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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that. I have faith in Mayo County Council but it amazes me. The same thing happened with the water schemes. They went to Uisce Éireann. Billions of euro went to that and it was told to go off and do it. The same thing happened with roads but now they give big lump sums to TII and off it goes and does it. There seems to be a nanny-state attitude to local authorities that...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Mr. Gilligan think there is a need for all this? Could Mayo County Council not design and build it up to standard without the Department telling it how to do it?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have been around a long time. I was on a local authority and my experience is that every time a file is moved, it takes time, there are questions and delays. All I ever think about when all this is happening and everything is going to be done perfectly, there are people desperately waiting. According to the figures in the report, 34 families are living on the roadside.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are in caravans. They are in irregular situations to put it mildly, which are very poor.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there any living by the roadside on unofficial halting sites?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are there people living on unofficial halting sites?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are many families there?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The real need is easy enough to project because of family formation. There is a big demand because there is an overhang of 34 that are in informal arrangements and not in HAP, RAS or private rentals, which would be HAP nowadays because very few people get rent allowance from social welfare. In addition, another 44 are coming on stream. There is a big demand. What plans are there to meet...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have the following in Galway and everywhere. We have endless plans - a group plan, TAPs and whatever else. We see it not only with Traveller housing but generally. The problem is that it only seems to get bigger; it does not seem to get less. People come into my office homeless and many of them are Travellers. I think it is 50% of those in Galway. There are many people on the streets...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When was that approved?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Were they opposing housing-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: People come in with written letters. The system should not judge by volume but by the validity of the objection. We know this because sociological studies prove this. It is an absolute fact there is a prejudice against Travellers. These are objective studies. Presumably, many of those did not make valid planning points about accommodation that would overrule this absolutely urgent need...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not speculating. I do not have a clue what it may do. The council might pass it the first time. I believe all of us in life have some contingency plans if it happens that it goes the other way. I have been disappointed, where it has gone the other way in other councils, and this is something that has happened around the country, that the chief executives have not used their powers to...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Everybody had an entitlement, subject to means and all the rest, to a local authority house. The Traveller-specific element was to allow for those who wished to retain the idea of living within their own community and was separate. Another thing that I am a little bit wary of, and I have been dealing with people for a long time, is that people come into my constituency office with any...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital funding he intends to provide this year for the upgrade of the rail line from Athenry in County Galway to Collooney in County Sligo so that work can continue on the reopening of this vital rail link; the purposes for which the funding will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4539/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to follow up on work carried out by Iarnród Éireann on line clearance on sections of the rail line from Collooney to Athenry by providing funding in 2024 for the design work on the upgrade of the line from Athenry to Claremorris to a suitable standard to reopen it for freight and passenger travel; if he supports...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the sections of the Acts that provide that a person is not regarded as unemployed for jobseeker's benefit purposes, for any day that they are actively engaged in farming; whether it is intended to change this provision on the basis that many people engaged in farming in a small way also engage in full-time employment at the...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Dualgais Reachtúla faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá beagán iontais orm faoi sin sa mhéid is go bhfuil agus go mbeidh an bunachar is fearr ar fad de sheoltaí ag an Revenue de bharr go bhfuil sé ag bailiú cánach ar na foirgnimh agus tithe ar fad. Cén bhaint a bhí ag an mbrainse logainmneacha sa Roinn cultúir le seo ar fad?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Dualgais Reachtúla faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: De réir mar a thuigim, réitíonn an brainse de chuid na Roinne na leaganacha údarásacha Gaeilge don tír uilig agus déanann an tAire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán na horduithe agus tá siad sin oifigiúil ansin. Sin sin. Ní féidir leis An Post nó éinne eile iad a...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Dualgais Reachtúla faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cén chaoi a bhfuil An Post ag sárú feidhmeanna an Aire chultúir ag é ag leagann síos na leaganacha oifigiúla de na hainmneacha seo? Cén údarás atá ag An Post a bheith ag athrú na n-ainmneacha seo? Is í sin an cheist a chuirim.