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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Department of Rural and Community Development (13 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: By the way, no criticism. I want to repeat here that I am criticising the political system that allows this to happen, not the public servants who are doing, presumably, what they are instructed to do by their political masters. I want to be absolutely clear. I am not trying to shift the responsibility onto public servants who are doing exactly what it says on the tin. They are there to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application by Galway County Council for funding in respect of the provision of single rural social houses is currently under consideration; when a decision will be made in relation to this application; when notification will be issued to Galway County Council in respect of same; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a recipient of disability allowance who is not married, a civil partner or a cohabiting with another person and is registered with an electricity or gas utility as a consumer qualifies for the household benefits package regardless of the status or income of other members of their household including their parents living...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have no doubt about the Minister of State's sincerity in this regard and I also pay tribute to the work of a former Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, when he was in office. The concern is that this is still a problem for Travellers living in absolutely substandard accommodation. Whatever is the flaw in the whole system, we do not seem to have made much progress in 20 years. Over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My apologies for missing the earlier part of the meeting. I refer to the CCMA. Some of my questions may have been addressed already but I will take that risk. The written submission provided by the CCMA states: "It should be noted that increasingly, greater expenditure from the maintenance budgets is being used to clean up increased levels of dumping on all sites." On the various sites,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My understanding is the Department will give money to implement the report, which includes transient halting sites. It is not, therefore, coming out of the pot that will go into permanent housing. I will put it this way. If you are building an ordinary housing estate, you will put recreational facilities and public parks or whatever in. You will not say it is houses or public parks. You...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have no doubt about the Minister of State's sincerity in this regard and I also pay tribute to the work of a former Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, when he was in office. The concern is that this is still a problem for Travellers living in absolutely substandard accommodation. Whatever is the flaw in the whole system, we do not seem to have made much progress in 20 years. Over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My apologies for missing the earlier part of the meeting. I refer to the CCMA. Some of my questions may have been addressed already but I will take that risk. The written submission provided by the CCMA states: "It should be noted that increasingly, greater expenditure from the maintenance budgets is being used to clean up increased levels of dumping on all sites." On the various sites,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My understanding is the Department will give money to implement the report, which includes transient halting sites. It is not, therefore, coming out of the pot that will go into permanent housing. I will put it this way. If you are building an ordinary housing estate, you will put recreational facilities and public parks or whatever in. You will not say it is houses or public parks. You...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Ceann Comhairle will know, ní hé sin an chéad uair a d'ardaigh mé an t-ábhar seo. Is minic a d'ardaigh mé é cheana.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: May I ask for a full transcript of the Minister of State's response because I received only a precis of it? The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, announced during the week a new process that is to be followed. It seems to have been designed as a clever way of stopping projects such as this. Can the Minister of State outline what that process will entail? In the case of a road, will the process...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am amazed-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ceann Comhairle, I must protest.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister made a major announcement about a new carbon test for all big projects. It is obvious that will have a big impact on the Galway road project.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is totally disrespectful of the House for the Minister of State to come in here today and not have the answer to the most obvious and basic question to which everybody in Galway wants the answer.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to deal with this important issue, with which she is very familiar. I do not want anything I will say to in any way pre-empt or be seen to try to influence An Bord Pleanála. Its decision will be made in due course, but it is imminent. It is what happens after that decision is made, if it is positive, and what processes will follow...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Society always recommends that where one partner is earning, a couple would share joint accounts and the primary earner would not control all the finances. We then say that is fine because the couple has followed our advice. However, we are now cutting their payments for doing what we advised them to do.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that couples who are in receipt of the State contributory pension and a payment for a dependent adult are being penalised in cases in which savings and investments are put in joint names rather than in the name of the primary earner; if she plans to address this issue; and if she...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A situation has arisen for couples who have worked a lifetime, where one was the primary earner and the other stayed at home to rear families and perhaps care for loved ones, and who were in receipt of a contributory pension and a dependent adult allowance, or an increase for a qualified adult, IQA, as it is called in the jargon. Let us take two couples who have saved money. Perhaps they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (7 Oct 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has examined the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection and Rural and Community Development titled Pre-budget Submission to the Department of Social Protection; if she is considering implementing the recommendation of the report in Budget 2022 and social welfare legislation; and if she will make...