Results 121-140 of 1,150 for long speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...adventure and be brave. There is an absolute obligation to start with the earliest safe deposit boxes in order that the risk of litigation or of people coming forward is lowest and we will learn as we go along. Laws can always be changed. Resources are often used as an argument for not doing things. This country has become more wealthy. The interesting thing in this Bill is that the...

Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Bill with six parts and 30 sections and has been five years in gestation. I thank my colleagues on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands for their interest in this Bill and for their support in the work I was doing. I particularly thank the staff in the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers, Ms Niamh McKenna and Mr. Owen...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of long waiting lists for admission to second level schools in Galway city for the 2023-2024 academic year; the steps that are being taken to ensure each student gets a place within a reasonable distance of where they live; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15325/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...there are always knock-on effects and so on in the public service. On the other hand, it is an issue that needs to be tackled. Are we talking about an interim arrangement this year and in the long term within a full year, or what kind of timelines are we talking about? Things seem to get lost in the system and get gummed up. This is always going to happen and we hear this word...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (21 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1617. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to provide funding for the purchase or long lease, including fit-out, of long-term secure accommodation for an organisation (details supplied) in view of its importance to society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13415/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... I think everyone will agree that we need to do everything to deal with that accommodation shortage. We have seen already with the crisis in An Bord Pleanála that was not dealt with in time how long it is taking to resolve it. As we stand here, it is taking two years to get ordinary planning appeals heard and six years if a substitute consent is involved. Is it intended to bring...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (23 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...x20ac;400,000 allocation for 2023 for the Bellaghy to Collooney Greenway for 2023; if the route for this greenway has been selected, and whether it will compromise the possibility in both the short and long-term of re-opening the Collooney to Claremorris railway line ahead of the report of the Strategic Rail Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9370/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (8 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the long delay in assessing visa appeals for those applicants who have already secured employment permits; is he aware of the serious affect these delays are having on small and medium business due to lack of staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5869/23]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...but anything more, including savings, is means tested. Will the Minister explain the rationale for that rather bizarre, archaic and arcane arrangement? She will know what I have been saying to her for a long time about the calculation of savings where, again and again, I encounter people who have done what they were told to do in respect of savings. If there was one earner, which...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...complications, are quite vulnerable. They find it difficult to get the paperwork together and need assistance to do so. I compliment the Minister and the Department on their approach in that regard. Long may it last. They should not let any tiny-minded person change it. There is always a temptation in that regard. I very much welcome the means test commitment. The Minister is...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...in training, which is fantastic. The first port of call should always be to train people into full-time, permanent employment. However, many people who are on these schemes will not succeed in getting to that position. The next port of call is to find jobs for people for as long as they need it. I always like to find reasons. For some reason, the officials in the Department of Public...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that one of those schemes would be the means-tested version of the other. I am going to read out some requirements now and we can have a spot-the-difference competition. They are not very long. To qualify for disability allowance, one must have an injury, disease or physical or mental disability that has continued for at least one year or is expected to continue for at least one year;...

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: ...I would have thought the first priority was to get a decent road to every house. The third requirement is electricity in every house. Very brave people in the past have ensured this. Going back a long way, they just went and did it and said that no place is too far out for electricity. The last issue that remains is that we do not have that concept for water. There are pockets of...

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: To stop the Department getting a list of wishes ten miles long, I presume that applicants will need to be able to show form in terms of having land, planning permission etc. Otherwise, plenty of projects will be sanctioned but nothing will be happening.

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: ...stroke of a pen to give the €3 million and say there are two entities here and always will be, and it was a mistake by the Department. There is nothing wrong in the Department making a mistake, so long as it recognises it and does not perpetuate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I absolutely agree on the pension levy. If there are long-term schemes and people are making investment decisions or life decisions based on a policy, then changing it willy-nilly without warning would be bad. The pension levy is an example. Changing the rules on the State pension with regard to people without full contributions and reducing the rates was another. People had made...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...into the Act that I could give any general instruction I wanted. I would be answerable to the House at the time if I abused that. The issue of not putting it so far away from the Oireachtas that the people no longer have a say is something we need to get right. I welcome this Bill. I first suggested this in 2014 when I was the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on agriculture. I looked...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...I am very concerned about the corporatisation of the ownership of land with regard to forestry. We could get the same amount of planting done by farmers if the incentives were there. We spent long enough trying to get our own land back not to give it away willy-nilly. I cannot understand why we cannot work with the farmers and farmer co-operatives to ensure the necessary planting. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...of patients on the dermatology waiting lists in Galway University Hospital; the number who have been on the list for between one and two years, and for more than two years; the possible effect on long-term outcomes by the delay in treatment; the steps that are being taken to reduce waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2339/23]