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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scéimeanna Rannacha (16 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén ráta deontais caipitíochta a íocfar le bunscoileanna don scoilbhliain 2023/2024; cén uair a íocfar é; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [50434/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (16 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the total current number of prisoners who have been convicted of a sexual offence, by prison and gender and age, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50416/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (16 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the number of prisoners committed under sentence for sexual offences each year from 2018 to present, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (16 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the number of prisoners committed for sexual offences who have completed the Building Better Lives programme over the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50418/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I think this is very useful. I have done a bit of homework. I was listening in my office to this debate and had read the documentation beforehand. At the end of the day, broadband points and hubs are important but they are complementary to what everybody in my area is looking for from me. They are looking for two things, one of which is mobile phone coverage. There are parts of my area,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the date? When does the seven years end?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: At the end of the day, it always reminds me of a meeting that I was at years ago. We were talking about roads because what do they talk about in rural Ireland but roads? There was a man there who had a very poor boreen to his house and he asked me where all this European money for roads was going. I mentioned a very big road that was 60 miles away from him but still in County Galway, just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They get more information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does that information get updated in respect of the fact that NBI has just started the survey or has just started the build out, and then, obviously, the bingo day? There is a reason that I am asking this. The constituents in the non-NBI area and the non-fibre area, because Eir has fibre as well, are not without broadband. There is virtually nobody without broadband, particularly if there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Our advice to them, therefore, is to register with their eircode because they will get real-time updates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When one person in an area is given information, the oldest form of communication then clicks in, namely bush telegraph – person-to-person communication between neighbours.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let me address a very specific point first. I did not see Clare Island and Inishturk, County Mayo, in the documentation, although I might have read it incorrectly. The southern Inishturk is in west Galway. That is a very technical point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could I be told about Clare Island and Inishturk, County Mayo?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, that is Inishturk south.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The document should refer to the Mayo Inishturk and Clare Island. Could information be got on these? I looked through the document twice but saw only Inishturk south, but that is in Galway, not Mayo.