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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will try to be as brief as possible. Based on this assumption that there are plenty of jobs available at all levels, including in construction, hospitality and so on, does Mr. Egan accept there is a fair number of people in they system who will never get commercial employment, that they might, if we focused on it, get either sheltered employment, or long term employment through schemes such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Mr. Egan tell me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be brief. I said initially there is a big difference between the number of people on the live register and the number of people who are unemployed. There are people coming on to and leaving the live register all the time. That is well recognised in the Department. Anybody who checks the figures will note the difference. Some 40,000 people have not been in employment for a long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since we are obsessed with figures, I think Mr. Egan said 70,000 secured short-term employment and 20,000 secured long-term employment over 12 months, and that there were 300,000 people. I look at these services as somebody who employed people and came to the conclusion that, for a fair number of people, it does not matter what is thrown at them in the form of job losses or whatever because...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage pursuant to Standing Order 180.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the rural housing guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46390/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is planned to publish new regulations for the tenant purchase scheme as outlined in Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46389/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 314. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding has or will be allocated to Fáilte Ireland to enable it to issue another call for applications for grants under the large grant scheme; if so, the amount available for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46433/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (28 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 749. To ask the Minister for Health when the terms of reference for the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 will be published; if a company or organisation has or will be commissioned to deal with the service user and service provider strands of the review; if a company has been appointed or chosen, the name of the organisation; the terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Apologies have been received from Deputies Ellis and Bríd Smith and Senators Flynn and O'Sullivan. I congratulate Senator Flynn on the birth of her new baby, Lucy. I propose that we approve the minutes of the committee meetings held on 22 July 2021. The minutes have already been approved virtually in private session. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome everyone to our virtual public meeting. Before we hear from our witnesses, we have some business to attend to regarding the rules around privilege. I remind members that they must be on the Leinster House complex in order to attend this meeting. If any member attempts to participate from outside Leinster House, I will ask him or her to leave the meeting. I remind witnesses that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Mr. Waters. From the County and City Management Association, CCMA, I welcome Mr. Frank Curran, chair of the housing, building and land use committee of the CCMA and chief executive of Wicklow County Council. I also welcome Mr. Colm Ward, director of housing of South Dublin County Council. I suggest Mr. Curran makes an opening statement and we will then take questions from committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No other member is offering to speak right now, but members will have a chance to contribute after I have asked a few questions. As long as we keep the meeting within the two-hour timeframe, we will be okay. I will ask my questions in no particular order of importance. I see that the Department is piloting a caravan scheme. My understanding is that these are replacements for existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If they are in the lucky four local authority areas, but if they are not, they will lose out. Mr. Benson seems to be telling me that people who already have caravans, some of them under an arrangement whereby they got a fixed building with a caravan or mobile home attached, that are in a very poor condition will have to suffer this winter and probably the winter of 2022 as well. With the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have dealt with cases like these. Who makes the judgment on whether it is very substandard, the person sleeping in it or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree with Mr. Benson on that. A reference was made to anecdotal evidence of the difficulties Travellers faced in getting HAP. This committee has heard that Travellers are 22 times more likely to be discriminated against in the private rental sector. It is my experience that there is considerable resistance to renting to Travellers. Does Mr. Benson accept that they are 22 times more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We can all agree that it is difficult for everyone, but it is harder for some than for others. In my constituency, it is a significant problem, even for families with very good references from previous landlords. I accept that some landlords have no problem taking Travellers, but my experience is that, on the law of averages, that figure is correct. From my work, a number of Travellers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The witnesses cited a figure for the percentage of homeless people who were identified as being Travellers. Of course, there could be many more who just have not been identified. The committee has heard credible reports that up to 40% or 50% of homeless people in certain cities in Ireland are Travellers. Have we a local authority-by-local authority breakdown of the percentage of homeless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would Mr. Waters accept that some things can be very prevalent and very difficult to count but that does not change the facts on the grounds whatever those facts may be? Does he accept that it would appear that there is a very high percentage of homeless Travellers compared with the percentage in the population at large and that in many cases, there are no social issues? It is just that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Like many public representatives who deal with a lot of Travellers, my perception is quite simple. It is that very few people in the Traveller community see the HAP or RAS as a permanent solution. They take it reluctantly because at times, it is the option but they do not see it as a permanent housing solution. The vast majority are looking for Traveller accommodation or local authority...