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Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: An Roinn Gnóthaí Fostaíochta agus Coimirce Soisialaí (19 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá na hachmhainní an-teann. Níl mórán fóirne le Gaeilge againn ach ní léir go bhfuil polasaí soiléir ann ag déanamh cinnte go bhfuil na hachmhainní sin á úsáid sa méid agus gur féidir san áit a bhfuil éileamh orthu. Mar shampla, dá gcuirfí oifig leasa pobal ag plé le muintir...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: An Roinn Gnóthaí Fostaíochta agus Coimirce Soisialaí (19 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ó thaobh front-line, front desk services de, tá an t-éileamh is mó ar an oifigeach leasa pobail, an community welfare officer, CWO, mar a thugtaí orthu. Cé go bhfuil an lá imithe nuair a bhíodh an CWO lonnaithe sa Cheathrú Rua nó i gCill Chiaráin, má shiúlaim isteach san oifig i nGaillimh nó san Chlochán, an mbeidh...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: An Roinn Gnóthaí Fostaíochta agus Coimirce Soisialaí (19 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá sé sin soiléir, an-úsáideach agus an-fhéaráilte.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: An Roinn Gnóthaí Fostaíochta agus Coimirce Soisialaí (19 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Níl sé sin go baileach fíor-----

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: An Roinn Gnóthaí Fostaíochta agus Coimirce Soisialaí (19 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bhíodar ina gcónaí sa phobal-----

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (19 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacancies on the rural social, Tús and community employment schemes, respectively; the steps she will take to ensure the places on these schemes are filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26315/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (19 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the way in which capital is assessed for all means tested payments and bring it in line with the way in which it is assessed for medical and general practitioner cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26316/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (19 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 459. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which persons with lifelong or long-term medical incontinence can apply for the annual support of €75 to help support the average annual cost of disposal of incontinence products which was announced on 27 June 2017. [26273/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister confirmed in a previous written reply that up until 2015 the minimum wage was covered 100%. A company with five full-time equivalent staff now has to find €10,000 simply to pay wages, not to mention meeting all the other overhead costs faced. As the Minister is aware, some of these companies provide meals-on-wheels services or run community centres where there is no...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Funnily enough, even during the downturn every Minister responsible could find the money. We paid more than the minimum wage because we retained the wages of the people employed under the programme at the level they had been. That was fine until the current Taoiseach became Minister for Social Protection. Then, hey presto, in 2015 - suddenly and for the first time since the scheme started...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: However, it was a mean cut in the Department of Social Protection. The then Minister cut €3 million from the programme out of €20 billion. In fact, when he cut it initially, it was €1.5 million. Will the Minister go back to the Taoiseach, ask for his money back and undo the mean cut that the Taoiseach introduced in 2015?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I cannot understand the mentality of putting extra money into Brussels to get a percentage of it back when it would be much simpler for the Government to put it straight into the Leader programme and not lose a lot of money in transmission while having a whole lot of rules added to it in its transmission back here. I seek a commitment that Leader will revert to the €400 million plus...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 3. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount available for the community services programme in 2018; if he has provided extra funding to the participating companies to cover the increases in recent years in the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25933/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The community services programme is important. The way it always worked was that the minimum wage was paid to each company, along with the employers' PRSI, for all participants, plus a grant for the manager. In certain cases, there was supplementary funding. That continued to be the way until 2014. Since then, however, the system has changed and companies must now come up with funding...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the discussions he has had with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to ensure there is no reduction in the overall funding for the Leader programme post 2020 in view of the recent announcement by the European agriculture Commissioner that the rural development funding...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hope, when it comes to the reply, that the Minister skips the usual bumf that is put in the beginning and cuts to the meat speedily. I have a quick question. The Minister knows that the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, has been announced and that Pillar 2, under which the money for rural development outside the farm gate comes from, is proposed to be cut radically. Has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----but if it took the kind of hit that is proposed here, it would be hardly worth having.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Funding (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his reply but the situation is simpler than he has outlined. While obviously the Government will try to get as much money as it can from Brussels, if it decreases, the Minister can increase the national contribution. He could say today, if he had the assurances of his two colleague Ministers, that no matter what happens, we will revert to the €400 million...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Development Policy (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 19. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the programmes and schemes planned to develop rural areas outside of towns and villages; the amount of expenditure he expects in these rural areas in 2018 in view of the fact that a large part of the rural population live in the rural countryside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25026/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 26. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is satisfied with the rate of capital expenditure in 2018 under the various schemes administered by his Department; if not, the steps he plans to take to address the shortfall in capital expenditure to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25025/18]