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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of those changes related to people who are severely disabled from birth. If the parents die and leave their estate to their children, the family home might be sold. If they leave, say, €200,000 to each of the children, in the case of the person in receipt of the disability allowance, what will happen once he or she receives that is he or she will lose the entire disability...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In regard to the incentive to work, if a self-employed person is on the jobseeker's allowance, 100% of his or her income from self-employment will be deducted from the jobseeker's allowance. Another situation I find totally anomalous is that if somebody is receiving a non-contributory pension, he or she can earn €200 a week and receive the full pension, but if he or she gets that from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a new decommissioning scheme for fishing vessels will be announced; the conditions that will apply to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38514/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new acres agri-environmental scheme will be announced; the special conditions that will apply on designated land in terms of co-operation between farmers; if this scheme will apply to commonage land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasoning behind the method of assessing capital under the various means tested schemes; if she intends on reforming this to ensure a more equitable system of assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Events (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 23 June 2022, if he will follow up with the National Transport Authority; the reason that a detailed response was not issued which he referred to it for a response within ten days; if he will ensure in the future that such replies issue within the ten-day timeframe mentioned in the reply;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 283. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will change the 70% borrowing rule in relation to the minimum eligible amount of borrowing for the help-to-buy scheme to exclude the value of the site in assessing the gross value of the house for the purpose of the scheme and instead base it on a minimum of 70% of the actual construction cost of the house being borrowed in the case of single houses...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Minister of State at his Department or the Office of Public Works have yet convened a meeting with the Department of Transport and Mayo County Council in relation to funding the South Mayo flood relief scheme that is urgently needed; if not, when this meeting will be convened; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons whose houses were repossessed and sold are eligible to apply for local authority loans to purchase a new house; if not, if he intends to change the rules to afford these persons a second chance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39024/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is hoped that the review by his Department of the amendments made in Seanad Éireann to the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016 will be completed in order that he can bring a memorandum to Government seeking approval to have the Bill restored to the Order Paper of Dáil Éireann; the reason for the delay with...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: School Transport (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that have been made to compensate school bus service providers for the unprecedented increase in the price of fuel for buses; the discussions that have taken place with representative organisations of these service providers in relation to this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is intended to provide funding for special ongoing day programmes for children going to special primary schools that would cover a structured programme of school-based activities during the school holidays each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Special Educational Needs (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will change the criteria that reasonable accommodations of certificate examinations apply for the appointment of readers for leaving Certificate examination students to allow readers to include language modifiers for Leaving certificate candidates whose disability has a very substantial and long-term effect resulting in very persistent...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has examined and costed the proposals in relation to means testing made by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development and the Islands in 2021; if the changes proposed will be included in the consideration by her Department for budget 2023; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has examined the effect of means testing as a barrier to persons either engaging in self-employment or employment or increasing their income from both; if so, the results of this examination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is proposed to limit the right of an appellant to the independent social welfare appeals office to seek and obtain an oral hearing; if appeals officers have to seek permission from senior management before granting an oral hearing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39037/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the chief appeals officer of the social welfare appeals office has also been given responsibility for the decisions advisory body of the Department itself; the reason for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39038/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends on removing the cap on total credited contributions for home caring periods and the age cap on foster children for eligibility for caring contributions by foster parents given the major and necessary contribution they make to society and to vulnerable persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the income and fee supports that are available to persons who are undertaking university doctorates; the plans to improve these supports given the need to encourage more persons to pursue higher-level fourth level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 652. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is intended to publish all prison chaplain reports that were not published to date and were submitted to the governor of each prison and to the Director General of the Irish Prison Service under prison rules (details supplied);; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39023/22]