The fact that he's one of the first names on the Irish team sheet these days makes him grossly overrated for me.
In relation to Kuyt I think that everybody gets what he contributes. Bags of energy and workrate with no real touch or vision. I think it falls upon whether you believe that this is good enough for where Liverpool want to be, personally I don't. He'd be a grand squad player, like Park, but he seems to be undroppable in Benitez's eyes.