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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the ACRES scheme for the last year; the number of these that have received a payment broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7781/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: These two questions seek to ascertain the number of farmers with and without commonage in ACRES, the number who have received a payment to date, and when the balance who have not got paid will receive a payment. I understand the vast majority of those are farmers with commonage because there is a lot of disquiet about payments, which I think the Minister is aware of. I understand he is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Have we any idea of how the commonages will be scored and what the final outcome there will be? Many farmers are not only worried about getting payments, because they need payment urgently, but they are also concerned about the uncertainty regarding the final size of the payment they will get under ACRES, particularly in relation to commonage. How soon will they be given the final score on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many did the Minister say?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I take it that by June, everybody will have got the score, so the final payment is the full final payment?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister also let me know whether it would be hoped, for year two of ACRES, for the first payment to take place before Christmas this year? Farmers would effectively get two payments. That causes a little wobble for some people with how they do their accounts, if they do it on a cash receipts basis. On the other hand, the quicker they get the payments, the better. Will they be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners sleeping on mattresses in the prison system at present; the number of prisoners sleeping more than one to a cell; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7784/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to reduce overcrowding in the Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7783/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made in relation to an application for a passport (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing said passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8424/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the draft revised transport plan for Galway will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8490/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in relation to an application for extra accommodation at a school in County Galway (details supplied), given the urgent need for additional accommodation at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8481/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what arrangements will be made to ensure a student (details supplied) who returned to live in Ireland last Christmas is offered a place in a school that teaches through the medium of English; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8489/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if parents of pupils who had no school bus service from October to February (details supplied) will be eligible for the remote area grant for the period the bus service was suspended; if they will have to make an application for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8503/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Clár Caipitil Spóirt (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 161. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a fhogrófar na deontais faoi na scéimeanna deontais do threallamh spóirt agus do saoráidí spóirt bunaithe ar iarrratais a rinne an bhliain seo caite faoin scéim "Sports Capital Grants"; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [8504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding that will be spent in 2024 out of the Brexit compensation fund for the fishing industry; when details of the various schemes will be finalised and announced; the agency or agencies that will administer the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8502/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 258. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether it is intended to provide extra funding to the HSE in Galway city and county to provide for extra respite services for young people and their parents who have serious intellectual disabilities or are autistic, or both, and where a clear need for these services has been identified; and if he will make a...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank all the officials from Dublin and Galway, the latter of whom I am in continual contact with. I thank them for the work they do. I have listened with care to what has been said by both parties about the caravan loan scheme. First, have they any idea as to what they consider the appropriate life cycle of a caravan to be? My understanding is that most of these caravans are...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, and that is what we have now on the Tuam Road halting site in Galway. They have a kind of permanent building that is beside the trailer. My next question relates to Labre Park. Two places in this country that I have seen stick in my mind, and the only place you could compare them to is Soweto. Many years ago, when I canvassed the Seanad, I went into Southill in Limerick to canvass a...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How much longer would a new one last?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be good value for money. Ms Fahy is telling me you would nearly get a lifespan-----