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Other Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is staring us in the face is the fact that the number of one-teacher schools will increase from four to 60, as the Minister's policy progresses. In regard to island schools, can he confirm that if the number of pupils falls below eight for one year, the number must then increase to 20 to get back the second teacher? Does he think it is likely or possible that will happen in schools on...

Other Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We had the case of the school in Inis Meáin where the number of pupils dropped for one year but the school authorities were told that they will have to meet the new threshold figure - we appealed that decision in every way possible and made personal appeals to the Minister - which now is 20 to get back the second teacher. It is not a question of the school bringing the number of pupils...

Other Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I sincerely welcome that. That is very progressive and important. I am glad the Minister has recognised the unique community situation on the island and, in many cases, the unique cultural heritage that we have inherited. I have often pointed out that we keep crying over the Blasket Islands, but the culture that was there is long gone but that culture is alive and well on islands like Inis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS 1 and DEIS 2 schools in the country; if this number has increased in the past three years; if he review the eligibility criteria for this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16340/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Service Provision (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to ensure that all residents of the State can access the Saorview system; if the concept of universal free to air television forms part of his policy platform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17001/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 122. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the CEDRA, the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas, report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17000/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment Facilities Inspections (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 123. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of private wastewater schemes broken down by county that were inspected to date under the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012; the number that required remedial work broken down on the same basis; the number of applications received for grants for the upgrade of these systems following inspection also broken...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Traveller accommodation upgrades and provision is eligible for housing regeneration funding in view of the extremely poor accommodation of many Travellers; if it is intended to take a national planned approach to the provision of Traveller housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17005/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Funding (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected annual spend, broken down by year and by sub-programme, of the Common Agricultural Policy rural development programme 2014-2020, for example, ANC payments, agri-environmenal schemes, genomics, etc.; a similar breakdown of the projected final spend under the CAP programme 2007-2014; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of fishermen who have applied for grants for loss of lobster pots and shrimp pots, respectively, due to the storms this winter; the number who have received payment to date; the total payment made under this scheme to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16999/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Herd Numbers (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a change in the rules relating to joint herd numbers; if so, the details of the changes; the reason for the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17003/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheepmeat Sector (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if interim compensation will be paid by his Department to sheep farmers in the Twelve Bens-Maam Turk area of Connemara, who left the REP scheme in December 2013 and will not be able to join the new GLAS scheme until 2015 due to the delay in approving Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy; if not, the reason; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Census (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of sheep returned on the sheep census for the following P246 Achill, P247 Currane; P248 Dooegs and P249 Slievemore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17006/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (9 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is anything in the new regulations for the Common Agricultural Policy programme 2014-2020 that would preclude him from including farm forestry planted before 2008 as eligible land for the purposes of the new basic payment and the new greening payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17008/14]

Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (8 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has some arrangement in place, but if a client is in dispute with the financial institution that has bought his or her loan, where does he or she go to enforce the rights he or she would have been able to enforce if the institution was covered by the legislation as a covered institution? Is all of this not putting the cart before the horse? Why did the Minister not introduce...

Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (8 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister did not answer my first question.

Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (8 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he does not propose extending the consumer protection and recourse to the Financial Ombudsman to the mortgage holders who are at present with Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in the event of the mortgage book of IBRC being sold to an entity outside this jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15985/14]

Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (8 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand that two-thirds of the mortgage loan book of IBRC has been sold, or has been announced as having been sold. This leaves many customers of what was the Irish Nationwide Building Society without the consumer protection and recourse to the Financial Ombudsman they enjoyed previously. What action is the Minister taking to ensure this protection is afforded to these mortgage holders?

Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (8 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was difficult to catch everything the Minister said, but am I right in thinking that the legal position is that the arrangements the Minister has made have no legal status and are totally unenforceable and that this is a case of what might be called light-touch regulation, whereby there is some kind of moral understanding, but if a dispute arises people have no recourse to the mechanisms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Overview of Land Use: EPA and Teagasc (8 Apr 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to make a supplementary point. We have not seen GLAS, but the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, was task driven. Is Dr. Ó hUallacháin saying that a high-conservation status area requires the right level of farming to be maintained, that being, what was done traditionally and no more or less? In places like the Burren, farming went from one extreme to the other, for...