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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... At the moment, the invalidity pension payment is basically an individualised payment. No matter what your partner, spouse, cohabitant or whatever else earns, you get the personal rate. If you apply for disability allowance, you have to be unfit for the work for which you are trained but, to get the invalidity pension, you have to be unfit for any type of work. It is a funny kind of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Guidelines (21 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that has been put into giving a meaningful answer. I think he would agree it would a reasonable supposition that whatever guidelines are brought in on land in terms of height versus setback would apply on near inshore and offshore turbines. I will table a Topical Issue matter - I might get lucky again in the Topical Issue lottery - to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (25 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the NPWS branch of his Department applies for and receives any annual grants or Common Agricultural Payments on State owned land from the Department of Agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 360. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the scoring system that was applied to the evaluation of applications under the new build module set up to deliver new-build community centres in rural Ireland under the Community Centre Investment Fund; if unsuccessful applications will be debriefed on the score their application achieved and the lowest score of any successful...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We often hear there is a shortage of gardaí. It seems the recruitment process takes an inordinate amount of time, and I will give an example. People first have to apply, then there is an aptitude test, that is followed by a scenario test, followed by an interview online, followed by a fitness test, which is followed by two interviews with members of An Garda Síochána. All of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...self-employed people make a tax return, they get the tax form and fill it up as honestly as they can, they submit it and keep all their records, and put them away for a possible one-in-1,000 audit but the same people applying for social welfare will have to produce every document down to the last. If their bank accounts are stable but they are still six months over, they will have to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would take all dependent adults across the system of working age. It is different with the State non-contributory pension. It applies to the State contributory pension but I think we can even look at a more radical solution there. It is a slightly different issue. What I am talking about is that in cases of farm assist, jobseeker's allowance and disability, etc., you would ease it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... On the rural social scheme, RSS, there was some reference to 75% and 80%. The original arrangement for the RSS was that once a person qualified for farm assist, even if only for €1 under that scheme, he or she was eligible for the RSS. What changed was that if a person had €100 of assessed farm assist income, applied for the RSS and had a dependent adult or child, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Statutory Instruments: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...indication of how many people have availed of this since 2022? I would imagine the figures are small as most people are on a contributory State pension. My understanding is that the second issue applies to the widow's pension. Is that correct or not? So if you are on a widow's pension and you are over 66-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (6 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...lets, such as Airbnb, will be required to get a specific planning permission if they wish to continue in business in view of the new EU legislation in regard to short term lets; the areas this will apply to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11107/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...payment, there are significant administrative costs and significant delays. The other issue is that if someone is well over the limit, there is no bureaucracy involved - he or she just does not apply - but we need to means test everybody until the limit. Child benefit was examined years ago. Are mortgages going to be taken into account for young parents and childcare? There is an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...electricity bills, but they are sure paying them now. I have two final questions and I hope I am being brief. There are 5 million people in the State and only 950 of them need heating supplement. What criteria are applied to getting this heating supplement because at 950 people it is as rare as hen's teeth? I wonder what criteria are being assessed. I was also a little surprised that...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not want to delay this but at the moment, when you fill a local authority form in either county or city, there is a question around area of preference. If you are applying to the county council you can put Galway city down, and if you are applying in the city you can put Galway County Council down. However, it is a rare occasion that this is anything more than a mirage. If the hold-up...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (13 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Equality the number of prisoners with determinate sentences of eight years or more who sentences are being managed on an administrative basis by the Irish Prison Service; the number of these that have applied for temporary release or parole in each year since 1 January 2021; the number given parole or temporary release in each year; if such parole or temporary release has to be approved by...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...areas? My second question relates to the first. Do we have any information on the delay with inspections in different county councils because that is the only cloud on the horizon with this scheme? When people apply, they like to get a fairly quick response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that I will then have a question for the SVP on the work it does not do on the very bad houses. The second issue I would like to address in a little bit more detail is that of the delays between applying for the warmer homes scheme and getting the work done. From my experience in my office, these delays have become very long. One of the things I find about people is that, although...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Tourism and Sport the reason an applicant (details supplied) for a CPC card has to re-sit the theory test to be approved for the CPC card when they already passed the theory test in 2012 when they applied for a learner permit. [1278/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the cost-of-living measures applied to certain social welfare payments, as announced in Budget 2024, were not available to persons on a disablement pension and unemployability supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1103/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 945. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons in receipt of a disablement pension and unemployability supplement are not eligible to apply for the fuel allowance based on these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1104/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who applied for international protection in Ireland in 2022 and 2023 broken down, by country of origin; the number of those have left the country since; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1809/24]