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Written Answers — Recreational Facilities: Recreational Facilities (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Information regarding assistance approved by my Department for play facilities and other social amenities on islands in recent years is provided in the following table: Island Details Amount Approved € Inis Oírr Playground development 133,075 Toraigh Playground development 35,000 Árainn Mhór Playground development 35,000 Clare Island Football pitch 106,658 Inishturk Football...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A high-level group has been established at Secretary General level between my Department and the Department of Education and Science and meets periodically to consider matters of common interest in the context of the Irish language and the Gaeltacht. Joint actions arising from the work of the group are advanced through regular engagement at Assistant Secretary level between the two...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A Cabinet level committee has been established to examine the issues in the context of the analysis and the recommendations made in the Report of the Linguistic Study of the Use of Irish in the Gaeltacht. The Committee, which had its first meeting on 10 April 2008, has been tasked with agreeing an integrated action plan within a year to ensure the preservation and development of the Irish...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In general, the primary responsibility for assisting crèches in the Gaeltacht and throughout the State rests with the Office of the Minister for Youth and Children. However, Údarás na Gaeltachta and my Department have also provided assistance for the provision of childcare facilities in the Gaeltacht in the form of capital funding and provision of suitable sites. In addition, an...

Written Answers — Designated Areas: Designated Areas (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The RAPID Programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion within the 46 designated RAPID areas. The Government has given a commitment to continue to prioritise investment in the existing RAPID areas and no area currently included in the Programme will lose its eligibility for priority treatment. My attention at...

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cuireann sé áthas orm a bheith sa Seanad inniu agus deis a bheith agam labhairt faoi fhorbairt na tuaithe in Éirinn. Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Leas-Chathaoirleach as comhghairdeas a dhéanamh liom. We all realise that there are many challenges to the goal of rural development, both within Ireland itself and coming from outside. An objective analysis of where Government...

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes they do but, unfortunately, not in the same numbers. I do not blame people, but when we examine the statistics, the more rural the area, the greater the number of young people who access higher education, even though the number of parents in those areas who have had third level education is lower. Belmullet is the lowest of all the Gaeltacht areas in terms of parents with third level...

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Exactly. My challenge is to create that free choice. Having decided that is what we have to do, we must decide what policy measures are required to achieve the objective. Second, we have to question whether the policies are adequate for the purpose. We have done a number of things. We have set up the CLÁR programme and introduced the sustainable rural housing guidelines. We are...

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not have direct control over planners.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not question the integrity of planners, but I question a certain mindset that is evident. I spoke to every county manager in the country on the matter. In fairness they all turned up. I said to them that there is no point in the State investing €425 million in rural development, which means that we will have to build structures, and then find that no matter how sensible, cogent or...

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They would die for the parish. They will certainly play hard for the parish.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is the county and the province but consistently in our planning we ignore that hierarchy as if it did not exist. When the Taoiseach went home to Offaly last weekend the people got two messages — first, that Offaly was very important and, second, that he had to go to Clara. The end had to be Clara. It could not be Tullamore. The county town might be a fine place and he might live...

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Absolutely.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Caithfidh mé a rá go raibh díospóireacht iontach againn ar maidin. Sílim gur b'fhiú go mór an méid seo de díospóireacht a bheith againn. The more we debate these issues, the more I think we should deal with many of them in much more detail at a later stage. I am prepared to use the Seanad for the purpose for which it was established. While it is a legislative body, of course, it...

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The turnaround, once we advertise this, will be five or six weeks. Let us be realistic. I expect grants will be approved in October. The Leader programme companies have not helped themselves here. Instead of starting from scratch in October, if there is a good idea for a project, preliminary work could be started by interested companies. The operating rules will become available in time....

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Change is taking place and in my 30 years in rural Ireland I often find a discrepancy between claims about what rural people want and their actual requests. Rural people keep moving ahead of our wishes for the past. The best way to create a sustainable rural environment is to keep some of the good from the old world, but facilities for people are improving. Given a choice between the old...

Seanad: Legal Practitioners (Irish Language) Bill 2007: Second Stage (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm, thar ceann an Aire Dlí agus Cirt, Comhionannais agus Athchóirithe Dlí, an díospóireacht ar Bhille na nDlí-Chleachtóirí (An Ghaeilge) 2007 a thosú agus príomh-fhorálacha an Bhille a leagan amach. Is é cuspóir an Bhille seo, a chuirfear in áit in ionad na forálacha reachtúla atá ann faoi láthair i dtaca le hinniúlacht Ghaeilge d'abhcóidí agus d'aturnaetha,...

Seanad: Legal Practitioners (Irish Language) Bill 2007: Second Stage (14 May 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Members for their useful contributions. Senator Regan raised a question, which also was raised subsequently, about those individuals who did not qualify. I understand they were small in number. I listened to the anecdote told by my colleague, Senator Denis O'Donovan, and while I do not know what happened to the two people who were before him in the queue, it was always said that...