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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department's capital profile was to have seen 25% of the money spent in the first five months of the year. That is just over 40% of the year. However, the Department underspent by €158 million in that period, or 30% against profile. As such, the Department already has a significant underspend. That is clear from the Exchequer returns to the end of May. I like what the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What was the Department's capital carry-over from last year to this year? I am interested in getting the answer to that question. Will the Minister check as regards the roads done under the LIS that are public but not in the charge of local authorities? There is a difference. They are not privately owned. They are all public rights of way. Would the Minister consider providing extra...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the reply. What we are getting is renewal and maintenance of what is there but we presumed that would happen. We are getting a few platforms in Ceannt Station and a passing loop in Oranmore. It is not much for the whole of Connacht. That is the first thing that has to be said. The Minister mentioned the concept of renewing existing infrastructure. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The good thing about this project is that it would cost a lot less depending on who we believe, and whether we believe the Bradley report or the original report from Ernst & Young. Between €150 million and the outer limit of €200 million is a lot less than the cost of the road from Castlebar to Westport. There is €1 billion in the rural regeneration and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends including the western rail corridor from Athenry to Claremorris as a project in the forthcoming revised NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31517/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rail projects in Connacht included in the current NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31518/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The purpose of Question No. 5 is to ask the Minister if he intends including the western rail corridor from Athenry to Claremorris as a project in the forthcoming revised national development plan. Question No. 71 asks him to list the rail projects in Connacht in the present national development plan. I look forward to the Minister's reply to those two questions.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 165. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when it is intended to announce the details of the revised National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Port of Dublin is not accepting container trains to and from the west of Ireland; if, he plans speaking to the board and management of the port in relation to this matter in view of the fact that container trains are the most environmentally efficient way of carrying these goods; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason persons in receipt of the carer's tax credit who have a small income, including the carer's allowance are not allowed the extra €26,300 income at 20% which is normally allowed for two married persons or persons in a civil partnership who have two incomes thus diluting the benefit of the carer's tax credit considerably; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 394. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when religious services will recommence in prisons given vaccines are being rolled out and social distancing is possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32671/21]

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Looking at the big picture for farming, once again Europe has failed to grasp the big nettle. Looking at dairy farming and particularly beef and sheep farming, putting aside the fixed grants that people get irrespective of productivity and as long as they have a very basic level of farming going on, the more intensively one farms, the smaller the profit that is made. When a farmer does up...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Prison Service (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On a number of fronts, I am very disappointed with the reply. As I said, the roll-out of the vaccine in prisons has been deferred, even though, as the Minister of State pointed out, they are congregated settings. The greatest risk has always been that, inadvertently, the virus would be allowed to enter prisons through people who come to prisons every day providing services, including prison...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Prison Service (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister of State for coming into the House to listen to what I have to say. We have all found the past 15 months to be difficult. Those who could not get out and about and older people confined to their homes found it particularly so. We have to try to imagine what it is like to be locked up in prison during that period. Every small freedom left to inmates in prison had to be...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to eliminate the use of one-off plastics; if it is planned to legislate to ban the use of one-off plastics either immediately or on a phased basis; the barriers to doing this; the progress made in this regard in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32317/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in ensuring that various animal remedies that were available up to now without a prescription from a veterinary surgeon will still be available at competitive prices after the EU regulation requiring them to be prescribed by a veterinary surgeon comes into force here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Curaclam Nua na hArdteistiméireachta (Atógáil): An Roinn Oideachais (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe agus ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur rompu. Sula dtiocfaidh mé chuig an gceist ar T1 agus T2, ba mhaith liom a rá go gcreidim go bhfuil fadhb ann le múineadh na Gaeilge sna scoileanna i gcoitinne. Céard air a bhunaím é sin? Ar an gcéad dul síos, bíonn Gaeilgeoirí ag fanacht sa teach s'againne...