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Departmental Programmes. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Members were not so informed.

Departmental Programmes. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When was that?

Departmental Programmes. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I explained to Members previously, the RAPID programme was about front-loading expenditure under the national development plan, under the existing headings. For example, under a housing heading, the idea was that a RAPID area would get priority over other areas when housing allocations would be made by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. For example, under a...

Departmental Programmes. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Deputy has the information I am seeking, will he make it available to me? The figure of €2 billion that is mentioned by everyone was also mentioned to me shortly after I become Minister. I asked people to gather all the press releases when the RAPID programme was launched, but I did not find any reference to that figure in them. If someone can give me that quote I will be eternally...

Departmental Programmes. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I cannot find any specific reference to that figure in all the documentation I was given. I asked my civil servants to check through documents for a specific commitment of €2 billion for RAPID areas. I accept it is stated somewhere and I am not trying to allege that the Deputy is making it up. If it is stated, what we are talking about is the spend, in other words, expenditure on a health...

Departmental Programmes. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will try to answer the questions briefly. The first thing I find, meeting co-ordinators, chairpersons of AITs and directors of community and enterprise services in the various local authorities, is that there is an enormous buy in to RAPID now. If the Deputy had been at the recent meeting we had here in Dublin, he would——

Departmental Programmes. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ——have found a very positive view. Since it is coming up to the summer break, we have a DVD that was made by the RAPID groups all along the west coast. A copy is being made available to every Member of the Oireachtas so they may see what the RAPID communities are saying about themselves. I had no hand, act or part in the preparation of this DVD, and neither had my Department. This was...

Departmental Programmes. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ——about this and that is why CLÁR is different because it pre-dates that section. I had reservations about the measurement of front-loading because it was spending under the national development plan. I felt, very simply, that it would be good to have a small fund that could be co-funded with other Departments to deal with all the myriad of small projects that came through as RAPID plans...

Caighdeán na Gaeilge. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mar is eol don Teachta, is í an tAire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta atá freagrach as cúrsaí oideachais, sa Ghaeltacht agus lasmuigh di. Ar ndóigh, i gcomhthéacs na freagrachta atá ormsa agus ar mo Roinn-se i ndáil leis an nGaeilge agus leis an nGaeltacht, bíonn cruinnithe ann ar bhonn rialta leis an Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta agus le hoifigigh na Roinne chun saincheisteanna...

Caighdeán na Gaeilge. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bheadh sé fíordhona muna ngníomhófaí ar an tuarascáil sin anois, agus thiocfainn leis an Teachta go hiomlán. Tá idir deascéalta agus drochscéalta ann. Aontaím go bhfuil dúshlán dochreidte ann. Ar an taobh eile den scéal, chuala mé daoine ag labhairt ar líon na scoileanna atá ag múineadh trí Bhéarla, ach caithfear cuimhneamh, mar shampla, go gclúdaíonn sé sin scoileanna...

Caighdeán na Gaeilge. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Thógfadh na ceisteanna agus na pointí ar fad a d'ardaigh an Teachta ní ba mhó ama ná atá agam. Tá freagracht fheidhmiúil ar mholtaí na tuarascála ar an Roinn Oideachais agus Eolaíochta. Is ról tacúil é atá ag mo Roinn-se san obair seo ar fad. Tá an fhreagracht maidir leis an gceist seo go bunúsach ar an Roinn Oideachais agus Eolaíochta. Caithfidh mé é sin a shoiléiriú...

Caighdeán na Gaeilge. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ——is ag sábháilt airgead na Gaeilge le haghaidh chur chun cinn na Gaeilge atá muid le hAcht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla. Táimid ag cur dualgas ar na Ranna, as a gcistíocht féin, dualgais a chomhlíonadh maidir le seirbhísí a chur ar fáil.

Caighdeán na Gaeilge. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Exactly, agus sin an fáth nach dteastaíonn uaim go mbeadh ar mo Roinn-se airgead na Gaeilge a chaitheamh ag déanamh obair Rann eile. Sin an buntáiste iontach a bhaineann leis an Acht. Is ag sábháilt airgead na Gaeilge atá sé. Is ceist chairt chustaiméara atá i gceist, mar shampla, tuarascáil bhliantúil a chur ar fáil san dá theanga oifigiúil. Is ceist eile í an léann éinne...

Caighdeán na Gaeilge. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tiocfaidh go leor as, agus cheana féin tá go leor tagtha.

Caighdeán na Gaeilge. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I bhfad níos mó ná mar a tháinig as an Roinn nuair a bhí páirtí an Teachta i gcumhacht. Mar shampla——

Caighdeán na Gaeilge. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ní raibh. Níl sí ar fáil ach le cúpla seachtain. Tháinig an tuarascáil seo amach, agus táimid cheana féin ag díriú, mar shampla, ar cheist na gcúntóirí teangan sna scoileanna Gaeltachta, scéim atá ag leathnú amach ar fud na tíre anois. Táimid ag díriú, mar shampla, ar cheist na gcuairteoirí baile agus mar sin de. Tá níos mó acmhainní á gcur ar scéimeanna ó...

Offshore Islands. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I remind the Deputy that responsibility for housing persons with mental or physical disability rests with my colleagues, the Ministers for Health and Children and the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. However, with regard to the context in which the Deputy has tabled the question, he should note that the development of new piers in recent years both on the island to which he refers...

Offshore Islands. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Unfortunately, as the Deputy will be aware, only a small number of people live on Inishbiggle, an island which has experienced a significant population decline in recent years. I doubt if anybody on the island is in any doubt as to the Department's position on the cable car project, given that I visited the island during my most recent visit to County Mayo and spent more than an hour...

Offshore Islands. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Inishbiggle has one of the best helipads in the country and my Department put it in. I recognise that helicopter evacuation in terms of illness or other emergencies is vital. Doctors based on the islands full-time always tell me they get an excellent service from both the search and rescue helicopter and the Air Corps.

Offshore Islands. (29 Jun 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have kept in touch about this. There is more than one doctor on the Arann Islands and I have not received any complaints about availability, particularly from the Arann Islands, which have the largest population and the most calls out. Other doctors on the west coast have said the same.