Results 1,501-1,520 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. We face great challenges. If plans and strategies on their own were the solution we would not be here today because we have had plenty of them over the years. However, when we meet Travellers, they do not have houses, accommodation or trailers. They do not have a decent place to live. This is a major challenge. I deal with many people from...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry, but Mr. Joyce might have misunderstood me. I said that some people had been living in 20-year-old caravans. My belief is that seven years is the maximum one would get.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I would not like anyone to think I was saying otherwise. I am not advocating for 20 years. I am sorry for interrupting Mr. Joyce. I have people who have been living in 20-year-old trailers that will not be replaced this year.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. In my knowledge of ordinary scheme housing, although I do not like using that term-----
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. The Traveller accommodation authority would not have a role in respect of those local authority schemes. Rather, it would have a role in all Traveller-specific sites because those are the ones that are not being delivered. Local authority houses are being built – AHBs build many of them – but everyone on the housing list gets in there. That is how it happens in my...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (30 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in relation to the All-Ireland Strategic Rail Review; when it is intended to publish the final report; if, in light of the absence of an Executive in Northern Ireland, he intends implementing immediately the proposals that are totally within this jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52622/23]
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is interesting to look at the history of the averaging system. When pensions initially came in during the 1950s, if there had been a TCA, it would have been impossible for everybody. That continued on and then of course there was another lacuna in the system. There was no self-employed PRSI until 1992 I think. Therefore, if someone had been a farmer or self-employed all his or her...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It was in 1988?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Apologies I thought it was 1992, from memory.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: My second question is, do we know in the last year or two years how many people are better off on TCA versus the averaging system? In other words, everyone goes in and the calculations are done for them and the years spent caring for children are taken into account in one system and are not in the other system. It is all put in a mixing bowl and an answer comes out. Then we either go for...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister clarify what each third is?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That was not the question I asked. I asked about this year.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Do we know for real so we are not guessing? For this year, when the calculation and the mixing bowl is done, and the TCA and averaging calculations are done, do we know how many-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How many did they then actually do on the averaging and on the TCA? That is why I was a bit puzzled about the third, third, and the third because there are only two choices. It is binary. I spend time, like every other TD I presume, looking at the contribution records and doing the calculations - getting the kid's birth dates and all of the rest. At the moment, it seems that a lot more...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I would never begrudge anybody and I am sure the Minister would not either.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I would say the Minister's heart bleeds for the person who did five weeks at 18 and then started back at 54 years of age and they lose out because of the few extra contributions. I agree that the averaging is full of anomalies. However I am still interested to find out how many people in the last year - because that is an actuality of fact - were better off on the averaging system, given...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister outline exactly what is in section 9? It seems to relate to income exempt from limits.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How will this tie in when we get into pay-related measures?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Leas-Chathaoirleach is in an awful hurry. Will the Minister outline the operation of section 13?