Results 2,701-2,720 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Calafoirt agus Céanna: Calafoirt agus Céanna (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá iarratas faighte ag mo Roinn ó Chomhairle Chontae Dhún na nGall ar chúnamh le haghaidh feabhsúcháin a dhéanamh ar Ché Inis Bó Finne ar chostas measta de bheagnach €500,000. Tá an t-iarratas á mheas faoi láthair i gcomhthéacs an tsoláthair airgid a bheidh ar fáil do mo Roinnse le caitheamh ar fhorbairt oileán i gcoitinne, ag tógáil san áireamh na tosaíochtaí agus na...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The CLÁR programme operates two measures to provide additional funding to Local Authorities to carry out works on roads in CLÁR areas, the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) measure and the Class II and III Roads measure. There is no specific allocation of funding for roads in the Gaeltacht areas of Co. Mayo. Under the LIS measure €500,000 was allocated to Co. Mayo in 2007. The allocation...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Under Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge, which is administered by my Department, grants are paid to qualified households in Gaeltacht areas who accommodate Irish students attending recognised Irish courses in the Gaeltacht. This scheme indirectly helps parents by reducing the cost they are required to pay when sending their children to the Gaeltacht to learn Irish. However, my Department...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Under Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge a grant of €260 per school year is payable to qualified families in the Gaeltacht who satisfy my Department that Irish is their normal spoken language. Where a family fails to demonstrate the degree of fluency required under the Scheme, my Department may pay a reduced grant of 50%, if it is satisfied that the family can eventually reach the appropriate...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy is aware, my Department was established in June 2002. In carrying out its functions, the Press and Information Office in the Department employ a media monitoring/press cuttings service to monitor the national and regional media (English language and Irish language) noting both direct and more general coverage of matters relevant to the work of the Department. In this context,...

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since my Department was established in June 2002, there have been no known instances where personal data held by my Department were compromised in any way. I also understand that there has been no instances, since June 2002, where personal data held by agencies under the ambit of my Department, were compromised in any way. The review of data security procedures, announced by An Tánaiste on...

Written Answers — Equal Opportunities Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Currently 2% of the staff of my Department have a disability. My Department did not hire people with disabilities from outside the civil service in the period from 2002 to date in 2008.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 798 and 800 together. My reply will deal with matters which are the direct responsibility of my Department but not with elements that relate to the decentralisation programme generally or to matters, such as property acquisition or disposal or planning, which are the responsibility of other Ministers. In this regard, the House will note the reply today of my...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To date, 76 officers from my Department have transferred to an interim location in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo. Of those, 42 officers transferred from posts in Dublin. It is planned to fill a further 30 posts in Tubbercurry next March and the majority of those officers will be transferring from posts outside Dublin. 10 officers are in place in Na Forbacha, Galway, fulfilling the Department's...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy may be aware that, on foot of an announcement in the 2008 Budget of an efficiency review of administrative spending across the public service, each Department is required to examine such spending, both within its own ambit and of bodies under its aegis, and to provide proposals for administrative savings to the Department of Finance by March 2008. The process of conducting the...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 451 and 452 together. As the Deputy will be aware this Department was established in June 2002 and, as requested, I set out below a Table detailing the statutory bodies that I have responsibility for and the annual operating costs for these bodies over the last five years. The Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board was dissolved on 4th January 2006 in...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 453 to 455, inclusive, together. I presume the Deputy is referring to high level committees that Departments establish from time to time to consider and advance particular strategic issues. In this context, my Department has set up no such task force since it was established in June 2002. However, the Deputy may wish to note that my Department supports the...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The table below shows the non-property costs incurred from 2004 to end-July 2008. Year Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total (€) (€) (€) (€) (€) 2004 1,840 376 4,428 58 6,702 2005 825 2,039 1,641 931 5,436 2006 2,039 49,243 295,691* 372,216* 719,189 2007 39,113 47,027 n/a n/a 86,140 Total 817,467 *Figures relate to the setting up and equipping of new office in Tubbercurry.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To date, 76 of the 140 staff of my Department originally due to relocate to Co. Mayo have transferred to an interim location in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, pending the acquisition of a site and the building of a new headquarters at Charlestown, Co. Mayo. It is planned to increase the number at the interim location to just over 100 from March 2008. The Department has already fulfilled its...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The business plan for this group is currently in the process of being appraised. My Department expects to receive a recommendation from POBAL in relation to this group before the end of the month and the group will be notified of the outcome in March.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is a matter, in the first instance, for my colleague the Minister for Health and Children. Deputies will be aware, however, that the general aim of my Departments policies and programmes is to provide support to communities in the most appropriate way as they work to shape their own futures and achieve their full potential. I have adopted a co-ordinated approach in this work within my...

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department was established in June 2002. Since that date, a number of schemes and programmes have been operated by my Department which were — or continue to be — funded in full or in part by the European Union. Details of these programmes and schemes and the funding allocated to them since establishment of the Department are outlined below. Programme...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: At present my Department has no specific scheme for the funding of defibrillators for sporting bodies. However, for completeness I should mention that groups, including local sporting organisations, may be eligible for funding towards the cost of defibrillators under my Department's programme of Grants for Locally Based Community and Voluntary Organisations, the RAPID programme or the CLÁR...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The costs of answering PQs are not currently available in my Department. However, I have asked the Department to prepare costings based on a representative sample of questions arising over the next two months and I will advise the Deputy accordingly.

Written Answers — Foras na Gaeilge: Foras na Gaeilge (6 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tuigim ó Fhoras na Gaeilge go bhfuil polasaí coimhlint leasa acu atá ag teacht leis na caighdeáin idirnáisiúnta is fearr. Bíonn ar chomhaltaí boird cruinniú a fhágáil nuair atá sé soiléir go bhfuil coimhlint ann, mar shampla, nuair atá baint acu le tionscadal nó earnáil atá faoi chaibidil; nuair atá baint acu le ceann de na grúpaí bunmhaoinithe agus an buiséad do na...