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

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... 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]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that subject to a spot audit, give or take, they are doing the job right, and that wee do not go to this mega precision. I get cases that are quite bizarre. Let us take a small farmer on ten acres or 10 ha of poor land. We know what he has from the Department of agriculture, it is awfully easy to figure out. In some of the means-testing, say, for a carer's allowance at €900 per...

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: ...I say that because I have farmers on Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr. Inis Oírr has the smallest farms, with farms of fewer than 5 ha. Those farms are in the highest nature bracket because, as everyone will know, the land there, like that found in the Burren, is limestone pavement and the farmers farm in a very traditional manner with very little mechanisation. As the farms are...

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: ...will say we have gone in for a penny, so let us go in for a pound and finish this whole section of line? It is one section of a line. Also, with possession being nine tenths of the law and if the land was handed over to a greenway, there would be a lot of arguments against the cost, disruption and all the rest if we then had to rip up the greenway and put in the railway line. I believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...about the situation of small farmers, and they were virtually all small farmers in the area. I would say eight out of ten households had some kind of a small farm. Many of them were depending on assistance schemes because Connemara land is not the best. In those days, it was 100%, and then there was the concept of the own produce consumed. This meant that if people cut their own turf...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...I do not think anybody argues against biodiversity. Nature restoration has a kind of broad feelgood factor but I wonder how much understanding some of the people talking have of the complexity of land, agriculture and history. To what point in time are we seeking to restore nature? Do we want to restore it to what it was like 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago? We have been interfering with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...also concerned about the uncertainty regarding the final size of the payment they will get under ACRES, particularly in relation to commonage. How soon will they be given the final score on their land and also on their commonages? Will the Minister also tell me how many farmers have got their payment to date and how many have not? How many farmers can expect a cheque between now and the...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...in Galway, namely, that of Part X, SACs and SPAs. I do not believe anyone outside Galway has any idea how intrusive this is, not only in rural Connemara, where it is very intrusive and where 80% or 90% of the land is designated, creating all sorts of complications, but also in a fair part of the city. It was said that An Bord Pleanála turned down an application that included 12...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (13 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...and the Marine the implications of the EU Nature Restoration Law that proposes to categorise all drained agricultural peat soils as degraded systems in terms of access for products grown on such land to the EU market and eligibility in the long-term for EU Common Agricultural Payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6104/24]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., they are roads that were always there. Take south Connemara where you had the main road and then the road off that going to the sea. People built along that road to the sea or up to the bog through the land, so there are houses on most of these roads but they were always there as roads. They are not something that people created just to build a house. The problems was that a lot of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... You have a list of really genuine roads, although some are higher priority than others. Once they pass houses, that is the main priority in Galway. It is to get to the houses never mind the land.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...number of these in the countryside. They are good houses and very solid. Will the SEAI address that issue? When the SEAI grants came out in the noughties, there was a top-up for those on the islands because it costs 30% more to do anything on an island. I will explain why. If you are getting anything onto an island, you pay the transport we all pay to get it to the port, rather than...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...I was thinking about in the meantime. Most planning does not go to a vote at councils. The reason Traveller-specific accommodation does is that it is a local authority building on local authority land. As a short-term fix, given the Bill is going to be through by next spring, that could be changed. I am ball-hopping here. In the case of Traveller-specific housing, it could go straight...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 51. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether any assessment has been carried out into the effect of land abandonment in Ireland; the amount of land now not been actively used or farmed; the possible negative impact it could have on the environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55632/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual cost of operating the Land Development Agency since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55975/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units provided by the Land Development Agency to date, in tabular form, in each local authority area, broken down between those provided on local authority lands and those built on lands considered to be surplus to their needs by public bodies other than local authorities; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses the Land Development Agency intends to make available for occupation in each local authority area in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55977/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: But if land gets zoned, Uisce Éireann does build out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let me refer to the big islands. Many of the inshore islands are covered, including the Clew Bay islands. Hare Island, Long Island and other very inshore islands are covered, and there are some connected to the mainland. They will all get fibre. I take it all the mainland islands, including Achill, Cobh and Bull Island, Dublin, will get fibre. What islands will not get a fibre connection...