Parliamentary questions

Oideachas Gaeilge

Éamon Ó Cuív

107. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna an bhfuil sé i gceist aige polasaí a fhoilsiú maidir leis an Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge taobh amuigh den Ghaeltacht agus le teagasc na Gaeilge i ngach scoil; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [44014/19]

Voluntary Sector Funding

Éamon Ó Cuív

182. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the funding provided for a charity (details supplied) in each year since 2008 to provide services for persons with an intellectual disability; the extra funding that will provided to it in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44009/19]

Angling Sector

Éamon Ó Cuív

213. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to revoke by-law 806 relating to Inland Fisheries Ireland as it relates to salmonid waters in view of the fact that there was no appropriate assessment carried out prior to its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44007/19]

Feabhsú Céibheanna

Éamon Ó Cuív

361. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le hathfhorbairt na cé in Inis Oírr; cén staid ag a bhfuil an togra seo faoi láthair; cén uair a bhfuil súil aici go mbeifear in ann tairiscintí a lorg don togra; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [44006/19]

Deontais faoi Údarás na Gaeltachta

Éamon Ó Cuív

362. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta céard iad na heagraíochtaí a fuair airgead ó Údarás na Gaeltachta le ceithre bliana anuas as an gciste a chuireann sí ar fáil do Chomharchumainn agus d’Eagraíochtaí Pobalbhunaithe; cé mhéad a fuair gach eagraíocht gach bliain; cén uair a mbeidh a fhios acu cén deontas a bheidh ar fáil do 2020; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [44012/19]

State Pension (Contributory)

Éamon Ó Cuív

52. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new total contribution system will come into force for new applicants for the State pension (contributory); the date when eligibility for a State pension will increase from the present 66 to 67 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43628/19]

State Pension (Contributory) Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

59. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of cases examined to date under the new full contribution system introduced for calculating State pension (contributory) for those who became 66 years of age after September 2012; the number who benefited by less than €10, €10 and €20, €20 and €30 and more than €30; the number who benefited by less than €10 and are now receiving the full pension; if she is satisfied that this scheme has dealt fully with the expectations of persons pension affected by the change in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43627/19]

Immigration Status

Éamon Ó Cuív

259. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for renewal of a stamp 0 visa in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in making a decision in relation to the application in view of the fact that the current visa is due to expire on 22 October 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43485/19]

Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal

Éamon Ó Cuív

21. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna an bhfuil sé i gceist aige deontas céad faoin gcéad a thabhairt isteach arís chun go gclúdófar an costas a bhaineann leis an tréimhse a chaitheann ábhair oidí sa Ghaeltacht mar chuid riachtanach dá gcúrsaí; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [42351/19]

Student Grant Scheme

Éamon Ó Cuív

38. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions he has had with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ensure comprehensive transport services for a radius of at least 45 kilometres from towns and cities with third level institutions in view of the fact that under 45 kilometres his Department, through SUSI, only pays the adjacent rate grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42350/19]

Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements

Éamon Ó Cuív

277. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NDLS can reissue a driver licence to a person in a situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42798/19]

An Bord Pleanála Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

327. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the percentage of planning appeals made against local authority decisions to An Bord Pleanála that are decided within the four-month statutory guideline; the steps he plans to take to increase this percentage, including through new legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42792/19]

An Bord Pleanála Appeals

Éamon Ó Cuív

328. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to change the law to ensure that all those lodging appeals to An Bord Pleanála can be clearly identified and that appeals in which there is no verification that the person exists at the address given can be automatically rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42793/19]

An Bord Pleanála Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

329. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the percentage of appeals relating to non-residential properties in the past two years by province in which a decision of grant by the local authority was changed to a refusal, a decision of refusal was changed to grant and in which the decision stayed the same, respectively; his plans to change the law relating to the operation of An Bord Pleanála based on the evidence of these statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42794/19]

Planning Issues

Éamon Ó Cuív

330. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to change the law to ensure that a person who has an authorised development can apply for retention planning even in cases in which an environmental screening or appropriate assessment would have been required if planning for the unauthorised development had been applied for in the first case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42796/19]

Local Authority Housing

Éamon Ó Cuív

331. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a circular has issued to local authorities directing them not to build local authority housing in small villages and towns in sparsely populated rural areas such as CLÁR areas due to the fact they would be too car dependent, particularly in circumstances in which there is a demand for such housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42797/19]

