Results 28,161-28,180 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: However, it has not exceeded her Department's expectations, because the budget was bang on target at within €12 million of €1.4 billion. The point I am making again is that it does not seem this would open the floodgates, from looking at the figures. Why would anybody who could get €2,000 and who is disqualified on means grounds not take the €2,000?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: However, the evidence on the ground is not too many people are going to leave €2,000 behind them.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Then the Minister should start publicising it.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: People watching in are often confused by the Vote and the Social Insurance Fund. The Minister and I understand this. For the record, can she confirm, in simple terms, that the Vote covers the expenditure on schemes that are, for example, are means-tested, etc.? The Social Insurance Fund is money people get as of right as they have paid social insurance. What the Minister is telling us...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a significant amount of money. The other issue that has been a concern to me is that our focus is the need to support families. Every child growing up is potentially a worker and every worker is a contributor. Most people contribute from their 20s to their 60s. Some are contributing much later; way beyond that. For the bulk, those are the years they are contributing. If our...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I appreciate that, but I will watch with interest whether the further relaxation of the means test, which is quite considerable, is going to cause this projected tsunami. I predict the Minister is going to come back next year and say the figures are bang on target because this is not causing a tsunami and is not the cause of the increase in carers. There are lots of people caring who have...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: She cannot say.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a final question, since it comes down to money. The CE supervisors got some arrangement on the pensions.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand there was a recommendation made and it is floating around somewhere between the Minister's Department and the Department of public expenditure in relation to Tús and RSS supervisors.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister knows, those working on the RSS and Tús are paid considerably less and they did not benefit from the package put together for the CE supervisors, to my knowledge. I understand it is in the system. There was a recommendation made but it did not get through.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask the Minister to.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: All right. It is a matter that will keep festering until it is settled.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Only for the CE workers, not for those on the RSS. Of course, it was always going to be a knock on. I could not understand why the lot could not have been dealt with.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was always going to be a knock on that RSS supervisors were going to say, "Me too", and they are right to say that.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing said passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41640/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and capital allocation to An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [41257/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the annual allocation to a scheme (details supplied) in 2024 and 2025. [41258/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current and capital funding allocations in 2024 and 2025 for initiatives (details supplied), in tabular form. [41254/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Election Expenditure (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost of the last Údarás na Gaeltachta election held. [41255/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 338. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost of restoring the scéim na bóithre in Gaeltacht areas. [41256/24]