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Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (18 Nov 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 Programme is managed on behalf of the Department by Pobal. 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...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (18 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Funding for my Department is provided in the main by the Exchequer, with specific allocations from the Dormant Accounts Fund. In addition, EU funding has been received in the form of Appropriations-in-Aid as follows: Source of Funding 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 (€000s) (€000s) (€000s) (€000s) (€000s) EU 6,118 22,649 13,233 25,298 24,280 National Lottery funding is also available...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (18 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 397 to 399, inclusive, together. The Deputy will be aware that under the legislation, credit institutions and insurance undertakings are required, each April, to transfer to the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), all moneys falling dormant in the previous year. Under the Dormant Accounts Acts, disbursement of unclaimed dormant accounts are used for...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (25 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would refer to Deputy to my answers to questions numbers 90 and 128 on the 18th November 2008. As outlined in that answer, the functions and funding of Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge transferred to Foras na Gaeilge with effect from 1 January 2008 in accordance with a decision made by the North South Ministerial Council in 2007 and in order to secure good practice and value for money. The Council...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (25 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department has made available on its website details regarding consultancies (excepting those of minor value i.e. less than €5,000 excluding VAT) from June 2002 to the end of October 2008. The relevant link in relation to expenditure on consultancies by my Department is: www.pobail.ie/en/CorporateSupportServices/Finance/Consultanc ies. The relevant information is set out in the tables....

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (25 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy will be aware that I announced the results of the process for selecting Local Action Groups to deliver the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme and the respective funding allocations for the successful Groups on the 4th November last. I hope to be in a position to sign contracts with the Groups in the near future. However, contracts will only be signed with those...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department made payments totalling €387,640 in 2007 to 185 claimants in respect of mileage claimed on foot of official travel. The Deputy will appreciate the constraints attached to a Question put down in "details supplied" format and accordingly I am arranging for the relevant information to be sent directly to him.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (25 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The percentage of LEADER funding allocated for administration is of the order of 20% and, while firm data is not to hand, my understanding would be that costs for Partnerships generally would not be less than that amount. As the Deputy will be aware, my Department has over the past number of years being pursuing a process of cohesion of local delivery structures in order to simplify and...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (25 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The details requested by the Deputy in relation to my private office are set out below. For completeness, I have also included details in relation to my Special Advisor and Media Advisor in the information provided in respect of my private office. Number of staff in Private Office Annual Salary Expenses to date in 2008 11 â'¬533,478 â'¬14,351 The details requested by the Deputy in...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (26 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy will be aware, funding for my Department for the year 2009 is reduced by a total of 6%; with current expenditure reduced by 5% and capital expenditure by 8.5%. As previously indicated to the house, my primary concern is to make every effort to ensure that the front-line services provided through my Department, especially those focused on the needs of the most socially deprived...

Written Answers — Ferry Services: Ferry Services (27 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The processes followed by my Department in relation to the award of island ferry contracts are in accordance with the relevant provisions of EU Directive 2004/18/EC on the co-ordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts and are also guided by: Commission Interpretative Communication of 23 June 2006 on the Community law...

Written Answers — Ferry Services: Ferry Services (27 Nov 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As a general rule, records relating to successful tender bids may be released by my Department to requesters, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003. I am arranging for copies of such material relating to the Cléire ferry service to be made directly available to the Deputy. In line with guidance provided by the Office of the Information...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (2 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In view of the additional information provided by the Deputy, I have asked my officials to re-examine the application in question and I will revert to him as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Physical Education Facilities: Physical Education Facilities (2 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The four facilities referred to by the Deputy are in Killinarden and Firhouse in South Dublin and Palmerstown and Collinstown in West Dublin. They were built as part of a programme to develop combined community/school sports facilities in drugs task force areas in Dublin and Cork. The objective was that each facility (nine in total) would serve a dual purpose. Firstly, they would put good...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (2 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy will be aware that I announced the results of the process for selecting Local Action Groups to deliver the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme and the respective funding allocations for the successful Groups on the 4th November last. I hope to be in a position to sign contracts with the Groups in the near future. However, contracts will only be signed with those...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (2 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department administers a scheme in the Gaeltacht under which community groups may apply for funding for local projects, subject to certain criteria. The maximum assistance that can be given under this scheme is 80% of the admissible costs and this percentage would include any assistance given by other organisations out of public funds. My Department received...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (2 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Questions Nos. 213 and 217 of 14 Deireadh Fómhair 2008. Under the CLÁR programme, a total of approximately €637,000 in CLÁR funding has been approved for water/sewerage schemes in Co. Longford since 2002. All such approvals for CLÁR funding will be honoured as they fall due. I would like to advise the Deputy that there is no record of any new...

Seanad: Community Development (2 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Senator Fitzgerald for raising this matter as it gives me the opportunity to outline to the House the proposal my Department is developing along with the Department of Education and Science, County Dublin Vocational Education Committee and South Dublin County Council. I was made aware several years ago that my Department made money available through the dormant accounts fund. I was...

Seanad: Community Development (2 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My intention is to ensure a smooth transition and, as I said in my reply, we are working towards continuity. If everything is not finalised by 1 January, we will have to make some interim arrangement because there is no point in closing the facilities only to reopen them at a later date. I will try to avoid that situation if at all possible. It is important to point out that what is...

Seanad: School Accommodation (2 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the two Senators for raising this issue. I will take the opportunity to outline to the House the Government's strategy for capital investment in education projects as well as the current position on Laragh national school, Stradone, County Cavan. At the outset, the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, wishes to clarify that modernising facilities in our existing...