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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a valid and interesting concept. As politicians, I think that we would all agree with it. When I was a Minister, I had a policy of never refusing a delegation from anyone and I went off and met the delegations as opposed to them coming to me. I agree with Dr. Hughes that there is a very serious role in that regard. However, one could say that us Teachtaí Dála from rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Dr. Hughes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hear the nice words, but in cold cash, we are putting in the resources because we have to. If we are going to double the size of Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford and deal with the crazy problems Dublin city already has with its present population, we are going to have to put in megabucks. We all admit that Dublin is growing. Therefore it is going to take more and more megabucks....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can we get to the urban deprivation issue? It is wrong. If one thinks that there are challenges in rural Ireland, we must be honest that the challenges in rural Ireland with regard to lifestyle quality pale into total insignificance when compared with disadvantaged urban areas. Is there a plan in this great model to eliminate the drug problem in Dublin, the total social deprivation and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have to leave to speak in defence of sheep farmers in the Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am very worried that we are going to get a spatial strategy that does not take the most important component into account, namely people. With the Department's last "put them all in Dublin" strategy ten or 15 years ago, I predicted what I call the "melting ice cream effect". In other words, the design of the Department was for everyone to live in concentrated city centres. It would all be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not closing the towns. I am saying the towns are closing themselves.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We happen to have a Tesco as well as a Supervalu in my nearest big town. If one took those out, they would just go to the next big towns of Castlebar and Galway. Anybody who thinks people are still going to go to the little high street store, park the car and drag their bags back one by one should get real. It is not going to happen. We have to plan for what real people do. I am very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to make the point rather than ask a question. Since Eir started rolling out broadband - and there are many people 100 yards beyond the point to which the service is provided - what we are finding is that there is a quiet revolution taking place and people are only working odd days in cities. More and more of them are working more days at home. They commute into cities now and again...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application which was submitted to his Department by Galway City Council in September 2016 for a foreshore licence for the provision of the Sáilín to Silverstrand coastal protection works and greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24990/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (24 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 242. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce an accreditation system and approval body for nutritionists similar to that already in operation for dietitians to ensure standards of practice and skills by those claiming to be nutritionists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24991/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (23 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when funding will be provided to Galway County Council by his Department to enable it to process applications under the housing aid for older people, housing adaptation and mobility aids grant schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (23 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 476. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that there are sufficient occupational therapy services available to eliminate the waiting list for assessments for children in need of these services in the CHO west region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24296/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 504. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical assessment appointment for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a date for this appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24473/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (23 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the beef cow data and genomics scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason this payment has not issued to date even though payment has been approved since March 2016;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24715/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications (18 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive an ANC payment for 2016 in view of the fact that they had sufficient stock on their farm to qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23768/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (17 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 217. To ask the Minister for Health if he will re-open a medical card application for a person (details supplied) in view of exceptional circumstances which were out of the person's control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23475/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Licences (17 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will publish the 26 submissions received as part of the review of replacement capacity under the sea fishing licensing regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23430/17]

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Plean Infheistíochta agus Scéimeanna Teanga (Atógáil): An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (16 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is é a bhí sa straitéis ná straitéis leathan agus cuimsitheach agus ní mionphleananna le cur chun cinn na Gaeilge a chinntiú thar thréimhse 20 bliain. Sin a bhí i gceist taobh istight den mhórstraitéis seo agus is é sin an fáth nach bhfuil mionsonraí socraithe ann nó leagtha síos ann. Bhí i gceist go...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Plean Infheistíochta agus Scéimeanna Teanga (Atógáil): An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (16 May 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Leathanach a 8.