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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The batteries may be dead.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: In Scotland which is comparable to Ireland there is one national fire service. There was an adviser from Strathclyde. Have the efficiency of utilisation of money and the quality of service been compared to our fragmented system? The National Ambulance Service seems to be achieving synergy across county borders. Has the Scottish system been examined and how does it compare in terms of...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to refer to an interesting statistic that was mentioned by Mr. Nolan. He indicated that An Garda Síochána estimates that crime "statistics divide on a ratio of 70:30" between urban and rural areas. This seems to be in line with something I perceive every week, which is that the risk of my house in rural Connemara being broken into is statistically much less than 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 tabled a series of parliamentary questions approximately a year or a year and a half ago. My understanding is that, in many cases, stations are nominally there but they never open or they certainly do not open on the given hours, days or weeks. It took me a long while to establish that fact, but that is the way it is. Where I live, the issue is not about a physical building - the Garda...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I regret that we are meeting at this hour of the evening and under time pressure, but I hope we can come back to this issue. If the population of rural Ireland continues to decline, it will have a vortex effect in that as the services are withdrawn, the population will decline. What we are doing here must be about revitalising and regrowing rural Ireland. As somebody who comes from Dublin 4...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know dialysis patients get it. It is the other people who do not get it.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I take it there was an ultrasound service in Roscommon.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Was there a CT scan service?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Was there a MRI scan service?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a service in Portiuncula Hospital.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I take it that there was a smaller queue for CT scans in Roscommon.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have one final question which gets to the nub of the dilemma. How great is the willingness within the Irish Medical Organisation to campaign for targeted extra resources to attract people into real rural areas? We need to forget about the petty urban areas, as I call them, places ten or 20 miles from a major city. That is a challenge not only for the Health Service Executive but also for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to outline the reason a breakdown that was requested on behalf a person (details supplied) in respect of a social protection overpayment has not been provided, in view of the fact that this breakdown was requested in 2015; the reason the person has been issued with further notification to repay the debt when this breakdown has not been received...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to revise the eligibility rules for fuel allowances for persons on the rural social schemes in order that they can apply for the scheme each year based on their current circumstances and not on the eligibility for fuel allowance and circumstances that prevailed at the time of joining the scheme. [32865/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide a pension policy for supervisors and assistant supervisors on community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32700/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: CLÁR Programme (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 269. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total allocation under the Clár scheme in 2016 for local access roads; the county allocation if already decided; if this measure applies only to non-county roads; when local authorities were advised as to their allocation under the scheme; the latest date for work to be completed for drawdown of funds in 2016; the detail...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Leader Programmes (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 270. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an agreement has been signed between her Department and Forum Connemara regarding the delivery of the Leader programme in Connemara and the islands; if the programme is operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32864/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Teanga Gaeilge (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 272. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén plé a bhí ag a Roinn le RTÉ maidir leis an bplean gníomhaíochta don Ghaeilge; an bhfuil sé beartaithe ag a Roinn airgead a chur ar fáil don phlean seo agus, má tá, cé mhéad airgid atá i gceist; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [32979/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide extra IWA hours to a person (details supplied) taking into consideration the person's medical condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32557/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 283. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical procedure will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32561/16]