Results 3,041-3,060 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 208. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she intends providing Exchequer or licence funding to commercial radio stations that provide a designated amount of national and local news, current affairs coverage and live sport to help them fulfil their vital public service broadcasting role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60954/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Registration of Births (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 256. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an application for a foreign birth registration will be processed (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60217/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 545. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in prison, who have been referred for treatment to the Central Mental Hospital, Portrane; the longest length of time that a person has been on the list waiting for a transfer; the reason for the delay in these transfers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is intended to reintroduce a 16-mile exclusion zone for larger boats around the coast, particularly in view of the damage sprat fishing by larger boats is causing in Galway Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60952/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the words of Greta Thunberg, this is just, "Blah, blah, blah". I represent Galway West and in Galway city alone, there is a need, so that people can go to bed and sleep in a comfortable caravan. There is a need for 24 caravans now. What are we getting? We are getting process after process. We are spending billions of euro in this State accommodating people, and rightly so, but when it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State should be under no misunderstanding. The Department allocated the four caravans to Galway, not the local authority.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was the Department that allocated the four caravans. The problem is the Department; that is why we are here today. The local authority and the Ombudsman will sort it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad the Minister of State is in the House to listen to this. What he has to try to get into his mind is what it would be like if tonight the people who are here had to sleep in a 20-year-old caravan or mobile home that is damp, in this kind of cold weather, and had to do this on a council halting site in this day and age. Quite rightly, we give out about the conditions for people...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes that are being proposed to the income limits for eligibility for approval on local authority housing lists; the dates when these income limits were last set; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59622/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made to date in reforming the method of providing Exchequer funding from his Department of local authorities for the years from 2024, taking into account the abolishment of the equalisation fund and revaluation under the local property tax; the criteria that will be used to determine the allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is his intention to seek a specific budget line in next year's estimates process for third level and further education through the medium of Irish in view of the legal obligations on the State arising from the enactment of the Official Languages (Amendment Act) 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59618/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na céimeanna atá sé chun glacadh lena chinntiú go mbeidh soláthar dóthanach de chúrsaí rite trí mheán na Gaeilge i ngach cuid den chóras ardoideachais agus breisoideachais; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [59619/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the caravan loan scheme for Traveller families was extended nationwide; if this is based on the objective need to provide replacement caravans and new caravans for Travellers who either live in mobile homes or caravans already or due to family formation need a caravan loan now; if not, if there was a cap put on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cases raised by the Ombudsman with his Department in relation to Travellers living in very poor mobile homes or caravans in the past five years; the response by his Department to these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60032/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Galway City Council was instructed by his Department that it could only grant three caravan loans in 2022 despite a long-standing objective assessment that there is an immediate need for more than 20 such loans; if he intends rescinding this restriction to meet all proven demand; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total underspend or overspend against the estimate provided for school meals in 2021 and to date in 2022; the reason for the variation in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60034/22]

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2022
Vóta 33 - Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus na Meán (1 Dec 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Níl mé chun fad a chur leis seo. D’oibrigh mé amach ansin go gcaitheann an Stát thart ar €9 milliún chuile uair an chloig. Níl i gceist anseo ach €1.568 milliún, idir chuile shórt. An sin é? Is cuma. Ní dhéanfaidh sé aon difríocht. Tá mé cinnte nach n-aireoidh an tAire Caiteachais...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends reforming incrementally the means testing that applies to many social welfare schemes to make it more equitable and to provide a greater incentive to save and work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59131/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the difference between the health qualifications to qualify for the invalidity pension and the disability allowance both which provide assistance to persons who can no longer work due to disability or illness; if she intends to align these to make them the same in this respect; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) that was lodged in respect of a domiciliary care allowance will be accepted given the circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59324/22]