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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (9 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide further funding in respect of home help hours scheme and the home care package scheme for persons in need of these hours; if his attention has been drawn to the severe cutbacks made in these hours in respect of these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34017/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (9 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide extra home help hours for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34028/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transfer of Entitlements Application (9 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the processing of an application for the transfer of entitlements submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be completed; the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33882/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (8 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of life sentence prisoners in custody in 2015; the breakdown of the number of life sentence prisoners in custody convicted of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, sexual offences and any other offence; if, in the case of any other offence, she will specify the offence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33328/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (8 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of men and women respectively in custody serving a life sentence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33329/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services Staff (8 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if community welfare officers who transferred from the HSE to his Department retained their Gaeltacht allowances if they had one; if these allowances were considered as part of the pay of CWOs for pension purposes; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33350/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Remuneration (8 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if community welfare officers that transferred into his Department from the HSE were given undertakings on transfer and that these CWOs were paying 5% pension contributions as long as they were with the HSE, something that civil servants at the time were not paying, they should now be reimbursed these contributions; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Grades (8 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of an application made by the Veterinary Officers' Association to his Department in February 2016 seeking to have civil service grades of veterinary inspector and research officer listed as grades meriting professional, technical and specialist added years; if his Department has yet sought further information from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (8 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 325. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide sufficient home help hours for a person (details supplied) in order for the person to be able to remain at home in view of the fact that they were previously told they would be allocated with 32 hours weekly and that they were a high dependency case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33416/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Funding (8 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 330. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to a voluntary organisation (details supplied) in order to buy defibrillators for the area under their remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33436/16]

Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about St. Valentine's Day?

Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom ar dtús báire mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leo siúd a ghlac páirt sa díospóireacht seo athuair. Is aisteach an rud é, ach is iad na pointí ceanann céanna iad roinnt de na pointí a tháinig suas inniu is a tháinig suas anuraidh nuair a bhí an cheist seo os chomhair na Dála cheana. I would like to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What has been said here today has been very frank and useful. I thank the witnesses for sharing their thoughts with us on what is happening in Maghaberry. Those of us who have been there frequently would say that the witnesses have expressed very succinctly what we believed. I initially became involved in the prison issue back in 1994. I spent about three years on it and was over and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have had many processes one after another and we are now into Fresh Start. What happens if it states it is integration and that is it? In all my long life I have never seen a situation where we always seem to be going backwards even when we think we are going forward. Is there a chance this will create a new problem rather than resolving old problems?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My concern about integration is that ordinary decent criminals from west Belfast will end up with people who think they are part of a paramilitary organisation and they will not accept this, and we will spend another two years having this argument rather than moving forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we have learned anything about this, it is we will not get a quick win. If we do it will be fantastic, but it has not happened to date. Therefore, we need a process so if nothing happens we keep coming back. If I was asked what is the most likely issue to destabilise the situation North and South it is prisons. We know a totally different approach is taken in the two jurisdictions on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 136. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be provided 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. [33181/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has been issued with a hospital bill for respite care; if he will confirm that persons availing of this service are entitled to 30 days respite free of charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33235/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Industry Regulation (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that insurance companies are using leased taxi plates to drive up driver insurance premiums on the basis that a leased taxi plate remains in the ownership of the licence holder as does the insurance policy attached to it, thus not allowing the lessee to benefit from a no claims bonus on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses for coming in. As for our main remit as a committee, we are obviously interested in every facet of life and I would love to discuss the Traveller issue with the witnesses but we are not here to do that. In regard to rurality and services, I note the times for the fire engine call outs. As one would expect, the further one goes from the centre, the longer it takes to...