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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister seems to be saying that these applicants for international protection, because they have become front-line workers, are no longer the responsibility of his Department and are purely the responsibility of the HSE but has the Minister insisted that the HSE provide these applicants with suitable accommodation because I have received complaints as to their accommodation, particularly...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 58. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons admitted to direct provision since January 2020; the number who left direct provision in that time; the arrangements being made to provide independent living units for all these residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35624/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This question relates to the number of people admitted to direct provision since January 2020, the number who have left it since then, and the independent living arrangements that have been made for those who remain in direct provision in line with the programme for Government. The Minister might let us know what is happening in this regard and whether the numbers are going down.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would I be right in believing that the number who entered in the past year and a half is lower than in previous years? Am I correct that the number leaving has been matched by the number coming in? I would have believed that there was an opportunity in the past year and a half to radically reduce the number in direct provision, no matter how good that provision is. I recognise the progress...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am very disappointed to hear the Department of Justice could not do what the rest of us had to do and continue processing the applications. Most of these processes lend themselves to being completed online. All sorts of services have been provided very effectively during this period. It seems cruel that people are being retained in direct provision because of the inability of the service...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he plans to take to reduce the large number of vacant houses that could be put to use to house persons in need of housing; when the effects of these steps will be seen on the ground; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36191/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in providing permanent accommodation for a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the urgency of this project in view of the inadequate accommodation available at present to accommodate the numbers seeking to attend this school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36049/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the DEIS scheme commenced; the progress made to date with this review; when decisions will be made on the future of this scheme; if other schools will be admitted to it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36114/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application by a school (details supplied) for extra school accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36115/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that Catholic schools are not considered to have the same ethos as educate together schools at the primary school level and are considered to have the same ethos at the post-primary school level for the purposes of the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36224/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is planned to look for tenders for a national employment service; the remit this service will have; the body providing the services at present that will be provided by the successful tenderer; if this tender will provide totally new services not being provided at present by the State, directly or indirectly; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Registration of Title (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for conversion of possessory title to absolute submitted by legal representatives on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Galway to the records branch of his Department in Cavan will be dealt with in view of the urgent need for the processing of this application to be finalised as it is impacting on...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Recreation Policy (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 618. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will extend the pilot mountain access scheme to new areas in view of the fact that the original pilot areas were selected over ten years ago and that at time it was intended to extend the scheme to all mountain areas interested in it within a small number of years; the method by which new areas would be selected; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 619. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to open up a new module under the community services programme for applications from rural areas of low employment and falling population to try assist the redevelopment of these areas particularly on the tourist front; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36189/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 620. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to open up a new module under the community services programme for applications from rural areas of high unemployment, drugs misuse and deprivation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36190/21]

Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a Government Deputy other than the Minister present.

Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Just the one, yes. There are two of us present out of a party of 37 Deputies. Deputy Barry can work out the percentage. There are not many Deputies in general present in the Chamber. I thank former Senators Colette Kelleher and Grace O'Sullivan and Senator Ruane for introducing the Bill in the Seanad. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for agreeing to set up an Oireachtas joint committee to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (1 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does anyone ever feel they are going backwards at an alarming rate? During the term of the previous Dáil, people came out from the National Ambulance Service to look at a location in Conamara and, at that stage, there was really no question but that a base was needed. The idea that it does not have bases such as this and that, while waiting, it moves an ambulance into a central...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (1 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On 19 April 2021, a virtual meeting was held with the Oireachtas Members, the ambulance campaign group in Conamara and the National Ambulance Service, NAS. The clear understanding of everybody at the meeting is that a report was to be prepared on the optimum location of an ambulance waiting base that would be located centrally somewhere in Conamara. On 13 May I tabled a parliamentary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (1 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills céard é an próiséas ar faoi a dhéanfar cinneadh maidir leis an moladh atá ann dhá shonraíocht éagsúla T1 agus T2 a bheith ann do shiollabas Ghaeilge na hArdteistiméireachta; cén uair a dhéanfar an cinneadh sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [34176/21]