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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The question is to ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure measures are taken to align the pay of Tús supervisors with CE supervisors, and if she will make a statement on the matter. I will expand the question slightly to include both Tús and RSS as I understand the negotiations took place together.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will cut to the chase. I understand there were negotiations between the unions and the Minister of State's Department, proposals were put together at official level and those proposals were then sent over to the Department of public expenditure, as all such changes inevitably must be. When were those proposals sent to the Department of public expenditure and what response came back,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A written reply I received on the issue of the gratuities seemed to give me a lot more information than is available here today. I cannot understand how these processes go on as long as they do. There has been a failure by successive Governments to reform the system in order to ensure there are quicker decisions. In fact, if anything, things have been getting slower and slower over my...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received by the Department in each of the last five years for domiciliary care allowance; the number rejected each year; the reason for these rejections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54178/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The question relates to domiciliary care allowance and the increasing number of rejections under domiciliary care allowance based on the number of claims. The Minister of State might outline whether he is concerned that the number of rejections is increasing at a time when we know, because of an increase in the rate of autism, that the number of children that should qualify for domiciliary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Obviously I do not have any figures for 2023, but as the Minister of State said, the number of claims registered in 2022 was 10,524. The number of claims rejected in that year was 3,948. I rounded the figures and that is just short of 40%. That seems to me to be a very high level of refusal. I am bit surprised to hear the Minister of State say that claims that were changed on review are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Department is not getting the information it requires the first time, and many of the people who are applying for the allowance have their own challenges in life, are not super literate and do not read law, I would think that quite a bit could be done to make the application form more useful in terms of what is required from the professional and what is required from the parent. In...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Minister for housing had been here, I would have asked a different question but since it is the Minister for Health, I will ask what is a very relevant question for many people. I recognise that a lot more people have GP cards now than was the case previously. I also recognise that with the abolition of hospital charges, the increase in the GP card threshold and the lowering of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses for coming in. Creidim go bhfuil an cruinniú seo thar a bheith tábhachtach. Tá go leor le plé. I will concentrate in the first part of my questioning on the provision of ordinary services to ordinary dwellers in rural Ireland. I will make a few general comments. First, we have a large number of rural areas with declining populations. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The specifics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it the full cost after 500 m?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is €9.10. No wonder I am not getting any complaints.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to tease this through in detail.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the first 500 m or less covered by the €3,500 or do you pay per metre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is just €3,500. That is it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can Mr. Skeffington confirm that is €300 per metre in places like Connemara?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is where you have seen the big problems. Somebody is effectively putting in public infrastructure because, as I have said, there is only a charge for it when it is under a public road. If it is under a non-public road, an LIS road or a public road that has not been taken in charge, people are allowed put it in themselves at a much lower cost. Can Mr. Skeffington quickly calculate what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be 500 times €300.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is about €150,000.