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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but what we are finding, taking my constituency and Connemara, is that there are growing populations in the parts from which it is possible to commute to Galway. My understanding is that beyond a place called Camas, in Rosmuck, which the Minister will have heard of, Kilkieran, Carna, Roundstone and Ballyconneely, around that big circle, in Recess and around Clifden, populations are in...

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: 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: 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: The questions that I am being asked are, first, are these systems as secure as fibre? I have no doubt that they are but we will have to look into that further. Second, are they subject to contention? In other words, what happens if everyone gets on at the same time? Third, if this is the solution, why is it not being rolled out around the country to the boxes? Fourth, can we have it so...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: What Mr. Mulligan said is right. I am not dreaming of stopping what is going. I would not in my wildest dreams. However, what I would also say is that Government has to be proactive, and has to go way beyond where the commercial company is going to go. The Government might have to directly fund it, as it did with NBI, and say, "Hang on a second. If we leave it to the commercial market,...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The situation does not seem to be quite how I understood it. I believed that that funding could be used for any infrastructural shortfall in, for example, piers, roads, coastal erosion, health, education, power, communications, recreation or community. It could be obtained in all sorts of creative ways, for example, co-funding, solitary funding, part funding, total funding or with the...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Mr. O'Brien clarify? It was my suspicion that there has been a massive change in policy and instead of all infrastructure, including social, educational, recreational communications and energy, as well as local authority infrastructure, being in the mix, the Department is now more or less confining itself to piers, roads, village renewal, LIS, which is roads but non-county roads, etc....

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The specific issue is whether the Department is looking at the gamut of capital public infrastructure and making sure the islands are on a par with the mainland.

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Agreements (9 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if there are new protocols or arrangements under discussion at the WHO in relation to dealing with future pandemics; when it is proposed that the final documents in relation to this will be agreed; whether in the event of Ireland signing this protocol or arrangement this country will then be legally obliged to follow instructions from the WHO as to how...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 136. To ask the Minister for Health when adequate facilities for modern medicine will be provided at a health centre (details supplied) as this health centre lack the necessary space suitable for the wider range of services that are and will in the future need to be provided from rural health general practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49033/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (7 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure there is an adequate bus service on the 419 bus route from Galway to Clifden and Letterfrack; the improvements that are planned for the service on the route particularly at peak traffic hours and late night services leaving Galway up to 11.00 pm to Clifden and Letterfrack; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree with the principle of what we are trying to achieve here. When partial capacity was introduced back in the budget of 2011, the thinking at the time was that it would extend the disability allowance and that we would move forward from where we were. I agree with the basic or big principles, but of course, like everything else, the detail is what really counts at the end of the day....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...was there is an interface between jobseeker's allowance and disability allowance which is reaching a point where it will be our mark now as there will be three levels of disability allowance. At the lowest level of disability allowance, tier 3, there is an interface and a no-man's land for those who are not going to pass the test of being disabled yet, on the other hand, to a point are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not counting those as refusals until a person has gone through the review and appeal. How many get turned down at the end of the process? Everything else is only interim. The claim is live as long as there is no final decision. What we are looking for is the number of refusals as a final decision. I accept what Mr. Hession is saying. We all know the certification can be an issue....

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I offer my condolences to everybody who has died in this horrendous war. In particular, I offer condolences to the families of Kim Damti and Emily Hand. It is important, as has been said, that we do not forget our peacekeepers in the Middle East, who are doing a hugely difficult and important job at great risk, as well as aid workers and diplomats, and all the other people trying to move...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One problem about the modern world is that you get so much information but how much is useful? I find the statistics very useful but it does not break it down to the granular level to make the policy changes we need. On this side of the table, we do not get the outputs. We know how many people are on a State pension and we know how much a €1 increase costs. That is easy enough for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is if the statistics were included in the report. That is what I am getting at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will leave it at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I make a very quick point, please? The data are very useful. There is an absolute binge going on at the moment about the increase for a qualified adult, IQA. The Department is writing out to many people and I understand the way the data are got because it knows who to write to, where data matching is going on between certain accounts. Arising from that, many people are being caught...