Results 27,201-27,220 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a reply has not issued to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 8 November 2024 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5076/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a reply has not issued to Parliamentary Question No. 1265 of 7 November 2024 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5081/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 495. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a reply has not issued to Parliamentary Question No. 1267 of 7 November 2024 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5082/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the ECO scheme will issue to a farmer in County Galway (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing said payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under ACRES will be issued to a farmer in County Galway (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing said payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5995/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 293. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether any property in Ballybane, Galway city is being considered as a centre for international protection applicants; if so, the details of the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6007/24]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a point on the administration.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know. I accept that. The Minister is saying that there is no provision for any double payment of child benefit this year.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The number of recipients has gone up since 2013 because the number of pensioners has gone up.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On free travel, how is the amount the Department pays to both the CIÉ group of companies and private operators, which are also part of that scheme, calculated? How is it worked out how much the Department pays? That is my first question but I have a supplementary.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did that change when-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----the Department of Transport reduced the fares?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a third question. There is now a backdoor method, and I have raised parliamentary questions with the Minister about this as it concerns me. More and more buses are full, which is great news. It means we need more buses but it is good that people are patronising them. Even in rural areas, however, buses are full. For journeys on certain private bus services now, to ensure people...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not accept that, because the Minister’s Department has the ability to make it a condition of providing the money to the operator for the scheme that they do not charge for a booking. As I said, booking is now not a question one's favourite seat; it is a question of getting on the particular form of public transport at all. The irony is that I do not think Iarnród...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have to say that it is totally welcome. We made the recommendation. One group in particular, which represented people with epilepsy, was before the committee, so we widened our recommendation. We are absolutely delighted about that. I think everybody in the committee would recognise that it was a major step forward that everybody who is disqualified from driving due to medical reasons...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My first question is the big one. I see there was a surplus of approximately €4 billion in the Social Insurance Fund. Is that correct? Will the Minister tell us if that was better than was expected in last year's Estimate? I think it was €3.5 billion last year and €4 billion this year. Was the outturn last year better than had been forecast in terms of the surplus?...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we keep employment going-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----and the economy growing, the Social Insurance Fund grows. If it grows, it means that things we were told were totally unaffordable become affordable. At this stage, will the Minister give us the total accumulated surplus of the Social Insurance Fund?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is after taking the absolutely seismic shocks of the downturn between 2008 and 2011 and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is assured they are still right.