Results 181-200 of 6,423 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Just in time, JIT, díreach in am. The question is very simple. The Government and the Minister have the money but we are not getting delivery of big and small health projects as speedily as we need them. We can go into this in more detail in the supplementary questions. What has been done to speed up procedures so that we can get necessary health facilities in place? The old...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am reasonably happy that the four big projects are going ahead. I have a specific question on that. Is the limit of €100 million per individual project? Will the elective hospital be taken as one project, the ED as another and the cancer and the laboratories as another or is it a cumulative €200 million between the four projects put together even though they will not be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To give an example of what we face in practice on the country, there was a health centre planned and planning permission for Inisbofin in the 2000s. It never happened. They are trying to move site but it is going on forever. More than two years ago, the Minister might remember the need for the ambulance base in Connemara. We got the ambulance and we got the staff within four months. They...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: These are the kinds of issues. I could give the Minister a list. I note the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is absolutely dying for me to go on because she is as interested in this subject as I am.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (19 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The reply is very weak. The reality is they have been working on this for ten years. Prior to approving the Bun an Choill section, the original plan was to do the whole road. There were a lot of discussions, and ongoing discussions. I was over in the Department myself in the intervening years regarding method statements. It is not yesterday or today that this issue arose. The second...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (19 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: "As soon as possible" means it is on the méar fhada, agus ní fios cén uair a gheofar freagra. Táimid ag iarraidh cinnidh, nó dáta faoina mbeidh cinneadh againn.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (19 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Beidh sé deacair. Mar is eol don Leas-Cheann Comhairle, tá an obair seo ag teastáil go práinneach ar an mbóthar seo agus caithfidh mé cás láidir a dhéanamh. The N59, as a coastal national secondary route, was included in Transport 21. The idea was that those parts of the country that were far away from national primary routes would have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (18 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he and his Department have had with their counterparts in Northern Ireland on North-South justice issues since he became Minister; the progress made in this period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17285/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (18 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister give an update on discussions he has had with his counterparts in Northern Ireland on North-South justice issues and the progress made in this period? Are we coming to an understanding on some of the outstanding issues?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (18 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister knows, I have been concerned for some time about the delay in the administration of justice in Northern Ireland. People are waiting up to nine years for trial. They are our citizens. I think the Minister would agree that is not justice and that justice delayed is justice denied. As well as that, there are people spending inordinate time on remand and, when they are out on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (18 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Independent Reporting Commission, IRC, is an independent commission set up by the Irish and British governments. In its most recent report, it spoke about possible elements of a group transition process. How are the discussions going on progressing the recommendations in that report on ending violence completely in Northern Ireland? Will the Minister give an update on that? It is an...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: According to a recent report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Ireland is the fourth highest consumer of cocaine globally. This brings a risk of violence, as drug gangs compete for growing markets. According to the report, 2.4% of Irish people reported using cocaine in the past year. Only the Netherlands, Australia and Spain reported higher levels of cocaine use. In...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not get a copy of the Minister of State's speech but he said that the water services policy from 2018 to 2025 is based on the delivery and development of water services in line with the needs and expectations of citizens and users, in compliance with legal obligations, in a fair and cost-effective manner and in keeping with the principles of social, economic and environmental...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is possible. Check your facts.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since I became involved in politics and especially since I went to live in rural Ireland, having grown up in a city where water, street lights, pavements, sewerage and all these services were taken for granted, it always surprised me that fundamental, basic services are seen as too expensive and unaffordable for rural people. There are four services that should be in every house in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Nearly ten years ago planning permission was granted for the upgrade of the N59 between Maam Cross and Oughterard. An Bord Pleanála put a condition on the permission that the method statement would have to be approved by the Department with responsibility for heritage. In 2021, method statements were agreed for the first section of the road covering approximately 6 km and that was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is well recognised that there is a shortage of personnel. Personnel used to be allowed stay in the Defence Forces until they were 60 years of age and that changed in 1994. I do not suggest that all of the personnel be allowed to remain because I understand that depends on their role in the Defence Forces. If we take, for example, paramedics, they have to retire, depending on their rank,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister might give the House some more clarification on timelines. I accept that a process has to be gone through and that there are always knock-on effects and so on in the public service. On the other hand, it is an issue that needs to be tackled. Are we talking about an interim arrangement this year and in the long term within a full year, or what kind of timelines are we talking...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 9. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it is intended to review the ages at which members of the Defence Forces have to retire, particularly taking into account specialist skills that have been acquired by many of them during their careers and positions held as a consequence that can capably be carried out by such personnel up to the normal age of retirement in comparable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it intended to review the ages at which members of the Defence Forces have to retire, taking into account the specialist skills required by many during their careers? Given the types of positions these people might hold, the work could be capably done by people over 50 years of age.