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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can we get to the urban deprivation issue? It is wrong. If one thinks that there are challenges in rural Ireland, we must be honest that the challenges in rural Ireland with regard to lifestyle quality pale into total insignificance when compared with disadvantaged urban areas. Is there a plan in this great model to eliminate the drug problem in Dublin, the total social deprivation and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have to leave to speak in defence of sheep farmers in the Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am very worried that we are going to get a spatial strategy that does not take the most important component into account, namely people. With the Department's last "put them all in Dublin" strategy ten or 15 years ago, I predicted what I call the "melting ice cream effect". In other words, the design of the Department was for everyone to live in concentrated city centres. It would all be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not closing the towns. I am saying the towns are closing themselves.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We happen to have a Tesco as well as a Supervalu in my nearest big town. If one took those out, they would just go to the next big towns of Castlebar and Galway. Anybody who thinks people are still going to go to the little high street store, park the car and drag their bags back one by one should get real. It is not going to happen. We have to plan for what real people do. I am very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to make the point rather than ask a question. Since Eir started rolling out broadband - and there are many people 100 yards beyond the point to which the service is provided - what we are finding is that there is a quiet revolution taking place and people are only working odd days in cities. More and more of them are working more days at home. They commute into cities now and again...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (30 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to give an exemption from the second European language requirement in recruitment to An Garda Síochána to those that were exempt from learning Irish at primary and secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25597/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: CLÁR Programme (30 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 379. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to introduce a local improvement scheme for the repair of local access roads under the CLÁR programme; if so, when the scheme will be open for applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25552/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 487. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25846/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (30 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 501. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25964/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (30 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 598. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review the policy regarding investment in ports and airports in the west of Ireland in view of the new state aid rules approved by the European Commission on 17 May 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25596/17]

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá brón orm nach raibh mé anseo inné le n-éisteacht leis an gcéad chuid d'óráid an Aire. Mar a tharla, bhí mé as baile le cúpla lá agus ní raibh mé in ann bheith i láthair. I could not be present for the start of this debate yesterday, unfortunately, because I was out of the country for a few days on personal...

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Nóiméad amháin.

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a number of minutes remaining.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (1 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 168. To ask the Minister for Health when a date for a clinical examination for a person (details supplied) will issue; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26331/17]

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 56. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made to date in 2017 in the roll-out of the action plan for rural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27287/17]

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I congratulate Deputy Michael Ring on his appointment as a senior Minister and look forward to many a joust with him in the coming months in that role. However, as he will be aware, I was underwhelmed when the action plan for rural Ireland was announced and I have not seen evidence of it making any difference on the ground since. There is no point in the Minister giving me information on...

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not do the Minister justice when he starts reading Civil Service scripts. That is not the Michael Ring I used to know, who used to be on fire on this side of the House, filled with indignation and going to change the world. He has read a script from civil servants which outlines all of the initiatives that were happening and has nothing new in it. He might have a negative...

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not close either scheme.

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The schemes the Minister mentioned were not closed in 2009. I was Minister at the time and when he checks the record, he will find that is not true and that there were budget commitments in 2010 and 2011. The money was made available by us. Is it correct that the Minister was Minister of State with responsibility for rural and regional development?