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Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba cheart dúinn é sin a mholadh. Muna ndéantar é sin, beidh líomhaintaí á dhéanamh. Már shampla, má tá duine ag fostú tiománaí, ní an duine sin a déarfaidh go bhfuil an tiománaí in ann tiomáint ach an údarás.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is dóigh liom gur cheart amharc sonrach a thabhairt ar an gceist sin ag éirí as an gcoiste seo. Tá pobal labhartha na Gaeilge fíor-bheag agus tá céatadán ard de na múinteoirí atá ag múineadh i scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge i measc an phobail ag labhairt Gaeilge lena gcuid gasúr. Beidh dúshlán ansin.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Breathnaíonn sé go bhfuil fadhb faoi leith ag Gaelscoileanna go ginearálta, go mórmhór i soláthar a bhaint amach de bharr na critéir a úsáidtear, is é sin, go gcaithfidh formhór pobail in abhantrach bheith i bhfábhar scoil lán-Ghaeilge. Céard a cheapfadh na finnéithe den smaoineamh déileáil leis an easpa...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Nuair a úsáidim an focal Gaelscoil, táim ag caint ar oideachas trí Ghaeilge sa bhunscoil agus sa mheánscoil. Tá a fhios agam go teicniúil-----

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Farmers lost money. It is a small number and it is easily identified. The Minister knows, from his area maps, exactly which people sold crops. It is easy to identify how much money these farmers have lost from their sales figures. We have become so careful that, when 300 people have a problem and a small number get money without which they could not survive, we worry more about the few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a general question. Has the Department any idea how many road projects or basic public infrastructure projects, including those relating to water and so on, have had to go to An Bord Pleanála and the number of those cases in which the Department has not withdrawn concerns or objections before the end of the oral hearing or, if there was no such hearing, the end of the written...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I may explain, I am not interested in what happened tit for tat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not wish to put a lot of work on the Department but we need to understand the scale of the problem. I am talking about what happened when the Department went to the inspector for an informal oral hearing and at the end of the hearing, it was clear to the inspector that the Department was still not happy with the proposal despite all of the iterations. I am not interested in hearing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I referred to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to make it clear that we are talking about public developers. In other words, these are local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. I shall be here until 12 noon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the Department's preferred proposal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could a local authority not buy in consultants? A certain well known expert on the pearl mussel was brought in by the county council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One does not need to have an expert among the staff; one can buy in expertise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is an obligation of membership of the European Union. No doubt when Mr. Fitzgerald states this will damage the pearl mussel, it is significant - one of the requirements is it must be significant. Then the decision maker has virtually no choice. Europe probably says it is an Irish law but it never says the Irish law was made with a knife in their back where they were told to walk....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Then how did they stop it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have been in the European Union since 1973. I understand the habitats directive came into force in 1997. We are now marking almost 20 years of the habitats directive. Is Mr. Fitzgerald saying that fines imposed on Ireland in that time are nil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Even if it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Suppose it runs to €10 million, for argument's sake-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand - and we discussed with Mr. Fitzgerald - the possibility of route B from Derrylea to Maam Cross. In that case, there might be a clear case that the bog would be damaged and compensatory measures would be required. That is very black and white. If I understand correctly, the issue between Oughterard and Bunakill is different. The issue is that were the road to be built...