Results 61-80 of 1,152 for long speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...any grant under round one of the grants announced on 20 December 2023, particularly having regard to the importance of STEM subjects in education from both an educational point of view and for the long term benefit of the economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1182/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...any grant under round one of the grants announced on 20 December 2023, particularly having regard to the importance of STEM subjects in education from both an educational point of view and for the long-term benefit of the economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1277/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if camper vans are allowed park at fishery port car parks as long as they are not used as accommodation while parked there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1251/24]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On that point, in everything we say we have to have two levels of operation. These are the immediate and the longer term and they have to work in parallel. If somebody is going to bed in a freezing caravan tonight there is no point in having a plan that will take three, four or five years. Some things have to be short term and others long term but it is not a case of one or the other as it...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...could deal with that issue quickly or, better still, a short amendment that fits into the Bill. I believe that is doable. Remember, what is illegal becomes legal tomorrow if we make the law, as long as it is constitutional. It is legal once we make it legal. We just need a targeted approach just for the short term so that things have to happen. I am fed up now, and Mr. Collins is...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...tough but we can all get sucked into delays. The witnesses should remember I know this as I was a Minister. With regard to most of the schemes I created, I just created them and did not enter a long consultation process. I was able to adjust the schemes if an issue arose. The witnesses may have heard of the rural social scheme. I will outline how it arose. There was a bit of a row...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In making my point, I am not going to take anybody to task. From my experience, most Ministers get two and a half years and are then shuffled. I got a long time but, because of the two-and-a-half-year timeframes, you never knew when the hatchet was going to fall. If you wasted your time and got sucked into the review gig without doing the immediately obvious, you would be out the door...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the new rules for the granting of paid contributions to long-term carers; whether there is a minimum number of paid contributions from employment or self-employment required before a person can be granted long-term caring paid credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55980/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A written reply I received on the issue of the gratuities seemed to give me a lot more information than is available here today. I cannot understand how these processes go on as long as they do. There has been a failure by successive Governments to reform the system in order to ensure there are quicker decisions. In fact, if anything, things have been getting slower and slower over my...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am taking Questions Nos. 96, 99 and 101. It is my field day. The question is, what are the changes to caring credits? I know they are very beneficial and long-term carers are included but the Minister of State might outline what they are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...in the view of the beholder. The one-off house owner does not anticipate this cost and therefore they are not making submissions to public consultations. Ms MacEvilly and I have been around long enough to know that public consultations are very much the province of the professionals but there are not that many professionals championing one-off houses. That is why this committee is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...in the event that we have a repeat of what happened previously when the cable was ripped up by a private operator. In Inishbofin, Uisce Éireann has had huge problems with water supply, which has been unavailable for long periods, although it was not as bad this year. We need resilience on the islands. This takes me to the big question where the islands and Uisce Éireann...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a very good improvement and in fact goes back to where we were. It is back to the future. I agree with that. In fact, there is a good case that for as long as children are in full-time education, that should be paid. That is a big step. Will the Minister explain why it is 3 September rather than 1 January?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: All I am saying is that this is a very attractive, positive scheme that encourages work. For a long time, and well before I was in politics, this interface between welfare and work was a concern to me. Sometimes the welfare system was an inhibitor to work. This is one that always encourages people to work. The more it is the scheme of choice for people rather than jobseeker's' benefit and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that it always pays significantly to work, whether it is self-employed or employed working. The Minister will know that I have had a hang-up about this because I have worked with it for too long prior to getting into politics and saw the inhibitions on people trying to progress of means-testing, where they feel they are jumping up and somebody is pulling them down and that they will be...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the scheme previously got the full payment and anyone who is on the scheme who joined before 2016 - some people have been on the scheme for many years and have benefited hugely socially, economically and in every way - gets the full payment. Means were ignored as long as they were under the threshold of means. Everyone who is farming should have a small profit. I hope they have. Could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...available? How often does NBI update the website? The only way we know we know it is coming at the moment is that we see the vans looking at the poles, and then we say we can say, judging by how long the survey takes and how long the build out will take, that we will get it in a year, but that information is not available and if I go onto the website, it will see say such and such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let me refer to the big islands. Many of the inshore islands are covered, including the Clew Bay islands. Hare Island, Long Island and other very inshore islands are covered, and there are some connected to the mainland. They will all get fibre. I take it all the mainland islands, including Achill, Cobh and Bull Island, Dublin, will get fibre. What islands will not get a fibre connection...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...back into business. Due to previous flood events, these businesses were not able to get flood insurance. Will the Minister outline the steps being taken to assist such businesses? In the long term, it will be cheaper to get them back into business than to have failed businesses. In many cases, these were the only businesses of their type in the village of Clarinbridge. Will the...