Results 5,621-5,640 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have no problem with the reserve being the reserve. That is the cushion. However, holding onto the entire amount from day one is wrong. A new formula should be worked out, one in which the reserve is untouchable. That is the rainy day fund. To say that everyone who ever put money into a dormant account will one day walk into a bank is stretching credulity, though.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This has been a useful debate.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we were discussing this matter with the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, I put forward the idea that we already have a lot of decentralised Civil Service offices around the country, from Buncrana to Na Forbacha, all the way around. The reality is that I am not sure whether all those buildings are fully utilised. I asked that question of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: May I make one further, final point? I take it the Minister of State is responsible for Pobal.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we can travel again, I suggest that the Minister of State visits Clifden. There is a Pobal sub-office there that makes all the rural social scheme, RSS, and Tús payments and so on. The amount of travel amounts to one or two people going to Dublin occasionally, or that was the case before Covid and that has now probably proven to be an unnecessary journey. It is providing steady...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Those staff used to be in Tubbercurry.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (18 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Just do not play golf.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Strength (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the attractions previously of serving in the Garda or the Army was that when a person went out on pension, he or she could get a new job and have the pension. My understanding is that that was changed in the past ten years to a situation where, if a person who leaves with a pension takes up public service employment and does the same full amount of work as his or her colleagues, equal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Strength (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 42. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the establishment number for the Defence Forces by Army, Naval Service and Air Corps; the actual number of personnel serving in each branch of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36561/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Strength (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My question is to ask the Minister the establishment number of the Defence Forces, broken down by Army, Naval Service and the Air Corps, and to compare that with the actual number serving. It is important we find that out, and then that the Minister might explain to us why that is the way it is.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Strength (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive answer. Perhaps he could outline for me when this divergence started taking place between the establishment strength of the Defence Forces and the position we find ourselves in today whereby we are 10% down in each service. What steps were taken once it became apparent that there was a difficulty retaining and recruiting people to the Defence...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 58. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of military personnel serving abroad at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36562/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of office properties owned or rented by the OPW outside of Dublin; the number of civil servants these offices can accommodate; the current number of civil servants based in these offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36560/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason members of the Defence Forces who retire after 2012 and who take up subsequent State employment have an abatement on their pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28221/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the protocols he has in place with the RSA to ensure a speedy reply to questions referred on by him for direct reply; the reason this Deputy has not yet received a reply to Parliamentary Question No. 353 of 3 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37009/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funds made available to Ireland by region, under the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF 2014-2020 Operational Programme; the projects the funds were spent on; the amount of ERDF funding involved for each project; the amount of national funding for each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36985/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Fáilte Ireland (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 345. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the protocol her Department has in place with Fáilte Ireland to ensure parliamentary questions she refers to it for detailed reply are answered within ten days; when a reply will issue for Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 3 November 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37007/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rights of Way (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to extend the latest date by which old non-registered rights of way have to be registered with the Property Registration Authority, in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and the disruption caused by the various lockdowns; the present latest date for lodging such applications; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the ongoing review of income eligibility for social housing supports in each local authority area will be complete; the details of same made available to the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36221/20]