Results 27,821-27,840 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but obviously, that does not apply today to as many people as this is going to apply to. In other words, this has to become administratively possible in a fairly simple form for people who are going to qualify and administratively possible for people who are not going to qualify because, obviously, there will be quite a few people. It is that fine line that is going to cause the grief....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will put it this way; nobody has ever come to me and cited that law. I know there are going to be plenty of people coming to me on this one. That is the difference. Money is involved. There is going to be a cut-off point and there are going to be judgments involved. When we are dealing with something that is black and white, such having contributions and whatever, it is much easier....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have one final question. Let us say a person qualifies. In the old days, if people qualified for a widow's pension, the way they lost that was if they got married. Now, presumably, they equally lose it if they become a cohabitant again. These are the kinds of blurred lines.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that, but I am saying that these are the kinds of blurred lines that in my view exist around the definition of what is a new cohabitant or whatever. I would be interested in those definitions. I foresee that will be a challenge when it is not something very finite. Marriage is a legal contract, so it is very definable. In this case, however, I am interested to see where the lines...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Seirbhísí Iompair (20 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an bhfuil sé i gceist aige táille €2 a thabhairt isteach don limistéar timpeall ar Ghaillimh lena mbeifear in ann seirbhísi iompair phoiblí a úsáid gan teorainn laistigh de thréimhse nócha nóiméad mar atá i mBaile Átha Cliath; agus an ndéanfaidh sé...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (20 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he intends taking to ensure that retired CIÉ pensioners have adequate pensions, including providing Exchequer funding to the scheme, in view of the fact that these pensioners have not had a rise in their pensions for many years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is intended to change the conditions in relation to loan-to-cost ratio attaching to the help-to-buy scheme to allow people who could got get a loan of 70% of the cost of the house due to limited income to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26601/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the last time that the remote area grant for students from islands who have to travel to the mainland for education was increased; the present rate of the grant; whether she is considering increasing this grant in view of the large increase in the cost of lodgings and travel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26635/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection it is intended to revise the rules of the Tús scheme to make it possible for participants to stay on the scheme indefinitely; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26516/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether it is intended to change the rules of the RSS scheme in relation to the length of time a participant can stay on the scheme and the way means are assessed in relation to a participants wages; if it is intended, in both these facets of the scheme, to revert to the original rules which were so successful in making the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the opportunity to make a contribution to this debate. Unfortunately, I did not get an opportunity to read the report placed before the House but I will certainly do so because I hope it will be very informative. In the speech the Minister gave here today, she said that "The report also provides a brief assessment of the security situation" before going on to outline that there...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom fíorbhuíochas a ghabhadh leis an Aire Stáit as ucht teacht isteach tráthnóna. Tá a fhios agam nach bhfuil sé éasca teacht ag an am seo den oíche ach tá mé cinnte mar iar-chúlbhinseoir é féin go dtuigfidh sé an tábhacht a bhaineann le Aire ón Roinn a mbaineann an...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister of State for the very clear and precise answer that actually addressed the issue I raised. We often get a page and a half of irrelevance and five lines of relevance. In this case, however, the issue was addressed head on. My concern is that in the long term, the CRU will take it upon itself to ignore the wider picture. I agree that every new data centre should have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I regret that I must again raise an issue I have raised many times on Questions on Policy or Legislation. I refer to the issue of Travellers on halting sites living in substandard trailers or caravans. There is a very limited pilot scheme called the caravan loan scheme whereby local authorities are given an allocation of caravans every year for replacement purposes. That scheme only...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (25 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a cuireadh torthaí an taighde ar an haonaid lán-Ghaeilge faoi bhráid na Roinne/COGG; cén fáth go bhfuil an oiread moille ar fhoilsiú na dtorthaí i bhfianaise na torthaí sin a bheith ina gcuid lárnach den chomhchomhairliúchán ar fhorbairt beartais don oideachas...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Ghaeltacht (25 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 221. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist aici staidéar teangeolaíochta a dhéanamh ar an tionchar a d’fhéadfadh a bheith ag lonnú teifeach ón Úcráin agus tíortha eile i nGaeltachtaí láidre ó thaobh na teanga de i bhfianaise na hoibre ar fad atá ar bun maidir le...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the accommodation recognition payment to accommodate refugees from Ukraine is taken into account in the means test for fuel allowance or any other subsidiary payments from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27419/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What were the targets with regard to islands?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is what I am talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My second question is: how many work hours were involved in preparing all this stuff?