Results 3,121-3,140 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: I will make sure it is brought to him tomorrow. They are bringing it to us.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: There were not, except the means test. That was the only difference.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: If I understand correctly, there is €97 million in the rural regeneration fund. Before today, the Department has transferred €20.5 million of that, leaving €77 million in the Vote. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is transferring another €4 million.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: That leaves €73 million, give or take. Does that include the carryover?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not go into the Estimate.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: The carryover is all spent. That is fine. How much of that €73 million has been spent, as we sit here on 23 November?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: Does that include the money being shifted out?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: Some €30 million is left.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: That means that only €43 million of the Vote has been spent. On this day next month, the Minister will have closed the books. I think that happens on the Friday before Christmas.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: Carrying money over is better than giving it back but not much better. The ideal thing is to get the money on the ground fully, every year. Every year, we are told that money will not be carried over. I am disappointed that, once again, we are depending on a carryover mechanism. Maybe if things had been moved on earlier, the Minister could have spent more of the capital. If she had moved...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a little money, some €1.6 million, for the north east inner city, NEIC, but we identified 50 urban communities with high levels of disadvantage, antisocial behaviour and people from these areas being imprisoned and so on. I applaud the work the Minister is doing in NEIC but these issues are replicated in towns and cities all over the country. This is a phenomenon that...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a bit of bluff there because-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: There is.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister will wind up in this dilemma and it used to drive me crazy. I accept it is a perennial problem and not so easy to resolve but I will highlight the issue. A bill will come to the Minister on 10 December and she will have money left over. Bills are held back. In theory there should be an entire process before there is clearance for payment, including getting out inspectors and...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: Switch off the street lights in Dublin and they will find out.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: For the energy scheme.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: If I read this right with regard to the energy scheme coming up to Christmas, it states in order to be eligible for the scheme a community organisation must have a service supply and a meter point reference number, MPRN, and so on.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: If an organisation makes an application to the Department that should rightly have gone to the local authority and it is sent on the last possible day, as many Irish people tend to do with schemes, will the Department automatically send it on and say it was on time or will that organisation get caught because it did not realise the fine line details? People often get confused with these and...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Éamon Ó Cuív: Automatically?