Results 1-20 of 92 for destroyed speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

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: ...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 preserve a useful asset. I am probably the only person in the room who travelled on the Harcourt...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., so if one got a 1% interest rate on one's capital then it is €1,000 a year or €20 a week, against the €270 a week. So very few people get caught on a medical card by capital but they do absolutely get destroyed on social welfare.

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Restoration Law, the term ‘condition’ is only used in relation to habitat types listed in Annexes I and II [which are very extensive in the west of Ireland, in areas which were never wilfully destroyed with intensive farming]. There is no direct link between the classification of an area of a habitat type listed in Annex I as being “in good or not good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...and set them up on behalf of the State. The rural social scheme was set up during my time. I wrote the specification for that, not the Department. It was messed up subsequent to 2011 and totally destroyed, but that is another day's work. That is particularly the case with couples. We are then back to means testing. Believe it or not, the way I had done the means testing was much more...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...were unthinkable a year ago. Then Russia ups its armaments. I wonder whether anyone can be sure that, if it goes to the ultimate, someone somewhere - people here would say it would be Russia - will not get an itchy finger and press the button. When people are destroyed, will someone then raise a hand and say, "It does not matter that everyone is dead, because we were right"? It is as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenways Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...with him. My question is, in regard to the money that has been available for greenways from Athenry to Collooney, will there be a instruction given that the work cannot be done at the risk of destroying existing infrastructure that could be used for rail in the future? We need clarification on this issue. We all support greenways, but we do not support greenways that destroy one thing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenways Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...there are five, no doubt people will make their voices democratically known that they are not opposed to the idea of the parallel services of greenway and railway but they would be opposed to one destroying the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...was introduced was the exact opposite. It was as I outlined. It was meant to be a follow-on permanent scheme to go onto. It was the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that changed and destroyed it. Therefore, I wonder what the present rationale is.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Ceathrú Rua and Ceantar na nOileán, for whatever reason were all dispersed communities. There could be big and rapid compact developments but if you do that too quickly in the Gaeltacht you will destroy the language. If you think of the linguistic reality and if you allow somebody to build on their family lands who is coming from an Irish speaking family then mamó and...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (24 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., for whatever reason, while towns like Dingle, Belmullet and so on that had conventional European-type settlements all lost the language. If we start changing that without studying the linguistic impact, we could destroy the thing we are trying to save. Sin an cheist. An bhfuil an staidéar teangeolaíochta seo déanta?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (24 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Cathair Ghabhann who are still alive. When I got into politics 30 years ago there were quite a number of fluent speakers there, just as there were in Menlo in Galway. It seems that this drive for development destroyed the language very quickly because, as Ms Loughnane rightly pointed out, they are a dying breed and there is no succession of the language there. Sin an cheist atá...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...who design schemes had his type of experience at the coalface. Certainly, with all the bureaucratic structures and the bidding and tendering processes we have established, we have managed to destroy many small builders who always worked within their capacity and who always took a steady amount of work on hand, collectively, in large and small villages across the country. They were happy...

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...not dealt with the payment to primary producers. I grant the Minister that this is a worldwide problem but it is also a European one. Until we make it profitable to produce beef, lamb and so on, we will continue to destroy the productive farming we all need.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... I apologise for interrupting, but I get very frustrated that we are not getting the job done for the people who are looking for the services. We could fill an ocean with paper. We must be destroying forests with documents.

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...contribution, I will talk about the wizardry of modern finance and how, as a simple person, I wonder at times how this magic money is always coming about. There used to be certainties. Matter could not be created or destroyed. Then it was found that if one split the atom, one could destroy matter but one could create energy out of it. Therefore, it became that energy could neither be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...them and given to somebody who will do it. It has been done with Irish Water so I cannot see why it cannot be done with Traveller housing because we are not delivering it. Failure to do so is destroying people's lives, their chance of getting an education and many other things. They are moving from place to place trying to educate their children while living in hotel bedrooms. That is...

Rural and Community Development: Statements (Resumed) (29 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...hills and along the contours of the land in an unobtrusive way. It is a way that is in keeping with the natural pattern in the countryside previously and that can sustain the population without destroying the countryside visually. I am not in favour of the status quoin planning and of ribbon development. I am not in favour of the pull to the centre which means there is overcrowding of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...discount as economic value completely the high-nature value of the peculiar manner in which these farmers must farm to keep a sensitive ecology in balance. If farmers fail to do that, they will destroy what we have there. Until we realise that a Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine refusing payments for high-nature farming is undermining the NPWS and the Department of Culture,...