Results 721-740 of 6,728 for speaker:John Curran
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (20 May 2008)
John Curran: The Report of the Working Group on Drugs Rehabilitation, published in May 2007, made a series of recommendations for the development of a comprehensive rehabilitation pillar under the National Drugs Strategy. The Programme for Government also contains a commitment to implement these recommendations. I can assure the Deputy that I will be working to ensure that the recommendations of the...
- Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (20 May 2008)
John Curran: The Community Development Programme is designed to reduce social exclusion by targeting support at disadvantaged and socially excluded communities in order to improve their capacity to benefit from social and economic development. In 2008, funding in the region of â¬24 million will be provided to meet the staff and overhead costs for over 180 Community Development Projects in disadvantaged...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (20 May 2008)
John Curran: The process of developing a new National Drugs Strategy for the period 2009â2016 has commenced in my Department. In this context, a Steering Group has been established with representatives from the key statutory, community and voluntary interests involved in tackling problem drug use. The work of the Group is ongoing and an extensive consultation process is currently underway. I look...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (20 May 2008)
John Curran: In the context of better alignment of drugs prevention and youth policies, the transfer of the Young People's Facilities and Services Fund is being considered at present.
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (22 May 2008)
John Curran: I refer the Deputy to responses to earlier questions on this topic, in particular Questions Nos. 20, 27 and 41 on 3 April 2008 and Question No. 433 of 19 February 2008. As indicated, a key objective of my Department is to ensure that the skills and talents of the volunteers and staff of Community Development Projects are recognised and developed to enable the objectives of the Programme to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (28 May 2008)
John Curran: As part of the current programme support, the Department publicly tendered for the provision of support services to Projects in 2004. Six companies, including the agency referred to by the Deputy, were contracted following a public tender process to provide services on a regional basis for the period June 2004 to end May 2007. These contracts were extended, initially, to the end of 2007,...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (29 May 2008)
John Curran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 93 and 94 together. The following table sets out the amounts estimated to have been spent on the National Drugs Strategy in the period since 2001. In this context, it should be noted that expenditure under the Young Peoples Facilities and Services Fund (YPFSF) was managed by the Department of Education and Science up to 2002. Responsibility for this funding...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (17 Jun 2008)
John Curran: The Needs Analysis Research Report was compiled by an organisation funded under this Department's Community Development Programme. The Programme was established in 1990 to tackle exclusion, poverty and disadvantage. It provides funding to designated community development resource centres/projects in communities experiencing social and economic disadvantage. The projects, which are private,...
- Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (17 Jun 2008)
John Curran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 583 and 597 together. Under the Dormant Accounts Acts, disbursement of unclaimed dormant accounts are used for the purposes of assisting three broad categories of persons â those affected by economic and social disadvantage; those affected by educational disadvantage; and persons with a disability. In addition to â¬63 million of disbursements agreed by...
- Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (17 Jun 2008)
John Curran: Grants in respect of personal alarm systems are available for senior citizens as part of my Department's Scheme of Community Support for Older People. Local community and voluntary groups with the support of my Department administer the Scheme. Individual applicants must be 65 years of age or over and have a genuine need for the security equipment. A maximum individual grant of â¬300 is...
- Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (17 Jun 2008)
John Curran: My Department manages the Scheme of Community Support for Older People which assists qualifying older people, aged 65 years and over, by means of a community based grant scheme. Funding is provided towards the once-off cost of installing monitored alarm systems, door and window locks, door chains, security lighting, smoke alarms and in the case of qualifying older people living on our...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (17 Jun 2008)
John Curran: Ten Regional Drugs Task Forces (RDTFs) were set up under the National Drugs Strategy in 2003 and their areas of operation generally correspond with the Health Board areas as operated at that time. A list of the RDTFs and the areas that they cover are set out in Appendix 1. As part of their brief, the RDTFs assessed the nature and extent of the illicit drug problems in their areas of...
- Seanad: National Drugs Strategy: Motion (18 Jun 2008)
John Curran: I thank the Senators for their contributions. As was mentioned, this is my first official visit to the Seanad. I was on the far side of the glass partition any time I was here previously. I thank the Seanad for the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the development of a new national drugs strategy. I welcome it and it is important that Members of this House have an opportunity to...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (24 Jun 2008)
John Curran: The project referred to by the Deputy is a drug awareness project that receives annual funding from my Department under the National Drugs Strategy. The allocation for 2008 is nearly â¬190,000. I understand that the project has also made an application for funding under the Drugs Task Force Premises Initiative Fund, which addresses the accommodation needs of community-based drugs projects....
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (25 Jun 2008)
John Curran: The project referred to by the Deputy is an Education/Skills Training Programme in the North West Inner City area of Dublin. The project offers a FETAC-accredited training and education programme for female drug users who are stabilized and/or on methadone maintenance. The project receives annual funding from my Department under the National Drugs Strategy and the allocation in 2008 is...
- Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2008)
John Curran: The Minister was not responding to Deputy Flanagan.
- Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2008)
John Curran: I did not say that. I said the Minister was not only responding to Deputy Flanagan.
- Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2008)
John Curran: The fact that he responded means the Deputy cannot say his head was in the sand.
- Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2008)
John Curran: Thank you.
- National Drugs Strategy. (26 Jun 2008)
John Curran: The programme in question showed instances of the availability of drugs in a number of locations, indicating a level of demand for these drugs. However, I do not think it produced evidence of any new issues that we are not already aware of and that we are not currently working to address through the national drugs strategy. In terms of robust evidence of the drug situation in Ireland, I...