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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (11 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 644. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the forestry premium will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17463/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (11 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 742. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to publish statutory instruments designating Dún Laoghaire and Galway ports as ports of regional significance; if so, when he will do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17671/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Appeals (11 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 771. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the review sought by an employer into a decision to refuse a work permit will be completed in view of the unusual and unique circumstances of the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17670/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 262. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical assessment appointment will be provided for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18391/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 263. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a date for this procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18399/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 270. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application was closed in view of the fact that contact was made with the primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, in March 2017 (details supplied) and was informed that the application was in progress; if he will take into consideration the medical conditions involved and reopen the case; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an dá dhream anseo tráthnóna. I welcome the two groups to the committee this afternoon. It seems to me that what the Rathmore group is trying to do is create intergenerational services for young and older people in one setting. How dispersed throughout the community are the activities? What is the geographic area the group covers? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many people does the group have employed on an ongoing basis, including people in schemes and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the action group any management staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: But there are no general managers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We will come back to that in a minute. The action group is dealing with older people in the community. I understand it has some houses, but it is also dealing with people in their own homes. Proportionately, how many people of the older cohort whom it serves are in their own homes compared with those in specific housing that was built for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: So two thirds are living in their own home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the witness find that a lot of people want to stay in their own home and another cohort who want to move into sheltered housing or into a scheme for various reasons?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Casfaidh mé go Tearmann Éanna. Tá struchtúr bainistíochta ag Tearmann Éanna. Tá daoine fostaithe go lán-aimseartha.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ceann de na ceisteanna eile a chuir mé ar an dream as an Ráth Mór ná cé mhéad daoine a bhfuil siad ag tabhairt seirbhís dóibh atá sna tithe agus cé mhéad atá i measc an phobail, is é sin, a dtagann isteach don chúram lae agus mar sin de.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mar fhocal scoir, I have to admit that in my working background, I went to Connemara many years ago to work for a co-op. Very wisely at the time, the Department of the Gaeltacht was giving management grants, as they called it, to these start-up co-ops. They still exist and are still getting this core funding that the witnesses are talking about. It certainly had a massive effect in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is getting worse every day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: B'fhéidir go bhfreagródh Tearmann Éanna na ceisteanna céanna.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On the de minimispoint, I cannot agree that the problem is not in Brussels. When I was the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, I went over to Brussels several times when the 2007-14 Leader programme - not the present one - was coming in. I had a modest demand, which was that the de minimisthreshold would be increased to €400,000. It is ridiculous to think that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The flaw is in Europe.