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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I appreciate that, but changing the farm assist means test improves being on farm assist but does not change the differential between being on farm assist and being on the scheme, which was crucial to its success in the early years. We will leave it there, however. I look forward to meeting the Minister of State to go through the detail and to give him real-life cases of how this thing...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I listened with interest to the Minister outlining the social welfare principle. It reminds me of the day I asked someone about somebody that we knew. He said: "The kind of guy he is, if you were down in a hole, he would pull you out, but if you went up a ladder, you were getting above yourself and he would pull you down." The Department of Social Protection seems to work on that...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to make a comment on this. It is estimated the Social Insurance Fund will be back in surplus this year. In the debate on pensions we have to take several things into account. No doubt the Commission on Pensions report was raised. The issue is a financial one. We already put a lot of Exchequer funds into welfare and quite rightly. The idea that straight Exchequer funds and...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the problems that the commission faced was that the interface between auto-enrolment and the age that some could access the pension were not interlinked. I would look at this simplistically enough. The State has only a finite amount of money. I am one of those people who actually believes that it is finite. In the longer term, the Government can only spend what it brings in. It...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 85. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with spina bifida who are on waiting lists for operations by hospital group area; the longest waiting time on each list; the steps he is taking to eliminate these waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7954/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering suspending all reviews of the eligibility of existing medical card holders for the remainder of 2022 in view of the rapid rise in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7955/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the arrangements that have been made to ensure that persons who are in own-door direct provision will get the €100 plus VAT reduction on their electricity bills as passed by Dáil Éireann recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8443/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to reducing the fees for registration for the scheme for the regularisation for long-term undocumented migrants given that many of the applicants particularly those in direct provision have very limited means; the way that the scale of fees was arrived at; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be a new scheme in the future to regularise the situation for undocumented persons already in the country but who are here for less than four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8442/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals on hand with the Aquaculture Licensing Appeals Board in six month intervals by the length of time they are lodged; if he plans to provide further resources to the board to clear the backlog of appeals, some of which are taking years to complete, in order to facilitate the growth of this important sector; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applications for aquaculture licences (details supplied) which has been years being processed in his Department and now with the Aquaculture Licensing Appeals Board will be decided; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8407/22]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm deis a bheith agam labhairt ar an ábhar seo. I congratulate the Minister of State on the work she is doing, which is very challenging. Approximately 14 or 15 years ago, I suggested that disability and that type of continuing care and support for people, which is not about curing an illness but about affording people with an ongoing condition a good quality of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept what the Minister of State is saying about felling licences and planting but it is not quite that simple. Some of what is being felled, such as Sitka spruce and so on, is being replaced by broadleaves, which have a longer period of growth and are not the timber sought by most of the commercial mills. As the Minister of State has noted, because of the nature of where forests tend to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of planting, felling and road licences issued for forestry operations in each of the past five years; the volume of timber licensed for felling; the number of hectares licensed for planting; the length of road granted permission for construction in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6339/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise to the Minister of State, as I got caught out there. I was watching the television screen and two people did not turn up. I thought I had seen Deputy Sherlock here earlier. The whole issue of forestry is contentious, given the huge delays in the issuing of licences. I am looking for information that would give me an indication of the trends in relation to planting, felling...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minster of State for the reply and I look forward to getting the tables. Planting, or afforestation as the Minister of State is calling it, is hugely important. I would divide it into two sectors, one of which is the production of timber for the commercial sector. The Minister of State might give me an indication of what we would have to plant in order to allow us even to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Properties (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the agencies under the remit of his Department that own land banks; if an examination has been carried out to ascertain if some of the land banks could be used for the provision of housing; if so, the results of this examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6709/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the main attractions and drawbacks of Ireland as an attractive place to locate foreign direct investment; the policies being pursued to improve the attractiveness of Ireland as a location for such investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in the roll-out of the Common Agricultural Policy to 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (10 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that all orphan group water schemes, that is, schemes that no longer have trustees and are connected to the Irish Water supply, are brought up to standard and taken in charge by Irish Water; the estimated number of such schemes in the country; the estimated cost of doing this work; and if he will make a...