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- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask about CLÁR. The Department has carried out a limited number of actions under CLÁR, which I welcome. It is time now, however, to start to widen its scope. It has fantastic potential. In that regard, I mention two ideas which I know are feasible. The first is a good scheme because it leverages money. I refer to the group water scheme top-up grant. The number of houses...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Technically, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is the lead Department and Deputy Ring is the Minister for Rural and Community Development. As he knows, if the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport knew his Department was putting money on the table it would put it up to that Department to be a lead Department and not one that just says "no". In my view, certainty about...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to ask a question about rural recreation. I cannot let it go. I notice that Comhairle na Tuaithe had just one meeting last year. A report has been done on it. It is meant to be revised, upgraded or updated. When it was set up, the main issue was access to the hills. Two pilot projects that have been in place since 2009 or 2010 were meant to indicate whether the needs of...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: May I-----
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I will discuss the dormant accounts issue later. The Minister has €1 million for broadband. While broadband is not within his Department's remit, it and roads are the greatest issues in rural Ireland. Some people are getting broadband while others are not. What has been done by Eir is fantastic. For those who have it, 1 Gbps makes them internationally competitive. I met a...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: When the process started a number of years ago, 30 Mbps was considered adequate. Now, anybody who has fibre gets well in excess of 100 Mbps and that is adequate for today. One would hope that we do not get the tail ends all ending up with 30 Mbps which is not really modern broadband. If we are putting the money in, we might as well go the extra mile, put in the fibre and do it right.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: There is an explanation for that. In the case of some of the roads in Connemara, the distances and the costs are far greater because the works involve going through granite. Some of those roads are quite long. One road was done on the way to Leitir Fir. It is a long road. I had it done for the first time ever many years ago. It needed to be done again. Some of these roads are very...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I have no problem leaving it public but on one condition, that is, that there is a maximum per square metre limit. If we do not do that, too much temptation is put in the way of the council councils.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Most of these roads are uniform. They are all approximately the same width and cost. The best thing is to put a unit price on it.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: There is one thing that we have not discussed and it is a big ticket item. We might discuss it briefly. I refer to the Western Development Commission, WDC, under two headings. There is a fair bit of money under the development heading. There was a time that the WDC figured in the narrative of supporting businesses in rural Ireland etc. People ask about supports and nobody seems to know...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree with that.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Many of us were engaged all afternoon with the Heritage Bill. That started at 1.30 p.m. and finished at 4.30 p.m. We have been here for two and a half hours. I have a suggestion if the Minister is agreeable. We have done a good bit of work very thoroughly and much positive stuff has come out. I propose that we agree the Estimate in order that it can go back to the Dáil but that the...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I said we would agree.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: We can do that.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Why would it be a few months away?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I am asking that we do programmes B and C.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not changing the figures anyway. We have no power to change the figures. We say they are agreed and we have gone through them all. We should come back and forensically examine programmes B and C. We have many suggestions on how we should go forward. Otherwise things like the RAPID programme and the local community development committees, LCDCs, will be skimmed over. We will not...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: We are saying we agree the Estimate and a message goes back to Dáil Éireann. That is all we are obliged to do.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: We do not have to do so. If we are happy we have no questions on them today, we can agree them and the message goes back to the Dáil. Nothing in any Standing Order stops us doing that and coming back as long as the Minister on word of honour says he will come in some day and we will have a discussion. We cannot change any figure but we cannot do that anyway. We will do it properly...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to give them the same attention we have given very constructively right across the board to the rural areas on a future day.