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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (5 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies in the accommodation housing Ukrainian refugees; the reason there are Ukrainian refugees being housed in tents, when not all the centres for accommodating Ukrainian refugees are full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43328/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (5 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 316. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant beds in a centre accommodating Ukrainian refugees; the reason for these vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43329/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 16. 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 issuing this passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44112/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 17. 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 issuing this passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44113/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason applications for passports where additional documentation is requested and fully supplied cannot be finalised within a week of the supply of this information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44114/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cúrsaí Gaeilge (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 114. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a dhéanfar íocaíocht le bean tí (sonraí tugtha) as ábhar oidí a chothaigh sí ar chúrsa i lár Mí Lúnasa; údar na moille lena híocaíocht; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [44380/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cúrsaí Gaeilge (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén céatadán de na teaghlaigh a chothaigh scoláirí faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge an samhradh seo a fuair íocaíocht iomlán as gach cúrsa; cén uair atáthar ag súil go n-íocfar an chuid eile; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses for the interesting presentation. There is a lot wrong with the system and it is not just the carer’s allowance. There was an interesting comment earlier about marginalised people applying for the carer's allowance and the challenges of bureaucracy . As members of this committee will know, it is my hobby horse to point out that marginalised people face...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, the €1,000 is divided by two.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is crucially important because if it goes up by €100, it means it is up by €200.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: With respect, I work with marginalised Travellers and all sorts of groups for whom the means test is not a challenge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I could invite carers into the group, caring for the elderly, for example, tends to be time-limited. I am probably the oldest person in the room but when you reach a certain age you see your friends die. Caring for a child born with a significant disability is a totally different situation. In my experience, in many of those cases, that is where we tend to come up against the issue of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I believe strongly in the universal payment. I find as a politician that the challenge is not where one would like to be, but how to get there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would also allow people to do up to 18.5 hours work and get the benefit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My point is that in my experience, what I would call big-bang change is hard to achieve. We then have to decide where we would like to be. One can say that fairly quickly but much more complex are the priorities in trying to get there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is easy to rectify. In the past eight years there has been a huge increase in the ability of self-employed people to access benefits such as unemployment benefit and invalidity benefit. It could be argued that the self-employed contribution is disproportionately actuarially good compared to the normal PRSI. One is 14% and the other is 4%. However, that is an argument for another day....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Professor Murphy is talking about a participation income. Wikipedia describes it as "similar to Universal Basic Income in that everyone enjoys a measure of financial security, but [it] obliges claimants to actively engage in socially desirable projects as temporary or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that we are in two different places.

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