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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister gave me many figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked for some of them and not others. My calculation is that approximately €110 million has yet to be spent on projects. The Minister seemed to indicate that €9.58 million has been spent after two months, which would work out at an annual spend of €57 million. On the other hand, the Minister also indicated all the money will be spent by the end of the year. Does he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome this and I will certainly support the Minister in ensuring this happens. It is important the money is reallocated from non-performing projects or companies. Does the Minister have any white smoke with regard to co-funding, as his colleague at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine did? I know these programmes never run for the full seven years and there is always a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I expect much better from the Minister. He is even closer to the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I got a lot more money.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 13. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the arrangements he will make to deliver both the Leader and the successor LCDP in the Gaeltacht and the Islands; the arrangements being made to ensure that delivery of these programmes to Irish speakers in the Gaeltacht will be through the medium of that language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11702/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 29. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to tender out the provision of the successor programme to the local and community development programme, LCDP, to both the private and the not-for-profit community sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11703/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the agri-environment options scheme 2 to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12235/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (12 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2013 REP scheme 4 will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12272/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has confidence in the work being done by Inland Fisheries Ireland; if any other Department has raised any issue with him in relation to the work and professional competence of the staff of this agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11504/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: EU Directives (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the efforts he has made during his term of office to change the ruling by the EU that all tenders for rural broadband must be technology neutral; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10851/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: EU Directives (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 299. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the policy of the EU that all tenders for the provision of rural broadband should be on a technology neutral basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11503/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the qualifying criteria in respect of grant aid under the student grant scheme 2013 for a non-EU citizen who is over 18 years of age and has been living legally in the State for over five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11560/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Applications (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the funding sought under the emergency programme of rehabilitative works following recent storms by Galway County Council in relation to works on Inishbofin Island; the details of the works for which funding has been sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12076/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ferry Services Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 285. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next meeting of the co-ordinating committees in relation to the ferry services to Inishbofin Island, the Aran Islands and all other islands around the coast will take place; the number of meetings that have taken place in the past three years of the co-ordinating committee in relation to each island; the dates of these...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Offshore Islands (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 286. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to make the airstrip on Inishbofin available for use by private aircraft; the reason that this has not been done to date in view of the potential of aero-tourism to Inishbofin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12077/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 300. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of recommendations of the report by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the oil and gas exploration industry that have been implemented; the number he intends implementing; the number he does not intend implementing and the reasons in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10852/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 339. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if detailed criteria has been made available to local authorities to enable them to update the application forms under the housing aid for older people scheme and the housing adaptation and mobility aids scheme; the reason for the delay by local authorities in providing these application forms; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the single farm payment scheme and the disadvantaged area based scheme for 2013 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11541/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (11 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the commonage framework plan review will be completed; the reason for the delay in completing the review in view of the impact this delay has on farmers who participated on the Twelve Bens-Garraun complex and Maumturk Mountains special areas of conservation scheme in respect of amending their AEOS and REP scheme plans; and if...