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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have been around a long time. I was on a local authority and my experience is that every time a file is moved, it takes time, there are questions and delays. All I ever think about when all this is happening and everything is going to be done perfectly, there are people desperately waiting. According to the figures in the report, 34 families are living on the roadside.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are in caravans. They are in irregular situations to put it mildly, which are very poor.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there any living by the roadside on unofficial halting sites?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there people living on unofficial halting sites?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are many families there?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The real need is easy enough to project because of family formation. There is a big demand because there is an overhang of 34 that are in informal arrangements and not in HAP, RAS or private rentals, which would be HAP nowadays because very few people get rent allowance from social welfare. In addition, another 44 are coming on stream. There is a big demand. What plans are there to meet...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have the following in Galway and everywhere. We have endless plans - a group plan, TAPs and whatever else. We see it not only with Traveller housing but generally. The problem is that it only seems to get bigger; it does not seem to get less. People come into my office homeless and many of them are Travellers. I think it is 50% of those in Galway. There are many people on the streets...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When was that approved?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Were they opposing housing-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: People come in with written letters. The system should not judge by volume but by the validity of the objection. We know this because sociological studies prove this. It is an absolute fact there is a prejudice against Travellers. These are objective studies. Presumably, many of those did not make valid planning points about accommodation that would overrule this absolutely urgent need...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not speculating. I do not have a clue what it may do. The council might pass it the first time. I believe all of us in life have some contingency plans if it happens that it goes the other way. I have been disappointed, where it has gone the other way in other councils, and this is something that has happened around the country, that the chief executives have not used their powers to...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Everybody had an entitlement, subject to means and all the rest, to a local authority house. The Traveller-specific element was to allow for those who wished to retain the idea of living within their own community and was separate. Another thing that I am a little bit wary of, and I have been dealing with people for a long time, is that people come into my constituency office with any...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital funding he intends to provide this year for the upgrade of the rail line from Athenry in County Galway to Collooney in County Sligo so that work can continue on the reopening of this vital rail link; the purposes for which the funding will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4539/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to follow up on work carried out by Iarnród Éireann on line clearance on sections of the rail line from Collooney to Athenry by providing funding in 2024 for the design work on the upgrade of the line from Athenry to Claremorris to a suitable standard to reopen it for freight and passenger travel; if he supports...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the sections of the Acts that provide that a person is not regarded as unemployed for jobseeker's benefit purposes, for any day that they are actively engaged in farming; whether it is intended to change this provision on the basis that many people engaged in farming in a small way also engage in full-time employment at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are the figures quoted for the PRSI increases just to cover pay-related jobseeker's benefit, or are they general increases to fund the Social Insurance Fund, SIF? My understanding is that there were general increases taking place. It goes into a big maw and then you pay all the benefits. I also note that there is no pay-related element: that the self-employed are the poor relation. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was about the law. I raised the question. I asked under what section of the law had this change come in. I think the Chair might just comment on this. My experience up to now is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will tell Ms Harrington the circumstances and we might as well call it here. The person got somebody to fill in the form and they exaggerated the hours the farming was taking. The proper accounts showed that there was no income from the farm. It was €900 in one year and €0 and €0 for the other two years. There is a €7,500 limit to start with. This person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: And of the parliamentary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What I would like to see is if Ms Harrington could outline-----