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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the ACRES scheme; the number for which the Department have received the scorecard from the relevant ACRES advisors; the number of these that have been checked and validated to date; whether when this is done if participants will be informed of the detailed outcome and given a chance to appeal the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 363. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is intended to officially recognise centres for ambulatory surgery which are carrying out work on contract for the HSE on, for example, patients who need hand surgery, so that the anaesthetic consultants in them do not face large increases in insurance premiums that would make such work prohibitively expensive; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that all medical card holders have access to a GP within their area, taking into account that more people are finding it harder and harder to get on a GP's list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Forbairt Calaí agus Céanna (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 391. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén uair a cheadófar deontas, mar atá iarrtha ag Comhairle Contae na Gaillimhe le staidéar a dhéanamh ar na féidireachtaí cur le na saoráidí calaíochta ag Céibh an Chalaidh Mhóir in Inis Meáin; an fáth go bhfuil moil ag ceadú an staidéir seo; agus an...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Broadband Plan (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 392. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether her Department is willing to fund or co-fund the provision of an undersea fibre cable to each offshore island that is included in the National Broadband Plan, out of the dedicated islands fund available to her Department, as mainland to island fibre was not provided for in the National Broadband plan; and if she will make a...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application submitted to his Department by Galway City Council for a housing grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in making a decision, given that the works involved are essential to deem the property suitable for the tenant who has very...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Most of this is demand-led. A rate is fixed, people will qualify and it is paid out. The physics of this case are not worked output; it is demand-led output. The one thing I find it hard to get detail and statistics on is defective means testing and how many people are getting caught by means testing. Means testing is cruel because it is much more penal than the tax system. Every time we...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but Mr. Egan is not saying that a 100% means test is fair.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: He is not saying to us that the discrimination between self-employed and employed is fair, surely.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not proportionate, therefore.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Output.

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: Yes.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is very academic stuff. That is not the way the people in my office see it.

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...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course, because I am trying to show the Department the social implications of following the policy it has. Somebody, somewhere decided to start chasing all of these IQAs down recently and the only people not getting caught are either skinflints or people who knew the rules, read every minor document and understood fully the implications of what they were doing.