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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made to date with the review of the terms and conditions of employment of PhD worker students; when it is expected that contact will be made with the various PhD stakeholders such as two groups (details supplied) to seek their views; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62938/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider fully funding further education courses for persons on disability allowance and invalidity pension to enable them to upskill and re-enter the workplace with new skills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62940/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering dispensing with the requirement that all non-EEA researchers who undertake research activities on a four-year contract have to renew their Irish residency permit or visa each year at a cost of €300, and replacing that with a requirement that the third level institution would confirm each year that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-body searches carried out in Irish prisons in each of the past five years; the circumstances that arise that cause these searches to be carried out; if such searches are carried out on both female and male prisoners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62965/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that these services can be accessed within communities following a diagnosis; the discussions that his Department is having with the HSE to improve these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62950/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the long-term illness scheme covers medication associated with intellectual disability and does not cover medication and other medical appliance costs associated with autism; if he intends extending the scheme to cover the same expenses for persons with autism as it covers for intellectual disability; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Temperatures have fallen considerably below zero in the past week. Can the Minister visualise the situation of people forced to sleep in old caravans and mobile homes? I raised this issue last week but every night that goes by it strikes me how bad the situation is. The national Traveller-specific caravan loan scheme was extended but only to 75 caravans. In my constituency, we need 26...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is much in this proposal to be looked at. We were given to understand at the previous meeting that there was a different approach taken in some of the European countries, specifically the Nordic countries, to the idea of ensuring a pay-related pension for when one retires, and that it was much more state-based than the private sector model we are proposing. What examination has taken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That replaces the State forgoing income tax at the top end. At the moment, if I put in €100, I effectively get €40 off if I am on the 40% rate of tax, €20 off if I am on the 20% rate, and nothing off if I am not paying income tax, and the 30% is going to replace this. It could be argued that, for an awful lot of people, it is actually a reduction in the State input into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The investment in bonds. For the past ten years or whatever the period was, Irish pension funds have tended to invest in German bonds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. The Irish pension funds said there was a risk. I could not get my head around that. I still cannot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Forget about the private part of it. A big wad of State money was invested in German bonds instead of Irish bonds, even though the latter were giving better yields, just because a private industry created an illusion that there was some risk to Irish bonds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sorry, could I just clarify something because this relates to the point I made? The Government consists of the 15 Ministers. To my understanding, the Government decided that if you are in auto-enrolment, you are subject to the top-up approach, the straight-cash approach, but that if you continue in a private occupational pension scheme, the Government still gives you 40% off. Under one,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are becoming more exclusive. I only asked in the point of comparison sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They will certainly need it if they do not own their own houses. I would rather own my own house.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That goes back-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know. This goes back to our consideration because we have to use a wider lens than the Department. The Department is working on this. It is told it has to look after pensions but we have to look after everybody's life.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (13 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will consider the amendments made to the Wildlife Amendment Bill 2016 in Seanad Éireann; when he will complete his consideration of the Bill; when he will propose to Government that permission be sought to have this Bill restored to the order paper for Dáil Éireann’s final consideration; the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be provided to an eligible student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61799/22]