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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can Mr. Duggan give me the projection for the State in the next 20 years in regard to the 33% that will be paid out under this scheme? Exactly what total is projected to be put by the State into the private sector to sit there for 30 years? What kind money is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Foreign investors will have use of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we think about what we are doing, this means that over a 20-year period, we would be putting €30 billion into investment funds, the vast majority of which will be invested abroad and not be available to the Exchequer. That is just so we know. It is €30 billion and we now have the figure. That is very useful and I thank Mr. Duggan for being up-front on the figures.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Fuíolluisce Poiblí sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ar an gcéad dul síos, tá ceist amháin shimplí agam. Roimhe seo, bhí freagracht as an nGaeltacht agus as forbairt tuaithe ag an Roinn chéanna. Bhí ciste infreastruchtúr ag an dá rannóg agus iad i Roinn amháin a bhí curtha in áit, mar shampla, an scéim ceantair laga ard-riachtanais, CLÁR, a bhí ann do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Mr. Duggan give us the correct maths? I was corrected at last week's meeting when I said it was €15. If I put in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. Mr. Duggan has got it wrong. It is the three-card trick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, well I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Chair, can I come in there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is typical of what the system does. When there is an injustice the system thinks that when it half-undoes the injustice that is inherently there, there will be-----

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (14 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends on issuing an instruction to the CIÉ group and Iarnród Éireann to preserve the railway alignment from Collooney to Athenry for use as a railway line, and that no sale or lease is to take place along the alignment that would impede this development, particularly in view of the impending publication of the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Rannach (14 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 220. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéid iarratas atá faighte ó theaghlaigh nua atá ag iarraidh scoláirí a choinneáil faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge do 2023, briste síos de réir contae; cén uair a dhéanfar scrúdú ar na tithe sin le gur féidir le na Coláistí...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be given by her Department for transport for Ukrainian students who are at present resident in Oughterard to a school (details supplied) given that the nearest school in Oughterard is already at full capacity; the reason for the delay with this approval; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6604/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the limitations on the availability of a drug (details supplied) under the drugs payment scheme; if it can be prescribed by a general practitioner; if it requires prescription by a consultant; if so, the reasons for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6635/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Foireann Seirbhíse Sláinte (14 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 598. To ask the Minister for Health cén uair a íocfar an “Íocaíocht Aitheantais Paindéime Covid” le curamóirí baile atá ag obair le heagraíocht (sonraí tugtha); údar na moille leis sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [6606/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the total area of lands that consist of a mixture of scrub land, limestone pavement and grazing land on the Aran Islands and are habitats for rare species of plants and depend on the total habitat for survival and to thrive will be eligible for inclusion in the eligible area for both the replacement scheme for the basic payment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the eligibility criteria for illness benefit to cover workers under 25 years of age who do not have 104 weeks of PRSI contributions and who do not have contributions in the relevant tax year, to ensure access to a short-term illness payment when ill just after commencing employment for the first...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the period of time that participants can remain on the Tús scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6102/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have reservations about all this, especially at the lower income end. None of us can really quantify, but things we cannot quantify still exist. Futures that cannot be quantified still exist. Much of what is quantified is wrongly quantified. We had a classic case of this. The Minister for Social Protection appeared before the committee last week. She admitted that the 2017 PRSI...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That was not the question I asked. Is there a breakdown of how much of Irish pension funds are currently invested here and abroad? My understanding is that in the last ten years as we start going towards retirement, the investment strategy gets more conservative. It was also my understanding, and this might have changed in the last ten years that in Ireland they tend to go for German state...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can that be broken down between equities and more secure investments such as government bonds?