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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister outline the number of places available on the scheme at present, the number of participants on the scheme and the number of people on waiting lists to go on the scheme? A finite number of people are receiving farm assist or fish assist, so it appears that this is a false reason. To make the places available on demand would require a very small increase.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister mentioned skilling up. These are active farmers and highly skilled people. One thing that amazed me when I went to live and work permanently in rural Ireland was the skill level of local farmers in many facets of work. For some of them, for all sorts of family reasons, the combination of farming and the scheme keeps them fully occupied. The scheme provides vital services at a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a second supplementary question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not get a second supplementary question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not think so.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Acting Chairman should check the record. I did not get a second supplementary question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department put a cap of six years on participation on the rural social scheme and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50170/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No doubt the Minister recognises the exceptional contribution to society made by the workers in the rural social scheme. It is important to remember that this is not an activation scheme. It is a supplemental income scheme for small low-income farmers and fishermen in return for work done. Could she outline the reasons the Department has put a cap of six years in the length of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Reviews (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reviews carried out by her Department since 2011 on means-testing of means-tested social welfare schemes and payments to ensure they are equitable and do not act as a disincentive to increasing income from employment or good practice in terms of thrift and saving; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50169/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Offshore Islands (4 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has had discussions with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government and or Irish Water on the provision of public sewerage services on the islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50514/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We certainly have had a great run of it but towards the end of her reply, the Minister touched on changes taking place, particularly in the USA, over which we have no control. Does the Minister agree that the lead-in time for an industry setting up in Ireland from the first contact with IDA Ireland could be anything up to eight years? Therefore, we are currently getting decisions on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has not really addressed the purpose of the question which was to examine events outside the island and ask how we are responding. We already know that we are good in education, in demography and we are in the Single Market, so we have those advantages. Please God, we will also have access to the British market and will retain it. It is a big market. Tax regimes are changing,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister accept that in the past the reason for foreign direct investment was that such companies had the technical know-how and money and that in our early industrial history we did not even have the educational back-up? Does she also accept that in terms of education our graduates, working both at home and abroad, are as good as any in the world and that many of them have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that there are many positives but we have to look every day at where the challenges and opportunities are. On the opportunity side, there are many people at home and abroad working in multinational companies who already have much of the experience the Minister speaks about, which they have earned. They worked their way through the education system and then went to work in industry...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 47. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions taking place between her Department and the relevant development agencies to reposition enterprise policy in view of the changes in the tax regime of the United States of America and other changes taking place worldwide that could reduce the attractiveness of Ireland to foreign direct industrial investment; and if she...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister accept that there are huge changes taking place worldwide in regard to those attractions that Ireland has, for example, on the taxation front? What discussions are taking place at a high level to reposition Irish foreign direct investment to meet the new challenges that are definitely coming down the road, such that in eight or nine years' time rather than relying on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the changes in policy that are proposed to ensure the accelerated growth of the indigenous high-tech industrial sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49685/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I think we have to look to the future. Questions Nos. 46 and 47 are basically related. I know they are being taken separately. I have tabled Question No. 46 to ascertain what is being done to ensure the indigenous high-tech sector continues to grow. We have to make a big effort to ensure the indigenous high-tech industrial sector grows in the years to come.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Colombian Peace Process (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has raised concerns with the Colombian authorities directly or at the UN to attacks that are being described as indigenous genocide by reputable persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50409/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Data (3 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance the investment made by the State in the covered institutions during the financial crisis by institution; the amount that has been recouped to date from the institutions; the value of residual investment by the State in the institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50407/19]