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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Administration (21 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of uncommitted funds in the dormant accounts fund, taking into account the need for a statutory reserve; if any part of these funds will be used to assist with the funding of boxing and other sports facilities and activities in inner city and RAPID areas in view of the need for these facilities and the effect...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Pleananna Teanga (21 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 250. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a iarradh ar Fheidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte (FSS) plean teanga a réiteach; an bhfuil aon phlean teanga i bhfeidhm ag FSS faoi láthair; mura bhfuil, cén fáth nach bhfuil, ag cur i gcuntas an méid teagmhála a bhíonn ag FSS leis an bpobal; cén uair a...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Pleananna Teanga (21 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 251. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén líon pleananna teanga a comhaontaíodh gach bliain ó tháinig Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla, 2003 i bhfeidhm, agus idirdhealú á dhéanamh idir an chéad phlean, an dara plean agus an tríú plean i ngach cás; cé na forais,...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Offshore Islands (21 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 252. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason it is intended to have the one contract for the management of the aerodromes on the Aran Islands and for Cleggan and Inishbofin, County Galway, in view of the statements made by the present and past Minister of State for the Gaeltacht and Islands that alternative uses and arrangements are being considered for the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Protection Areas Designation (21 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 253. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the delay in making a decision regarding an appeal for a proposal to designate nine sites on Inishbofin Island, County Galway, as a special protection area, which was lodged 20 months ago, particularly as the areas appeal board advisory committee visited the island on 8 May 2013; the date that the recommendation of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme Administration (22 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to change the arrangements in relation to the payments of wages to participants in the rural social scheme and TÚS from Pobal to the individual companies that administer the schemes locally; the possible effects such a change could have on employment in the Pobal office in an area (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (22 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged areas payment for 2014 will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in making this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3063/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (22 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the technical specification for GI status under EU Regulation 110/2008 will be completed for Irish poitín/Irish poteen; if the inclusion of the word Irish before poitín/poteen will leave it open to other countries to apply for GI status, for example, for scotch poitín, German poitín and so on as happened in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the transfer of a person (details supplied) in County Galway from a hospital in England to the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin has not taken place; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3124/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ceapacháin Chuig Boird Stáit (22 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 221. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a cheapfar an duine atá ainmnithe ag Comhairle Contae Chorcaí ar Bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta; cén t-údar atá leis an moill ar an gceapachán seo ós rud é go bhfuil an folúntas sin ann ón 19/11/14 agus gur thug an Chomhairle Contae an t-ainm i Meán...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ceapacháin Chuig Boird Stáit (22 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 222. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a líonfar an folúntas don bhall ainmnithe ar Bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta; cén próiseas a leanfar chun an duine seo a cheapadh; an ainmneofar bean don fholúntas, ag cur i gcuntas an t-éagothromas atá ar an mbord idir fir agus mná; agus an ndéanfaidh sí...

Housing Affordability: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Even though that is a reasonably significant slot, it is not in any way sufficient to deal with all of the housing issues that we must address. I do not view housing in isolation. Nearly more than anything else, it defines the type of society one wants. Before I address the wide vision for housing and the issues alluded to in the Fianna Fáil motion, we have not dealt in a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Value for Money Reviews (27 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the value for money review of small rural schools will be published; the reason for the delay in doing so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3262/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (27 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to include schools built in disadvantaged areas after the commencement of the DEIS programme in the programme; when such schools are likely to be considered for addition to this programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3261/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Identification Scheme (27 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to ensure all horses are micro-chipped; his plans to impound all non-micro-chipped horses; the up-to-date position in this regard; the steps taken to ensure the owners of abandoned horses can be traced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3616/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the situation of a primary school teacher (details supplied) and 29 similar cases who, due to an anomaly, lost the payment of qualification allowance following the decision to remove same from new beneficiaries in the public service from January 2011; the reason this happened to these teachers while other graduates in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Development Companies Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure the local development companies on the non-Gaeltacht islands have adequate funding after the end of March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3662/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Development Companies Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There have been island development companies on the non-Gaeltacht islands for some time which have been funded on a regular basis. They are seeking permanent funding through three-year or five-year schemes with an understanding that funding could be rolled over on review after that period.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Development Companies Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the vague assurances from the Minister of State but the clock is ticking. As she knows with employment law, etc., unless there is certainty of funding and the amount of it, protective notice will have to be given to the staff, many of them long serving, of the development companies in question. The Minister of State has not given any indication of the amount of money being made...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Development Companies Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understood from the Minister of State's reply that the funding for the development companies on the non-Gaeltacht islands would not come under SICAP as the tender will not cover the type of activity mainly covered by these development companies. These are broad development companies which assist everybody on the islands. They tend to become the liaison point for all government services on...