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Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not changing the figures anyway. We have no power to change the figures. We say they are agreed and we have gone through them all. We should come back and forensically examine programmes B and C. We have many suggestions on how we should go forward. Otherwise things like the RAPID programme and the local community development committees, LCDCs, will be skimmed over. We will not...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are saying we agree the Estimate and a message goes back to Dáil Éireann. That is all we are obliged to do.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We do not have to do so. If we are happy we have no questions on them today, we can agree them and the message goes back to the Dáil. Nothing in any Standing Order stops us doing that and coming back as long as the Minister on word of honour says he will come in some day and we will have a discussion. We cannot change any figure but we cannot do that anyway. We will do it properly...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to give them the same attention we have given very constructively right across the board to the rural areas on a future day.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We need to be prepared. We meet all sorts of witnesses but very little comes out of it. Today's meeting has given results.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. We will get that far.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 1:In page 4, line 18, after “aforesaid.” to insert “These designations should be made without unnecessarily impeding navigation.”. I tabled my amendment to reinforce the fact that the primary purpose of waterways is for navigation. I acknowledge they are used for many other purposes and that Waterways Ireland has some dry canals in its...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The proposed new section 5(1)(b) reads: "Waterways Ireland may designate particular parts of the canals and other canal property for particular purposes including purposes incidental to such purposes as aforesaid." It would appear to me that temporary closing for the kind of activity the Minister mentioned is not the designation of a particular part of the canal for a purpose because the...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister outline why my amendment is impractical? All my amendment seeks is to do is insert the phrase: "unnecessarily impeding navigation.”

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am a bit disappointed with the explanation.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister explain that again?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has no problem with the word "reasonable".

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Who decides what is reasonable?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Obviously that would be necessary. On the one hand, the Minister has mentioned the word "reasonable". The obvious response that always arises in a Bill is who decides what is reasonable and, ultimately, it is the court. On the other hand, in reference to the word "unnecessary" I included in my amendment, the Minister asked who would decide what was unnecessary. My response to her is it...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will press my amendment.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 3:In page 4, line 34, after "canals" to insert the following:", subject to existing maximum dimensional criteria that enable our canal heritage vessels to continue to use the system they were designed for". The Bill provides that "Waterways Ireland may in accordance with this section make bye-laws for the care, management, maintenance and control and the regulation of...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Amendment No. 5 proposes to insert the words "within agreed parameters on a temporary basis due to an emergency". Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 seem to be the same for some reason. They must have been included twice by mistake. My apologies. We can discount amendment No. 5. I will not press it.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister made a brilliant case for amendment No. 3. She referred to the by-law as it stood. It could be changed because under this law, it could be made more restrictive than it is. What the Minister is saying is-----