Maoiniú Údarás na Gaeltachta

Éamon Ó Cuív

339. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an gcuirfear tuilleadh airgid ar fáil d’Údarás na Gaeltachta, más ga, chun a chinntiú nach mbeidh aon mhoill ar chur chun cinn Pháirc na Mara i gCill Chiaráin, má fhaightear cead pleanála ina leith; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [42795/19]

Prospecting Licences

Éamon Ó Cuív

42. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications active in the Connemara electoral areas for either new prospecting licences or for the extension of existing licences; when it is expected a decision will be made on the applications; the areas covered in each licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42278/19]

National Broadband Plan Implementation

Éamon Ó Cuív

49. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made to date on the national broadband scheme; when contracts will be signed for the scheme and commence the roll-out of broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42277/19]

Work Permits Eligibility

Éamon Ó Cuív

140. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason nurses from outside the EU with diplomas, who are seeking work permits here, are not considered under the critical skills permit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42365/19]

Vaccination Programme

Éamon Ó Cuív

152. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health if he has discussed with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the possibility of making entry to State funded or recognised crèches conditional on children having received childhood vaccinations; his plans to introduce such a stipulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42362/19]

LEADER Programmes Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

246. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount available to each LAG for projects under the present LEADER programme; the amount of expenditure approved for projects to date by LAG; the amount expended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42514/19]

Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility

Éamon Ó Cuív

270. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason tenants of Traveller specific homes are excluded from consideration under the terms of the incremental tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42363/19]

Foreshore Issues

Éamon Ó Cuív

271. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to take action on illegal dumping on a foreshore (details supplied) without a foreshore licence; the reason for the delay in dealing with the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42364/19]

Insurance Costs

Éamon Ó Cuív

129. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Finance the progress made to date in controlling spiralling insurance costs; the average increase in insurance costs in each of the years 2010 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the proposed further steps to be taken in 2020 to deal with this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42214/19]

School Furniture Provision

Éamon Ó Cuív

224. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a scheme under the remit of his Department in which schools catering for students with special needs can receive funding for playground furniture and equipment, including from dormant accounts money and national lottery money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42094/19]

School Transport Eligibility

Éamon Ó Cuív

235. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue from the school transport section of his Department to a letter sent to the section on 1 August 2019 and which was followed by a reminder on 3 September 2019 (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42216/19]

Soláthar Iompar Scoile

Éamon Ó Cuív

236. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh ar achomharc a rinneadh chuig an rannóg iompair ina roinn maidir le híocaíocht iompair scoile (sonraí tugtha); cén chúis atá leis an moill ar chinneadh a dhéanamh sa chás seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [42228/19]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Éamon Ó Cuív

494. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on an application for an aquaculture licence; the date the application was received; the reason for the delay with the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42217/19]

Rural Transport Programme

Éamon Ó Cuív

555. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposed improvements that will take place in rural public transport arising from the undertaking in the budget speech of the Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform to tackle climate change by investing in our rural transport network (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42091/19]

Sports Capital Programme Administration

Éamon Ó Cuív

570. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when announcements will be made on the successful projects in the current round of the sports capital grants; the reason for the delay in these announcements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42213/19]

EU Funding

Éamon Ó Cuív

571. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount received by Ireland in TEN-T funding in each of the years since 2011; the projects that received the funding; when a decision will be made on the application by the Department to include the west of Ireland in the list of TEN- T eligible projects; the amount this is likely to bring in EU investment in infrastructure in the west of Ireland in the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42223/19]

Town and Village Renewal Scheme

Éamon Ó Cuív

592. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a decision will be made on applications under the town and village renewal scheme in 2019; when works approved will have to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42086/19]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Éamon Ó Cuív

593. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the allocations by subhead for all capital expenditure by his Department in 2019; the expenditure to date broken down on the same basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42092/19]

Energy Efficiency

Éamon Ó Cuív

635. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has had discussions with the SEAI in connection with the budget increase of the carbon tax in respect of re-opening the deep retrofit scheme; if following these discussions there will be a change to the scheme; the number of extra houses that will be covered by the scheme in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42085/19]

Water and Sewerage Schemes

Éamon Ó Cuív

636. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if it is planned to provide funding in 2020 to Uisce Éireann for the provision of sewerage systems in towns and villages that have no public wastewater systems at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42093/19]

