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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that, and I know what is said on the street on one side, but there is another side to the story. Let us say that we are coming in here and we are going to introduce all these targets. What do they call them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Performance indicators. Let us say that 10% are being caught by the €95.23. First of all, it would not be a big cost to the Department to increase the payment dramatically, back to where it was. Second, if we were to introduce a performance indicator that aimed to take 10% of one-parent families out of poverty, it would be a hell of an achievement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That could be done for very little money. It is the idea that we will help people up to a point and then they are jumping out of poverty. As I keep emphasising, in this case in particular we are talking about two generations. My view is that every cohort of people we can get out of the catch-22 that is involved in these schemes, the better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What I would like to know is what I asked, namely, what the €95.23 would be in today's money. It would also be interesting to find out how much it would cost to increase it. Mr. Hession seems to be saying that it would cost very little money to increase it, in real terms, to what it was when it was set.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Why reduce people to poverty and affect the next generation? That is what we are doing. With break-ups in particular, this applies to people who were comfortably off and the next thing their world falls apart. We all come across such cases. The most common case of maintenance is where there has been marriage breakdown and so on. That tends to be dramatic and traumatic for the children....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in the processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40157/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in the processing of said application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40158/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance the last time the threshold under which a person in receipt of a grant or grants from the State in a calendar year, was not required to produce a tax clearance certificate was raised; the present level of the threshold; whether he intends increasing this threshold in line with inflation since to cut down unnecessary paperwork for recipients of modest...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Rannach (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 394. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad teaghlach atá fós ag fanacht ar íocaíochtaí faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge do chúrsa a ritheadh i rith an tsamhraidh: an méid airgid atá i gceist san iomlán, an spriocdháta faoina n-íocfar le gach duine íoctha; agus an ndéanfaidh...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Rannach (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 395. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a thabharfar íocaíocht do theaghlaigh a choinnigh scoláirí ar chúrsa Gaeilge faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge i rith an tsamhraidh (sonraí tugtha); agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [40433/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Rannach (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 396. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a thabharfar íocaíocht do theaghlaigh a choinnigh scoláirí ar chúrsaí Gaeilge faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge i rith an tsamhraidh (sonraí tugtha); agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [40434/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date with the review of the mortgage to rent scheme; whether the conclusions of the review will be published; the date it is expected to be completed by; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39837/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was told previously that the North-South rail strategy was to be published this month in draft form and out for environmental assessment and public comment. A number of us sought a meeting with the Minister for Transport regarding the western rail corridor some time ago because, as the Tánaiste knows, there are significant deficits in infrastructure in the west of Ireland. We never...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would the Minister accept that in the same regions there is really low participation in this scheme but really high participation in, for example, the sheep welfare scheme? It is the same farmers but different schemes, one of which has more reasonable conditions for smaller operators. As I said, part of the Bord Bia scheme is that it is the last 90 days that counts. The Minister is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: But it is not succeeding.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the actual effect of the scheme is that a huge number of small farmers do not participate in it and therefore are not quality assured, then is it defeating itself with a surfeit of bureaucracy? Obviously, every scheme must have terms and conditions, but it is my understanding the Bord Bia bureaucracy is the one causing the problem and not the bureaucracy of the scheme itself that aims to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If a huge number of farmers are not participating because they are put off by the conditions of the scheme and the bureaucracy involved, and especially those farmers with small herds on poorer land who sell the cattle younger and who are not participating because of the Bord Bia condition, are we not losing and throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Could they not have a modified scheme...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers with fewer than ten suckler cows in the suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP, scheme; the percentage of such farmers estimated to be in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34528/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This question relates also to Question No. 10. I want to ask the Minister about the number of farmers with fewer than ten suckler cows in the suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP, scheme. What is the number of farmers in total with fewer than ten suckler cows, and the percentage of those that are in the suckler carbon efficiency programme scheme? When we consider this figure, we will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A total of 56% of farmers, which is more than half, have fewer than seven suckler cows. This is 44,292 farmers. As the Minister has said, 3,513 farmers applied for the scheme. This is 8%. The scheme is failing totally to improve the herds of the smaller farmers. Less than 10% of that cohort of farmers have applied. They are not doing anything because a deluxe requirement is required...