Results 27,021-27,040 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In September 2005, an application for funding to automate a number of island post offices was received by my Department from An Post. This application is being evaluated in the context of the funding available to me and the competing demands on same.

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I absolutely agree with Deputy Boyle. Funnily enough I have been driving this matter since I became a Minister of State six or seven years ago. The reluctance has been on the part of An Post to get on and do the job. It said it did not have the resources. We then offered capital resources to try to enable it to do the job. I have no problem in providing funding of a capital nature, including...

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will not comment on the situation in regard to any particular post office, but in terms of the broader issue, the ministerial responsibility for that matter rests with the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. Of course I am anxious that services are maintained in rural communities, but that has to be done within the remit of An Post, which has the primary...

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The capital costs are €129,000 and the running cost per annum is €26,000.

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, my understanding is that the entire project will also require an annual subvention of €26,000. The issue is whether I cross a line. The problem for me is not the money. Some €26,000 will not break the bank, either for me or for An Post.

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What I would be afraid of is the queue that would form quickly behind An Post — we have seen this in the past — of all sorts of service providers on islands queuing up with their hands out stating, "Please, sir, can I have some more too?" The Deputies know what would happen then, there would be no money left for the services we subvent on a daily basis, particularly transport services....

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá sé beartaithe go mbeidh aistriú mo Roinne-se go hAerfort Chnoc Mhuire críochnaithe faoi dheireadh 2007. Tá sé ar intinn againn suas le 70 ball foirne a athlonnú roimh an phríomhaistriú, ag brath, inter alia, ar chóiríocht fheiliúnach shealadach a bheith ar fáil sa cheantar máguaird. Tá Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí faoi láthair ag iarraidh cóiríocht chuí a aimsiú, agus...

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Díreach sula labhróidh mé ar an bhForas, b'fhéidir go dtabharfainn píosa eolais nár thug mé roimhe seo. Tá 26 duine sa Roinn cheana féin atá sásta agus réidh le bogadh go Cnoc Mhuire.

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá 26 duine sásta a bhogadh go Cnoc Mhuire. Bhog 70 duine i mbliana. Cheana féin, tá na daoine sin á lonnú sa Roinn le bheith réidh le bogadh, is é sin le rá, tá meaitseáil ar bun le go mbeidh na daoine atá ag teacht isteach sa Roinn nó atá istigh cheana féin sna háiteacha a bheidh ag bogadh go luath. Mar sin, déanfaidh sé sin an jab níos éascaí. Maidir le ceist Fhoras na...

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá sé curtha ar fáil ag bord an fhorais.

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá.

Community Development. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I established Comhairle na Tuaithe in February 2004 to address the three priority issues of access to the countryside, the development of a countryside code and the development of a countryside recreation strategy This decision followed consideration by the rural and agri-tourism advisory group of a report presented by the consultation group on access to waymarked ways. The establishment of a...

Community Development. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer to two basic principles, the first of which is that a landowner owns the land and he or she is not under a legal obligation to allow anybody on his or her land. The second is no compensation will be paid by the State for the provision of access to land. I have made those two principles clear time and again. It is, therefore, within a landowner's right to say he or she does not want a...

Community Development. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is always a problem. The ownership issue was a problem when the commonages were destocked. In most upland areas, the landowners are more than willing to allow people cross them. The consensus in Comhairle na Tuaithe is that upland areas should be accessible and, as long as people are not doing damage, there should be no difficulty accessing them. There is a large number of mountains...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Details of expenditure allocations for my Department in the years in question are set out in the respective Revised Estimates Volumes, while details of actual expenditure are contained in the audited appropriation accounts published annually by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Expenditure across the three main programme areas, including administration, for the years in question is set out...

Written Answers — Peace Programmes: Peace Programmes (7 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department has no responsibility for the matter raised by the Deputy.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cén fáth nach gcuireann sé síos é?

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (2 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Through the CLÁR programme, my Department will continue in 2006 to address depopulation, as well as the decline and lack of services in rural areas. The programme covers areas in 18 counties, with a population of 362,000, including areas I announced in January 2003 in light of the 2002 population census data. The average population loss in the selected areas is 50%. The exception is the...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (2 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The services of the media adviser attached to my Department's press office are available to myself and my Minister of State. The media adviser has been retained on a temporary full time contract with my Department since it was established in June 2002. Previously this adviser worked as a media adviser with the then Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. The rate of pay is that...

Written Answers — Rural Social Scheme: Rural Social Scheme (1 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The conditions of eligibility, which need to be fulfilled in order to participate in the RSS are as follows: applicants must be in receipt of farm assist, or have been allocated a valid herd or flock number from the Department of Agriculture and Food, and be in receipt of one of the following allowances from the Department of Social and Family Affairs, unemployment assistance, unemployment...