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Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Okay.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The number of voluntary contributors is small. There is a time limit within which it must be claimed. I think it is a year or two years.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be hugely helpful if, when somebody goes off work and is drawing jobseeker's allowance for whatever reason and making no contribution, that person is notified of the option so people would not come back years later saying they did not realise they could make voluntary contributions.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree, but when people leave employment and the system knows they are gone for a while, they should be positively told. I do not know the Minister’s experience but mine is that, while I find it easy to read contribution records, the date of birth is not on the new ones, which used to be very handy when somebody came in. Now you have to ask for the date of birth. On the other hand,...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The point is an awful lot of people when they get the sheet do not understand it. Therefore, it would be important that people’s attention be drawn to the fact voluntary contributions are possible. Many people seem to come in too late in the day when they get to 66. I agree we have to get people to access contribution records. Not everybody within five or six years of pension age...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be brief. I think more than 3.5 million people at any one time are benefiting from social welfare. That includes parents, and their offspring benefit if they are under 18. That is a huge number of citizens interacting with the social welfare system. When out canvassing you will hear people say, "I never benefited from social welfare". I say, "Do you have a child?", and they say,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he intends increasing the HAP rent limits as due to the continuous increases in rents generally as many tenants are finding it impossible to find accommodation on the market at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52530/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) will be processed and a decision made on it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52034/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for invalidity pension that are on appeal to the Social Welfare Appeals Office; the number that have been under consideration for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and 11 months or a year or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52035/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 625. To ask the Minister for Health when the freeze of a GP’s panel will be lifted to allow patients to transfer to and from the GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52317/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (28 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the rates of refund allowed for specialised spectacles for children in CHO 2 has been reduced, as this cutback is having a big impact on parents of low income whose children require expensive specialised spectacles; the amount of the savings that these cutbacks will accrue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52378/23]

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2023
Vóta 33 - Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus na Meán (23 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Táimid i seomra coiste 2.

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2023
Vóta 33 - Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus na Meán (23 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Pléifidh mé le cúrsaí cumarsáide i dtosach báire. Feicim go bhfuil €16 milliún in airgeadas reatha tugtha do RTÉ. An raibh ar RTÉ briseadh síos a thabhairt ar an úsáid a bhainfidh sé as an €16 milliún sin? Cé mhéad den €16 milliún atá ag dul i dtreo cláir theilifíse sa...

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2023
Vóta 33 - Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus na Meán (23 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabh mo leithscéal ach céard le haghaidh a moladh é? Caithfidh go ndúirt siad go raibh an t-airgead uaidh chun tuilleadh clár Gaeilge a chur ar bun, tuilleadh drámaíochta a chur ar bun nó rud mar sin. Céard le haghaidh atáthar ag úsáid an airgid?