Results 1-20 of 1,025 for long speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...by the Deputy in respect of non-navigable stretches of canals that are within the control of Waterways Ireland and are being or could be restored: Grand Canal · Kilbeggan Branch (8.2 miles long) in Co. Offaly and Co. Westmeath. · Part of Naas & Corbally Branch (Corbally Extension) (4.4 miles long) in Co. Kildare. · Barrow Line Part of Mountmellick Branch (0.25 miles long) in Co. Kildare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Perhaps the Chairman will give me a minute and a half - there was a limit of €500,000 to ensure Leader programme money was spent on projects that would be there for the long distance future, because €1 million does very little these days? I understand that the figure is now reduced to €200,000 for non-commercial projects. One will not do anything with any decent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the various illnesses included on the long-term illness list; if chronic kidney disease will be included on the long-term list under any circumstances; the extra documentation that is necessary to support a case for inclusion of this illness under the current scheme; if there is an appeal process; the way a person (details supplied)...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is saying this is for long-term moorings. What constitutes long-term moorings?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Oct 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 382. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to update the model of care for long-Covid and to provide extra resources to implement it in view of the evolving information concerning long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (21 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1617. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to provide funding for the purchase or long lease, including fit-out, of long-term secure accommodation for an organisation (details supplied) in view of its importance to society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13415/23]

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...takes 12 weeks for jobseeker's allowance to be processed in Blanchardstown, for example. It takes just 1.72 for jobseeker's benefit to be processed there. We will have to deal with offices with long delay times. If it is a question of individuals with long delay times-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...? I understand the people who carry out the test do not need that background either. It appears the HSE has a total inability to recruit speedily. It is difficult to understand how it took so long to replace necessary HSE staff with people recruited for this purpose. Can the Minister explain how long it takes the HSE to make an appointment from the day it receives an application for a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the new rules for the granting of paid contributions to long-term carers; whether there is a minimum number of paid contributions from employment or self-employment required before a person can be granted long-term caring paid credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55980/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (14 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1080. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for patients referred to the pain clinic in Galway; the reason the issue of long waiting lists at the clinic has not been addressed; the steps he plans to take to address the long waiting lists for appointments and treatment in view of the suffering delayed pain treatment is causing persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I just say that I agree with the long game? However, what I think will happen is that a commission, expert body or whatever else will get a report. We are talking a minimum of two, three or four years down the road. I have been here long enough to know that. In the meantime, the house is burning down and the pressure is on the carers. We need a dual strategy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ministerial Responsibilities (1 Oct 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...to be with us not only for this year but probably well into next year and until we find a vaccine. This is having a significant effect on the arts, entertainment events, tourism and sport. What long-term plans are there to support these sectors? I can understand that during the early phases of the pandemic there was emergency planning, but we need a long-term plan for the tourism,...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (29 Sep 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Preventing long-term unemployment is important from both economic and social perspectives, especially because long-term unemployment tends to lead to erosion of skills and self-confidence, and damages future employment prospects. Effective prevention depends on being able to identify those at risk of becoming long-term unemployed at an early stage, and referring them to appropriate labour...

Report on Review of Commonage Land and Framework Management Plan: Motion (3 Oct 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are all willing to face up to the issue of undergrazing and land abandonment mentioned by the Minister, as long as farmers may, between them, put enough stock on the hills. The Minister must review this and I believe he can find the wriggle room to do this within the legislation. He must provide that as long as the hills are fully grazed by all of the farmers together, this should be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (28 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 291. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure that rent allowance is not ceased in respect of long-term recipients of the payment until such time as the landlord signs up to the housing assistance payment scheme and it is approved by the local authority; her further plans to ensure that long-term recipients of the rent allowance payment continue to receive their payment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Safe Deposits Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: However, the annual assessment would only arise after a very long time and after this Bill was well tried and tested. As we have said clearly from the beginning, starting back in 1783, when the Bank of Ireland opened, and 1813, when AIB was opened in some form, or one of their banks, many of these deposit boxes go back a long way. This would not be a quick process. By the time we would get...

Common Fisheries Policy Reform: Statements (20 Jul 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...one quarter of our entitlement from the Common Fisheries Policy. In my six minutes' contribution I have a simple suggestion to make to the Minister. It is of its time because no matter how long a problem goes on, if one persists long enough the day will come when one gets an opportunity. My suggestion to the Government is that the next time President Sarkozy mentions anything about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Applications (10 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...group might have? I refer to a scenario in which one group submitted a strategy whereas the other group held back. Can the latter group hold back indefinitely on submitting a strategy and for how long could it hold up the process before being informed it was out of time? This is a concern in those areas in which two strategies are being submitted, that is, the possibility of getting a...

Health Services. (16 Dec 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., Minister for Health and Children. As the Deputy is aware, Government policy on older people is to support people to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. Where this is not possible, we support access to quality long-term residential care. The Health Act 2004 provides that the Health Service Executive is responsible for the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have one question and I will then turn to Cork. How long, in real time, is it estimated to take between planning, design and up and down to the Department? I do not know why there so much going up and down. The county council should be given its money just as semi-State bodies are and spend it and if a mess is made of that, then it can account to the members and the auditor. Constantly...