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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since moving to the west many years ago and finding out about the means testing system, I have always believed it to be penal. We often speak of how the tax system can act as a disincentive to workers saving but it also fair to admit that the social welfare system does that more. I will give one example. In the case of most working age means tested payments, with the exception of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----€40,000 are considered as if they generated an income of 20% per annum.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Minister reads the question, she will see that it covers all means testing on social welfare schemes, community employment schemes and the rural social scheme. I presume she is aware that where a person on the jobseeker's allowance, for example, has income from self-employment other than farming, the Department means tests that self-employed income at 100%. In other words, if a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the very positive response. In the standard reply she provided, she implied that the rural social scheme is an activation scheme to help people get employment. That is certainly not the way the scheme was designed. It was designed as a supplementary income scheme in return for a substantial contribution to services in local parishes up and down the country by small...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times he has visited Northern Ireland to date in 2020; the purpose of each visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17314/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with members of the executive in Northern Ireland in relation to the conditions under which segregated prisoners are held in HMP Magheraberry and other related issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17313/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to carry out a nationwide review of the full potential of rail services on Iarnród Éireann rail lines with a particular emphasis in the review on the potential reduction of emissions by the full utilisation of the lines and the diversion of commuters and intercity passengers from more carbon intensive forms of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the Office of Public Works to carry out works on an old mill (details supplied) in its care to enable it to open to visitors; the progress made with the plans to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18748/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that, in the event of schools not opening in September 2020, teaching online will be available to all pupils who wish to be taught online and have broadband access; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to meet with Letterkenny Institute of Technology and the Derry University Group to consider the way in which cross-Border third level education could be developed in the north west for persons form both sides of the Border; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18753/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Connemara ponies born before 2016 tested for HWSD in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18750/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 730. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reduction in the number of crèches providing care for children under one year old compared to the situation before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic by county; the steps he plans to take to support parents who require childcare and who have no crèche available near them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18749/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (28 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1028. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a product (details supplied) that constantly monitors glucose levels for persons with type 1 diabetes is not available under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18754/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (23 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish revised terms for the housing incremental purchase scheme 2016 to make it more attractive to persons to purchase their local authority house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17312/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he plans to take to ensure that local authorities protect the status of the Irish language in Gaeltacht areas in the development and the implementation of county plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17311/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Feabhsú Céibheanna (22 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 41. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá deanta ag a Roinn i bhforbairt na céibheanna in Inis Meáin agus Inis Oírr; cén uair a bhfuil súil tosaí ar an talamh le forbairt an dá chéibh faoi sheach; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [17310/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Forbairt na Gaeilge (22 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 51. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cérd iad na tosaíochtaí a bheidh aici chun an Ghaeilge a láidriú mar theanga an phobail sa nGaeltacht i rith a téarma in oifig; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [17309/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about two European Council framework decisions of 2008 that were meant to be transposed into Irish law by 2012 at the latest. It is now 2020. When will the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Decisions on Supervision Measures) Bill 2019 will be restored to the Order Paper? It was passed in the Seanad and then came to this House. When will it be restored to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason employers are not entitled to the temporary wage subsidy for workers who commenced work in early March 2020 and are eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment; his plans to correct the anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17057/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Oideachas Gaeltachta (21 Jul 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i gceist cúnamh a thabhairt do champaí samhradh a raibh costais tarraingte orthu féin agus earlais a fháil acu roimh a fograíodh nach mbeadh aon champaí Samhraidh ann i mbliana ag tús Mí Iúil, mar a rinne le na coláistí Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sí...