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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Unfortunately, I was chairing a committee at that stage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a relatively recent invention of Government that the purely economic case of everything has to be justified. There are many things we do in society for societal good that do not make economic sense but they make social sense, regional balance sense and common sense, which is becoming very uncommon. Will the Minister outline the procedures? He has outlined the first one, where he has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 273. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is intended to approve a drug (details supplied) for reimbursement by the HSE, given the value of this drug in treating a rare disease is recognised; the stage in the process the consideration of this drug is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22277/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (8 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions taken by his Department and the NPWS on foot of complaints by an person in relation to damage caused at a national park; the details of the damage that was caused; whether the site has been restored to its former condition; whether his Department accepts that the report he made was accurate in its description and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister knows well, I have huge sympathy with the point about the central fund being managed by the State. I have concerns that the private industry is getting into this in a way that is very cost inefficient. I hope that between now and Report Stage we might look at this again.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The committee recommended something slightly wider but I accept the principle of what Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is trying to do. It said “The Committee recommends that the investment funds be prohibited from investing in fossil fuels or the arms industry.” I think Deputy Ó Cathasaigh has spoken very clearly about fossil fuels. The simple fact is that if we keep investing...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Well, it is and it is not. Property rights are not absolute, they are subject to the exigencies of the common good. There was a myth going on for many years, which we busted, that they were nearly absolute. People seem to have missed the saver clause in the Constitution, which is very clear. You cannot abolish property rights, but you can control them and limit them. We have seen good...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (2 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 323. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether new expressions of interest are being accepted at present by her Department for the community services project scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20035/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (1 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We come to Clifden near the end. It gets four lines. I ask the Minister of State to go back and inquire of the HSE, through the Department, whether it is intended to develop Clifden District Hospital as a full primary care centre. I want a full primary care centre plus things like X-ray facilities and so on because of the distance from Galway and because the hospital is there already and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of money being paid by her Department to private bus companies under contracts for the free travel scheme; the reason these companies are not precluded from charging a booking fee on scheduled services and particularly on services where the buses are often forced to refuse passengers due to being at capacity,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in Galway city and county treating patients under the medical card scheme; the number of these accepting new patients at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18645/24]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses. The meeting has been very helpful and interesting, and there is a great deal I could pick up on. As policymakers and people dealing with a system that exists, we have to look first at where we are on all the different schemes and the details of them because, after the budget this year, when the social welfare Bill has been passed, there will be practical changes to...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...but they are getting a means-tested payment to supplement their farming because the farming in the west of Ireland is poor. There are lots of small farmers all over the country but they predominate in a line from Donegal to Kerry. In those cases, many of the spouses or partners want to engage, and are capable of engaging, in the workforce. Sometimes the kind of work that is available...

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 the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The interesting question that would then arise is whether it has cost any money at all because one could demonstrate participation.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Health when multidisciplinary diabetes team members consisting of consultant endocrinologists, advanced nurse practitioners, diabetes nurse specialists, dietitians, psychologists for both a paediatric diabetes clinic, and an adult diabetes clinic will be set up in each region as recommended; the number of hospital-based diabetes clinics that meet these standards at present and their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (18 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister of State for reading out the reply. It is the exact same as I received to a parliamentary question on 6 March 2024. If the Department of Health thinks I am going away, I am not. The reality is the Minister of State addressed the issue at the very end. The script did not address the realities of the issue. I was amused that the officials mentioned the fact that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (18 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm deis a bheith agam an t-ábhar seo a thógáil anseo sa Dáil. There are 3,000 people living on our offshore islands. It is a very small, but valuable population. There are basic GP services on most of the islands with reasonably large populations, but for all other medical services, islanders must go to the mainland. This imposes all sorts of...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. They were very assistive. There are challenges but some progress is being made. A huge issue that we have not tackled to the extent that we would like is the justice system. As has been pointed out, if you go down to the Dóchas Centre you find there a disproportionate number of Travellers, most of whom are there because of poverty. They should not be there. What we really need...