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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the recorded start date of a teacher (details supplied) for pension purposes in her Department's records as there seems to be some confusion about it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35104/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an original birth certificate of a person (details supplied) that was supplied for visa purposes to the Irish Embassy in Abu Dhabi was returned to them as they claim that after repeated requests, they have not received it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35117/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 733. To ask the Minister for Health whether the risk assessment of the principal health and social care professionals seeking regulation, including athletic therapists, by the Health Research Board ever took place; if it did not take place, the reason it did not take place; if ongoing, when it will be brought to a conclusion; if completed, if its findings were published; what the intended...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will just come back in on the SICAP. These programmes are valuable but whether it is sufficient is a different issue. Does Ms Kelly have any metrics, especially in very disadvantaged communities, with regard to the actual impact this is having in terms of third-level access or a reduction in the number of people who wind up in prison? Are these societal programmes having the impact? If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, because any organisation on that basis can appear to be successful in doing anything and presumably the Department would insist on that. From our point of view, however, we have to look at a much wider figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has a metric ever been done against the overall effect of all the programmes in tackling unemployment, which should be at a record low anyway? That is true right across society. As I said, this includes antisocial behaviour and convictions. If a person goes into prison once, that is a major problem for the rest of his or her life in terms of reputation and getting jobs. Any of us who deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A measure that was commonly used previously was the Trutz Haase index.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I remember we had someone from Trutz Haase in the office, God rest him, and we were talking to him about the index. He told us they had this very complicated way of calculating it but he said that if we checked out Ticketmaster sales, we would get the same answer. I told him he was codding, and that rural communities would not need to buy tickets because if people are going to matches and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Now, this is what I am wondering. The Trutz Haase test was a very good measure that went way beyond the actual way it was being done by asking people whether they had two coats, two pairs of shoes or a good overcoat or whatever it was. It seemed to be a very accurate measure. My question is, if I do it today and compare it with 20 years ago, will I find an improvement in these areas in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There had been a recognition that as well as needing SICAP, areas of concentrated disadvantage had such concentrated problems that further action was needed across government but somewhere down the line - in 2011 or 2012 - the Department of Rural and Community Development decided to stop the programme that was specifically focused in those areas. I do not blame the Department because it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If there is a cross-departmental group chaired by the Minister, it must be totally focused on these highly deprived areas and making sure they are all pulling their weight. I have come to admire self-help within communities. One thing struck me in the past. I remember there was discussion about a certain very deprived community about which there was a lot of publicity, and the first thing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Returning to the mountain access scheme, is there an individual written agreement between each farmer and the Department, or some relevant agency, specifying what is agreed? In other words, first, dealing with the insurance, has every farmer received a copy of the insurance? Where I live, they certainly have not received it. This refers to the area that is covered, that is open. It is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, I know, Mount Gable or Binn Shléibhe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The one part of the equation is that these landowners do not have anything saying what is going to be done by the Department and what the Department is asking for in return is to give access to the hill. That does not seem to have got down to the individual farmer. The Department may be talking to groups but it is not talking to the people who own this land outright, each one of them. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My apologies but can we talk about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is this about an established group because this is news to me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is something to support the farmers rather than saying to them that they must provide access to their land in return for us providing this insurance policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: And who established them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did the farmers establish these groups or who established them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is crucial because it was hoped when Comhairle na Tuaithe was set up that we might get a good working model where there was good agreement. There was such agreement. It was about providing access as long as everybody complied with all of these rules, etc. The land holders were then indemnified and would allow free access, specifically, to be publicised. This approach would then be...