Rent Pressure Zones

Éamon Ó Cuív

644. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the improvement in the supply of accommodation in rent pressure zones arising from the curtailing in 2019 of short-term letting in these areas; if he has discussed with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impact of these regulations on the tourist trade in these areas; if he has the feedback he received from the Minister or his Department; and if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42218/19]

Local Government Reform

Éamon Ó Cuív

645. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps he has taken for 2020 to address the shortfall in funding for the local authorities in County Galway identified in the expert report on the restructuring of local government in Galway, in which it recommended that this matter be addressed before changes would take place in the local authority structures in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42219/19]

Approved Housing Bodies

Éamon Ó Cuív

646. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if an application has been received for stage 1 approval of a voluntary housing project (details supplied); when a decision will be made on the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42220/19]

Ealaín na Gaeltachta

Éamon Ó Cuív

656. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil an cúram maidir le maoiniú a chur ar fáil do Chomhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann á aistriú nó aistrithe ón Roinn go dtí an Chomhairle Ealaíon, nó an bhfuil sé i gceist aici an cúram sin a aistriú chuici; agus más rud é go bhfuil, cén fáth a bhfuil sé seo á dhéanamh [42087/19]

Seirbhísí Uisce

Éamon Ó Cuív

657. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an raibh aon chomhráití aici nó ag a Roinn leis an Aire Tithíochta, Pleanála agus Rialtais Áitiúil, le hUisce Éireann agus le hÚdarás na Gaeltachta maidir le húsáid a bhaint as na córais séarachais, atá ar na heastáit thionsclaíocha ar fud na Gaeltachta, a chur ar fáil i gcomhar le hUisce Éireann, le freastal ar na pobail máguaird; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [42088/19]

National Monuments

Éamon Ó Cuív

658. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it is planned to appoint a new Moore Street advisory committee in line with the recommendations of the report, The Moore Street Report -Securing History 2, published on 31 July 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42089/19]

National Monuments

Éamon Ó Cuív

659. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it is planned to endorse and implement the recommendations in the report of the Moore Street advisory committee, The Moore Street Report- Securing History 2, published on 31 July 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42090/19]

Departmental Correspondence

Éamon Ó Cuív

664. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a substantive reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied) which was followed by several reminders; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42215/19]

An Foras Teanga

Éamon Ó Cuív

665. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén fáth nár chaith An Foras Teanga, de réir thuarascáil an Ard-Reachtaire Cuntas agus Ciste, ach €13.325m den €14.028m a chuir an Roinn ar fail dóibh do 2018; cá mhéad den airgead nár caitheadh a bhain le Foras na Gaeilge agus cá mhéad a bhain leis an mBord Ultaise; cé na tograí ar bhain an tearc-chaitheamh €700,000 leo; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [42227/19]

Scéimeanna Rannach

Éamon Ó Cuív

666. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cá mhéad a caitheadh gach bliain ar an scéim do mhúineadh na Gaeilge in ollscoileanna thar sáile ó bunaíodh an scéim; cén líon institiúidí a bhí páirteach gach bliain go dtí seo; an bhfuil sé i gceist athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar an scéim chun na hathruithe atá tagtha ar theicneolaíocht chianfhoghlama ó shin agus athruithe eile a chur i gcuntas; cén líon mac léinn a tháinig go hÉirinn gach bliain le trí bliana anuas de thoradh na scéime; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [42229/19]

HSE Staff Recruitment

Éamon Ó Cuív

186. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the number of positions in the CHO2 health service in the western region in which applicants have received offers of a post but were subsequently informed by the HSE that the position is on hold due to budgetary restraints and continues to require the approval from the national director; the quarter in each case during which the offer of a position was initially made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41477/19]

Citizenship Applications

Éamon Ó Cuív

204. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases in which citizenship was granted in the past three years to persons that had no Irish born grandparent but had Irish born great grandparents under the power he has to use his absolute discretion in the granting of citizenship; the circumstances of such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38286/19]

Asylum Applications Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

205. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the increase in the number of persons seeking asylum or subsidiary protection over the past three years; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38287/19]

Direct Provision Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

206. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the increase in the number of persons in direct provision over the past three years; the number of persons in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38288/19]