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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (28 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister can change it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (28 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister of State for coming into the House to listen to what I have to say. We get report after report, but the report prepared by the Traveller community analysing all sites and group housing schemes in County Galway and Galway city is absolutely devastating. It is so clear and the pictures paint a thousand words. Many Travellers in Galway are living in Third World conditions...

Independent Radio Stations: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The licence fee is meant to provide for public service broadcasting. Traditionally, much of it has gone to RTÉ, which provides a service at a national level. At a local level, though, and other than Raidió na Gaeltachta, it does not provide any such service. Local news, local current affairs, local sport and local magazine programmes on, for example, agriculture are provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeilge (28 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na socruithe atá déanta aige lena chinntiú go mbeidh soláthar cuí scoileanna ar fáil dóibh siúd ar mian leo oideachas lán-Ghaeilge a bheith ar fáil dá gcuid páistí; an bhfuil sé i gceist aige beartas a cheapadh don oideachas lán-Ghaeilge a chuimseoidh córais...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeilge (28 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aige maoiniú breise nó foireann bhreise a chur ar fáil don togra Mar a Déarfá! atá á sholáthar ag breacadh de chuid Bhord Oideachais agus Oiliúna na Gaillimhe agus Ros Comáin agus á mhaoiniú faoi láthair ag COGG, de bharr na tairbhe ollmhóire...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (28 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 175. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a smart phone app on which all the locations of defibrillators would be readily available in an emergency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10142/19]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm labhairt sa díospóireacht seo. Tá súil agam nach gcuirfear an reachtaíocht atáimid ag plé anseo i bhfeidhm go brách na breithe mar ba thubaiste a bheadh ann d'Éirinn dá mbeadh Teorainn uair amháin eile taobh istigh den tír. Is fada a bhí muid ag fulaingt le críochdheighilt na tíre agus níl...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for an appointment with the pain management clinic in Galway University Hospital; the average waiting time in this regard; the steps he will take to reduce these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9984/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has a policy to ensure that islanders have priority access to the seas around their islands for fishing purposes; his plans to make a special fishing quota available to island residents at a low cost in view of the fact that when quotas were introduced a lot of islanders had a small catch record due to the fact that on many...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Tidy Towns Committees Funding (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 203. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans in relation to the provision of ring-fenced funding under the tidy towns competition funding for RAPID designated housing estates to encourage the residents of these estates to get involved in the management and maintenance of the estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9770/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have been working on this issue for a considerable period and have given it thought. On the issue of standards, if it is safe for one, it is safe for the other and if it is unsafe for one, it is unsafe for the other. That is a basic rule. Uber is a different matter. It is more an urban than a rural phenomenon. It is up to the enforcement authorities to deal with anybody who is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a huge weighting of public transport subsidies towards urban areas. That is amazing because €3 million gets about the same amount as €1 million in and around Dublin. My proposal is very simple and does not upset any of the questioned routes. There were 15,000 ordinary taxis and 1,471 wheelchair-accessible vehicles in 2017. That is a ratio of approximately 10:1....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Until that happens, and because I am talking about using existing taxis, my view is that the service contractor would ensure that there are enough wheelchair-accessible vehicles in the short term to deal with the issue, no more than that is what they do with taxis at the moment. As stated, the ratio is 10:1.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My point is that if I contract out tomorrow and existing taxi or hackney drivers can apply, nine out of ten of their vehicles are not wheelchair-accessible. It would be up to me, as the contracting authority, to ensure I have enough wheelchair-accessible vehicles in the area in the short term but not exclude the other big pool of drivers who already exist. That is all I am saying. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are bus services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are not on-call services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To be absolutely clear, of course wheelchair accessibility is important. However, what we are speaking about, and what is missing, are not new bus services but new on-call services from taxis and hackneys.