Results 1,221-1,240 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Peace Programmes: Peace Programmes (7 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department has no responsibility for the matter raised by the Deputy.

Community Development. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I established Comhairle na Tuaithe in February 2004 to address the three priority issues of access to the countryside, the development of a countryside code and the development of a countryside recreation strategy This decision followed consideration by the rural and agri-tourism advisory group of a report presented by the consultation group on access to waymarked ways. The establishment of a...

Community Development. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer to two basic principles, the first of which is that a landowner owns the land and he or she is not under a legal obligation to allow anybody on his or her land. The second is no compensation will be paid by the State for the provision of access to land. I have made those two principles clear time and again. It is, therefore, within a landowner's right to say he or she does not want a...

Community Development. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is always a problem. The ownership issue was a problem when the commonages were destocked. In most upland areas, the landowners are more than willing to allow people cross them. The consensus in Comhairle na Tuaithe is that upland areas should be accessible and, as long as people are not doing damage, there should be no difficulty accessing them. There is a large number of mountains...

Decentralisation Programme. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department is transferring its headquarters to Knock Airport and 13 posts to Na Forbacha. Seven Na Forbacha posts are in place and it is expected that the remaining posts will be filled by the end of 2006. My Department is scheduled to complete its move to Knock Airport by the end of 2007. It is also planned to relocate up to 70 posts in advance of the main move subject, inter alia, to the...

Decentralisation Programme. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am pleased the Deputy has given me an opportunity to correct an incorrect report in a Sunday newspaper, based more on fiction than on fact, despite the fact that we gave the details, and suggested they should contact the organisation involved, Pobal. In regard to these jobs, they are not civil servants. They are the staff of Pobal, which is a private company that operates under the aegis of...

Decentralisation Programme. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, it was a bit hard-hitting. It was a short letter stating that I hoped the newspaper would win the award for fiction writers whenever the journalists are presented with awards. There is a challenge in all of this for the Department. However, many of the senior staff are already in place. Some 187 people in total are seeking to come into the Department, which is more than sufficient, but...

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In September 2005, an application for funding to automate a number of island post offices was received by my Department from An Post. This application is being evaluated in the context of the funding available to me and the competing demands on same.

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I absolutely agree with Deputy Boyle. Funnily enough I have been driving this matter since I became a Minister of State six or seven years ago. The reluctance has been on the part of An Post to get on and do the job. It said it did not have the resources. We then offered capital resources to try to enable it to do the job. I have no problem in providing funding of a capital nature, including...

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will not comment on the situation in regard to any particular post office, but in terms of the broader issue, the ministerial responsibility for that matter rests with the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. Of course I am anxious that services are maintained in rural communities, but that has to be done within the remit of An Post, which has the primary...

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The capital costs are €129,000 and the running cost per annum is €26,000.

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, my understanding is that the entire project will also require an annual subvention of €26,000. The issue is whether I cross a line. The problem for me is not the money. Some €26,000 will not break the bank, either for me or for An Post.

Postal Services. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What I would be afraid of is the queue that would form quickly behind An Post — we have seen this in the past — of all sorts of service providers on islands queuing up with their hands out stating, "Please, sir, can I have some more too?" The Deputies know what would happen then, there would be no money left for the services we subvent on a daily basis, particularly transport services....

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá sé beartaithe go mbeidh aistriú mo Roinne-se go hAerfort Chnoc Mhuire críochnaithe faoi dheireadh 2007. Tá sé ar intinn againn suas le 70 ball foirne a athlonnú roimh an phríomhaistriú, ag brath, inter alia, ar chóiríocht fheiliúnach shealadach a bheith ar fáil sa cheantar máguaird. Tá Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí faoi láthair ag iarraidh cóiríocht chuí a aimsiú, agus...

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Díreach sula labhróidh mé ar an bhForas, b'fhéidir go dtabharfainn píosa eolais nár thug mé roimhe seo. Tá 26 duine sa Roinn cheana féin atá sásta agus réidh le bogadh go Cnoc Mhuire.

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá 26 duine sásta a bhogadh go Cnoc Mhuire. Bhog 70 duine i mbliana. Cheana féin, tá na daoine sin á lonnú sa Roinn le bheith réidh le bogadh, is é sin le rá, tá meaitseáil ar bun le go mbeidh na daoine atá ag teacht isteach sa Roinn nó atá istigh cheana féin sna háiteacha a bheidh ag bogadh go luath. Mar sin, déanfaidh sé sin an jab níos éascaí. Maidir le ceist Fhoras na...

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá sé curtha ar fáil ag bord an fhorais.

Polasaí Díláraithe. (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá.

Written Answers — Official Languages Act: Official Languages Act (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I draw the Deputy's attention to my inaugural report on the implementation of the Official Languages Act 2003 for the period July 2003-31 December 2004, which has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas. As set out in that report and as I have outlined on a number of occasions in this House, considerable progress has been made to date in the implementation, on a phased basis, of the...

Written Answers — Polasaí Dátheangachais: Polasaí Dátheangachais (8 Feb 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom a mhíniú don Teachta go leagtar síos sna Treoirlínte faoi alt 12 d'Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003, a foilsíodh i mí Mheán Fómhair 2004, gur chóir do chomhlachtaí polasaí soiléir a chruthú dá n-eagraíochtaí féin maidir le soláthar sheirbhísí dhátheangacha i gcomhthéacs scéim teanga faoi alt 11 a ullmhú. I measc na nithe sonracha atá luaite sna...