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National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the scheme. It is a huge step forward. It is a no-brainer. We all recognise that capital expenditure of the past looks cheap, but in the future and the present it looks dear. If we delay this, it only gets dearer. I hope we have learned our lesson. I spoke last night about a pier that had planning permission in 2008 and was costed at €7 million. The budget estimate now...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The last part of that question was going to be the first part of my question. When will this particular process be over? It has been going on for a long time. Will the Department provide a list of all the steps that will need to be taken before we can proceed to into construction? In the context of Inis Oírr, for example, the problem that arose was that planning permission had...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 24. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the method by which it is intended to decide the location of remote working hubs to be funded by her Department; the scheme under which they will be funded; the body communities should apply to in order to access this funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7975/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 35. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when is it intended to seek applications under category 2 of the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements in force at present in relation to prison visits in view of the general opening up of society recently due to changes in the challenges from Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions that were held with her Department by An Garda Síochána in the past four years in relation to the requirement to have a knowledge of Irish for recruitment to the force and for promotion to certain ranks within An Garda Síochána; the steps she intends taking to ensure that An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken in the new Garda recruitment campaign to ensure that enough fluent Irish speakers are recruited to provide services to those in and outside the Gaeltacht who use the Irish language as a daily language. [8976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the process followed in each community health office across the State to select and appoint persons to senior management positions; if these processes are uniform across each CHO; the steps taken to ensure that there is full compliance with these processes by each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8929/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Offshore Islands (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 340. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has taken a decision to reduce ferry and air fares to the offshore islands from 1 April 2022 to the end of 2022 as part of the measures to reduce the impact of inflation and to mirror what has happened in other transport sectors in Ireland; if not, if she plans to take such a decision in the coming week; and if she will make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First of all, I was very interested in the matter of the battery trains. It is like going back to the Drumm battery trains of the 1930s which ran on what is now the green Luas line. I note in the statement that the rail strategy is to support balanced regional development. I presume that, if this is an all-Ireland strategy, this big black hole will be a big focus. Mr. Meade might confirm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Mr. Meade address the issue of frequency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about Galway and Limerick, even nearer to home?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Was any modelling done, based on Irish Rail's experience, that would show the increase on all services between, say, Galway and Limerick if three additional two-hour services were added per day during commuter hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it only in Galway and Athenry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Major rivers normally have a whole lot of streams, if you go back far enough. It seems that if the objective is to get a lot of people from Galway to Athenry, one requirement is to have feeder streams. That is why I am so keen to have Tuam and Claremorris included. If there are no feeder streams, there will be a really busy line. Anybody who uses the Tube in London, for example, will see...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I must be honest and say that I have not read the report. I have not had the opportunity to do so. I will respond in more detail to the very detailed report when I get that opportunity. There are, however, basic principles I think we can lay down. I have long questioned the Minister about the issue of pay in the Defence Forces and the work burden that soldiers face. I welcome the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 229. To ask the Minister for Health when the new care unit replacing St. Anne’s, Clifden and Clifden nursing home will go to construction; the progress made with this project to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8691/22]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On the essential needs payment, one of the challenges, in my experience of how it has changed over the years, is that the welfare officers, as they used to be called, used to have huge discretion to help a person if there was poverty, and it was not on the basis of a means test. That meant they could a family who had income coming into the house, which may have been a reasonably good income,...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There has been a useful debate on the local employment service but there are bigger issues involved here, specifically the internationalisation of bids for basic services in this country, which I believe is being driven by European agendas for some time. The other issue is the privatisation of fundamental services. I have serious concerns about that trend over the last 20 or 30 years. I...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will make one brief point. I am not surprised the Department is finding it hard to get people onto the rural social scheme at the moment. A change was made when the six-year cap was brought in. That cap, judging from what the Minister of State says, is now totally unnecessary because the Department does not have an over-demand for places, which was the argument in favour of the cap, that...