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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the great frustrations of being a Member of this House are the padded answers that tell you everything except what you need to know and that address everything except what you addressed. What I wanted to speak about was the urgent need to provide funding to the NAS to enable it to provide ambulance services on offshore islands. This issue has been raised by the doctors who service...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is not the issue. How do you get to that service? How do you get to the airfield if the person lives or is located two miles away.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Doctors are trained.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The doctor tells me when he is confronted with somebody on the side of-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are two. Inis Mór and-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the implementation plan following the publication of the All-Island Rail Strategy will be published; the criteria which were given to the consultants in drawing up this plan in relation to ensuring balanced regional development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41628/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad the Minister made reference to quick wins. In my view they could have been done in the past four years without any rail strategy. They include passing loops. Throughout the system we are getting caught with bottlenecks because trains cannot pass each other and we cannot increase the frequency. It does not take any great eye strain to work out these things must be dealt with and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It did.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Compared to the processes in place between 2000 and 2010 when we built a lot of basic infrastructure such as rail lines, roads, etc., those in place now seem now to have become forever processes. I support Deputy Leddin in saying that some things are so obvious that we are wasting time just putting paper together, filling out forms and doing studies that do not need to be done. I could...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Good.

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I appreciate the speaking time. I accept this is a difficult issue but I believe that once the door is opened, there will be no such thing as limiting access. We have seen that in all jurisdictions where assisted dying has been introduced it has grown and grown. Often what happens in a situation such as this is the proponents propose something very limited at the beginning and it then gets...

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This Dáil is so nearly finished anyway.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made during his tenure of office with progressing the re-opening of the Western Rail Corridor from Athenry to Collooney and improving the railway line from Limerick to Athenry with the provision of extra capital funding for passing loops and longer platforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41629/24]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The reason for that is that the Social Insurance Fund has done better than anticipated and, therefore, the Department was able to pay €600 million.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department was able to pay that out of the Social Insurance Fund and still have an increasing surplus at the end of the year in that. That is now a €17 million rainy day fund. If unemployment was to go up, those finances are there in the Social Insurance Fund.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is in total.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that.