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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If a huge number of farmers are not participating because they are put off by the conditions of the scheme and the bureaucracy involved, and especially those farmers with small herds on poorer land who sell the cattle younger and who are not participating because of the Bord Bia condition, are we not losing and throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Could they not have a modified scheme...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers with fewer than ten suckler cows in the suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP, scheme; the percentage of such farmers estimated to be in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34528/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This question relates also to Question No. 10. I want to ask the Minister about the number of farmers with fewer than ten suckler cows in the suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP, scheme. What is the number of farmers in total with fewer than ten suckler cows, and the percentage of those that are in the suckler carbon efficiency programme scheme? When we consider this figure, we will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A total of 56% of farmers, which is more than half, have fewer than seven suckler cows. This is 44,292 farmers. As the Minister has said, 3,513 farmers applied for the scheme. This is 8%. The scheme is failing totally to improve the herds of the smaller farmers. Less than 10% of that cohort of farmers have applied. They are not doing anything because a deluxe requirement is required...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would the Minister accept that in the same regions there is really low participation in this scheme but really high participation in, for example, the sheep welfare scheme? It is the same farmers but different schemes, one of which has more reasonable conditions for smaller operators. As I said, part of the Bord Bia scheme is that it is the last 90 days that counts. The Minister is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: But it is not succeeding.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was told previously that the North-South rail strategy was to be published this month in draft form and out for environmental assessment and public comment. A number of us sought a meeting with the Minister for Transport regarding the western rail corridor some time ago because, as the Tánaiste knows, there are significant deficits in infrastructure in the west of Ireland. We never...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (11 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of current applications on hand in her Department for citizenship; the average time it is taking to make a decision on an application for citizenship from the time an application is received; the steps being taken to reduce the time of processing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33638/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on passport applications for siblings (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34334/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33653/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills ag éirí as freagra ar Cheist Pharlaiminteach Uimh. 125 ar an 29 Meitheamh 2023, cé mhéad den 25 iar-bhunscoil ina múintear roinnt ábhar trí Ghaeilge a bhfuil aonad neamhspleách faoi leith acu ina múintear gach ábhar trí Ghaeilge; líon na scoileanna a bhfuil sruth lán-Ghaeilge acu...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 220. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether there are negotiations ongoing between his Department and accommodation providers in Galway city with regard to providing further accommodation for Ukrainian refugees and other asylum seekers; if so, the number of premises involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34548/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 268. To ask the Minister for Health whether an application for planning permission has been lodged with Galway County Council by the HSE for the conversion of the disused health centre in Recess into an ambulance base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34621/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 100. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil na teaghlaigh ar fad a choinnigh scoláirí faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí suas go dtí deireadh mhí an Mheithimh tar éis a gcuid íocaíochtaí a fháil ón Roinn; mura bhfuil, cathain a íocfar iad; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [34527/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Budgets (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 106. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expenditure provision for arts and culture in the Revised Estimates volume this year; the increase this represents on the out-turn for 2019; the expenditure provision for the Gaeltacht in the Revised Estimate volume for this year; the increase this represents on the out-turn for 2019; the reason for the difference between...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when passports will issue to siblings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34997/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an application for registration of a foreign birth will be considered (details supplied); the reason for the delay in the processing of said application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35007/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 122. 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. [35453/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 336. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made by the Interdepartmental Group led by the OPW in putting forward solutions and policies to deal with coastal erosion; if this group considered, as part of its work, necessary remedial work that need to be carried out in a small number of coastal communities along the coast where ever higher tides cut them off more...