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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of forestry planting licences issued by his Department in 2021; the total number of hectares involved; the total number of planting licences issued in 2020; and the total number of hectares involved; the steps he will take to expedite the issuing of planting licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of forestry felling licences issued in 2021 by his Department; the total number of cubic metres involved; the total number of felling licences issued in 2020; and the number of cubic metres involved; the steps he will take to expedite the issuing of felling licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated number of cubic metres of raw timber imported for processing in sawmills in the State in 2020 and 2021, respectively; the jurisdictions the timber is coming from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59385/21]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister confirm that is €30 million?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the gross expenditure is north of €30 billion?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To put it in terms people can understand, that is like €30 out of €30,000. It is really margin of error stuff.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know, but I am just trying to get this into proportion in my head, because there are so many noughts. The figure of €30,000 million has seven noughts and €300 billion has-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----ten noughts. Some €30 million is tiny money and it just shows how cheap these changes are.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would a €1 rise in general rates be approximately €80 million?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If one gives a €1 rise to everybody, it is approximately €80 million. These changes are just over one third of that. That is very useful.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not so convinced that would be wholly true. A small number are getting caught by very cruel cuts. Let us take the dependent adults on the contributory pension. Presumably, in 80% or 90% of the cases in which people were caught, it was the ordinary partner who earned the money, put it in joint accounts and got caught. If one knows the rules and all the intricacies of the system, one...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The documentation we received was very helpful. At the macro level it seems that the Supplementary Estimate is very modest in the context of Covid continuing a lot longer than we had hoped. It is €470-odd million. Then, if the amount for the bonus is taken out, which is always added at the end of the year as it is never part of the initial Estimate, I think everyone expected to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister publish that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that, but I would make sure it is well published.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the Government published that information in places where people will read it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is not much joy to the students in college now.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did an awful lot.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the increases or decreases that have been made to the rates of grant under the SUSI grant scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate students since 2008; the years they were made; if he plans to increase these grants for the 2022–23 academic year; the provision made in the Estimates of his Department for same; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: People think in terms of what is really available for real money, taking inflation into account. I am seeking to know the increases or decreases in the rates of grants under the SUSI grant scheme for undergraduates and postgraduates since 2008, the years the changes were made, and if the Minister intends to increase the grants for the 2022–23 academic year. Has he made provision in...