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Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: These and many other schemes were very important to rural communities.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Taoiseach utterly confirm that no such proposal will be approved in this calendar year with regard to third level grants?

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A Cheann Comhairle, I ask the Taoiseach to withdraw that statement. No funds from dormant accounts were ever paid for any road in this country.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Taoiseach made a totally false allegation, and I ask him to withdraw it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is absolutely not true, and the Taoiseach knew it was not true. He knew also that when I was spending money-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Maigh Eo freisin.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An amendment was promised in regard to the abolition of Seanad Éireann. When is it expected to publish the Bill to do that? A Bill was promised in the programme for Government that is not on the A or B list, namely, the regulation of lobbying Bill. When will it be published? The third Bill I want to raise with the Taoiseach is the human tissue Bill, which has been promised for a long...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm go bhfuil deis agam cúpla focal a rá ar an ábhar seo. What happened was wrong and should not have happened. We must deal with the issue in hand and then examine the issue to which my colleague Deputy Michael Moynihan alluded. We must ask whether anything happening today is wrong and not being dealt with. Every generation believes it has got it right...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the French proposal under common agriculture policy reform to front load the single payment and the first number of hectares in order to assure adequate payments to small farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6973/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Sector (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measure he intends taking to ensure the entrance of more young persons into the farming profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6989/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion with Teagasc, NARGC and Golden Eagle Trust (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First, I apologise that I must leave in a few minutes to go back into the Dáil. I thank Ms Keena for her presentation. There is a great deal of debate yet to take place before we resolve this issue. Until there was interference with farmers through the schemes and by the Department and everybody else, farmers kept the land in good farming order. Before payments such as the ewe...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Service Staff (13 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers for children now in place; her target for the end of 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7350/13]

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill. It amazes me that there will be no more Government speakers on the Bill, even though the Government has the vast majority of Teachtaí Dála in the House. One would think that this side of the House would run out of speakers much more quickly than the Government. It shows a lack of enthusiasm, if one could call it that,...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Fear a bhfuil Gaeilge aige. Can the Minister confirm the name by which this utility will be known? Will it be Uisce Éireann or Irish Water? Do not tell me it will be both. Obviously, if one is speaking Irish it will be Uisce Éireann, but there has been a tradition of enforcing our identity as a nation by giving the Irish name as the general name used by the public, as in the...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Those who have come to live here adapt to the Irish names and use them, just as we use words such as "sauna", which is a Finnish word, and "boutique". Most people can adapt to given names. I seek a firm commitment from the Minister that when this legislation passes there will be one name for this company, Uisce Éireann, which is to be used by all whether they are speaking the first or...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They will find it difficult to have a voice at a national level with an unelected agency ensuring water supplies. I note the absence of any mention in the Bill of the 145,000 households which do not have either a group water scheme or a mains water supply. I was making huge progress to deal with that issue when I was Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. With the CLÁR...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I listened to Deputy Joan Collins's contribution and share her concern. I do not have an objection in principle to the provision of quality services by semi-State bodies. The ESB has served the country well from its inception, particularly in the work it carried out between 1946 and 1958 to provide electricity in every village and every townland in rural Ireland. I do not object in...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Deputy Fergus O'Dowd and his colleagues, excepting the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, have a habit of bulldozing on Committee Stage and refusing to listen to reasonable amendments put forward by the Opposition.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to increase the number of general practitioners here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7497/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the way the reduced budget allocation for older people announced in the Health Service Executive 2013 Service Plan will impact on services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7512/13]