department of local authorities for the years from 2024, taking into account the abolishment of the equalisation fund and revaluation under the local property tax; the criteria that will be used to determine the allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is his intention to seek a specific budget line in next year's estimates process for third level and further education through the medium of Irish in view of the legal obligations on the State arising from the enactment of the Official Languages (Amendment Act) 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59618/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na céimeanna atá sé chun glacadh lena chinntiú go mbeidh soláthar dóthanach de chúrsaí rite trí mheán na Gaeilge i ngach cuid den chóras ardoideachais agus breisoideachais; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [59619/22]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the caravan loan scheme for Traveller families was extended nationwide; if this is based on the objective need to provide replacement caravans and new caravans for Travellers who either live in mobile homes or caravans already or due to family formation need a caravan loan now; if not, if there was a cap put on the...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cases raised by the Ombudsman with his Department in relation to Travellers living in very poor mobile homes or caravans in the past five years; the response by his Department to these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60032/22]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Galway City Council was instructed by his Department that it could only grant three caravan loans in 2022 despite a long-standing objective assessment that there is an immediate need for more than 20 such loans; if he intends rescinding this restriction to meet all proven demand; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total underspend or overspend against the estimate provided for school meals in 2021 and to date in 2022; the reason for the variation in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60034/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The temperature is forecast to fall to -4°C. Many Travellers are living in freezing caravans or mobile homes, some of which are more than 20 years old. The national caravan scheme was recently extended nationally, but a limit of 75 caravans was put on it. In the case of Galway, we need 24 replacement caravans but we were allocated four. As we come up to Christmas, it is a disgrace...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has been resolved by doing what I said.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not understand going to the LCDC. Will the Minister explain this to the uninitiated? Rather than sending something to the Department which passes it on, it goes to the LCDC. I thought that was only a committee.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any consideration or discussion has taken place with her or with her Department in relation to arming uniformed members of an Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60518/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she intends taking to tackle overcrowding in our female prisons in Dublin and Limerick; if it is intended to provide an open centre with addiction support services for those for whom such a centre would be more appropriate than a conventional prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 208. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she intends providing Exchequer or licence funding to commercial radio stations that provide a designated amount of national and local news, current affairs coverage and live sport to help them fulfil their vital public service broadcasting role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60954/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Registration of Births (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 256. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an application for a foreign birth registration will be processed (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60217/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 545. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in prison, who have been referred for treatment to the Central Mental Hospital, Portrane; the longest length of time that a person has been on the list waiting for a transfer; the reason for the delay in these transfers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is intended to reintroduce a 16-mile exclusion zone for larger boats around the coast, particularly in view of the damage sprat fishing by larger boats is causing in Galway Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60952/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (8 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 51. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he intends taking to ensure a more speedy delivery of the major projects outlined for Galway University Hospital in view of the critical deficiencies of the buildings there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60526/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (8 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he intends taking to ensure the HSE can deliver more rapidly on building projects, such as health centres, nursing homes and ambulance bases, for community care services under the various CHOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (8 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to date regarding the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy; if the reform will address the historic unequitable quota allocation to Ireland, given the percentage sea area of the EU that is in Ireland's territorial waters and the very small quota allocated to Ireland proportionally; and if he will...