Results 161-180 of 1,152 for long speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Proposed Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... All it states beside it in the right-hand margin is that work is under way. I find this extraordinary. My understanding is that the logistical difficulties of bringing the Bill back in have long been resolved and that all the Government has to do is bring it back on Final Stage where it stopped before. A number of amendments were made in the Seanad but 11 were Government amendments...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Special Educational Needs (14 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the appointment of readers for leaving Certificate examination students to allow readers to include language modifiers for Leaving certificate candidates whose disability has a very substantial and long-term effect resulting in very persistent and significant difficulties in accessing and processing information and whose role would be to clarify the carrier language in the examination...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (5 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...for that period. This is contrary to basic human rights. A fundamental tenet of the law has to be that everybody is not only entitled to justice but to justice in good time. There are also much longer remands in Northern Ireland than in most states. Has the Minister raised concerns or is she willing to raise concerns about these incredibly long periods of remand and bail? If the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (5 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Minister alluded to has had a ceasefire since January 2018. I understand that is accepted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. However, its members have, in some cases, been on bail for a long period. People who were associated with that organisation are often stopped and searched. This is of great concern. The level of stopping and searching in republican and nationalist...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (5 Jul 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would ask the Minister about the interaction between her Department and the authorities in Northern Ireland. As she knows, I have worked for a long time quietly in the background trying to promote dialogue and discussion and trying to persuade people that the way forward for us all on this island is through that dialogue and political activism. I would like an update from the Minister on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...incremental steps in the right direction. However, I will say, as would all my colleagues, that it is still probably too little. The witnesses might be able to tell me how many people are long-term unemployed. In other words, how many people have been on jobseeker's allowance for longer than one year? It is fine to say the unemployment rate is 4.5% and that we have full unemployment...

Higher Education Investment and Costs: Statements (2 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...future. There was a big move in the early part of the last decade towards applied research, getting results and working in projects that would give commercial results. We need to look at that again and make sure that this country is doing top-level, blue-sky research. It is a long-term investment. There is no immediate return. Many of the things we have talked about in the past few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...but one has to have 520 contributions paid sometime in one's life, between whatever time one started working, which could include holiday work and so on. It is not confined to full-time work. As long as one earns €38 a week, one gets an A-rated stamp, but one has to have ten years. I am curious to find out if the witnesses know or could find out how many foster parents would get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...years' worth of contributions is being talked about for everybody in the future. The contributions can be either paid or credited. Once you get over the first hurdle, you just need to credit, as long as there is no limit. If someone is required to provide care for the child well beyond 12 years, that case is a no-brainer. The idea of the 12 years is that when the child goes to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to support those suffering from long-Covid symptoms including extreme fatigue, brain-fog, neurological symptoms, severe nerve pain, severe itching, epilepsy and gastric issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26993/22]

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... One relates to prison conditions for segregated prisoners, including strip-searching, controlled movement, isolation and lack of education facilities. Incessant stop and search is carried out on the families of perceived dissenting republicans. There are long remands, of up to three years, and strict bail for up to eight years before cases are brought to trial. There also seems to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...said they had a plan that, at a very modest cost, would improve people's self-esteem and self-worth. That is what work and activity does for people who are unemployed. That is medically proven. As long as we can create useful positions for people, everybody who is long-term unemployed should have the opportunity to go on a scheme. That is why I asked about the Tús RSS in community...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...and I have not received it. Will the Minister give an assurance that the assisted decision-making (capacity) (amendment) Bill will be published in this session? It is a very important Bill and it is long overdue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...is something we will have to reflect on again after this meeting. One thing that comes across very clearly, particularly where people have children with a disability, is that it involves a very long period in their lives. It is indefinite, effectively. On the law of averages, often with older people, it is shorter-term care and could be quite finite. Things were looked at in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I just say that I agree with the long game? However, what I think will happen is that a commission, expert body or whatever else will get a report. We are talking a minimum of two, three or four years down the road. I have been here long enough to know that. In the meantime, the house is burning down and the pressure is on the carers. We need a dual strategy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (10 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I deeply appreciate that. My difficulty is not with the Garda and PSNI relationship, which is Naomi Long's devolved Department of Justice of Northern Ireland relationship with the Department of Justice here. I am more concerned about British security in Northern Ireland, which is a serious problem and a serious impediment to getting rid of violence on this island once and for all. Instead...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when full family visits will recommence in the prisons across the country in view of the general lifting of restrictions in society and the long period during which such visits were not possible from early 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16185/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Education Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the reply, but to certain extent it reminded me of Tim Figgerty from long ago, although the Minister is probably too young to have ever heard of him. He was a mythical figure who used to get the figs into the Fig Rolls. He went missing and the story that a certain biscuit manufacturer had was that nobody would ever find out how to get the figs into the Fig Rolls and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government raised the fuel allowance last autumn because it realised it was inadequate even at the old prices. The free electricity allowance has been at the same level for a long time. It no longer relates to units but to a cash amount. In the old days, if the price went up, the units allowed stayed the same so it made no difference and the cost did not increase. However, that was...

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...A comprehensive survey was done on attitudes on pluralism and diversity in Ireland. That professional work was published by Dr. Micheál Mac Gréil, a sociologist in Maynooth, in 2011 as part of a long series where he could tell us the attitude towards every group in Irish society. It is interesting that he dedicates the book as follows: "This book is dedicated to the...