Results 5,941-5,960 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Services Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Inishbofin is 70 miles from Galway and to go to or from Galway on public transport takes 3.5 hours. If the air service was operating, a person could do it in approximately an hour, which is a saving of 2.5 hours each way. If a person tried to do it in a day, one way would take seven hours and the other two hours, which is a saving of five hours. Everybody agrees that the services to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Services Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has all the pieces of the jigsaw there. There are the two airstrips, which are the big cost. There are the aeroplanes based in Na Minne. They are already there and are not fully utilised, so it is a marginal cost to use the pilots and the planes, which are not flying all day because of the constraints on the Aran service, to provide a number of services to Inishbofin. There...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the business plan? Has that been submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform yet?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Planning permission for this pier is in place since 2008. In 2015 the then Minister for Finance provided €6 million for the construction of the pier. That money was later withdrawn because there was no way of spending it. This has been going on and on. I believe that the funding cannot be asked for until one has the price. I understood that the next step in the process was to get...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: CLÁR Programme (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 42. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to reinstate the CLÁR measure for group water schemes that existed under CLÁR from its inception until 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24202/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is planned to modify the employment wage subsidy scheme to give further assistance to the sectors dependent on foreign tourists to ensure their survival until international travel recommences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24543/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when local authorities will be informed of the funding to be provided to compensate them for the loss of income suffered from the rates remission given to certain businesses in 2020 due to Covid-19; if the compensation will be 100% of the income loss incurred by the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide further extra places on third-level first year courses in 2020 in view of the higher points achieved by students in the leaving certificate 2020 compared to previous years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24542/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if enquiries were carried out by his Department to ascertain if women here were negatively impacted or suffered injury or death due to the prescription of abortion pills in view the death of two women in the UK after ingesting same prescribed by telemedicine during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24545/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 246. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a review of the community services programme ongoing; if so, when it will be concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24538/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 247. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if further administration, project and animation funding will be provided to the LAGs administering Leader for the years from 2021 until a new Leader programme is in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24539/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 248. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it is planned to provide animation funding to the LAGs under new Leader round to encourage more community involvement in the Leader programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24540/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ministerial Travel (17 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 249. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to visit west Connemara and Inishbofin island in the near future; if so, if she will visit organisations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24541/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The programme for legislation was published and lists 30 Bills to be published in this session. That is two a week. It is quite an ambitious target. On 20 July 2015, Review of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme, A Fair Deal, was published. Following that, it was agreed to draw up a Bill, the nursing home support scheme (amendment) Bill. That has been in gestation for five years. It has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (15 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My understanding is that some people have come out of GLAS and been left high and dry. These people have depended on it for years. I know that GLAS was much smaller than previous schemes such as REPS, which was the biggest scheme, and REPS 4 in particular. Certain farmers have gone from €11,000 or €12,000 down to nothing. They are still adhering to the same very high...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (15 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in the provision of interim measures under the present CAP for 2020 and 2021 until a new Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, is in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23965/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (15 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire. My question relates to the interim measures. It is clear there will not be a CAP for a number of years. This relates to the areas of natural constraint, ANC. Will it be the same ANC, will it be just a rollover or will there be change? It also relates to the basic payment scheme, BPS, the green, low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, and so...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (15 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we had the rural environment protection schemes, REPS, 1, 2, 3 and 4 followed by the agri-environment options schemes, AEOS, 1, 2 and 3 and then GLAS, a farmer could pass seamlessly from one to another. This became a fundamental part of the income of many farmers. Suddenly, at the end of GLAS there is nothing. Will we get an interim environmental measure? Farmers cannot wait. They...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (15 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 74. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with disabilities on the waiting list for assessment for early intervention; and the average waiting time to get an assessment. [22328/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (15 Sep 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 92. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce regular testing for Covid-19 of home care workers in view of the vulnerability of the clients they are caring for through age or disability or both; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23658/20]