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Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was genuinely trying to puzzle out the answer to this difficulty. I have often returned parliamentary questions to the section if I think I know what the Member is driving at, even where it is not absolutely clear from the question. I try to give the information I think the Member is seeking. In this case, we were genuinely puzzled about what the Deputy was seeking because of the...

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: With regard to the wider issue raised by the Deputy, he can rest assured that I have said repeatedly that as core, traditional primary production in both the fishing and agriculture industries declines, we must examine alternatives. I gave a speech recently, for example, on the issue of marine leisure, which presents a major opportunity. I have referred time and again to the issue of using...

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was surprised the Deputy did not frame the question in the context of the salmon hardship fund and community supports. The Deputy prefaced it by referring to white fish.

Straitéis don Ghaeilge. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá obair ar siúl faoi láthair maidir le straitéis 20 bliain don Ghaeilge a fhorbairt, bunaithe ar ráiteas polasaí an Rialtais i leith na Gaeilge. I rith na bliana seo caite, tá mo Roinnse, i gcomhar le Fiontar DCU, na comhairleoirí neamhspleácha atá ag cuidiú chun an straitéis a chur le chéile, tar éis tabhairt faoi phróiseas leathan de chomhairliúchán poiblí, ar a...

Straitéis don Ghaeilge. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ní raibh an Teachta ag ardfheis Fhianna Fáil ag an deireadh seachtaine. Dá mba rud é go raibh sé ann, bheadh sé ar an eolas go bhfuil muid ag treabhadh ar aghaidh leis an obair seo. A mhalairt ar fad don mhéid atá ráite ag an Teachta atá fíor. Tá sé iomlán cruinn a rá go raibh súil againn go mbeadh sé seo déanta roimh deireadh na bliana. Nuair a thosaigh muid ag plé na...

Straitéis don Ghaeilge. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ní ghlacaim leis go gcuirim rudaí ar an mhéar fhada, ach is maith liom rudaí a dhéanamh go cuimsitheach. Ag breathnú siar ar an scéal, tugadh Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla isteach chomh sciobtha le hAcht ar bith eile, go mór mhór nuair a thógtar san áireamh gur Acht as an nua ar fad a bhí ann. Maidir leis an straitéis——

Straitéis don Ghaeilge. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tuigim é sin, ach tá an Teachta ag rá go gcuirim rudaí ar an mhéar fhada agus ní ghlacaim le sin. Mar is eol don Teachta, tá go leor eolas ar fáil ag an pobal maidir leis an próiseas seo, mar d'fhoilsigh muid an plé-cháipéis agus tá sin ar fáil. Tá na critéir ar eolas againn. Táimid ag obair ar an dréacht cháipéis i láthair na huaire agus tá go leor tuairimí breactha...

Community Development. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy will be aware, the CLÁR three-phase electricity conversion scheme has proven to be a popular and worthwhile measure. Since 2002, almost €5.42 million has been invested in 438 businesses, sports clubs and community centres to enhance electricity supply. In a context where funding approved under CLÁR and the level of outstanding commitments increased significantly in 2008, a...

Community Development. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I fully accept the Deputy's observations and this scheme is of particular importance. I have personal experience regarding the effective lack of three-phase electricity and of trying to operate machines off the backs of tractors in single phase and so on. This is a priority scheme and I will go further by referring to the three issues I have stated I wish to address, once the money to...

Community Development. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That certainly is a good idea and I will consider it because I am willing to explore any possibility of getting funding into rural areas. As for Deputy Wall's remarks, there is another scheme that runs in parallel to this that my Department inherited from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. I refer to the farm electrification grant scheme, or FEG scheme, as it is often known,...

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 42 and 52 together. The group referred to in the "details supplied" is a fund operated by my Department under which payments are made for specific purposes. As the questions have been put down on a "details supplied" basis, my understanding is that the rules of the House prevent me from being more specific in this regard. However, I have arranged that a list...

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Deputy names the organisation to which he refers, I can give him the answer to his question.

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Deputy had included the organisation's name in his question, I could have responded more directly.

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am pleased to be able to clarify this issue. I will provide the Deputy with a table which outlines the payments from my Department to Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in 2006, 2007 and 2008, as well as the approved allocation for 2009. Parallel to the current funding provided by my Department, capital funding has been provided in recent years through the Vote of the Department of Arts,...

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but according to my Department, the sum involved is €60,000. We will not argue over €10,000.

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand the sum in question is €60,000. The allocation under the regional development programme was €865,000 in 2006; €950,000 in 2007; and €1.25 million in 2008. This year, at the completion of that programme, there will be a full-year cost of €1.46 million. The reason for the increase is that this was a rolling programme of regional centres being opened by Comhaltas...

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Temporarily.

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a very simple explanation. Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann has a rolling programme and it was divided between two Departments. Perhaps this is not the best arrangement but that is the way it has been done since the regional programme began. My Department catered for current spending and the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism catered for capital spending. Comhaltas Ceoltóirí...

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a simple answer to the second question. We receive business plans and audited accounts. Members of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and its branches have access to the audited accounts. Under the new charities legislation, if the organisation has charitable status, it will have to publish audited accounts. No one would have any difficulty accessing the audited accounts of Comhaltas...

Grant Payments. (4 Mar 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Not to obfuscate, I provided a table on current spending and I have told the Deputy that if he received a similar table on capital spending from the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism he would have the other part of the equation. He would then have both the current and capital spending and could compare whether the money is increasing or decreasing and whether there was a windfall for...