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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...,000, that only buys a second-hand trailer? If we take it that a trailer has a seven-year life, buying a three-year-old trailer means it has a four-year life and we have to come back again to have another long battle to get trailers. What is the view on the amount and fact that it does not buy a new trailer and have any representations or submissions been made to the Department outlining...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How long would that-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have one question and I will then turn to Cork. How long, in real time, is it estimated to take between planning, design and up and down to the Department? I do not know why there so much going up and down. The county council should be given its money just as semi-State bodies are and spend it and if a mess is made of that, then it can account to the members and the auditor. Constantly...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have been around a long time. I was on a local authority and my experience is that every time a file is moved, it takes time, there are questions and delays. All I ever think about when all this is happening and everything is going to be done perfectly, there are people desperately waiting. According to the figures in the report, 34 families are living on the roadside.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...was to allow for those who wished to retain the idea of living within their own community and was separate. Another thing that I am a little bit wary of, and I have been dealing with people for a long time, is that people come into my constituency office with any problem, they tend to go with the option they think is most likely to succeed, not necessarily their favourite option. There...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...in July 2023. Can the Minister confirm that this is not going to happen? Can he further confirm if it is going to happen within the term of this Dáil, and if he gives me that confirmation, can he tell me how long this Dáil is going to last?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...I effectively became an employer at 23 years of age, as a manager of a small co-operative. We had people in and out because the work could be quite seasonal. The small farmers always got jobseeker's benefit, as long as farming was not the main income. I think we need clarification on that. It is a fairly serious issue and one that is relevant to this Bill. The next question I have is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...detail about Limerick to Galway. As I understand the menu of options is put in the passing loop at Sixmilebridge, the passing loop that is already in train at Oranmore and then in the meantime longer platforms. How long will it take for the longer platforms?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How long will the two bigger projects, the passing loops, take? Would it be five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...about it being for freight and for passengers, lengths of platforms and passing loops to allow for increased frequency as well. What kind of money would Iarnród Éireann need to develop this plan and how long would it take to develop it? If it takes two years to develop the plan and if it got the money, then it does not need more money for another two years and it can get on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I absolutely welcome Mr. Meade's clear statement here today - I think he said it twice - that Collooney to Claremorris is part of Iarnród Éireann's long-term plans. The rail strategy refers to connecting Dublin Airport to rail. That is a fairly expensive project, although it would be great. If it was heavy rail, it could bring people all around the country. I am not against the...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...on people than many of the higher-end tax rates on individual citizens. Basically, the changes here are twofold. The Minister is changing the means test vis-à-visthe child maintenance payment, which will no longer be assessed as means and I believe that is sensible. I have argued for this many times and was surprised when dealing with cases that this was not the way it was. This...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...of the metro for the past 20 years but it is also important we do the simple things and sweat the assets. Put in simple terms, what can be done? The first thing is more carriages could be put on the trains. Longer trains provide better capacity. The second thing we need are longer platforms so that longer trains can be accommodated because, I understand, particularly on the Limerick...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...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 they might put something off for years, when they get around to applying, it is awfully important for their confidence to get the...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...to interrupt but I am talking about the time from application to somebody being on site. The crucial thing about confidence building is how quickly we get people on site to start the work. How long would that take?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: When Ms Petrie says "long", is she talking about ten or 20 years?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 340. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage borrowers with long term mortgage arrears at the end of each year since 2000; the efforts being made, through assisting people in mortgage arrears, to reduce this number; whether it is intended to introduce new measures to achieve this in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1004/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...any grant under round one of the grants announced on 20 December 2023, particularly having regard to the importance of STEM subjects in education from both an educational point of view and for the long term benefit of the economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1182/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...any grant under round one of the grants announced on 20 December 2023, particularly having regard to the importance of STEM subjects in education from both an educational point of view and for the long-term benefit of the economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1277/24]