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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Final Report of the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Discussion (4 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is there a meeting on Monday?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when details of the new temporary environmental scheme for persons who are not in an environmental scheme at present will be announced; the estimated annual budget for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33545/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A new environmental scheme was promised to follow on from the existing schemes. For those who were in the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, and had to leave it or were never in a scheme, when will the new environmental scheme that was promised in the interregnum between the old Common Agricultural Policy and the new CAP be published? Will it be a general scheme for farmers to join or a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I get very worried when I hear the words "pilot scheme". It seems limited, strange, complicated and worrying. I often wonder if we are going backwards or forwards. When the rural environment protection, REP, scheme, was in place and we moved on to AEOS, a person who left one REP scheme could join another. I refer in particular to those farming in areas of high nature value where much of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many farmers left AEOS and could not join GLAS because they stayed in it until the end? How many of those will be able to join this pilot scheme which it seems will have very limited numbers? This is a bread-and-butter issue. It represents survival for people on their farms. It is not some added extra. It is fine to say all the other farmers will be able to avail of some measures....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce total convergence as part of the new scheme replacing the current basic payment and greening schemes under the new CAP 2021-2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33546/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that normal medical services, including screening services, pain clinic services and therapies such as speech therapy, physiotherapy and so on are available during the level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33536/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to provide resources to the HSE to reduce waiting time for pain management services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33537/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of properties passed to date as part of the roll-out of the national broadband scheme; the number of broadband connections made; the number of properties surveyed to date in relation to this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33637/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the arrangements being made to ensure that those who had been given a date for a theory test in order to apply for a provisional licence and who have since had the test deferred due to the level 5 restrictions will get priority when tests recommence; if applicants will be entitled to a refund for tests deferred at less than five days'...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he or his officials have had with the airline industry to ensure speedy refunds for cancelled or diverted flights by airlines to their customers in accordance with law, particularly in view of the large State employment subsidies being paid to the airline companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33640/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Fáilte Ireland (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 557. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason cafés, without alcohol licences, were excluded from a recent scheme funded by her Department for which her Department provided €26 million through Bord Fáilte; if it is planned to provide further funding for such restaurants or to extend the scheme to include such restaurants; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Data (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 973. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he will take to ensure that both natural parents and adoptees can more easily access their children or parents, as the case may be; if extra funding is to be provided for tracing services in this regard; his plans to introduce legislation to transfer the responsibility for this work to a standalone State agency; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1178. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a legal obligation on persons to wear face coverings when entering retail businesses; if not, his plans to introduce such an obligation; if so, the proposed penalties for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32535/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1427. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue to the parents of a child (details supplied) who is availing of early intervention services in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33735/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1472. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure all medically-vulnerable persons with serious underlying conditions in the CHO2 area will have access to the flu vaccine; the reason for the extreme shortage of the vaccine at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33925/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason farmers who inadvertently omit to tick the ANC box on their online BPS application form are being penalised when it is clear that the land is in an area of natural constraint; the reason they are not allowed to correct such omissions without penalty, particularly as many are not over familiar with filling out...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling licences issued by his Department and by the independent appeals committee, respectively in each week in September and October 2020; the volume of timber involved each week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33920/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of extra staff, including ecologists appointed to both his Department and the Independent Appeals Committee to deal with the backlog of applications for licences and appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33921/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of extra members appointed to the Independent Appeals Committee dealing with forestry licences following recent legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33922/20]