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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plean Forbartha Náisiúnta (21 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá sé sin seafóideach.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Limistéir Pleanála Teanga (21 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 3. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht céard é líon na bpleananna teanga atá á gcur i bhfeidhm i mbliana, taobh istigh agus taobh amuigh den Ghaeltacht faoi seach; cén caiteachas atá ceadaithe do na pleananna seo i mbliana; céard é an caiteachas go dáta; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [26804/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Limistéir Pleanála Teanga (21 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Caithfear faire amach don fhoclaíocht sa cheist seo. Níl mé ag iarraidh a fháil amach faoi phleananna atá á réiteach. Tá mé ag caint ar phleananna atá á gcur i bhfeidhm. Cé mhéad plean teangan atá á chur i bhfeidhm taobh istigh agus taobh amuigh den Ghaeltacht? Cén caiteachas atá ceadaithe do na pleananna...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (21 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Unless it is renewed, section 481 expires in 2020. Uncertainty in the film industry will lead to loss of business. It can take five years of planning before a production comes on stream as they need to plan considerably ahead. What discussions have taken place between the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Department of Finance to ensure the renewal of this very...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (21 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: With certain justification, the now President of Ireland but then Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael D. Higgins, was credited with being the powerhouse behind the introduction of what is now section 481. It was a different section at that time. Whereas technically I appreciate that it is the responsibility of the Minister for Finance and that is why the question is framed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (21 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister agree this should have been renewed last year or the year before because of the five-year minimum lead-in for the big productions? There are many series made by Netflix and Amazon Prime and so on. We are in a very new world of a screen, where all the different technologies are merging and it is not just film in the old-fashioned sense. The lead-in is quite extraordinary....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seirbhísí Oideachais sna Gaeltachtaí (21 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 47. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil aon phleananna aici cúntóirí teanga a chur isteach i scoileanna nach bhfuil aon chúntóirí teanga acu agus atá páirteach sa Scéim Aitheantais do Scoileanna Gaeltachta de chuid na Roinne Oideachais; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [26705/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (21 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2017 GLAS scheme will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27126/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Initiatives (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Perhaps in his second reply the Minister of State might tell us how many are in receipt of long-term jobseeker's allowance. In other words, how many have been in receipt of the allowance for more than one year? The longer someone is on the allowance, the less likely it is he or she will ever find employment on a sustainable basis. The second issue which has been totally ignored is...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Initiatives (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister of State guess how many are long-term unemployed?

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Initiatives (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it 100,000?

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Initiatives (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: At the moment there are 350 unfilled vacancies in the rural social scheme, 4,850 in the community employment scheme and 1,849 in the Tús scheme. It is not that there are not people who want to go on the schemes. It is that the rules, particularly in regard to Tús and CE, are ridiculously strict. I could never get my head around the logic of why we prefer to pay people on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As this is a rural committee, I will focus on the requirements of rural people and I would like to do so under a number of headings. What we know is that many more rural people, as evidenced from the travel to work surveys, travel to cities to work than heretofore, and they are travelling further. I will take Galway as an example, although from the very useful map, one can extrapolate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What if they cross into an urban area? In Galway would it cover Barna or extend to areas 45 km or 50 km away from where people are forced to commute because of third level education grant rules? According to the definition of the Department of Education and Skills people living 45 km away are considered to be adjacent, but according to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am referring to someone in third level education who receives a grant at the adjacent rate. It is presumed the student goes home every evening to a distance of 45 km.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, they receive the grant at the adjacent rate, not the non-adjacent rate. It is lower and based on the premise that they go home every evening. Most students do not own a car.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The presumption made by the Department of Education and Skills is that students can get beyond Carraroe or Dunmore every evening. They receive a grant of €1,000 if they have a piddly little income. The adjacent rate is tiny and the student's parents are on a very low income, if the grant is awarded. The Department presumes students can travel 45 km, but the NTA presumes they only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If there was a rebalancing of the money between highly intensive services in Dublin and the poor mugs outside it, would it solve the problem? Take €10 million or €20 million from Dublin which has a big population and give it to the rest of us. There are 4 million people outside Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It should be four times more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We will have it again.