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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Chairman has done that today. The point I will put to the Minister, however, is that I had a top-up scheme when I held her position. I am not saying it was the best; there was a danger. In fairness, the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, as it was called at the time, kept its grants and I just topped them up. What I basically did was bring the cost of water to...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I really would welcome if that conversation could be started. At the end of the day, I would like to hear an announcement by Government; let the Minister announce it and Government pay for it. That would be a good idea. However, I would like to hear an announcement by Government to say it will do an equivalent of the national broadband scheme because now that has proven its worth....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Where are we going with the refurbishment grants for community centres? What about the large grants for building new community centres?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To stop the Department getting a list of wishes ten miles long, I presume that applicants will need to be able to show form in terms of having land, planning permission etc. Otherwise, plenty of projects will be sanctioned but nothing will be happening.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will there be guidelines as to the maximum amount?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry. I did not realise that the islands would be covered in our discussion on rural development.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the Minister any idea about when we will see the major capital developments that are needed on the islands progressing? The pier at Inis Oírr is highly dangerous and the pier at Inis Meáin is highly deficient. It seems to be taking forever for construction to start. We are all afraid that, in the case of Inis Oírr, someone will get killed on the pier.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is another issue, and Roonagh pier is a classic example of it. If you ask the Department about pier development, it says that pier development is a matter for the local authority. Maybe it is and maybe it is not, and I accept in principle that these are local authority piers, but I presume the Department's islands plan has, after four years, analysed what it believes are the piers it...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Great. Has anyone put a price on it?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the next step? Some islanders have been worried that the price of what has been simulated might be so great that the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform might balk at it if it reaches €100 million. However, we are where we are. Will someone provide a guesstimate of what the project will cost? The Department of Public...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: "The Banshees of Inisherin".

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cork is a big county and it is always recognised as being such, in the State. It has three local action groups, LAGs, in it. The advantage of that is they get €3 million start-off money and then money based on the rest of the criteria. Cork is kind of continuous from east Cork to west Cork. There is no very clear dividing line. The second-biggest county is Galway. It has half the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I also separated Connemara from the rest of Galway on the basis of the sheer size of the county and it would be very easy to rectify that. There are two organisations delivering it, namely, FORUM Connemara and Galway Rural Development in the east. Why not give each of them €3 million?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister's predecessor had a funny way of doing his business. Against the wishes of most of the people in Galway, certain people in Galway Country Council were persuaded to opt for one sub-regional area. I understand that the council and the Department were the authors of that. There was war and absolute uproar in the county when it happened because everyone was happy with the previous...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a drop and they are reaching pension age but the main cause in 2012 was the downturn. When a lot of people became unemployed, they went on farm assist rather than jobseeker's allowance. Thankfully, many of those are back working. That is the main driver. If you went back to 2008, you would find a much lower figure than for 2012.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: For those kinds of bereavement cases-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did, and rightly so.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the total expenditure this year be €23.901 billion?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners who died while in prison in the State in 2022, by month and prison, in tabular form. [4680/23]