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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (26 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 399. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the next citizenship ceremony will take place; the venue where this ceremony will be held; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41009/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (26 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that islanders whose only mainland vehicle is taxed as a “motor caravan” are not allowed free parking in the island reserved Department car park in Ros a Mhíl, Co. na Gaillimhe, on the grounds of health and safety, when they are allowed park in the adjacent Department public car park; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 588. To ask the Minister for Health if an injection (details supplied) which lessens the chances of contracting shingles is covered under the GMS; if not the reason it is not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41542/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis an bhfinné. Tá sé thar cionn cloisteáil faoin obair atá ar bun ag an Aran Islands Energy Co-op. Ag leanacht ón gceist a chuir mo chomhghleacaí, an raibh aon phlé ag an co-op le Roinn na Gaeltachta faoin bhféidearthacht a bheadh ann ceangal leictreach as an nua a chur isteach go dtí an t-oileán a bheadh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses. It is well recognised by the islanders that housing is a major issue. The witnesses have given an even better insight into it. My experience is that when we look at islanders who can establish a housing need and who apply for planning permission on their own sites or on an acquired site, the problems seem to be wastewater, archaeology and ecology. These have to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I support what Ms Uí Mhaoláin has said about underoccupied houses. In my view, there is a total misunderstanding about this in urban Ireland. I live most of the time in an underoccupied house. There is no question or doubt about it. That is except for when the children come home and they bring their children, the grandchildren, home. We are then an over-occupied house, and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am surprised to hear that a family member of an islander, in other words somebody who grew up on an island, would not be classified as having a housing need as long as they are coming back to live on the island. I am highly critical of things in Galway at times, but as long as you could establish you were coming back permanently you would be considered to have a housing need if you were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the issue that arises is when someone has a mainland property and they are moving permanently to the island but want to keep the mainland property as a base, because I know many islanders who have always lived on the island but have a mainland property because they spend a certain number of nights out, particularly the ones that are further offshore, when they want to go for services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is awful lot in this subject. We could be at it for a long time. As part of what was said, one thing was mentioned that can be underestimated, which is that as well as the pure health issues, access is key. It is about the frequency of the ferry or aeroplane services on Aran, their speed, quality, and the piers. It is also about the difference between getting on from a pontoon where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there any issues with bandwidth and resilience in using this remote technology? Is there anything we need to do to ensure there is the bandwidth and resilience to make this long term, sustainable and failsafe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On that issue, there was an arrangement whereby 50% of the infrastructure costs on the islands related to health and were provided by the Department with responsibility for the islands. They got pulled out and were not caught in this cost-benefit analysis of doing it in a housing estate for 1,000 people versus aligning it with 100, 200 or 300 people. The experience of that was that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: May I ask one further question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Very brief. Are the witnesses privy to what NBI has proposed for the island, which is fibre from the box on the island to the houses where there is telephone or, as far as I know, radio signal to the mainland as opposed to fibre end to end? Will that be sufficient or resilient enough for what is needed, or should we put the cable in under the ground like we did with electricity and make it...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Accommodation for Travellers: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will have to leave the meeting early because I have to go to Árainn Mhór in County Donegal. It is an unpredictable drive, to put it mildly. I thank the witnesses for their presentations, which are useful. The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act provides that housing authorities have a statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation need of Travellers and the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Accommodation for Travellers: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When Ms Timmons says the “majority”, does that mean 50, 60 or 70?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Accommodation for Travellers: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked whether the Department had analysed the objective level of demand, that being, an audit of everyone living in substandard mobiles. If so, what was the number? In Galway, the number of loans allocated has not met the requirement. We need hard information. Ms Timmons stated that a good number of the units – I cannot remember the exact figure – were second-hand. We are...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Accommodation for Travellers: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If a caravan is four years of age and ten years is its lifetime, that would only give someone six years. If a new caravan were bought, though, that would give ten years or whatever it might be. I am only taking the average length of time.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Accommodation for Travellers: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry, as I do not want to get into an argument, but the Department has decided, given that it is only providing people with a pot of €40,000. That leads to issues like caravan size versus quality. By setting an arbitrary number of loans that does not meet all demand and by fixing the amount of money, we are not giving people the flexibility to buy caravans that are the best...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Accommodation for Travellers: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Accommodation for Travellers: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have been around Departments. So has my colleague here. Normally, a Department would say that a good-quality, brand new caravan was the best long-term investment and then find the evidence of what that would cost before any NGO had to come to it with that evidence. The Department would then put that to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform....