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Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the way the reduced budget allocation for older people announced in the Health Service Executive 2013 Service Plan will impact on services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7512/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Commemorative Stamp Programme (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if it is intended to issue a stamp in 2014 to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Davis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7849/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the decisions taken by the previous Government in relation to private waste water systems on foot of the judgement in the European Court of Justice, in October 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8045/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Service Staff (13 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers for children now in place; her target for the end of 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7350/13]

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm go bhfuil deis agam cúpla focal a rá ar an ábhar seo. What happened was wrong and should not have happened. We must deal with the issue in hand and then examine the issue to which my colleague Deputy Michael Moynihan alluded. We must ask whether anything happening today is wrong and not being dealt with. Every generation believes it has got it right...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An amendment was promised in regard to the abolition of Seanad Éireann. When is it expected to publish the Bill to do that? A Bill was promised in the programme for Government that is not on the A or B list, namely, the regulation of lobbying Bill. When will it be published? The third Bill I want to raise with the Taoiseach is the human tissue Bill, which has been promised for a long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion with Teagasc, NARGC and Golden Eagle Trust (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First, I apologise that I must leave in a few minutes to go back into the Dáil. I thank Ms Keena for her presentation. There is a great deal of debate yet to take place before we resolve this issue. Until there was interference with farmers through the schemes and by the Department and everybody else, farmers kept the land in good farming order. Before payments such as the ewe...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When I went to school I learned the aimsir fháistineach. I did not say the Minister had brought a proposal to Cabinet but that he intended to do so. Can the Taoiseach reassure the House that when he does introduce such a proposal it will be rejected by the Taoiseach and the Cabinet, and that we will continue to do this in a equitable way, which is to assess families on their incomes?...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: These and many other schemes were very important to rural communities.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Taoiseach utterly confirm that no such proposal will be approved in this calendar year with regard to third level grants?

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A Cheann Comhairle, I ask the Taoiseach to withdraw that statement. No funds from dormant accounts were ever paid for any road in this country.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Taoiseach made a totally false allegation, and I ask him to withdraw it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is absolutely not true, and the Taoiseach knew it was not true. He knew also that when I was spending money-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Maigh Eo freisin.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the most memorable promises given before the Taoiseach came into government was by the now Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, who said the Labour Party, on coming into power, would reverse the charges for third level students. We all remember the iconic photograph of the Minister signing the famous contract outside Trinity College. He then set up SUSI. It...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister, Deputy Quinn, recently nailed his colours to the mast in expressing his bias against the sole trader and, in particular, the farming community. He made an unfounded allegation that they could manipulate their incomes so as to obtain grants. Last week, the Minister confirmed that it is his intention to bring proposals to the Government to classify working farms as so-called...

Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes Payments (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When the Minister found these unspent funds, he might explain the reason he did not use them to continue the existing suckler cow welfare scheme for bigger herds, with perhaps some limitations. He might also explain the difference between the suckler cow welfare scheme and the beef data programme? How will they differ from each other from the farmer's point of view?

Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes Expenditure (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What was the allocation for the TAMS in 2012? The Minister stated that the level of expenditure was €15 million, but what was the outturn? I presume he was implying that the €9 million relating to the sow welfare scheme would be taken up. Is he of the view that the remainder of the overall allocation will be taken up in full?

Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister favour having the ability to set the cap in Ireland and that every other country could do the same in order to suit each country's own particular circumstances? The Minister talks blithely about inactive farmers doing very little. In my view, the truth is that farmers who have low payments often have low payments because they happen to have been born in an area of poor...

Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (12 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister provide that information to me? It would be very useful to have this information, that the Minister can prove that the farmers in receipt of high payments are highly active as of 2012. Irrespective of what new reference year is put in place for the new CAP, under the Minister's approximation method will the payment be relative to the entitlements they achieved in the years...