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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments, Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments, Foireann Roinne, Single Payment Scheme Payments, Departmental Staff Data

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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

“The Minister confirmed in a previous written reply that up until 2015 the minimum wage was covered 100%. A company with five full-time equivalent staff now has to find €10,000 simply to pay wages, not to mention meeting all the other overhead costs faced. As the Minister is aware, some of these companies provide meals-on-wheels services or run community centres where there is no...”

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

“Funnily enough, even during the downturn every Minister responsible could find the money. We paid more than the minimum wage because we retained the wages of the people employed under the programme at the level they had been. That was fine until the current Taoiseach became Minister for Social Protection. Then, hey presto, in 2015 - suddenly and for the first time since the scheme started...”

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme Funding (14 Jun 2018)

“However, it was a mean cut in the Department of Social Protection. The then Minister cut €3 million from the programme out of €20 billion. In fact, when he cut it initially, it was €1.5 million. Will the Minister go back to the Taoiseach, ask for his money back and undo the mean cut that the Taoiseach introduced in 2015?”

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• Has spoken in 95 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 769 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 3 comments on this TD's speeches — above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 73 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Éamon Ó Cuív speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1296 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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