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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (20 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 85. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his policy in respect of the naming of new Naval Service vessels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29510/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (20 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There was a practice of naming naval ships after people in Irish mythology and giving them Irish names. Does the Tánaiste intend to revert to that practice for the two new ships purchased by the Naval Service?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Election of Cathaoirleach (21 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on her appointment. It is well deserved. The last time it had been a baptism of fire, because the Senator was new to the House. I know that when a new Member comes in it can be a very strange place to be, but the Senator did a fantastic job as Cathaoirleach of the committee. Good progress was made. We have the report. There was a key line in that report...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (20 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing this application given the fact that it is a renewal application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29279/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 748. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the contact her Department has had in the past six months with the owners of land on a mountain (details supplied) which is part of the pilot mountain access scheme; whether the terms of a possible indemnity scheme, indemnifying them against claims by hill walkers, have been discussed with them and draft insurance policies shown to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 750. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the contact her Department has had in the past six months with the owners of land on a mountain (details supplied) which is part of the pilot mountain access scheme; whether the terms of a possible indemnity scheme, indemnifying them against claims by hill walkers, have been discussed with them and draft insurance policies shown to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ferry Services (20 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 749. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether it is intended to tender for one or two ferry contracts to an island (details supplied) later in 2023; the consultation that will take place with the island community in relation to this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29757/23]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Election of Cathaoirleach (21 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I nominate Seanadóir Flynn.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (21 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether it is intended to reopen the caravan loan scheme in 2023; when it is likely this scheme will open, in view of the urgent need for such a scheme due to the unacceptable and inhumane conditions Travellers in substandard caravans are living in; whether any new scheme will be needs-based rather than, as happened in 2022,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (21 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an invitation to one of the citizenship ceremonies due to take place on 19 and 20 June 2023 was not issued to a person (details supplied) in Galway city despite being told previously it would issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30187/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept the mathematical formula put forward by the Deputy. I am interested in statistics to show the number of impacts at more than 30 km/h where people are complying with the speed limit of 50 km/h. I ask this because most people brake before an impact. We must be realistic about this. Are there statistics to show whether there is flagrant or increased disobedience with regard to speed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister of State is aware, the road from Curry to Collooney is highly dangerous. Does the Government have a policy, because policy is the remit of the Government not of TII, of directing urgent funding towards roads that are dangerous and substandard and do not comply with national standards for primary routes and secondary routes?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In support of my good colleague, who lives locally there, the demographic has to be taken into account when taking away bus stops. In other words, if there is a very old demographic, it is not the same as a much younger demographic. That is the first issue. The second issue is that, as I understand it, a housing estate was refused because there was no bus service. An Bord Pleanála...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What was the carry forward or underspend of the Department last year? Does the Minister of State agree that if one is going to reallocate money, one must do it in July. Doing it in September, October, November is a total waste of time; it is too late.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Almost seven years ago, on 21 July 2016, the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill was published. It had passed through the Dáil and Seanad by January 2020. Three amendments were made in the Seanad. The Dáil, as the Minister will know, was dissolved, but it is a simple matter of recommiting a Bill. That has been clarified by the Ceann Comhairle. When will the three amendments passed in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will it be in the next term?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reopen the western rail corridor for freight and passengers from Collooney to Athenry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30161/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided for major improvement works on national secondary roads in each of the past five years; his policy in relation to providing sufficient funding to bring all national secondary routes up to a standard that maximises road safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30162/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when applications for passports on behalf of siblings (details supplied) will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30315/23]