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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I advise the Minister to tell the Department of Transport that it is for walking.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I think the scheme is totally different in different parts of the country. We do not have any lanes in Connemara. They are all bóithrín. They are actually roads and they are not primarily for agriculture. Many of them are going to the bog. However, they are roads that were always there. Take south Connemara where you had the main road and then the road off that going to the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is public roads.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am talking about people who have been left stranded by an incoherent county council policy. There are roads that have existed for hundreds of years, on which there are houses, that are not in the charge of the local authority. That is why the demand is so big for the LIS in places like Galway. In Galway, it is a lot of money. You have a list of really genuine roads, although some are...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, they are not.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is a vexed question as to whether they are public or private. They are all -----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are public rights of way that have been there for years but they are not in the charge of the local authority. You would not know, if it was well tarred by an LIS scheme in the last few years, where the public road ends and the private road begins. We often have to go to the county council to find out where the public road ends and where the non-public road begins because they are part...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We will not sort it today on the Estimates but we need to look at this issue because, as I said, it is a fundamental right in this country to have those five things.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is LIS or nothing.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When will SICAP roll out?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What are the other two?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When will they get a decision?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Galway is getting an awful doing.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not asking the Minister of State to-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When will LEADER roll it out fully? That is up to 2027. It is a seven-year rolling fund up to 2027 but we have only really got 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027 left.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the islands?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will it be outlined in 2024? What new actions that will be implemented on islands in 2024 - I am thinking in particular of housing, which has become a crisis on the islands - on foot on the islands policy published last year?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister recognises this with regard to Croí Cónaithe. The cost of building on an island or doing anything on an island that requires the physical movement of bulky goods does not just involve the cost of transport. We could give the transport for free and it would still not resolve the extra cost issue. If someone was getting something delivered to his or her house, he or...