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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: What would Mr. Roddy consider? We are where we are.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...price of what has been simulated might be so great that the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform might balk at it if it reaches €100 million. However, we are where we are. Will someone provide a guesstimate of what the project will cost? The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform will have a...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...a sanction for money under these things and, for one reason or another, there are delays in commencing and so on. I am being pragmatic and while we would much prefer to be way ahead in approvals, we are where we are. I accept that it is ramping up slowly but no matter how fast it ramps up in the second half of the year, very little of what is approved in the second half of the year will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am probably the only person at the table who opposed actively entry into the European Union, which I always thought would come to a sticky end. However, we are where we are. Going back to 1997, we should read the small print. What was there in 1997, which Síle de Valera and I inherited when we came into the Department, was that a person would be compensated for any loss of income...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...a man from west Cork the way to Skibbereen was told, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here". We have all heard that story. The reality is that every day we go into Cabinet to make decisions, we are where we are. Wondering why-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the problems we now face is that people do not want constructive debate. As I stated, we are where we are. The second decision, one which in my opinion was a simple and correct one, was the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank. If we had not done so the consequences for every man, woman and child in this country would have been unthinkable. I have listened with interest to the Fine...