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Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Múinteoirí Nuacháilithe agus Ábhair Oidí: An Chomhairle Mhúinteoireachta (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An bhfuil Tomás Ó Ruairc ag rá liomsa i ndáiríre gur féidir le haon mhúinteoir sa tír siúl isteach i nGaelscoil agus feidhmiú trí Ghaeilge, i meánscoil nó bunscoil? Ní chreideann aon duine anseo é sin. Ní múinteoir mise, buíochas le Dia. Ní dheachaigh mé le múinteoireacht mar níl...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Múinteoirí Nuacháilithe agus Ábhair Oidí: An Chomhairle Mhúinteoireachta (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Má thuig mé ceart an rud atá ráite, tá mearbhall orm. De réir mar a thuig mise, ní féidir dul ag múineadh in aon bhunscoil mura bhfuil an duine cáilithe mar bhunmhúinteoir. An rud a bhí mise ag rá ná dá mbeadh duine ag dul ag múineadh i mbunscoil a bhí ag feidhmiú go hiomlán trí Ghaeilge, go...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Múinteoirí Nuacháilithe agus Ábhair Oidí: An Chomhairle Mhúinteoireachta (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá an ceart ag an Teachta.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Múinteoirí Nuacháilithe agus Ábhair Oidí: An Chomhairle Mhúinteoireachta (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Chreid mise go mba cheart cáilíocht shealadach a thabhairt dóibh agus dhá bhliain a thabhairt dóibh chun dul go dtí an Ghaeltacht mar ní mar a chéile rang a dhéanamh ar líne i Sínis agus dul go dtí an tSín ag foghlaim Sínis. Tá a fhios ag chuile dhuine dá dtiocfaí go dtí an tSín ag foghlaim...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the big questions that arises now is, what happens at the end of June regarding the PUP? Will new people be able to go on the PUP after that or is it intended to cease it? We need clarification. People are dependent on this payment. Many people will not be back to work according to figures from the Minister's Department in reply to a parliamentary question I tabled. On 1 July, it...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I join in the thanks offered to the staff for their fantastic interaction with the public. The responses we on behalf of the public get as public representatives are prompt and thorough and give one information. So often nowadays, one gets official replies that say the matter is being considered and there are no timescales. There is good interaction with the Minister's Department, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (25 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 5. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it is planned to provide a second tranche of funding for LIS roads in 2021; the discussions she has had with the Department of Transport in relation to possible co-funding of this programme by that Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27880/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (25 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 46. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to expand the community service programme to ensure that more persons who are distant from the labour force get an opportunity of gainful employment and to stimulate new social enterprises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27881/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (25 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if theory test centres are currently open; if the processing of the backlog of theory test application forms on hand has commenced; if so, the estimated time it will take to clear these backlogs; if not, when it is planned to open them and resume full service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27748/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (25 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to introduce legislation to extend the duration of learner driver permits in view of the delay in driving tests; if so, when this will occur given it is urgent that learner drivers are permitted to continue driving within the law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27931/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the formal procedure in place for setting up a recovery plan over a period of time in respect of substantial Covid pandemic unemployment overpayments; the length of time customers have to repay the overpayment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28264/21]

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome this Bill. I did not get a chance today to count all the parliamentary questions I submitted over the years concerning when this Bill would be introduced. It was promised and promised, and yet, like many things, it never happened. The Minister of State is less than a year in government and she has already brought this Bill before the House. I congratulate her on doing that....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to provide ring-fenced funding for the provision of additional courses in third level colleges in cases in which the tuition would be through the medium of Irish to ensure there will be sufficient persons available with third level qualifications to meet the likely requirements of the Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019; and if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This question is very simple. Is it intended to provide ring-fenced funding to the Higher Education Authority, HEA, to ensure more courses are taught through the medium of Irish? I am not talking about courses teaching Irish but about courses provided at third level through the medium of Irish. There will be a demand for people who are qualified professionally in Irish or through the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his offer of engaging with me bilaterally and I will certainly take him up on it. I listened to his reply but we are a long way from where we need to be. I have a pragmatic and practical view of this. It is worth noting that NUI Galway, or UCG as it was at the time, was only kept in the 1920s to provide an Irish language university. Even into the 1960s most of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we engage with this issue we will do so at three levels: courses through Irish; courses teaching the Irish language; and courses in professional Irish for certain occupations. For example, GPs, veterinary surgeons, nurses, speech therapists and all the other practical professions working in the Gaeltacht would need to know the language of their profession as well as a general competence...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an analysis has been carried out by his Department on the relationship between the value of entitlements and stocking density on livestock farms; if so, the result of this analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans sanctioning the building of a deep-water pier in Ros a’ Mhíl soon in order that it can be built before the planning for the pier runs out in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26489/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to increase the proportion of dedicated research funds that are provided annually towards blue skies research to ensure that Ireland attracts and retains top scientists in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scrúduithe Stáit (20 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an mbeidh dátaí na harteiste a chuireann isteach ar an scrúdú Ard Teiste i mbliana agus a roghnaíonn an dá rogha idir gráid réamh-meastach agus an scrúdú a shuí in don an ceann is fearr de na torthaí a roghnú ábhar ar ábhar nó an mbeidh orthu rogha a dhéanamh...