Results 901-920 of 2,551 for speaker:Pat Carey

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (27 Jun 2007)

Pat Carey: The Scheme of Community Support for Older People is administered by local community and voluntary groups with the support of my Department. The purpose of the Scheme is to assist and encourage the community's support for older people by means of a community based grant scheme. A maximum individual grant of €300 is provided under the Scheme in respect of the once-off installation cost of...

Written Answers — Traveller Community: Traveller Community (27 Jun 2007)

Pat Carey: The project in question was awarded Dormant Accounts funding of €188,568 by the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board under the initial round of funding. The grant was to develop a youth work programme for Travellers in the Finglas area. The Deputy will appreciate that the Dormant Accounts Fund cannot of its nature be regarded as a source of indefinite funding for specific projects....

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (27 Jun 2007)

Pat Carey: My Department has received an application from the group referred to by the Deputy under the Programme of Grants for Locally-Based Community and Voluntary Organisations and they will be notified of the decision on this in the near future.

Hospital Services. (3 Jul 2007)

Pat Carey: I take this matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney. I am sure the House will join with me in extending our sympathies to the Minister on the death of her mother. I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin for raising the matter. The Teamwork Management Services Limited report, Improving Safety and Achieving Better Standards, provides a detailed assessment...

Foster Care. (3 Jul 2007)

Pat Carey: I add my congratulations to those of Deputy Sheahan on Deputy Howlin's appointment as Leas-Cheann Comhairle. It was remiss of me not to do so earlier. I also congratulate Deputy Sheahan on his election to the Dáil and I wish him well here. I am replying to this Adjournment matter on behalf of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. Deputy Sheahan will appreciate that it...

Youth Services. (3 Jul 2007)

Pat Carey: I thank Deputy Costello for raising this matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science. As the Deputy said, I am well aware of this project as both he and I were both members of the City of Dublin VEC and the City of Dublin Youth Service Board, which were instrumental in helping the project progress. The issue provides me with the opportunity to explain to the...

Drug Seizures. (3 Jul 2007)

Pat Carey: I make this reply on behalf of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. I thank Deputies Coveney and Sheehan for raising this important matter in the House. All Members share a sense of relief that the attempt to import a massive amount of cocaine into west Cork on Sunday night and Monday morning failed. I commend the efforts of the Garda Síochána, the customs service, the Naval...

Drug Seizures. (3 Jul 2007)

Pat Carey: It is inevitable that an incident of this kind leads to speculation about what attempts there may have been to import drugs in this way which may have been successful and about which the authorities know nothing. Of its nature, that is speculation for which no hard evidence exists, but in 2005 the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that global seizures of cocaine amounted to...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (3 Jul 2007)

Pat Carey: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No. 269 of 27 June 2007.

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (3 Jul 2007)

Pat Carey: While I understand that FÁS representatives are actively engaged with the National Drugs Strategy structures and are making a significant contribution to the on-going implementation of the Strategy, I am aware that particular difficulties have arisen with regard to attendance by FÁS representatives at the Ballyfermot Local Drugs Task Force (LDTF) meetings. However, steps are being taken by...

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: This motion is more to do with the attempt by Fine Gael and its leader to recover the initiative which has been snatched from them by a very eager new leader of the Labour Party whom I congratulate on his appointment. The Fine Gael motion is nothing short of political grandstanding. As the Members opposite know very well, the Oireachtas set up the tribunal and requested its report. It is...

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: He gave evidence for 18 hours last week.

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: It is time for the Opposition to stop the political opportunism because that is all it is.

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: There is clearly sour grapes overhanging from the election. I am not sure that the defeat has even been conceded yet.

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: The election debate demonstrated that Deputy Kenny could not beat the Taoiseach on the issues so he now seems to be intent on playing the man rather than the ball and he will have the same success as his football team has had in that venture.

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: The new leader of the Labour Party is going for the old discredited Labour Party approach of heads in baskets. Deputy Gilmore told us during the election that the people should decide on any issue arising out of the Taoiseach's finances. His position now is that he alone should decide and the Labour Party has the neck to criticise the Taoiseach about contradictions; one could not make it...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: The Deputy will appreciate that primary responsibility for drug treatment rests with my colleague, Mary Harney T.D., Minister for Health and Children. However, I understand that the Health Service Executive (HSE) provides addiction services in 9 locations in the Midlands region. The range of services provided includes methadone maintenance, counselling, education/ awareness programmes and...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: The National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008 has achieved considerable success across a range of different areas and will continue to do so in its remaining fifteen months of operation. In particular, the Deputy should note that: The level of drugs seizures by the Gardaí and the Customs Service have been well in excess of the targets set out in the Strategy and they include a number of...

Written Answers — Community and Voluntary Sector Funding: Community and Voluntary Sector Funding (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 625 and 626 together. A Funding Scheme to Support National Organisations in the Community and Voluntary Sector was advertised in May, 2007 with a closing date of 22nd June, 2007 for receipt of applications. A large number of applications were received under this Scheme. Assessment of these applications is currently underway, with a view to having new funding...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (26 Sep 2007)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 632 and 633 together. The Centre in question applied for funding under the Dormant Accounts Flagship funding measure. Pobal carried out the initial assessment of all applications on behalf of my Department and found that the application from the group in question did not score sufficiently against the criteria approved by Government and consequently did not...