Results 12,661-12,680 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Chairman-----

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not agree.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On a point of information, when we come to deal with Schedule 1, what actually happened?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I had intended to have this debate on the schedule because I am seeking the deletion only of the reference to Galway. What happened, which will be a major surprise to my colleague to my right, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan, is that I was listening to the television and I suddenly noticed that Deputy Kyne, my good colleague from Galway who I understand agrees with my position and does not agree...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I came down to the committee room at that stage. I had intended to contribute on the schedule.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When Deputy Kyne contributed, I realised the committee would debate this issue and I wanted to contribute.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wanted to back him up. It will come as a big surprise to my colleague from Limerick to find that his own colleague from Galway shares my view on this and that everything he said about me, presumably he will say about his colleague.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Further, may I put on record that I am fully in support of the development of the harbour in Foynes? As I pointed out earlier, it is further in distance from Galway Port than it is from Cork Harbour.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Nobody is saying that one should get rid of Cork Harbour.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the 2015 basic payment scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39645/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the 2015 basic payment scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39646/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (11 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the 2015 basic payment scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39647/15]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 2:In page 6, after line 44, to insert the following: "Amendment of Electoral Act 1992, Referendum Act 1994 and Presidential Elections Act 1993 in order to change island voting and to provide for related matters 4.(1) Section 85 of Part 15 of the Electoral Act 1992 is hereby repealed. (2) Section 42 of the Presidential Elections Act 1993 is hereby amended by the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about Cork?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First, let us look at the decisions made. Inishbiggle Island in County Mayo has virtually never had a failed sailing. One could not have a failed sailing if one knew where Inishbiggle Island is located and the way boats sail to it from Ballycroy on the mainland. The distance is very short. In fact, one can walk to the island when the tide is out. People on the island vote two days...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I took up the issue with the returning officers but got the usual answer that Cork, including Cape Clear, would do as always and allow people to vote on the day, that Galway would have its poll the day before and that Mayo and Donegal would have theirs two days before. None of them was prepared to change and, in law, returning officers have absolute discretion when deciding on this issue. I...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am pressing it.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not agree.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does that mean one cannot table an amendment on Report Stage?