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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in the processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40157/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in the processing of said application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40158/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance the last time the threshold under which a person in receipt of a grant or grants from the State in a calendar year, was not required to produce a tax clearance certificate was raised; the present level of the threshold; whether he intends increasing this threshold in line with inflation since to cut down unnecessary paperwork for recipients of modest...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Rannach (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 394. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad teaghlach atá fós ag fanacht ar íocaíochtaí faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge do chúrsa a ritheadh i rith an tsamhraidh: an méid airgid atá i gceist san iomlán, an spriocdháta faoina n-íocfar le gach duine íoctha; agus an ndéanfaidh...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Rannach (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 395. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a thabharfar íocaíocht do theaghlaigh a choinnigh scoláirí ar chúrsa Gaeilge faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge i rith an tsamhraidh (sonraí tugtha); agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [40433/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Rannach (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 396. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a thabharfar íocaíocht do theaghlaigh a choinnigh scoláirí ar chúrsaí Gaeilge faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge i rith an tsamhraidh (sonraí tugtha); agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [40434/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date with the review of the mortgage to rent scheme; whether the conclusions of the review will be published; the date it is expected to be completed by; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39837/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis an bhfinné. Tá sé thar cionn cloisteáil faoin obair atá ar bun ag an Aran Islands Energy Co-op. Ag leanacht ón gceist a chuir mo chomhghleacaí, an raibh aon phlé ag an co-op le Roinn na Gaeltachta faoin bhféidearthacht a bheadh ann ceangal leictreach as an nua a chur isteach go dtí an t-oileán a bheadh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses. It is well recognised by the islanders that housing is a major issue. The witnesses have given an even better insight into it. My experience is that when we look at islanders who can establish a housing need and who apply for planning permission on their own sites or on an acquired site, the problems seem to be wastewater, archaeology and ecology. These have to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I support what Ms Uí Mhaoláin has said about underoccupied houses. In my view, there is a total misunderstanding about this in urban Ireland. I live most of the time in an underoccupied house. There is no question or doubt about it. That is except for when the children come home and they bring their children, the grandchildren, home. We are then an over-occupied house, and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am surprised to hear that a family member of an islander, in other words somebody who grew up on an island, would not be classified as having a housing need as long as they are coming back to live on the island. I am highly critical of things in Galway at times, but as long as you could establish you were coming back permanently you would be considered to have a housing need if you were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the issue that arises is when someone has a mainland property and they are moving permanently to the island but want to keep the mainland property as a base, because I know many islanders who have always lived on the island but have a mainland property because they spend a certain number of nights out, particularly the ones that are further offshore, when they want to go for services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is awful lot in this subject. We could be at it for a long time. As part of what was said, one thing was mentioned that can be underestimated, which is that as well as the pure health issues, access is key. It is about the frequency of the ferry or aeroplane services on Aran, their speed, quality, and the piers. It is also about the difference between getting on from a pontoon where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there any issues with bandwidth and resilience in using this remote technology? Is there anything we need to do to ensure there is the bandwidth and resilience to make this long term, sustainable and failsafe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On that issue, there was an arrangement whereby 50% of the infrastructure costs on the islands related to health and were provided by the Department with responsibility for the islands. They got pulled out and were not caught in this cost-benefit analysis of doing it in a housing estate for 1,000 people versus aligning it with 100, 200 or 300 people. The experience of that was that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: May I ask one further question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Very brief. Are the witnesses privy to what NBI has proposed for the island, which is fibre from the box on the island to the houses where there is telephone or, as far as I know, radio signal to the mainland as opposed to fibre end to end? Will that be sufficient or resilient enough for what is needed, or should we put the cable in under the ground like we did with electricity and make it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá dhá chraoltóir seirbhíse poiblí teilifíse sa Stát seo – RTÉ agus TG4. Agus cinneadh á dhéanamh maidir le cistíocht do chraolachán seirbhíse poiblí don bhliain 2024, caithfear déanamh cinnte nach dtabharfar tosaíocht don tseirbhís nach raibh in ann cloí lena buiséad seachas an...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Clár Forbartha Áitiúil (26 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cad é líon na n-iarratas a fuarthas faoin nglaoch do thograí nua faoin gClár CSP; cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh cé acu tograí a thiocfaidh ar aghaidh; cad é an líon tograí atá i gceist a cheadú; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [41289/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Clár Forbartha Áitiúil (26 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cad é líon na n-iarratas a fuarthas faoin nglaoch do thograí nua faoin gClár CSP; cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh cé acu tograí a thiocfaidh ar aghaidh; cad é an líon tograí atá i gceist a cheadú; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [41289/23]