Results 481-500 of 27,668 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: The Social Insurance Fund is normally topped up from the Department of Finance, if I remember rightly. If we look at the Government Estimates, that Department gives a loan and is repaid over time. Does that Department just give cash injections?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not saying it that way; I am saying that the Government had loaned money previously to the SIF but it was paid back. If we look at the Exchequer-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: What is interesting is to see the long-term picture here and how that performs because nobody can deny the fact that people are living longer. There are some mitigating factors given that more people work after 66, so they might even be getting a State pension but are also paying tax. There are a lot of complications. However, what is interesting to do is to track performance versus the...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: Regarding the community centres investment fund for the large projects, when will the announcements be made?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: That means in the next six weeks?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: Will this be in the next seven weeks?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: The next few weeks. I will hold the Minister to that.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: Regarding LIS funding, has the Minister a database of eligible applications that shows the demand for that scheme, as compared to the amount of funding Government is providing for it? Why is it the Department of Social Protection rather than the Department of Transport providing it, I never know.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: I advise the Minister to tell the Department of Transport that it is for walking.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: I think the scheme is totally different in different parts of the country. We do not have any lanes in Connemara. They are all bóithrín. They are actually roads and they are not primarily for agriculture. Many of them are going to the bog. However, they are roads that were always there. Take south Connemara where you had the main road and then the road off that going to the...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: That is public roads.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: I am talking about people who have been left stranded by an incoherent county council policy. There are roads that have existed for hundreds of years, on which there are houses, that are not in the charge of the local authority. That is why the demand is so big for the LIS in places like Galway. In Galway, it is a lot of money. You have a list of really genuine roads, although some are...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: No, they are not.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: This is a vexed question as to whether they are public or private. They are all -----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: They are public rights of way that have been there for years but they are not in the charge of the local authority. You would not know, if it was well tarred by an LIS scheme in the last few years, where the public road ends and the private road begins. We often have to go to the county council to find out where the public road ends and where the non-public road begins because they are part...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: We will not sort it today on the Estimates but we need to look at this issue because, as I said, it is a fundamental right in this country to have those five things.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: It is LIS or nothing.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: When will SICAP roll out?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: What are the other two?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Éamon Ó Cuív: When will they get a decision?