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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Recreation Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It tells us about the future. It keeps talking about the pilot scheme as if it existed. The Minister of State said there was talk about expanding it and all of these plans and so on, as if the pilot scheme existed. It says that insurance was put in place in 2021, as if the farmers knew about. Binn Shleibhe is the mountain at the back of my house and I happen to know the farmers who live...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On Tuesday, 13 June, a dental nurse was arrested at her place of work in Derry and questioned by the PSNI. She had no criminal record whatsoever. At 10.30 that morning, the PSNI arrived outside the dental service with two Land Rovers and two police cars and brought her to the Strand Road police station. She answered in full every question that was put to her. No evidence was referred to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a passport in respect of siblings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29015/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions he has had with his European Union counterparts in relation to the prosed EU law on nature restoration; the result of these discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28678/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a detailed land use survey has been carried out to calculate the effect of the proposed EU law on nature restoration up to 2050 on agriculture in Ireland and the amount of land currently in use for productive agriculture that would have to be rewilded or rewetted, including the geographic areas that would be most...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of thatching grants paid by his Department in each of the past five years; the total cost of the scheme each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28984/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant assistance available for rethatching vernacular houses; the conditions attached to receipt of the grant; the changes he proposes making to both the level of grant and the conditions in order to make it more affordable for people to protect this vital and irreplaceable part of our heritage; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the qualification criteria for a person on a jobseeker's payment to go on an educational course and retain their payment; if it is intended to review these criteria to encourage more people on social welfare payments to go on educational courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28996/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 293. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who worked as a front-line worker in the health sector through the Covid pandemic, will receive their Covid Bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28994/23]

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a pity this debate is so short because in three minutes we cannot deal with even a 50th of the issues we need to deal with.

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The first thing we must recognise is there are growing rural areas near the towns, but there are still rapidly-declining rural areas away from the towns. Rural policy in recent years seems to be focused more on large towns than it is on the more remote, more challenging rural areas. All one need do is talk to people in the GAA clubs and local schools to understand there is a danger, in some...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Tá an plé seo thar a bheith spéisiúil. Ag éisteacht go cúramach, breathnaíonn sé go bhfuil an dá pholasaí mhór ag teacht salach ar a chéile. Deireann an straitéis 20 bliain don Ghaeilge: Cuirfear oideachas lán-Ghaeilge ar ardchaighdeán ar fáil do dhaltaí scoile arb...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bogadh a bheith bunaithe ar déimeagrafaíocht agus a bheith bunaithe ar an straitéis.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá ceistín beag eile agam. Mar is eol don Aire, tá ceantair áirithe cathracha ann. Sílim go bhfuil Cluain Dolcáin ar cheann acu, tá ceantar Naithí i mBaile Átha Cliath agus tá ceantair eile. Tá siad ainmnithe ag an Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus-----

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----Meán ach tabhairfimid Roinn na Gaeltachta air. Tá siad ainmnithe ag Roinn na Gaeltachta mar cheantair speisialta leis an teanga a fhorbairt iontu. An mbeidh an Roinn Oideachais ag plé leo sin? Ceann de na rudaí a bhí lárnach don choincheap sin, nuair a tosaíodh é, ná go mbeadh naíolann, naíonra, bunscoil, meánscoil,...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mar a dúirt mé, aontaím leis an Aire go hiomlán. Tá súil agam go dtiocfaidh an lá go mbeidh naíonra agus naíolann ceangailte le chuile scoil. Is é an rud ciallmhar é do thuismitheoirí agus déanann sé ciall. Feicim go leor scoileanna tuaithe atá á dhéanamh cheana féin, agus iad siúd atá...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sin an fhadhb atá ag Rialtais de chuile shórt atá ceangailte lena chéile. Níl aon rud ceangailte, mar is eol don Aire.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sa chás sin, scata bíonn nós ann cúiseanna a fhógairt a chiallaíonn nach féidir dul ar aghaidh mar go mb'fhéidir go dtarlóidh rud éicint. Tarlaíonn sé agus gheofar réiteach air. Feicim leis na scoileanna áitiúla thart orm, má tá spás ann beidh leo, ach tagann fás agus forás ar an scoil agus...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is ábhar lae eile é agus is é an pointe atá agam ná go mbeadh sé dearfach dá ligfeadh an tAire do scoileanna naíonraí a chur isteach i seomraí atá le cois agus atá réasúnta scaoilte seachas foirgnimh a thógáil as an nua ar fhaitíos go mbeadh an seomra ag teastáil ag an scoil arís amach anseo.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (14 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made in respect of an application by a person (details supplied) for foreign birth registration; the reason for the delay in making a decision on said application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28694/23]