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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. That conditionality could cause problems. Again, when we get to the real coalface of the real people we are dealing with there is what I call a Victorian attitude that if a person gets the dole, he or she must be available for work and actively seeking work. There are some people I know who are not disabled, or certainly would not qualify for disability allowance, but who are highly...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Farmers are exempt.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Professor Murphy is dead right. People who are self-employed lose 100% of their income if they do any work. It is 100%.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are back to all this checking and proving and proving and checking.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I said, for many of the people I am dealing with, it is about the means test. Everybody who comes in is unique. There are people in Ms Thyne's situation and younger people caring who have had employment and so on. Means testing is a challenge in such cases. For a lot of people who are in receipt of unemployment payments or whatever and come to me, and there is a fair cohort of them, it...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am always wary of the old Victorian attitude of the deserving and undeserving poor and people saying they made their contribution to society and others did not, and that determines who deserves a payment. I do not buy into that; I am totally anti-Victorian.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am just telling Professor Murphy where I stand.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Proving and checking. As I said, we are at the coalface of how this plays out.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (12 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether each participant farmer has been given a detailed outline of the scoring scheme under the ACRES scheme by his Department; when farmers will be given their score for this year under the scheme; when the first payments will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44564/23]

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I offer my condolences to everybody who has died in this horrendous war. In particular, I offer condolences to the families of Kim Damti and Emily Hand. It is important, as has been said, that we do not forget our peacekeepers in the Middle East, who are doing a hugely difficult and important job at great risk, as well as aid workers and diplomats, and all the other people trying to move...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how much the increased capitation announced in Budget 2024 will be worth to schools in counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44973/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (17 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown by county of the number of primary schools with only a principal in them, a principal and one mainstream class teacher and a principal and two mainstream teachers respectively provided in tabular form; whether she intends changing the pupil teacher ratio for small rural schools considering the challenge in teaching multiple...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (17 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that had a staffing schedule of mainstream class teachers consisting of a principal plus one mainstream classroom teacher for the school year 2022/2023; the number of these that had more than 40 pupils enrolled in this school year; whether she intends lowering the threshold significantly for the retention and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (17 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her estimate of the number of secondary students in counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, respectively that will benefit from the introduction of free school books next year; the number of primary students that are currently benefiting from free school books in each of the counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44972/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (17 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht céard iad na riachtanais bhreise ó thaobh saoráidí tithíochta a gcaithfear cloí leo sa bhreis ar na rialacha tógála le bheith cáilithe chun scoláirí a choinneáil faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has an entitlement to dental benefit based on his or her PRSI contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45004/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application submitted to his Department by Galway City Council for a housing grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in making a decision, given that the works involved are essential to deem the property suitable for the tenant who has very...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Nuair a bhí an tAire Stáit, an Teachta Chambers, mar Aire Stáit don Ghaeltacht, rinne sé go leor oibre ar réiteach agus ar phlean le haghaidh reachtaíocht a thabhairt isteach le haghaidh na toghcháin do bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta a thabhairt ar ais. D'fhoilsigh sé cinn an Bhille, pléadh iad ag Coiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Most of this is demand-led. A rate is fixed, people will qualify and it is paid out. The physics of this case are not worked output; it is demand-led output. The one thing I find it hard to get detail and statistics on is defective means testing and how many people are getting caught by means testing. Means testing is cruel because it is much more penal than the tax system. Every time we...