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Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Why tell me?

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not; that is the point. Why tell me? The Deputy may as well talk to the wall. This is an independent board.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Exactly. It is an independent board.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: None.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I can guarantee the Deputy this.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In 12 months, no one has articulated exactly why we are changing the legislation.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are doing exactly that.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry we did not ask Deputy Connolly to speak first on this Bill since he has articulated 100% of the points that we have unsuccessfully been trying to make for a year. I congratulate him. I have no influence on how the board spends its money since, as the Deputy rightly pointed out, it is independent, as are its decisions. I do not interfere with them.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Second, the Deputy cannot call me to account on how it disbursed the money since I have no function under current law. When we change the law and enact this Bill, the Deputy will be able to call me to the House and, on Question Time and through motions on the Adjournment, query exactly how we spend the money. We are introducing exactly what the Deputy seeks, namely, accountability. Deputy...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I checked out the case the Deputy referred to. I can confirm two facts I have established. The rest of the information we will send directly to the Deputy. The application from the group in question was not ruled out of order. It was assessed using the independent criteria by ADM Limited, the agency that assesses all dormant accounts applications. It has a scoring system and we will make the...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy spoke about coaching.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be a serious issue if the Ombudsman were to conclude that a Member had subverted the process. However, I do not know how one can subvert the process when the criteria are laid out, there is a closing date for applications and one must follow the process and be accountable for one's actions. Deputy Boyle has not been in Government but I assure him it is impossible to take some of the...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I distributed one mailshot in Carna and provided information about my work at the last election. However, I do not produce this type of literature on a regular basis.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This points to the nub of the Bill. Members of the Sinn Féin Party are masters at producing such informational literature. Some of the material published by Fine Gael in Dublin is fantastic. The recent issue of its bulletin in Dublin 4 was particularly impressive.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is entirely relevant. Opposition parties claim to be better than all others. This is probably the nature of politics because it is competitive. However, virtuous claims from Opposition Members that they never tried to claim anything do not stand up to any logical analysis. At the end of this debate, Deputy Connolly came to the nub of the matter. The Deputy may be unhappy with the way the...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (11 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department provided funding of €30,000 to Fingal County Council in February of this year. This funding was provided under the local authority housing estate enhancement scheme 2004, which is part of the RAPID programme, to enhance an open area in this estate. The funding was paid to the council following confirmation by Fingal County Council and the chair of the area implementation team...

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (12 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The final date for project commitments under the existing Leader programmes is the end of December 2006. The draft EU regulation on rural development, to cover the period 2007-13, is published and is under negotiation. This draft regulation, and the associated guidelines to be published by the European Commission, will outline the scope and options for rural development programmes, including...

Written Answers — Fairtrade Products: Fairtrade Products (12 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department has no records of the use of Fairtrade products.

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (12 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are two vacancies to be filled on boards of statutory agencies within the ambit of my Department as follows: Údarás na Gaeltachta, one; and Ulster Scots Agency, one. These vacancies will be filled in due course in accordance with the terms of the respective Acts.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (17 May 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To be eligible to participate in the rural social scheme, RSS, a person must be in receipt of farm assist or have been allocated a valid herd or flock number from the Department of Agriculture and Food, and be in receipt of unemployment assistance, unemployment benefit if previously on a community employment scheme or disability allowance, or be a self employed fisherman whose fishing boat...