Results 1,101-1,120 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Where are they?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the capacity? What is the capacity, if it was at full capacity?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is this with the agreement of------
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How long would that-----
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have one question and I will then turn to Cork. How long, in real time, is it estimated to take between planning, design and up and down to the Department? I do not know why there so much going up and down. The county council should be given its money just as semi-State bodies are and spend it and if a mess is made of that, then it can account to the members and the auditor. Constantly...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Dublin have to confirm that design?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Are the Department's architects in Dublin somehow better qualified than Mayo's? Did they go to better universities or something?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that. I have faith in Mayo County Council but it amazes me. The same thing happened with the water schemes. They went to Uisce Éireann. Billions of euro went to that and it was told to go off and do it. The same thing happened with roads but now they give big lump sums to TII and off it goes and does it. There seems to be a nanny-state attitude to local authorities that...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Mr. Gilligan think there is a need for all this? Could Mayo County Council not design and build it up to standard without the Department telling it how to do it?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have been around a long time. I was on a local authority and my experience is that every time a file is moved, it takes time, there are questions and delays. All I ever think about when all this is happening and everything is going to be done perfectly, there are people desperately waiting. According to the figures in the report, 34 families are living on the roadside.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They are in caravans. They are in irregular situations to put it mildly, which are very poor.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there any living by the roadside on unofficial halting sites?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there people living on unofficial halting sites?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Are many families there?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The real need is easy enough to project because of family formation. There is a big demand because there is an overhang of 34 that are in informal arrangements and not in HAP, RAS or private rentals, which would be HAP nowadays because very few people get rent allowance from social welfare. In addition, another 44 are coming on stream. There is a big demand. What plans are there to meet...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We have the following in Galway and everywhere. We have endless plans - a group plan, TAPs and whatever else. We see it not only with Traveller housing but generally. The problem is that it only seems to get bigger; it does not seem to get less. People come into my office homeless and many of them are Travellers. I think it is 50% of those in Galway. There are many people on the streets...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: When was that approved?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Were they opposing housing-----
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: People come in with written letters. The system should not judge by volume but by the validity of the objection. We know this because sociological studies prove this. It is an absolute fact there is a prejudice against Travellers. These are objective studies. Presumably, many of those did not make valid planning points about accommodation that would overrule this absolutely urgent need...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not speculating. I do not have a clue what it may do. The council might pass it the first time. I believe all of us in life have some contingency plans if it happens that it goes the other way. I have been disappointed, where it has gone the other way in other councils, and this is something that has happened around the country, that the chief executives have not used their powers to...