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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Funding (23 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister saying that he will make a provision of €63 million in 2015 to ensure a complete draw-down of the Leader programme?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Deposits (23 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 55. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation in next year's Estimate for expenditure under dormant accounts measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44882/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (23 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to a query (details supplied) raised with his Department on 23 September 2013; the reason for the delay with the response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45079/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (23 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the threat to the vital services provided under the community employment and job initiative schemes in a centre (details supplied) due to the cutback in materials and overheads money under the CE scheme this year; the action she will take to preserve these vital services; and if she will make a statement on the...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am delighted to get an opportunity to speak in this debate and to highlight the Minister for Social Protection's attack on the weak and the vulnerable, despite her protestations to the contrary. The Minister claims to have protected the primary rates of social welfare. She might have done that in her own terms, but I suggest she has slashed and burned all around her to devastating effect....

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: She changed the pension rules dramatically when she reduced substantially the pension paid to people who took time out of work for the purposes of caring duties or child-rearing. The Minister is familiar with the manner in which social welfare works on the basis of an average. I would say that in 90% of cases, the people who are hurt by this kind of rule change are the women of Ireland....

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The point I am making is that the Minister claims not have cut primary rates.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am saying that she has been cutting, slashing and burning.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: She is in denial about what she is doing. The Labour Party said before it came into government that the cutbacks we were involved in were unnecessary.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to talk about what the Minister has done to the young and the unemployed. She has cut the back to education allowance. She has cut community employment schemes in a very mean way.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: She has cut the rural social scheme a very mean way.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Deputy asks any lone parent about community employment schemes, he will hear about how the Minister has cut them. Her cuts are mean all the time. This year, she has gone after young people aged 22, 23, 24 or 25 who do not have jobs by cutting their payments to €100 a week. The Minister has gone after those who are creating employment by taking away the safety net that existed...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I said at the outset, cuts are cuts regardless of how they are dressed up.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Sale of State Assets (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the proposals to sell the energy section of Bord Gáis Éireann; if the division of Bord Gáis Éireann debt between the two proposed new companies has been decided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44980/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Services Provision (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any proposals to provide high-speed broadband to the schools in Annaghdown and Corrandulla, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45420/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the requirements of the national broadband scheme in respect of quality of service to customers availing of the broadband service; if his Department or ComReg is responsible for the oversight of this scheme to ensure the service meets the required standard of service and speed and is not subject to contention at times...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when it is intended to roll out a minimum service of 30 MB across the country; the reason for the delay in his roll-out, which is causing a severe digital divide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45407/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Place Names Changes (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedure laid down in law in relation to the changing of the name of a street; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45408/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scéim Talmhaíochta (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar íocaíocht faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste agus Scéim na hÍocaíochta Aonair do 2013 le feirmeoir i gContae na Gaillimhe (sonraí leis seo); cén fáth go bhfuil moill leis an íocaíocht seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sé...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (24 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to provide money to CIE to secure the disused railway line from Tralee, County Kerry, to the Kerry border for use as a greenway in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45468/13]