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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, provides for the payment of a rent supplement to assist eligible people who are unable to provide for their immediate accommodation needs from their own resources and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. Rent...

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (29 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: On 17 March 2005 my predecessor Minister Séamus Brennan met the Estonian Minister for Social Affairs, Mr Marko Pomerants, in Tallinn. On 6th April 2005 Minister Brennan met Assistant Minister Zdenka Ninic, of the Croatian Ministry of Family, Veteran's Affairs and Intergenerational Solidarity on the occasion of a conference on family matters in Dublin. No meetings have taken place since...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE), provides for the payment of a rent supplement to assist eligible people who are unable to provide for their immediate accommodation needs from their own resources and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source....

Order of Business (30 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Taoiseach is well able to look after himself.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: A child benefit claim was received from the person concerned in February 2007 in respect of his children residing with their mother in Bulgaria. Additional information was requested and obtained from the person concerned in April 2007 and again in February 2008. Following receipt of the latest information, correspondence issued to the Bulgarian authorities in April concerning any...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: The person concerned applied for a State Pension (Contributory) on 12th January 1996, a period of 20 months after his 66th birthday, which was on 11th May 1994. In accordance with legislation in place at the time, his State Pension (Contributory) was backdated by 6 months to 14th July 1995. Subsequently, revised guidelines were issued relating to late applications, and in 1998 a review of all...

Written Answers — Advocacy Services: Advocacy Services (30 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Citizens Information Board began a process in 2004 of engaging the community and voluntary sector in the provision of advocacy services to people with disabilities and also produced advocacy guidelines to inform and guide organisations in the development of advocacy services. Funding of €1million was allocated to the Citizens Information Board in 2005 to enable the introduction of the...

Written Answers — Live Register: Live Register (1 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: Live register data are collated by my Department by reference to the geographical area for which each local office is operationally responsible. That information is provided to the Central Statistics Office who break the information on a geographical basis by region, province, county and social welfare local office area and publish it on a monthly basis. A breakdown by postal code is not...

Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy should stop. Her comment was not nice and was uncalled for.

Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy is out of order.

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 294, 298 and 304 together. Under the Sports Capital Programme, which is administered by my Department, funding is allocated to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The 2008 programme was advertised on 13th and 14th of January and the deadline for receipt of applications was 29th February for...

Written Answers — Lisbon Treaty: Lisbon Treaty (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: Under the Lisbon Treaty, if ratified, sport will become one of the activities where the EU will have the right to carry out "actions to support, coordinate or supplement the actions of member states". As such, Sports policy will remain a national competence in the same way as Education and Culture policies are currently treated within the framework of the EU. The Treaty states that the...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: The average time for payment to be made by agencies affiliated to my Department to outside contractors for goods and services is a matter for the agencies themselves. Insofar as the Department is concerned the information for 2005 to 2008 required by the Deputy is set out in the table below. The figures for 2004 are not available. The figures are based on the average number of working days...

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: Under the Sports Capital Programme, which is administered by my Department, funding is allocated to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The position is that under the Sports Capital Programme, grantees in receipt of funding over a specified level must enter into a Deed of Covenant and Charge in order to protect the Department's...

Written Answers — Budget Submissions: Budget Submissions (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: The number of meetings attended by my predecessors to negotiate the contents of the Budget since my Department was founded in June 2002 was one. This was held on 31 October 2007 to negotiate the policy changes and service level improvements, which would be included in Budget 2008 for delivery by my vote group. My immediate predecessor Mr. Seamus Brennan, T.D. and the then Tánaiste and...

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: I presume that the Deputy is referring to the Sports Capital Programme. Under the Sports Capital Programme, which is administered by my Department, funding is allocated to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. Since 1998 the Programme has allocated over €675 million to over 6,700 projects. This investment has transformed the...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: The establishment dates of the bodies under the aegis of my Department are set out hereunder. The general functions, roles and locations of these bodies are set out in my Department's Statement of Strategy 2008-2010 which is available on my Department's website and in the relevant websites of the bodies, and their budgets for 2007 are set out in the Estimates for my Department which are...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: The cost of implementing the pay roll system within the bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the agencies themselves. The Department outsourced its payroll function as part of the overall outsourcing of our Financial Management System to the Financial Shared Service Centre of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in 2005. There is no cost to my Department...

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: Under the Sports Capital Programme, which is administered by my Department, funding is allocated to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The position is that under the Sports Capital Programme, grantees in receipt of funding over a specified level must enter into a Deed of Covenant and Charge in order to protect the Minister's...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (8 May 2008)

Martin Cullen: Excluding the cost of accommodation, the total cost incurred to date for the decentralisation of the Department to Killarney, Co Kerry currently stands at €640,000. This expenditure is in respect of office machinery, office and premises overheads, postal and telecommunications services and travel and subsistence. The Office of Public Works is responsible for costs relating to both the...