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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This has been a useful exchange. The Department and the committee are trying to do the same thing. This must be the most-reported community, but it is not reports we need. We need to come up with actions that make continual, measurable change on an incremental basis until we get to the goal of equality. We also realise that this is only one part. Higher education is a part. Work...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One thing we did previously was to give €100,000 to every area implementation team under the RAPID programme. It was not a Traveller-specific programme, but it obviously included areas where there was a high proportion of Travellers. The idea was that it was controlled by the community representatives as well as the rest of the members. There was kind of a double sign off. The...

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: First, I would like to put on the record that I was involved in the development of the first greenway 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...

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: When did Government make a decision that it was going to do it?

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: So there was not a long 20-year plan that it was included in.

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: In the north west.

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: We can confirm the figures because Mr. Kenny gave them to me. When the connection was made between Limerick and Galway, many people said it would not work. The figures are: Limerick to Ennis, 86,130 passengers in 2022; Ennis to Athenry, 214,648; Athenry to Galway, 229,000; and Oranmore to Galway, 97,000. That is a total of 626,778. Am I right in thinking that the main constraint on growth...

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: It is not a lack of passengers.

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: Good. The opening of the Athenry to Claremorris line is now accepted by most people as a given. If this were to open by 2030, we could very quickly find that the line, with the connections to Castlebar, Westport and Ballina would far outstrip any of the projections that have been put forward in various documents, to date. Reality can outstrip projection, particularly in a rising tide of...

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: In the Mayo county development plan there is talk about connecting, at enormous cost, for example, Shannon Airport, to the rail network. There is also the long mooted metro in Dublin which will cost billions of euro. It is a ten-minute bus ride from the terminal at Knock Airport to Charlestown station. Is it a policy of Mayo County Council to develop the Knock to Galway and Knock to Sligo...

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: Regarding the hubs around Ballina, Castlebar and Westport, would there be any reason to believe that going further north into Sligo would not add critical mass to rail freight in the region? If this was available, rail freight could be transported down the western corridor to Foynes Port. Is the thinking that Sligo would not add to the critical mass and it would not get the same demand as...

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: An interesting phenomenon happened in this House recently. Effectively, the NDP has been ripped up. There was an 8% growth in population up to the last census period, and a dramatic growth since the census was taken. The interesting thing is that the growth has not been confined to the cities but has occurred right across the country. The cities recorded only average growth. The county...

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: I can see by being a Dublin person by birth and upbringing but living in the west how the north west has lagged behind in terms of motorways, railways, etc. One of the things that is of major concern to me, as a Deputy representing Galway West, is that we see every day people coming to University Hospital Galway from counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim and all the way down the coast. For them,...

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: Does Mr. Kenny know of a case, either in Ireland or abroad, where a greenway was created but ripped up to reinstall a rail line?

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: Mr. Kenny has never heard of a case.

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: I thank the Chair for his indulgence. He is very kind.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he would consider introducing a scheme to bring a public water supply to all houses and businesses in the country, similar to the national broadband scheme for broadband, in view of the fact that approximately 10% of all households depend on private supplies of water; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeltachta (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nár ceadaíodh iarratas ar mhúinteoir/Chúntóir Riachtanais Speisialta (CRS) a shannadh do rang speisialta i scoil (sonrai tugtha) le freastal ar pháiste a bhfuil riachtanais speisialta air, atá ag freastal ar Scoil Ghaeltachta agus atá i dteideal na ndeiseanna céanna oideachais a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be given for emergency works at a school (details supplied); the reason for the delay with this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date with processing payment of a grant to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15874/24]