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Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (7 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The school referred to by the Deputy is included in the recently extended CLÁR areas. As I have previously outlined, the measures that are currently open to the extended CLÁR areas are as follows: LIS Roads; Flashing Amber Safety Lights at Schools; Small Public Water and Sewerage Schemes; Group Water Schemes; CLÁR Water Conservation Measure; Village and Countryside Enhancement Scheme;...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (13 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An application was received by my Department from the organisation in question under the 2005 Programme of Grants for Locally-Based Community and Voluntary Organisations. Each application received under the Programme was assessed by Pobal on behalf of my Department by reference to the criteria set out in the published guidelines, and scored accordingly. The application from the organisation...

Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (13 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Scheme of Community Support for Older People encourages and assists the community's support for older people by means of a community based grant scheme to improve the security of its older members. The scheme is administered by local community and voluntary groups with the support of my Department. The scheme is open to people aged 65 and over who have a genuine need for assistance under...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (13 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have been advised that the Achill Sound Sewerage Scheme is a public scheme costing €8.55 million and that it has been approved under the Water Services Investment Programme in the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government for commencement in 2006. I understand that discussions are on-going between that Department and Mayo County Council with regard to addressing certain...

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (13 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 18 May 2006. The position remains unchanged.

Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mar atá tugtha le fios go minic agam sa Teach seo, tá dul chun cinn suntasach déanta maidir le forálacha Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003 a chur i bhfeidhm. Tá 27 scéim teanga daingnithe agam go dáta le comhlachtaí poiblí agus foilsithe. Sa bhreis ar sin, tá mo Roinn ag plé faoi láthair le níos mó ná 70 comhlacht poiblí eile maidir le dréacht-scéimeanna teangan a ullmhú....

Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bhí go leor ceisteanna ansin, agus déanfaidh mé iarracht iad a fhreagairt.

Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bhain an chéad cheist leis na pleananna. Tá córas fadálach go maith a d'aontaigh muid sa Teach seo. Le plean a chur i bhfeidhm, caithfear fógra a chur i scríbhinn agus an t-iarratas a lorg sé mhí roimh ré chun rud a thabhairt isteach, agus ansin caithfear an plean a mheas. Tá 28 díobh daingnithe, ach mar a mhínigh mé cheana sa Teach, is dóigh liom go bhfuil i bhfad níos mó ná...

Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Níl a fhios agam faoi earcaíocht, ach tá a fhios agam go ndeirtear go bhfuaireadar 200 iarratas nuair a rinne an Comhphobal earcaíocht. Is dóigh liom go gcaithfidh muid bheith macánta faoi seo. Táimid ag tabhairt faoi Achtanna an Oireachtais a chur ar fáil san dá theanga. Táimid ag impí mar Rialtas, le tacaíocht chuile pháirtí sa Teach seo, ar an gComhphobal Eorpach glacadh leis...

Departmental Programmes. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The RAPID programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion within the 45 designated RAPID areas. My Department, with the support of Pobal, has overall responsibility for the co-ordination of the RAPID programme. It is a matter for each Department to respond to the recommendations contained in this report in respect...

Departmental Programmes. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not agree with the Deputy. There are 45 RAPID areas. As the report notes, the way the programme operates on the ground has been uneven. We have been addressing the issues on a continual basis. Community development, of which I have long experience, is a slow process. Mistakes were made in the past. When a community was not interactive and found it hard to self-motivate, it needed to be...

Ceisteanna — Questions (Resumed). (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is obvious that certain areas, by virtue of being the most disadvantaged, would have been expected to be the slowest to take advantage of the RAPID programme. A fundamental part of the programme is community motivation. I am not the AIT. The AIT consists of a number of statutory agencies, local authorities and so on, but it also consists of community representatives. One of the obvious...

Water and Sewerage Schemes. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 45 and 54 together. The Achill Sound sewerage scheme is a public scheme costing €8.55 million and it has been approved under the water services investment programme in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government for commencement in 2006. Discussions are ongoing between that Department and Mayo County Council with regard to addressing...

Water and Sewerage Schemes. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The idea of the CLÁR programme is to establish schemes. Individual projects are not evaluated. Each scheme has to be agreed with the line Department, in this case the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. No situation is unique — we are all unique and we are all the same. This applies to the Achill Sound sewerage scheme. A delegation recently informed me not to...

Water and Sewerage Schemes. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There was absolutely no commitment made.

Water and Sewerage Schemes. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy is straying far from water and sewerage schemes. The challenge when creating a new scheme under CLÁR is to keep it within a reasonable budget. This year €23 million has been allocated but consideration must be given for future schemes. The challenge is to have a scheme that is confined enough to be affordable and good enough to make a difference. I do not pick schemes by...

Water and Sewerage Schemes. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If County Mayo decides that Achill Bridge is the priority, I have said that this decision will be accepted.

Offshore Islands. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As previously stated in the House, my Department's role will be contingent on the completion of the arrangements for the purchase of An Blascaod Mór by the State. When these arrangements have been completed, it is intended that my Department, in partnership with Kerry County Council, will be responsible for the development of the two piers, one on An Blascaod Mór and the other at Dún...

Offshore Islands. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department does not have specific responsibility for the islands because, as Deputy Boyle is aware, they are not inhabited on a permanent basis. I do not know how long it will take to resolve this matter. As the Deputy is aware, this matter has been ongoing since the late Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, God rest his soul, initiated this project, in which he was most interested. Due to the...

Offshore Islands. (14 Jun 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The matter has not been in the legal system since the Supreme Court judgment. This is primarily a matter for the OPW and the Deputy should, accordingly, table a question to the Department of Finance. Negotiations took place with the landowners. I wish to state as a general principle, rather than specifically in regard to An Blascaod Mór, that where one is achieving a result by agreement, one...