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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 363. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when passports will issue to a family (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing these passports given that the applications were lodged on 17 March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31686/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 361. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when passports will issue to siblings (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing these passports given that the applications were lodged on the 21 February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31684/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (16 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 410. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if hubs that are accommodating persons who have fled Ukraine will continue to be paid if these persons return to the borders of Ukraine for less than a two-week period to collect belongings and who continue to get paid by the Department of Social Protection, conditional on their room or rooms being retained for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 542. To ask the Minister for Health when a full complement of staff will be recruited for a children’s disability team including physiotherapists and speech therapists; the reason that they were not recruited to date; the reason that the services are deficient as a result as in the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31713/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 543. To ask the Minister for Health when comprehensive supports, including speech therapy and physiotherapy will be provided by the children’s disability network team for a child (details supplied) in view of the fact that it is proven that high quality early intervention has a profound positive effect on outcomes for children with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I welcome some of the recent changes. They are definitely incremental steps in the right direction. However, I will say, as would all my colleagues, that it is still probably too little. The witnesses might be able to tell me how many people are long-term unemployed. In other words, how many people have been on jobseeker's allowance for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Officials or the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is very rational and knows it is the gross budget for social welfare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ms Hurley has not explained the present rationale of the CE-Tús configuration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry to interrupt. I beg Ms Hurley's pardon. She can check the record. The reason it was introduced was the exact opposite. It was as I outlined. It was meant to be a follow-on permanent scheme to go onto. It was the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that changed and destroyed it. Therefore, I wonder what the present rationale is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I may be tied to a location, for example, although I am not physically feeding or toileting people all the time. People may have to be there because the person being cared for has a dicky heart or is at risk from a brain haemorrhage. The person may have advanced Alzheimer's disease and be at risk of going out the door. I could, for example, be sitting down to watch a television programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could the operational rules be made available to the committee? I do not wish to keep interrupting but it is useful to get that information. There is nobody here who would not love to see that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was asking the following. Nearly one from two on the farm assist programme has a dependant, whether adult or child. Most of the people have a dependent adult and many of them would have children. If I look at the people recruited since 2017, will I find that one in two will have dependants or will I find the vast majority are now singles going in? For a participant with a partner or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be very helpful.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (14 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the improvements that have been made to the frequency of rail services on non-radial routes out of Dublin in the two years since he took up office as Minister of Transport; the destinations that are served by these lines; the frequency of service on each of the lines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30328/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (14 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is intended as part of the strategic rail review to carry out an examination of the relationship between frequency of service and passenger numbers on regional rail services internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30329/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (14 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the National Transport Authority did not revert to this Deputy in relation to the reply to a Parliamentary Question (details supplied) which his Department referred on to the Authority; the action that he intends to take to ensure that the organisation issues a reply to same; the number of questions that were referred...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Ranna (14 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 455. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad airgid a cuireadh ar fáil do Chlár na Leabhar Gaeilge gach bliain ó 2008 ar aghaidh; an bhfuil i gceist aici méadú suntasach a dhéanamh ar an liúntas seo an bhliain seo chugainn chun cuidiú le forbairt na hearnála seo [30359/22]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the illness benefit application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; the reason for the delay in making a decision in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29125/22]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1083. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the invalidity pension backdating request of a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in making a decision in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29127/22]