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Written Answers — Regulatory Impact Analysis: Regulatory Impact Analysis (16 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 343 and 344 together. Since June 2008, my Department has implemented 4 Statutory Instruments (SIs) of a technical nature, which did not constitute significant regulations and in respect of which neither a screening regulatory impact analysis (RIA) nor a full RIA was considered necessary. The SIs in question were as follows: Appointment of Special Advisors...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (16 Dec 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 by, or supported through, my Department — especially those focused on the needs of the...

Hospital Services. (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am responding to the Deputies on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney. The Government is committed to ensuring the delivery of best possible quality health services in an effective and efficient way. Patient safety is of paramount importance in ensuring people have confidence in the services and that the best possible patient outcomes are...

Hospital Services. (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister believes it is important to work with health professionals and other interested parties to secure an increasing set of improvements over time. This approach will, she is confident, produce the best outcome for patients. Patient safety will determine how services in the mid-west and the south are configured in the future. A detailed planning process is currently underway in each...

Departmental Funding. (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I fully concur with the Deputy on the need to keep an eye on money and to make sure it is spent where it should be spent. Pobal is a private company. It is not a statutory company or agency and it is important that one would understand that. What is proposed is a 33% cut in funding for 2009, as referred to by Deputy Broughan, relating to administration and overhead funding. It is not...

Departmental Funding. (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let us compare the relative overheads of the community services programme and the rural social scheme, one we inherited from another agency to which the Deputy referred as being before the Committee of Public Accounts. The rural social scheme was conceived by me and operated by my Department. One can ask the people on the ground which one is working better. If we ask Deputy Bannon which...

Departmental Funding. (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is the one with the slim overheads, the get out and do it scheme. That is the one Deputy Bannon would say delivers on the ground. I will stick by that approach. I know one thing; I will have the support of the main Opposition party in what I am doing.

Schools Building Projects. (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it provides me with an opportunity to outline to the House the position with regard to the proposed building project for St. Mary's national school in Edgeworthstown, County Longford and the position in relation to the allocation of teaching resources for the new school year. St. Mary's national school was formed as a result of an amalgamation of...

Coláistí Samhraidh. (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghlacadh leis an dTeachta as ucht na ceiste seo a ardú anseo anocht. Táim anseo thar cionn an Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta mar go mbaineann an scéal leis an Roinn sin. Go deimhin, bhí spéis agam sa mhéid a bhí le rá ag an dTeachta maidir le bunú na gcoláistí Gaeilge. Mar a tharlaíonn sé, sa bhliain 1903, bhí cruinniú i gCorcaigh, agus ag an...

Written Answers — Clár Forbartha Áitiúla: Clár Forbartha Áitiúla (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Comhairlítear dom nach bhfuil aon iarratas foirmeálta faighte ag mo Roinnse ón eagraíocht atá sonraithe ag an dTeachta. Cuireann mo Roinn maoiniú ar fáil faoin gClár Forbartha Áitiúla do chuimsitheacht shóisialta chun díriú ar mhíbhuntáiste a shárú agus comhionannas agus cuimsitheacht shóisialta agus eacnamaíochta a chur chun cinn. Úsáidtear an maoiniú seo chun réimse...

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am informed that no IT equipment or data was lost or stolen from my Department in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 387 and 388 together. The general position in my Department is that payments for overnight subsistence are made at standard rates in line with Department of Finance guidelines. Such standard payments are intended, inter alia, to cover any hotel accommodation costs for officials that may arise. However, direct expenditure on hotel accommodation may arise in...

Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The details sought by the Deputy in relation to my Department and the bodies funded from within its ministerial Vote group are provided in tabular format in the appendix to this reply. I understand that Foras na Gaeilge was unable to supply the relevant details within the timeframe for reply to this question. Accordingly, I have arranged to have the information appertaining to that...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No. 171 of 23 October 2008. The position, as set out in that reply, is that year-to-year increases in allocations would not normally be granted to allow for increments. In the normal way, the overall cost of increments for some staff on incremental scales should be offset by reductions in cost arising from retirements or other movements by staff on...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Under the decentralisation programme, my Department's headquarters will be decentralising to Charlestown, County Mayo. To date, 100 civil servants have moved to interim accommodation in Tubbercurry, County Sligo, 51 of whom relocated from Dublin. It is not planned to move any further staff to this location until a permanent headquarters is in place in Charlestown in mid-2011. The...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is an agreed core of 276 whole-time equivalent staff in my Department. In addition, there are eight whole-time equivalent staff seconded from my Department to the Office of the Commissioner of Charitable Donations and Bequests. For completeness, the information provided below includes details in respect of the staff seconded from my Department to the office of An Coimisinéir Teanga,...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The number of public and civil and public servants working under the aegis of my Department from 2002 to 2008 is as follows: 2002, 735; 2003, 776; 2004, 785.20; 2005, 814.50; 2006, 813; 2007, 808.54; and 2008, 819.34.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The information sought by the Deputy is as follows: Name of Agency/Body Location No. of Public Servants No. of Civil Servants Breakdown by Grade Dept. Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs 43-49 Mespil Road, Dublin 87.50 7 Principal Officers Teeling Street, Tubbercurry, Sligo 100.00 7 Principal Officers Na Forbacha, Galway 49.90 2 Principal Officers Other Locations 22.00 2...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my replies to Questions Nos. 90 and 128 of 18 Samhain 2008 and 403 of25 Samhain 2008. As outlined in those replies, the following developments are relevant in this context. In accordance with a decision made by the North/South Ministerial Council and in order to secure good practice and value for money, the functions and funding of Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge transferred...

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (17 Dec 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Amounts received as appropriations-in-aid in respect of EU programmes directly under my Department's remit for the period since its establishment in June 2002 to end-2007 are set out in the Appropriation Accounts for the years in question. For the Deputy's convenience, the relevant amounts are included in Table 1, as well as amounts received in 2008 to date. Table 1: Appropriations-in-aid...