2177. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when decisions will be made on applications under the present round of the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund; the number of applications received; the amount of funding available in 2022 for approval; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42233/22]
2176. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends introducing a new scheme for the development of new community centres where there is a clear community need for same and where there are projects available that have advanced planning done on them; if there will be a requirement of co-funding from the local authority for such a scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42231/22]
2175. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a decision will be made on an application for funding under the Community Centres Investment Fund (details supplied);; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42230/22]
2174. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when decisions will be made under the Community Centres Investment Fund; the total amount of funding available for this; the total number of applications received; the amount of the fund directed towards energy generation and energy efficiency at community centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42229/22]
2173. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of rural schemes, other than LEADER, that her Department has introduced for the development of infrastructure in rural areas outside of towns and villages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42227/22]
2172. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has an application on hand (details supplied) under the town and village renewal scheme 2022; when a decision will be made on it; the number of steps in the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42226/22]
2171. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when applications for the town and village renewal scheme 2022 will be approved; the steps in the process; the maximum amount of funding for any one project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42225/22]
2112. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara cén uair a chuirfear tús leis an obair ar an gconradh dreideála ag calafort Ros’ a Mhíl; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [42567/22]
1750. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the progress made to date with the development of a comprehensive cancer care facility at University Hospital Galway which will enable all cancer services to be located within one block as a hospital within a hospital and which has been escalated in the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42923/22]
1749. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the progress made to date with the development of the new emergency department and women’s and children’s block at University Hospital Galway, Newcastle Road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42922/22]
1734. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Sláinte an bhfuil sé i gceist ag Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte ionad cúraim phríomhúil a thógáil ar an gCeathrú Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe don cheantar láidir Gaeltachta sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [42878/22]
1673. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to procure and distribute vaccines (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42634/22]
1526. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the steps that he intends taking to ensure that disability organisations funded under section 39 of the Health Act 2007 can afford to pay similar wages and salaries to those operating under section 38 of the Act in view of the similar work they do; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42108/22]
1308. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he intends on making it a requirement of State funding to higher education establishments that they pay a stipend of at least €28,000 per year to postgraduate students undertaking PhD studies given the important work that they do; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42750/22]
1068. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Social Protection the current arrangements in place in relation to one-member pension schemes; if she intends reforming the PRSA arrangements to facilitate the needs of one-member pension schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42236/22]
1067. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Social Protection the present rate of payment for a breakfast, snack, lunch, dinner and hot meal, respectively, under the school meals local projects scheme; when these rates of payment were set in each case; if it is intended to raise these in line with the increasing cost of food, labour and transport since the rates were set; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42228/22]
916. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education when decisions will be made on remote area grant applications for students (details supplied) to attend a school; the reason for the delay in processing same given that the school term has commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43244/22]
765. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when two passports for siblings (details supplied) which were originally applied for on 10 May 2022, will issue; if the delay in the process was caused while waiting for a reply for more information from the applicant: the other reasons for the delay with this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43584/22]
764. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport for a person (details supplied) that was originally applied for on 10 March 2022 will be issued; if the delay in the process was caused while waiting for a reply for more information from the applicant; the other reasons for the delay with this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43583/22]
725. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he intends increasing Irish Overseas Development Aid from 32% to 0.7% in equal increments over the next seven years in line with the commitments in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42628/22]
723. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if documentation (details supplied) is sufficient in order to fully consider an application for a first Irish passport for a naturalised Irish citizen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42565/22]
635. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends on carrying out a survey of each county council of the number of such proposals for waste water systems for single houses as part of a single house planning application received by each council in the past year given the large number of certified waste water treatment proposals for single houses being rejected by local councils; the number that have a rejection of the waste water proposal as one of the reasons for refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43582/22]
634. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the guidelines that have issued to local authorities in relation to the assessment of proposed waste water systems for single houses by county council-planning staff that are submitted and certified by qualified agents with professional indemnity insurance as complying with the Environmental Protection Agency guidelines; the qualifications that these planning staff are required to have to assess these proposals; if he intends on reviewing these guidelines and procedures given the large number of applications with certified waste water proposals that are refused by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43581/22]
573. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if bog and other land that is being re-wetted for ecological reasons will be required to be fully fenced to ensure that neighbouring stock cannot enter it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42877/22]
564. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the grants per house and other grants available for new group water schemes that would connect to the public mains of Irish Water supply; if he considers this sufficient in enabling viable group water schemes to be formed in the last remaining areas of the State not serviced by a group scheme or public water scheme; if he intends on increasing these grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42745/22]
563. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of houses by county in the State dependent on private supplies of water from streams or wells and not on either a group water scheme or public scheme; his plans to afford all of these houses the opportunity to connect to a public supply or group water scheme at an affordable cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42744/22]
560. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way that the boundaries of towns and villages are defined under the Croí Cónaithe scheme where grants are available to refurbish vacant and derelict houses; the reason the scheme is limited to towns and villages and not available for houses in the countryside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42732/22]
552. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that Galway County Council is required by his Department to have an option on its social housing application housing forms expressing a preference for a house in Galway city when in practice this never happens due to the pressure on housing there; if he will now release this requirement and make a ruling that all the applicants to Galway County Council for social housing who put down a preference for housing in the city would be allowed to transfer to the City Council list and retain the years that they had built up on the county housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42624/22]
551. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he approved the appointment of a permanent chief executive to Galway County Council; the progress made since progressing this; the reason for the delay in the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42622/22]
539. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the review by his Department of the amendments made in Seanad Éireann to the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016 will be completed in order that he can bring a memorandum to Government seeking approval to have the Bill restored to the Order Paper of Dáil Éireann; the reason for the delay with this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42439/22]
526. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant and derelict houses estimated to exist in the countryside outside of towns and villages of over 500 people; if he intends creating a new scheme to provide grants of up to €30,000 for the refurbishment of vacant houses in the countryside, as first homes for applicants and €50,000 for the refurbishment of derelict houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42235/22]
483. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán an bhfuil i gceist aici Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge a leasú le go mbeidh deontas ar fáil do na coláistí sean-bhunaithe a bhíodh ag fáil deontas ón Roinn Oideachais, ag cur san áireamh an titim atá i líon na leapacha atá ar fáil sna coláistí sa nGaeltacht ; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [42562/22]
477. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when the stakeholders consultative group to advise on the implementation of the Future of the Media Commission report will be set; if an organisation (details supplied) will be represented on the group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42110/22]
448. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he intends taking to ensure, in view of the enormous deficits in infrastructure, that the total capital allocation to all Departments for 2022 is spent, particularly as the capital expenditure to the end of July 2022 was €694 million, or 17%, behind profile; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42629/22]
439. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money sanctioned by the Office of Public Works for coastal erosion works at Leenane, County Galway; the progress made with this project to date; the reason work has not yet commenced on it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42232/22]
258. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport the ring-fenced funding that he has made available since taking office for low-cost actions that would improve speeds on the slowest rails lines in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43417/22]
257. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport if he intends increasing the frequency on the Galway to Limerick rail line from four services each way a day to a minimum of ten services a day in view of the increased patronage on the line despite the very poor service offered in terms of speed and frequency, thus attracting even more customers to this climate friendly method of transport and ensuring the maximum return on the capital investment in the line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43416/22]
256. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport when new rolling stock will be put into service by Iarnród Éireann; if it is intended to use this extra fleet to improve the rails services on lowly serviced rails lines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43415/22]
255. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport if he will take emergency action and if necessary, seek emergency powers to rapidly expand the range of public transport services throughout rural Ireland in view of the crisis of accommodation in cities, the lack of public transport in rural Ireland and the increasing cost of fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43414/22]
254. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport the number and the times of scheduled bus and train morning services from locations (details supplied) arriving in Galway between 8.30 am and 9.00 am in the morning and leaving Galway at 6.00 pm or later in the evening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43413/22]
253. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport if he will request the National Transport Authority to ensure that new and existing services under Connecting Ireland in rural areas connect to key commuter services on the arterial routes to towns and cities with third level Institutions in them to enable students from rural areas to commute to these colleges from as many locations as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43412/22]
252. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport the emergency steps that he will take to ensure there are bus and or train services on all arterial routes leading to towns and cities with third level institutions in them (details supplied) in view of the accommodation crisis for third level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43411/22]
227. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport the steps that he is taking to ensure a frequent bus service on the Galway to Clifden route from very early morning to late at night to service the rapidly growing population along the route, increasing travel costs by car, congestion in Galway, also taking into account the large number of Ukrainian Refugees living in Connemara at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42921/22]
196. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport the reason the capital expenditure for his Department was behind profile by €175 million or 24.3% at the end of July 2022; the breakdown by subhead in his Department estimates where the underspend has occurred; the steps he intends taking between now and the end of 2022 to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42630/22]
195. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport when a ship radio licence will issue to a person (details supplied) who has had to apply three times for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42627/22]
191. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport if he intends to reopen the Rosslare to Limerick rail line in total and to provide frequent daily freight and passenger services on the line in view of the climate crisis and the rapid increase in freight and motoring costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42558/22]
190. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport the reason that the Limerick to Foynes rail line, the development of commuter services in the Cork area and the development of the Athenry to Claremorris line is singularly held up waiting for the All Ireland Rail Review given that rail projects were recently approved for the Dublin to Maynooth line particularly taking into account the relative underdevelopment economically of the west and its special status under European Union regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42557/22]
189. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport the procedure used to approve the development of the rail services from Mallow to Cork and on to Cobh and Midleton; the details of the economic appraisal of this project; if and when the appraisal was published; the estimated cost of the project including dedicated new rolling stock; the projected completion date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42556/22]
188. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport the procedure used to approve the development of the rail link from Foynes to Limerick; the details of the economic appraisal of this project; if and when it was published; the estimated cost of the project; the projected completion date; if the viability of the freight element of this project will be negatively impacted by the lack of a direct rail link along the west coast to Westport, Ballina and Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42555/22]
172. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport when it is intended to publish an updated ports' policy taking into account the importance attached to port development to facilitate the development of offshore and onshore renewable energy projects; if it is intended to provide State funding towards the rapid developments of ports to ensure that lack of port infrastructure does not hinder the development of large-scale renewable energy projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42109/22]