Results 2,401-2,420 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (4 May 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the temporary business energy support scheme is based on the difference in electricity costs one year ago and not two years ago as the main increase in price occurred between early 2021 and early 2022 when they levelled off at their continuously high price; whether he intends to amend the scheme to deal with the ongoing high price of electricity...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Forbairt Calaí agus Céanna (4 May 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 291. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development an bhfuil iarratas faighte ag a Roinn le scrúdú a dhéanamh ar oibreacha mara ag Céibh an Chóra, in Inis Meáin, má tá cé na hoibreacha atá i gceist agus an costas measta atá orthu; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [20988/23]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (3 May 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Go minic, tá sé deacair cumhachtaí a bhaint den státchóras. Cuirfidh an dream a bhfuil na feidhmeanna acu i láthair na huaire ina aghaidh go dóite. Ar an mbunús sin, bíonn ort tosaíochtaí a shocrú agus a rá cén chuid is tábhachtaí. An chéad cheist atá agam ná dá mbeadh ar na finnéithe...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (3 May 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An mbaineann sé sin leis an bpleanáil?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (27 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns that there are Irish citizens in Northern Ireland on remand for over three years who were refused bail and are awaiting trial; if so, the response he received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19770/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (27 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns with the Northern Ireland and British authorities that there are Irish citizens there awaiting over eight years for a trial; if so, the response he received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19771/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (27 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made to date in upgrading the Irish electricity transmission system to carry the proposed wind energy output, onshore and offshore, due to come on stream by 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19772/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends introducing legislation equalising the standing charge for domestic electricity between urban and rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19773/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (27 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 9 November 2022, if the final flood maps and reports were published by the Office of Public Works for the Carnmore and Claregalway area, County Galway; if not, when they will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20096/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023 will be fully commenced; if applications from Irish prisoners serving sentences in the UK will continue to be processed under the current transfer scheme, or if they will have to lodge a new application under the new transfer system; the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I see a change in the approach of the Department. The Oireachtas will have to bring in legislative change to deal with that change in approach as regards invalidity, especially illness payments, where a question of judgment is involved. We have a problem with the invalidity pension. We are talking about appeals today, which I will come to in a minute, but we have a problem with invalidity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We need to change the law.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sorry, there has been a change. I think all of us would testify to that fact and we are on the front edge of that. If Mr. McKeon went around Dáil Éireann and asked the people who deal with social welfare queries if they have seen a change in the way that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I said, I am not arguing they are not right, but there has been a change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Too late now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to reinforce what has been said by the Chair regarding the role of public representatives. It is very interesting to stand back and look at life in the round. If I go down the main street of any town, I will find solicitors, tax consultants and accountants. Very few people who have big tax issues make the appeals themselves or deal with their own taxes. It is normally signed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mr. McKeon mentioned a straw man. If that approach is taken, when might legislative change take place, with the whole rigmarole involved in the changes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Might it take three years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What happens in the meantime back at the ranch? Perfection has become the absolute enemy of the good. In the meantime, back at the ranch, it would be possible for the Oireachtas to change the wording of the invalidity pension criteria to make it the same as the disability allowance criteria as a holding operation until the Department gets all its work done on the legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is what they always tell us.