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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider fully funding further education courses for persons on disability allowance and invalidity pension to enable them to upskill and re-enter the workplace with new skills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62940/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering dispensing with the requirement that all non-EEA researchers who undertake research activities on a four-year contract have to renew their Irish residency permit or visa each year at a cost of €300, and replacing that with a requirement that the third level institution would confirm each year that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-body searches carried out in Irish prisons in each of the past five years; the circumstances that arise that cause these searches to be carried out; if such searches are carried out on both female and male prisoners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62965/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that these services can be accessed within communities following a diagnosis; the discussions that his Department is having with the HSE to improve these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62950/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the long-term illness scheme covers medication associated with intellectual disability and does not cover medication and other medical appliance costs associated with autism; if he intends extending the scheme to cover the same expenses for persons with autism as it covers for intellectual disability; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We could leave them as they are. They are not part of the auto-enrolment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not saying every pension; I am saying there would be a State pension-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----but an auto-enrolment State pension, or an auto-enrolment State occupational pension, as Mr. Berney is calling it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This has opened up an interesting debate. There is a long way to go on this, and if anyone tries to rush it, the committee has to stand firm and look at every angle. We are putting a lot of money aside for 32 years' time. Many things can go wrong in that timescale, even things people think they have legislated against. There is an attraction with putting in now and the State paying out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is very common in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Europe does the same thing. I used to say about the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, reform that they built in 10% that they would negotiate and the other 90% of the final document was the original consultation document.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is exactly the debate we needed to have today. I am glad Mr. Berney made that clear statement. Just because they come in with a Bill and have fixed on a model does not mean the only thing we can do is tinker at the edges. We can look at it as ab initio because we never had it before. This is a Government proposal but not an Oireachtas proposal. We can say, "No, go back and reshape...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, we have been asking hard questions, but the British economy post Brexit is much more introverted, so the likelihood is they are going to invest a much higher percentage of these funds within the island of Britain than we are. It happens in Ireland to a point, and on that point, one of the arguments we are making is, if we are going to be sucking money out of the Irish economy, whether...

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2022
Vóta 33 - Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus na Meán (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Níl mé chun fad a chur leis seo. D’oibrigh mé amach ansin go gcaitheann an Stát thart ar €9 milliún chuile uair an chloig. Níl i gceist anseo ach €1.568 milliún, idir chuile shórt. An sin é? Is cuma. Ní dhéanfaidh sé aon difríocht. Tá mé cinnte nach n-aireoidh an tAire Caiteachais...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but we could also go back and tell the Government to think it out again and go for a State model. My question is whether the witnesses are convinced the State model is not the optimal one? We have never seen this previously. We have never had any of this kind of legislation in front of us as a committee previously. Is Mr. Berney's view that the optimal model is the State one or is he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is much in this proposal to be looked at. We were given to understand at the previous meeting that there was a different approach taken in some of the European countries, specifically the Nordic countries, to the idea of ensuring a pay-related pension for when one retires, and that it was much more state-based than the private sector model we are proposing. What examination has taken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That replaces the State forgoing income tax at the top end. At the moment, if I put in €100, I effectively get €40 off if I am on the 40% rate of tax, €20 off if I am on the 20% rate, and nothing off if I am not paying income tax, and the 30% is going to replace this. It could be argued that, for an awful lot of people, it is actually a reduction in the State input into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The investment in bonds. For the past ten years or whatever the period was, Irish pension funds have tended to invest in German bonds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. The Irish pension funds said there was a risk. I could not get my head around that. I still cannot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Forget about the private part of it. A big wad of State money was invested in German bonds instead of Irish bonds, even though the latter were giving better yields, just because a private industry created an illusion that there was some risk to Irish bonds.