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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My point is there is a closing date.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If Pobal gets an application on the closing date by the time it sends it on the closing date will be gone for the local authority.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the organisation be caught?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a pity it is not a one-stop-shop.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The modern world always seems to make the simple complicated.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, a rule is a rule is a rule. We are finding it more and more. There was a time when social welfare appeals were flexible.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know.

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 could have done so. She could have said that registered and unregistered bodies could go to Pobal and that Pobal would become the post box. All of the applications received by a certain date would be included and Pobal would send them right or left to the appropriate local authority or the Department.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has been resolved by doing what I said.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not understand going to the LCDC. Will the Minister explain this to the uninitiated? Rather than sending something to the Department which passes it on, it goes to the LCDC. I thought that was only a committee.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State said, "As is the case with the current LEADER programme, the subregional areas for the new LEADER programme will correspond ... [to] county boundaries." The Acting Chair can tell him that the LEADER programme in Cork corresponds to the county boundaries but in three parts, which are contiguous. I will address the matter of Galway in the context of the county boundary...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Before I commence my Topical Issue matter, my understanding is that, under Standing Orders, if a Minister cannot come into the House to deal with a matter, he or she should notify the Deputy concerned, who is meant to have the opportunity to get the matter deferred until the Minister is able to come to the House.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I checked all my emails when I came down here this evening from Belfast. I cannot find an email from the office of the Minister, or from anybody else, to say that the Minister wanted to defer the matter. I have been waiting weeks to have this matter taken. That decision is at the discretion of the Ceann Comhairle and I accept that. However, I find it totally unsatisfactory that when I...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions that he had with the present Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and his junior colleague since their appointments to their present positions; if he will report on the progress that has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57824/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions that he has had with the British Foreign Secretary since his recent appointment to his present position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57825/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 760. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made by his Department on a project for Galway University Hospital (details supplied) that was forwarded to his Department for approval in June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 761. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made by his Department on the proposal to build new elective hospitals at various locations including the Merlin Park site of Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58127/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The process involved in getting approval for major hospital developments is both contracted and convoluted and includes multiple stages, many times with significant delays at each stage. The reality is these delays make it very difficult to provide good quality services because of overcrowding and inadequate buildings. The second factor often overlooked is that, with building inflation...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposals that he has put to the Government in relation to the upgrade of the rail line from Foynes to Limerick; the decisions that have been taken in relation to this vital project; the amount that will be expended on this project; the details of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57151/22]