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Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Just the one, yes. There are two of us present out of a party of 37 Deputies. Deputy Barry can work out the percentage. There are not many Deputies in general present in the Chamber. I thank former Senators Colette Kelleher and Grace O'Sullivan and Senator Ruane for introducing the Bill in the Seanad. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for agreeing to set up an Oireachtas joint committee to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Is cúis aiféala dom nach raibh mé anseo nuair a thosaigh sí. Ag casadh le seanchara de do chuidse a bhí mé, an t-iarTheachta O'Sullivan. Shortly after the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, was announced, guidelines were issued on 3 November for the scheme. Based on these guidelines many businesses...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am a member of the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform. We passed a mammoth memorandum to do with pre-legislative scrutiny on Government notices, but in the main for Bills that have approximately three sections. Without any pre-legislative scrutiny the Minister has written a new Bill in an old Bill. He has doubled the size of the Bill. I could not believe it when I looked at my computer...

National Monuments (The Moore Street Battlefield) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cuireann sé áthas orm deis a bheith agam cúpla focal a rá maidir leis an mBille seo. Táim thar a bheith sásta go bhfuil sé á phlé sa Teach. Creidim féin go bhfuil sé fíorthábhachtach ní amháin na láithrigh atá gar do Shráid Uí Chonaill ach gach láthair a bhaineann le 1916, chomh fada agus...

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Northern Ireland (2 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I dtosach báire glacaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste as ucht teacht isteach go pearsanta anseo. I thank the Tánaiste for coming in. He is aware of this case. To summarise it on the public record, as Deputy O'Sullivan has said, Tony Taylor is in prison following a revocation of licence. The problem with all of this procedure is that the person whose licence is revoked in...

Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (25 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I support the Bill. It represents a small change but one which will not do any harm. I confess my great ignorance on this matter because I am not big into pubs. In 1978, when I was 27, I organised a meeting in a hotel in Claremorris at which we always had our meetings. The intention was to set up a timber milling project but it was Good Friday and the pubs were closed. We held the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What has been said here today has been very frank and useful. I thank the witnesses for sharing their thoughts with us on what is happening in Maghaberry. Those of us who have been there frequently would say that the witnesses have expressed very succinctly what we believed. I initially became involved in the prison issue back in 1994. I spent about three years on it and was over and...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I compliment the Labour Part on tabling the motion. For a reason that I will explain, I am delighted that Deputy Jan O'Sullivan is present. I knew Mr. Frank Prendergast well. He was a Labour Party Deputy from the same constituency as her and his constant theme was that the gap between the bottom and the top had widened inexorably over time, particularly through percentage increases. I...

Opposing Domestic Violence: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was very inappropriate to stick 60 minutes of this debate in at 6.30 p.m. on the last sitting day of the Dáil session. When we speak here we hope by getting the word out through the media and so on that we can highlight issues of importance in society. This deserved a lot more than an hour’s initial debate with the Minister’s speech, which was very interesting, thrown...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Licensing and Harvesting of Seaweed in Ireland: Discussion (8 Jul 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First of all, I would like to apologise because the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine is sitting at the same time as this one and, as agriculture spokesperson for Fianna Fáil, I will have to try to be in two places at once. This is an issue that arises occasionally in the Houses. To go back to the beginning, do the witnesses agree that the two issues the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister mentioned the reopening of the compensation scheme for people who lost pots during the storms in January. Does the Minister have an indication as to whether the take up on the revised scheme is any larger? Is he willing to reconsider the requirement to have a receipt for the original lobster pot, which was not required for the shrimp pot and in my view was the major inhibitor...

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: While some of the Minister of State's points answered some of the points I made, she was told the SICAP would have to go out to tender, and that is why I did not raise the issue yesterday. Leader also had to be put out to tender last time, and we did so. The problem is this will never capture the public imagination because the devil is in the detail. The last time, the winning companies...

Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jan 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When talking about an industry it is easy to cast aspersions and refer to someone having a personal interest. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan made a very balanced and reasonable contribution when she spoke about the challenges of gambling addiction. I have met people addicted to everything from bingo to scratch cards and whatever. The problem with addictive gamblers is that they will find a way...

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am surprised that the motion does not mention justice issues, particularly those which relate to prisoners in the North of Ireland. Deputy Ó Snodaigh is well aware of the matter to which I refer because he visited a number of prisons in that jurisdiction in the company of some Deputies and Senators who have shown great interest in these issues in recent times. I will try to outline...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ní fhéadfainn a rá ar chor ar bith go gcuireann sé áthas orm labhairt ar an rún, ach tá sé fíor-thábhachtach go bpléifí an rún seo agus go ndéanfaí scrúdú ar na geallúintí agus an méad a bhí ráite ag páirtithe an Rialtais seo sula ndeachaidh siad i gcumhacht agus ag aimsir an...

Energy Resources: Motion (19 Apr 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have no difficulty with that. I remember putting a question to one of the Minister's predecessors, the late Gerry O'Sullivan, when he was Minister of State at the Department of the Marine, because people were telling me that resources were being sold at a very cheap price. I was told the prices were not a ministerial give-away but the right terms. The Department was very defensive of the...