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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a tragedy that when the Minister's Department was established, it was given so few functions. Some 99% or 99.5% of the functions and spend in rural Ireland do not come within the Department's remit; therefore, despite the Minister's best efforts, his effect on the well-being of rural Ireland is, by definition, limited. Has he asked for more powers and functions? There are functions...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sadly, after a very long reply from the Minister, the answer to my simple question appears to be no. The Minister has not sought further schemes. Previously, when we had a community and rural development policy, it included the rural social scheme, responsibilities for the Gaeltacht and the islands, Waterways Ireland and drugs policy which is tied up with the RAPID programme and social...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Please do.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They say that when one cannot answer a question, one should just keep talking. Does the Minister agree with me that issues such as rural transport, responsibility for the greenways which I believe would be far more appropriate to the Minister's Department in the context of rural recreation, marine leisure which, again, is just another form of rural recreation, the farm assist scheme, a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Taoiseach will fix it for the Minister.

Other Questions: Community Services Programme (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 21. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to expand the community services programme over the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19101/18]

Other Questions: Community Services Programme (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am delighted that the Minister has got the community services programme back, although I am very disappointed to hear he did not get the staff. It often seems that Departments run their operations as if they were independent empires rather than part of a collective Government, although that is not the Minister's fault. My question concerns the plans to expand this scheme. There are many...

Other Questions: Community Services Programme (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: From his reply, it would appear that what the Minister is doing is recycling the money. Some schemes get a reduced number of full-time equivalents and he is transferring them. One thing that all of us puzzle about, and we have often talked about it among ourselves, is the fact there are still a large number of people drawing jobseeker's allowance long-term who will never get commercial...

Other Questions: Community Services Programme (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand Pobal administers a large part of the programme. Is the Minister personally consulted before any scheme is reduced or closed? Pobal has previously made bad recommendations regarding the kinds of service in question. Will the Minister reassure me that no scheme will be reduced or closed without his personal say so? As part of the review, will the Minister consider costing a...

Other Questions: Community Services Programme (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has to be brave.

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Northern Ireland (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I dtosach báire glacaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste as ucht teacht isteach go pearsanta anseo. I thank the Tánaiste for coming in. He is aware of this case. To summarise it on the public record, as Deputy O'Sullivan has said, Tony Taylor is in prison following a revocation of licence. The problem with all of this procedure is that the person whose licence is revoked in...

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Northern Ireland (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his succinct answer. Certain issues are within the control of the political system in Northern Ireland. One is the closed and unjust system under which a licence is revoked and one does not know the charges one faces and is not present for the inquiry. A second issue is administrative delay. The Tánaiste was correct when he stated the hearing was expected...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Recreation Scheme (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 30. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans for the development of rural recreation in 2018; his plans to revamp Comhairle na Tuaithe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19102/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund Administration (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 32. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the new Dormant Account Fund plan will be published; his plans to increase spending in the coming years under the plan in view of the accumulated funding in the Dormant Account Fund, excluding the reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19103/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Communities Facilities Scheme Applications (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next request for applications under the community facilities fund will be made; if eligibility for the fund is limited to certain areas; the fund available in 2018 in his Department's estimates for the development of community facilities under the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19100/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Leader Programmes Funding (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 50. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the latest date by which all Leader funding will be approved for projects under the Leader Programme 2014 to 2020; the amount available for projects under the programme; the percentage and amount of the project funding allocated to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19099/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a payment under the 2017 GLAS scheme has not issued to a farmer (details supplied) in view of the fact that they have been informed that the GLAS claim is cleared for payment; if his attention has been drawn to the financial burden being placed on farmers as a result of the delay in issuing GLAS payments in a timely...

Famine Memorial Day Bill 2016: Second Stage (3 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Ní dhéanfaidh mé nós de seo. Bhí mé gafa le agallamh ar na meáin. I welcome this Bill and we will be supporting it on Second Stage. I was chair of the initial Famine commemoration committee that organised the event in Skibbereen referred to earlier. At that time, we considered the issue of a date but...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Clár Bonneagair agus Infheistíochta Caipitil (8 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 500. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sí pobal na Gaeilge i nGlas Naíon, Baile Átha Cliath a chosaint ó dhochar a d'fhéadfadh tógáil MetroLink a tharraingt orthu, ó tharla go bhfuil sé beartaithe suíomh mór tógála a thógáil in aice le Scoil Mobhí agus Scoil...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burning of Land: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the officials for attending today to address the issue and giving us an opportunity to ask a few questions. Reading what has been said, the first obvious question is as follows. The mountain was burned in April last year. By mid-summer it would have well grown back. In fact, within three or four weeks, it would have been getting quite green. In some cases, it will have grown back...