Results 12,441-12,460 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: There will be no delay.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister give me the breakdown between them?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: There are many small piers and harbour slips along the coast, some of which were built by the Congested Districts Board. An inventory was created by local authorities in some counties, particularly Cork and Galway. When I was Minister, the Department funded some of this work in order that we would have an accurate record of what was in place. It did not involve detailed surveys, rather it...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: I take it subhead D.3.6, integrated administrative control systems, relates to maps.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has said only a small percentage of farmers have a figure of more than 3% and that an even smaller percentage have a figure of more than 20%. What percentage have less than ten or 20 ha? The problem is that for a farmer with 100 ha, 3% is 3 ha which is a hell of a mistake to make. However, for a farmer with 10 ha, it is 0.3 ha and for a farmer with 5 ha, it is 0.15 ha. If the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Suppose the Minister decided that where an overclaim was less than 1 ha or 0.5 ha the farmer would not be penalised for five years retrospectively and the Exchequer would take the hit. I am sure the amount of money involved would be so minuscule as not to make any significant difference in the scale of things.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Taking €1,000 from a farmer is much different than taking €1,000 from the Exchequer. Get real. The Department is spending €50 billion.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: It reminds me of the case of the widow woman who by mistake was on the rural social scheme while in receipt of a widow's pension. She was inadvertently overpaid by the rural social scheme. She did not mean to cheat the scheme by €2,300. In fairness to the Department it did not hit the poor widow woman. I would say the ordinary plain people of Ireland would rather spend the fraction...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Where is it in the rules and the information sent out to farmers? Every week I hear of cases involving 0.1 ha or 0.01 ha. The information the farmer receives does not state what the penalty is.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Language Issues (22 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number and percentage of civil servants who are competent to carry out their duties through the medium of Irish and English; his views on whether this number is adequate; his plans to increase this number and percentage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2579/14]
- ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Despite what Deputy Kevin Humphreys had to say, the Minister is aware that I have had a long-standing interest in broadband. I have tried to be constructive in what I have said, even if I have tried to push the boat out and see a vision the Minister would ultimately share with me - that we be known as a small island with the ultimate in broadband connectivity. Barriers exist which...
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I commend the Minister for bringing formally to the House the decision to abolish severance payments. At the end of the previous Government, it was decided that former Ministers who were sitting Members should forgo the allowance. That should form part of a more general reform that is not provided for in the legislation. I was surprised on the first occasion I was appointed Minister of...
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not understand the logic.
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That will encourage fragmentation. One would be better off dissolving a party and having everyone stand on the basis of some loose togetherness while declaring-----
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They receive more.
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a sliding scale and, therefore, after a specified number of Members, the funding reduces.
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sure they are but so are ours.
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a sliding scale. If a party has 30 Members, it does not receive 30 times the amount a party of one receives.