Results 28,021-28,040 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Offshore Islands (23 Jul 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 2688.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the breakdown of the allocation of the funding of €64,000 allocated to the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme on the offshore islands of County Galway this year, broken down between staffing costs, travel, administration, outreach office rental, animation and direct project budgets, taking into account the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 2694.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application has been received from a company (details supplied) to enable it to continue to provide maintenance to an iconic trail and cover its administrative costs; the response of her Department to this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32780/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing said passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36883/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the provision of extra accommodation will be approved for a school (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in making a decision on the school’s application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (18 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 354. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether it is intended to put an alternative strategy in place to encourage regional screen production with the lapse of the section 481 regional uplift; if such a regional strategy will be funded in the estimate for her Department for 2025 to ensure balanced regional development in this sector; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (18 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is proposed to re-open the caravan loan scheme; the reason for the delay with this when many Traveller families are living in very poor accommodation on halting sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36054/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (18 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a State pension (non-contributory) review (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36479/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the latest date for lodging an appeal on a social welfare application is based on the date of the original decision or the date of reviewed decision where a review was sought; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36511/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (18 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 856. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of capital spent from the islands allocation of her Department and predecessor Departments in each of the years 1998 to 2023 and to date in 2024, broken down between piers and marine works, roads, coastal protection, health facilities, community facilities, sports and recreational facilities, power, education, and others,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (24 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost for the establishment of a separate ETB with a remit for the national schools and second level colleges under the patronage of the ETB teaching through the medium of Irish; and the estimated full-year cost. [37373/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Air Services (24 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 567. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated costs of starting an air service to Inishbofin; and the estimated full-year costs associated with running such a service. [37375/24]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I was at a social welfare committee meeting before I came in here. That is why I was delayed. Many issues have been covered. The key issue has just been touched on again, and that is why all these people are in prison and whether prison is something we inherited and just continue or whether it is actually delivering what it is meant to deliver. As far as I am...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Following on from that, I put in a parliamentary question. Over two years, there are 20-odd, but without knowing the circumstances, you cannot really give a judgment when the numbers get that small. Because of other work I do with prisoners, one of the other things I was interested in was how that compared to remands and bails in the North of Ireland, where bail conditions can be very...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, that is a problem.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A figure of €300,000 was mentioned earlier for a programme. If the approach we take is that we have to build another 40 places for female prisoners and then another 40 and so on, it will cost a fortune to provide a solution that is actually the problem, not the solution.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As an aside, during the 1990s, I used to visit republican prisoners in prisons in England. I would often engage with the governors about things outside of the immediate issue I was there for. They told me that longer sentences were not producing better results and there were more people in prison. They had the exact same syndrome going on with more people in prison and longer sentences....

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cur Chuige an Stáit i gCur Chun Cinn Chóras Gaeloideachais: An tAire Oideachais (25 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Fáiltím roimh an Aire. Níl mórán ama againn agus tá go leor ceisteanna agam. Déanfaidh mé iarracht bheith gonta. Fáiltím roimh an ráiteas ginearálta maidir leis an bplé atá ar bun leis an Roinn leanaí faoin luathoideachas agus cúram do ghasúir. Tagraítear do chúraimí agus luathoideachas...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cur Chuige an Stáit i gCur Chun Cinn Chóras Gaeloideachais: An tAire Oideachais (25 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise for interrupting. When you are around children - the Minister has been around more children than me because she has been teaching all of her life - you know that children of one, two and three years of age soak up languages like a sponge, in a way that even a ten-year-old cannot. It seems to me that we are wasting a huge opportunity by not introducing children in a very passive...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cur Chuige an Stáit i gCur Chun Cinn Chóras Gaeloideachais: An tAire Oideachais (25 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am looking for any way the Department can provide all services to all Irish-language schools through Irish. I do not see every ETB in the country being able to do that. It is impossible to get the resources together to do that because one would virtually need bilingual staff in every ETB. The only other way is to concentrate it and to say that with so many ETB schools and with so much...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cur Chuige an Stáit i gCur Chun Cinn Chóras Gaeloideachais: An tAire Oideachais (25 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To put it in simple English, tá seacht gcinn de scoileanna, there are seven Gaeltacht or all-Irish schools under the ETB in Galway and Roscommon. It fails to provide services to them through Irish. Previously, that was implemented here. I do not want to pick on one board but that is probably the one with the greatest number or concentration of schools. It is not happening and all I...