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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he plans to take to ensure that persons from minority backgrounds are better represented in recruitment to the Civil Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46026/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons recruited to date to the Civil Service on panels specifically reserved for those with a competency in Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46027/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (14 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to his Spanish and French counterparts or ambassadors in relation to 349 Basque prisoners who were members of ETA, which has been on ceasefire for some considerable time and who are held in various prisons outside of the Basque country, to have these returned to the Basque country; if he has spoken to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (14 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 133. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the positions in CHO 2 that were offered to successful applicants in quarter 2 of 2019 but are yet to be filled; the location of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47000/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (14 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 134. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the large amount of official business carried out with general practitioners by post rather than by email; the estimated saving that would be made in the system if all of this was done electronically; the steps being taken to replace a paper approach by an electronic approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this issue. When the controversy in Oughterard arose I happened to be on the other side of the Atlantic. I was actually on a small tour that brought me to many places where we met the sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of people who had emigrated to America and who have done well since in their communities but who were not always welcome. We...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (13 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected annual increase in the net financial contribution by Ireland to the EU if the UK leaves the EU by the 31 January 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46024/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (13 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance when the personal income tax credit was initially raised to €1,650; when the employee tax credit was raised to €1,650; the cumulative inflation since; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46025/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (13 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to facilitate more civil servants who wish to locate out of Dublin to other locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46840/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (13 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to encourage greater mobility within the wider public service; the progress made in 2018 and to date in 2019 to achieve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46841/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (12 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised concerns with the authorities in Northern Ireland in relation to the level of stop and search incidents and surveillance by the police of persons from the nationalist community in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46023/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (12 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns with the authorities in Northern Ireland and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in relation to the long periods being spent on remand and on bail by persons accused of paramilitary offences; if so, the response he received to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46022/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Physiotherapy Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 340. To ask the Minister for Health when physiotherapy services will be available again in Clonbur, Carraroe, Kilkerrin and Carna, County Galway; the reason physiotherapy services were ceased in the health centres in April 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46233/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Many issued have been raised, many of which are cross-cutting. The very obvious one would be how a child in education might be living in very bad accommodation or moving in homelessness from one bed and breakfast accommodation to another, which is something I often encounter. It is an impossible challenge for a child compared to one in a settled home, in a settled place in a settled school....

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am interested in hearing the replies and urge the witnesses to give it from the shoulder.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is 50% in Galway.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (7 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of offers received for the provision of direct provision centres in 2019 by local authority area; the number of rooms available in each centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45909/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (7 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if CAP transition measures (details supplied) proposed by the European Commission would result in cuts to direct payments in October 2020 and cuts in farm schemes under pillar 2 to farmers here; and the process involved for the decision to become final. [45906/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (7 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce regulations to eradicate hoof wall separation disease in Connemara ponies; the steps taken to date to control the disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45910/19]