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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Capital Expenditure Programme (18 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1912. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the underspend of the capital allocation to her Department in 2022, including transfers to current expenditure and deferral of the allocation to 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (24 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an overpayment assessment of a State pension in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in making a decision on the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2960/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (24 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application by a person (details supplied) was closed; if it will be reopened in view of the fact the documents requested were submitted and an administrative error appears to have taken place in this application process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the reason different rates of funding are being paid in respect of wigs and hair pieces to medical card holders residing in different areas in the country; if a breakdown of funding based on each local authority could be provided; if this will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3794/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a few random thoughts. The State contribution is proposed at one third of the employer contribution. My understanding is there will be no tax relief on that. At present, if one is paying 40% tax, one gets 40% off. Does Mr. O'Brien think it is an anomaly in the scheme that the State contribution is, and will continue to be, bigger for those who are wealthy, not only because they pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How can they be better? Theoretically, people on a 20% or 0% income tax rate could be paying into a pension but in reality we do not find that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but they still will not get anything like the big boys.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As somebody who deals mainly with people on low incomes, I see this is another case of giving a little bit extra but not parity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I absolutely agree on the pension levy. If there are long-term schemes and people are making investment decisions or life decisions based on a policy, then changing it willy-nilly without warning would be bad. The pension levy is an example. Changing the rules on the State pension with regard to people without full contributions and reducing the rates was another. People had made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is this because we make it unnecessarily complex and put all sorts of little things in them, as opposed to the system fundamentally charging a certain percent and fixed percentages being plumbed into the computer to get the answers? I agree with Mr. O'Brien. I look at the number of PRSI rates and I believe the whole thing should be rationalised down. There are myriad complications. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Politicians at the coalface deal with people who come in with payslips that they cannot make head nor tail of. We do not get a huge amount of training but normally we figure it out. Some of the systems are unnecessarily complicated. This is the problem. In other words, it is not that we cannot have a more simple or coherent system it is that we seem to love and enjoy creating all sorts of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could Mr. O'Brien get a short paper from his colleagues in the UK as to where the administrative burden is and what elements of the scheme there create an avoidable administrative burden? Reducing the administrative burden is always better.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners who died while in prison in the State in 2022, by month and prison, in tabular form. [4680/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths in custody investigations which have been commenced by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons following the deaths of prisoners in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4681/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths in custody investigations by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons which are ongoing; and the number finalised and submitted to him awaiting publication, by year of death, in tabular form. [4682/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 292. To ask the Minister for Health when comprehensive supports, including speech therapy, occupational therapy, psychology and physiotherapy, will be provided by the children's disability network team for a child (details supplied), in view of the fact that it is proven that high-quality early intervention has a profound positive effect on outcomes for children with a disability; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to improve and reform the school transport scheme in time for the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4662/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (2 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil i gceist aici suirbhé a dhéanamh maidir leis an éileamh atá i ngach pobal ar oideachas dara léibhéal trí Ghaeilge agus an gá atá ann, bunaithe ar an suirbhé seo, le tuilleadh scoileanna dara leibhéal a chur ar fáil a bheidh ag Teagasc trí Ghaeilge le go mbeidh deis...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Flood Risk Management (2 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends providing dedicated funding to deal with the issue of recurring tidal flooding on county roads in coastal areas near the sea where rising seas have increased the incidence of flooding, particularly in view of the number of communities affected by this issue; the relatively low cost of sorting this issue out once and for...