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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A child does not attend every day, do all the classes, and then suddenly not sit the exam and leave school. I take it that if a child or student gets through those first three years but does not make it, that the history has been of absenteeism, non-engagement and so on, and that it is a progression. Then, when they come to exams, they balk and decide to leave school. Everything else in...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It might be in the data we have got in the report. If it is not, Ms O'Neill might give us that.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The is fine, Senator. I have just a few quick points-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, go ahead.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I turn to a specific group of Travellers living on halting sites. I will go back to what I said about the child trying to do homework in the caravan. That was the only room in the house aside from very small bedrooms. Have there been any discussions, or is there any forum where discussions could take place with local authorities, about local authority halting sites to make sure there would...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am interested in the date of publication.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know, but getting the first 90% of most reports is fairly fast. With no disrespect to everybody in the system, getting the last 10% always seems to take forever.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will it be within a month or two?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ministers are not that slow. If I knew the Minister had it I would have a word with her.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This has been a useful exchange. The Department and the committee are trying to do the same thing. This must be the most-reported community, but it is not reports we need. We need to come up with actions that make continual, measurable change on an incremental basis until we get to the goal of equality. We also realise that this is only one part. Higher education is a part. Work...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One thing we did previously was to give €100,000 to every area implementation team under the RAPID programme. It was not a Traveller-specific programme, but it obviously included areas where there was a high proportion of Travellers. The idea was that it was controlled by the community representatives as well as the rest of the members. There was kind of a double sign off. The...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First, I would like to put on the record that I was involved in the development of the first greenway on the abandoned railway line - which is very different from a disused railway line - from Westport westward on the old Achill line. I support the development of greenways but one does not destroy one thing to develop another. That is vandalism. One should build the new thing in a way to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When did Government make a decision that it was going to do it?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: So there was not a long 20-year plan that it was included in.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the north west.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We can confirm the figures because Mr. Kenny gave them to me. When the connection was made between Limerick and Galway, many people said it would not work. The figures are: Limerick to Ennis, 86,130 passengers in 2022; Ennis to Athenry, 214,648; Athenry to Galway, 229,000; and Oranmore to Galway, 97,000. That is a total of 626,778. Am I right in thinking that the main constraint on growth...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not a lack of passengers.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Good. The opening of the Athenry to Claremorris line is now accepted by most people as a given. If this were to open by 2030, we could very quickly find that the line, with the connections to Castlebar, Westport and Ballina would far outstrip any of the projections that have been put forward in various documents, to date. Reality can outstrip projection, particularly in a rising tide of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the Mayo county development plan there is talk about connecting, at enormous cost, for example, Shannon Airport, to the rail network. There is also the long mooted metro in Dublin which will cost billions of euro. It is a ten-minute bus ride from the terminal at Knock Airport to Charlestown station. Is it a policy of Mayo County Council to develop the Knock to Galway and Knock to Sligo...