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Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but the Minister also said it was as per normal procedure. When I was a Minister I tried to avoid any carry over for many reasons. There are two carry forwards involved here. One is €13 million that she will carry forward with the deferred sanction, which has its downsides. It should be spent within the calendar year. The second is that the Minister is having another...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The technique here is to ensure there are enough things coming through that it does get spent.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but the trick is to ensure there are enough. I always described it as a conveyor belt carrying little stones. Some of them might get caught up in the conveyor belt, but if there are enough stones on the conveyor belt there will be enough stones emerging at the end of it to keep the factory going. I am very critical that up to €30 million has not been spent on the ground with...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister of State set out the annual subsidy paid to Aran Island Ferries up to 2012 for the year-round service to the island? This is the whole issue. The subsidy tied it down. Was any estimate made in the Department of the extra cost that would have arisen if Inis Mór had been bundled with Inis Meáin and Inis Oirr, like what happens with bus services and so on? In...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the reversal to having the three islands together, which I believe is the only answer. Will the Minister of State clarify the latest date for the guaranteed air service to the island in the absence of any announcement from the Department of a successful bidder? My understanding is that the Department extended the current service to the end of the year. I have a horrid feeling...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there any costs being borne by Galway County Council in respect of the construction of the pier on Inis Mór? My understanding is that the council took out a foreshore licence to construct the pier. Then, instead of paying it down in cash, the council is paying for it on the never-never. The county council, in turn, is trying to get the islanders to pay for the foreshore licence....

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let me finish because it is very important. The Department is now charging the islanders for the use of the pier when it refused to allow this to be an accessible cost in the tender process. Is there any way of getting rid of the foreshore licence by giving the money to pay it once off, so it need not be charged against the islanders?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, line 23, after “habitats” to insert the following:“and the Minister may carry out further reviews of other National Heritage areas (in this section referred to as ‘other reviews’) as she or he sees fit”. I welcome this Bill but it is too narrow. The Bill basically allows the Minister to de-designate some NHA raised...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Each of the amendments is related and to change one means to change them all. The purpose of the amendments is to say that in every section where raised bog is mentioned in the Bill that one would say, "and other" to allow for the inclusion of other habitats. One has to do it right throughout the Bill in order to be consistent. The amendments are all basically the same and the effect is...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The process the Minister has followed to date has been an administrative one. It was not set down in law.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not saying that was not the case, but it was an administrative process. Presumably, if the Minister were going to change a blanket bog or any other NHA - they are not all blanket bogs and raised bogs - as she has done in this case, before she would use the law to change it, she would follow the exact same process. Therefore, the argument put up by the Minister does not hold water. ...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Something very important has arisen in what the Minister said. It states in the Bill that the Minister shall continue to conduct and complete the review known for the time being as the 2014 Review of Raised Bog Natural Heritage Area Network. The section refers to the review of raised bog habitats. It lays down quite clearly in law that one cannot willy-nilly, even with a raised bog,...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The proposed new section to the principal Act states: "The Minister shall continue to conduct and complete the review" and in my amendment I propose that the Minister can carry out other reviews. The proposed new section states the first thing the Minister must do is carry out a review and it outlines the purposes of the review that would be carried out if it extended not only to blanket...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will go through the process of pressing my amendment but I will also take up the Minister's offer.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 3:In page 3, line 24, after “review” to insert “and other reviews”.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 4:In page 3, line 26, after “bog” to insert “and other”.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 5:In page 3, line 27, after “bog” to insert “and other”.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 6In page 5, line 16, after “bog” to insert “or other habitats”.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 7In page 5, line 20, after “bog” to insert “or other”.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 8:In page 5, line 29, after “bog” to insert “or other habitats”.