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Family Home Mortgage Settlement Arrangement Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is happening all the time. I will hear this great argument put forward to the effect that the Government could not help the ordinary people because of the moral hazard. Most ordinary people who bought family homes did so in good faith and paid the price in the market at the time. In the case of family homes, they bought them because they wanted to have a family home. Talk to them...

Family Home Mortgage Settlement Arrangement Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Basically, tá na maidí ligthe le sruth. The Government is like a guy sitting in a boat who has allowed the oars to fall out and who is letting the boat drift down the river. In the meantime, the rate of repossession is escalating. Next week, representatives of Phoenix Project Ireland are coming to Leinster House. I have worked with the project closely since I was a Minister and...

Family Home Mortgage Settlement Arrangement Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is difficult to follow Deputy Troy, who was very eloquent in his articulation of what needs to be done. Most of the solutions that have been put in place to address this issue are not actually solutions. It appears the Government is hoping that if it sits there for long enough, this problem will solve itself and it will not be obliged to get involved. I am absolutely stunned that the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the organic farming scheme will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8752/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the method he will apply to include young farmers in the national reserve, if this is oversubscribed; if he plans on cutting the maximum amount of entitlements allocated to each farmer, or the value of the entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8753/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the price being paid at present for reactor cattle by his Department; the way this relates to the price in 2014; the method by which this price is calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8754/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the qualification that is required for persons to provide training under the new mandatory training courses for persons wishing to use an agricultural sprayer; the courses that have to be followed to receive this qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8755/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cross-compliance and rural environment protection scheme or agri-environment options scheme inspections carried out by Department inspectors in 2014; the number that resulted in no penalty; the number that resulted in a penalty of less than 10%; of between 10% and 50%; of between 50% and 99% per cent; of 100%; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department is applying land eligibility penalties, in cases of under-utilisation of agricultural land, instead of applying good agricultural and environmental conditions criteria, based on the severity of under-grazing of the land; if a farmer can be penalised for only using rough grazing on a seasonal basis; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 362. To ask the Minister for Health when an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway to the Health Service Executive, in relation to a refusal to pay the rural practice allowance, will be decided; the reason for the delay with this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8757/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 462. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he will accede to this Deputy's request for a meeting on behalf of this Deputy and on behalf of other Teachtaí Dála and Senators, who regularly visit prisoners in Northern Ireland; the reason for the delay with this meeting, despite numerous requests, and in view of the heightened tensions in the prisons there; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Natural Gas Grid (3 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 581. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to his reply to this Deputy on 29 January 2015 regarding the extension of the natural gas grid, whether Gaslink replied to his request to meet this Deputy; if Gaslink indicated it would meet this Deputy in view of the fact that this Deputy has had no contact from Gaslink in the meantime; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Regulations (26 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 87. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there have been discussions between his Department and the local enterprise offices in relation to grant-aid to companies and businesses which require training in order to be able to comply with the new regulation requiring a CE (Conformité Européenne) mark on structural steel; the progress made with this matter; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department plans to use the option, under the permanent grassland rules as set out in article 4(h) of the Direct Payments Regulation 1307/2014, to identify land, which forms part of the established practices, where herbs and grasses are traditionally not predominant in the grazing area; if so, the areas that will be defined...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (26 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if any new surgeons have been employed by the Health Service Executive to carry out kidney transplants in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8689/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Fostaíocht sa Ghaeltacht (26 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 260. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén líon daoine atá fostaithe sa tionscal nua toitíní leictreonacha i gCorr na Móna, Co. na Gaillimhe; cén líon a bhfuil súil leis a bheith fostaithe ann ag deireadh na bliana seo; cén mhoill a bhaineann leis an tionscal seo a chur ar bun; agus an ndéanfaidh sí...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The issue of donor-assisted pregnancy and so on. My understanding is that a baby produced in this way will be entitled, on reaching 18 years of age, to information regarding his or her genetic mother but will have not have any right to a relationship per sewith the mother, and vice versa. The Minister might say that the same currently applies in relation to sperm donation, which is another...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The procedure is vital here because the problem is that we will never get to deal with what is in this Bill. This is the problem with the process being driven by this Government for some agenda that is hard to understand. Good process is good process, and it is good process with every Bill. If we want to see the dangers of what I would call this consensus-driven "let's get it through and...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I believe the way this is being done is very wrong. Very rarely in my time in the House, other than with finance and consolidation Bills, have I seen a Bill this large being published. It is a very large Bill, containing 172 sections and an amount of detail. The Minister published it last Friday within the Dáil. That goes against all the protocols we were assured we would have about...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (25 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 101. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when 2014 payment will issue under the agri-environment options scheme 1 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8380/15]