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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise that I was in the Dáil Chamber for part of the meeting. Tá fáilte roimh muintir na n-oileáin. I reiterate what I said earlier. They are sitting on an island with very limited resources. They have land and tourism and the sea. I accept what Deputy Ryan has said about controlled fishing. It has to be controlled. The boat might be small but it could still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise for being late. I had to attend another meeting downtown. I thank the delegates for the presentation, but I have a cynic's view. I have been hearing about the simplification of European Union rules for 20 years and will hear it for the next 20, but it never happens. I will not say anything further. The delegates are probably familiar with the saying, "whistling past...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Unfortunately, since 2010, when inflation is taken into account, we have seen a massive decrease in European funding under the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, and all the indications are that this will continue. As well as that, it is my understanding that, as of now, farmers in eastern European countries do not receive the same payments as those in western Europe. There has progressively...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could Ms Brown be more specific?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 134. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date to replace Clifden Hospital and St. Anne’s Nursing Home, both owned by the HSE, with a purpose-built facility; when the new facility will be built and opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25847/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (13 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 135. To ask the Minister for Health when a new primary care centre will be provided in Clifden, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25848/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the discussions he has had with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to ensure there is no reduction in the overall funding for the Leader programme post 2020 in view of the recent announcement by the European agriculture Commissioner that the rural development funding...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hope, when it comes to the reply, that the Minister skips the usual bumf that is put in the beginning and cuts to the meat speedily. I have a quick question. The Minister knows that the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, has been announced and that Pillar 2, under which the money for rural development outside the farm gate comes from, is proposed to be cut radically. Has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----but if it took the kind of hit that is proposed here, it would be hardly worth having.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his reply but the situation is simpler than he has outlined. While obviously the Government will try to get as much money as it can from Brussels, if it decreases, the Minister can increase the national contribution. He could say today, if he had the assurances of his two colleague Ministers, that no matter what happens, we will revert to the €400 million...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I cannot understand the mentality of putting extra money into Brussels to get a percentage of it back when it would be much simpler for the Government to put it straight into the Leader programme and not lose a lot of money in transmission while having a whole lot of rules added to it in its transmission back here. I seek a commitment that Leader will revert to the €400 million plus...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 3. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount available for the community services programme in 2018; if he has provided extra funding to the participating companies to cover the increases in recent years in the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25933/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The community services programme is important. The way it always worked was that the minimum wage was paid to each company, along with the employers' PRSI, for all participants, plus a grant for the manager. In certain cases, there was supplementary funding. That continued to be the way until 2014. Since then, however, the system has changed and companies must now come up with funding...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister confirmed in a previous written reply that up until 2015 the minimum wage was covered 100%. A company with five full-time equivalent staff now has to find €10,000 simply to pay wages, not to mention meeting all the other overhead costs faced. As the Minister is aware, some of these companies provide meals-on-wheels services or run community centres where there is no...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Funnily enough, even during the downturn every Minister responsible could find the money. We paid more than the minimum wage because we retained the wages of the people employed under the programme at the level they had been. That was fine until the current Taoiseach became Minister for Social Protection. Then, hey presto, in 2015 - suddenly and for the first time since the scheme started...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: However, it was a mean cut in the Department of Social Protection. The then Minister cut €3 million from the programme out of €20 billion. In fact, when he cut it initially, it was €1.5 million. Will the Minister go back to the Taoiseach, ask for his money back and undo the mean cut that the Taoiseach introduced in 2015?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Development Policy (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 19. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the programmes and schemes planned to develop rural areas outside of towns and villages; the amount of expenditure he expects in these rural areas in 2018 in view of the fact that a large part of the rural population live in the rural countryside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25026/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 26. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is satisfied with the rate of capital expenditure in 2018 under the various schemes administered by his Department; if not, the steps he plans to take to address the shortfall in capital expenditure to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25025/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: RAPID Programme (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 33. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expenditure under the RAPID programme since its re-inception; the amount of this that was expended in the areas designated RAPID under the previous programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25027/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 42. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the details of the rural development fund will be announced; when schemes will open for applications under the programme; the financial provision in the three year expenditure envelopes for the programme for 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25023/18]