Results 26,441-26,460 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy of his Department in relation to redundancies in Bord na Móna; the number of redundancies proposed; whether these will be all voluntary redundancies and whether it will be open to all existing staff members to apply as Bord na Móna moves away from its original core business; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 182. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when arrears of pension owing since 2021 will be paid to retired general operatives and supervisors that worked for the Office of Public Works; the reason for the delay in making these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45965/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether there will be a grant available to primary schools this year, similar to what happened previously for the upgrading of technology and ICT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45961/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Burial Grounds (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of skeletons removed from an island (details supplied); whether it is intended to return all of them for reburial or only some; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45964/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for a working family payment will be processed and a decision made (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45921/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a review of a carer’s allowance payment will be carried out (details supplied) as requested by the carer due to a change in means; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45922/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the ACRES scheme; the number for which the Department have received the scorecard from the relevant ACRES advisors; the number of these that have been checked and validated to date; whether when this is done if participants will be informed of the detailed outcome and given a chance to appeal the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 363. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is intended to officially recognise centres for ambulatory surgery which are carrying out work on contract for the HSE on, for example, patients who need hand surgery, so that the anaesthetic consultants in them do not face large increases in insurance premiums that would make such work prohibitively expensive; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that all medical card holders have access to a GP within their area, taking into account that more people are finding it harder and harder to get on a GP's list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Forbairt Calaí agus Céanna (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 391. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén uair a cheadófar deontas, mar atá iarrtha ag Comhairle Contae na Gaillimhe le staidéar a dhéanamh ar na féidireachtaí cur le na saoráidí calaíochta ag Céibh an Chalaidh Mhóir in Inis Meáin; an fáth go bhfuil moil ag ceadú an staidéir seo; agus an...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Broadband Plan (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 392. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether her Department is willing to fund or co-fund the provision of an undersea fibre cable to each offshore island that is included in the National Broadband Plan, out of the dedicated islands fund available to her Department, as mainland to island fibre was not provided for in the National Broadband plan; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (24 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made on the review of means testing rules of social welfare schemes; whether it is still intended to complete the review and publish it in quarter four this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46369/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (24 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes proposed to the means testing rules of social welfare and employment schemes in Budget 2024; whether it is intended to add to these changes in the Social Welfare Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46368/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for carer’s allowance will be processed and a decision made (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46532/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (24 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department intends to introduce a ban on a substance (details supplied) being used due to concerns that it may be carcinogenic and do other environmental damage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46357/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree with the principle of what we are trying to achieve here. When partial capacity was introduced back in the budget of 2011, the thinking at the time was that it would extend the disability allowance and that we would move forward from where we were. I agree with the basic or big principles, but of course, like everything else, the detail is what really counts at the end of the day....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Which is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If a person for one reason or another does not engage, what then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My specific point was there is an interface between jobseeker's allowance and disability allowance which is reaching a point where it will be our mark now as there will be three levels of disability allowance. At the lowest level of disability allowance, tier 3, there is an interface and a no-man's land for those who are not going to pass the test of being disabled yet, on the other hand, to...