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Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: The Dormant Accounts Fund Acts provides for an annual transfer by credit institutions and insurance undertakings of monies in accounts determined to be dormant into the Dormant Accounts Fund (DAF). Expenditure in 2009 under a number of DAF measures that come within the remit of my Department amounted to some €8.9m. In 2010, €6.65m is being provided to meet commitments due to...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions 124 and 125 together. As the Deputy will be aware, my Department operates a wide range of grant programmes and schemes and details of these are available on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie. Some of the schemes are administered directly by my Department and others are administered on behalf of the Department by various bodies and groups, where applications...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126 and 130 together. As the Deputy is aware, the majority of expenditure incurred through my Department's Vote for drugs initiatives is channelled through the Local and Regional Drugs Task Forces. In this regard, in excess of €31 million will be made available this year to the Task Forces for the ongoing implementation of their strategic plans. Overall,...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department operates a wide range of grant programmes and schemes, details of which are available on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie. Against this background, the Deputy will appreciate that funding is provided each year to a very large number of individuals, groups, bodies and agencies. I do not consider that the allocation of staff resources that...

Written Answers — Strategy Statements: Strategy Statements (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: My priority over the coming period will be to progress the actions and commitments reflected in the Programme for Government and the Revised Programme for Government that relate to my functions and areas of responsibility in the restructured Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. In this regard, work will commence shortly on the preparation of a new Statement of Strategy for my...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department's mandate includes the promotion and support of both urban and rural communities. Against this background, my officials and I liaise on a daily basis with a wide range of communities across the country, including urban and rural support groups involved in social regeneration such as integrated local development companies, rural development groups,...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: In order to ensure the continued relevance of the RAPID Programme, a review of RAPID area boundaries, including an analysis of data from Census 2006 across a range of socio-economic and deprivation indicators, has been undertaken with the intention of allowing adjustments necessary to ensure that areas are appropriately targeting the most disadvantaged communities. Following the review, the...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: Funding of €8m is being provided for the CLÁR Programme in 2010 by my Department. However, as CLÁR leverages funding through other Departments and Agencies, the value of the investment that is being supported in rural areas through the Programme will be considerably higher. I have no immediate plans to further expand the Programme.

Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: My Department processed an application under the Scheme of Community Support for Older People for a personal monitored alert system for the person referred to by the Deputy in December 2009. I am advised that the equipment was installed in the person's home in January 2010.

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: The Deputy may be aware that Irish Rail has made a proposal with regard to the development of a railway station at Crusheen, Co Clare, on the Western Rail Corridor. My Department has already supported the development of the Western Rail Corridor as part of Transport 21. A decision in relation to the latest proposal regarding Crusheen will be made in due course, subject to resources.

Written Answers — Charities Regulation: Charities Regulation (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I am very aware of the nuisance that can be caused to householders by door-to-door collectors of clothing and bric-a-brac. I am also conscious that certain collectors of such items convey the impression in their promotional literature that they are charitable in nature, when this may not actually be the case. This may lead some people to donate to such collections in the mistaken belief...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I have been advised by the relevant Local Drugs Task Force that a meeting with the co-ordinator of the project referred to by the Deputy will take place in the coming days. I anticipate that any potential engagement with and/or support for the project in the future will be discussed at that meeting.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, the Taoiseach recently announced the restructuring of a number of Departments and agencies in order - to group functions whose combination is more appropriate to the country's current priorities; - to ensure greater coherence and produce more efficient delivery; and - to underline the priority issues for this Government in a way that mobilises a broad response. I...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy is aware, as part of the restructuring of Departments and agencies announced by the Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann on 23 March last to ensure greater coherence and produce more efficient delivery, the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs will become the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs and will incorporate responsibility for social inclusion...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: No formal directive issued from my Department to any Integrated Local Development Company regarding submissions/presentations to the working group on the cessation of turf cutting on certain raised bogs. However, I am advised that my predecessor, Minister Éamon Ó Cuív, T.D., met with representatives from the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government late last year to...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, the Dial to Stop Drug Dealing campaign ran in three phases across fifteen Local and Regional Drugs Task Force areas. To date, there have been 6,364 calls made to the confidential line, with 1,744 reports being made to the Gardaí. Due to the success of the campaign, funding has been available by my Department in 2010 to keep the phone line open. Over the coming...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 637, 644 and 645 together. I want to confirm to the Deputies that the Office of the Minister for Drugs (OMD) remains very much in operation with a clear focus on dealing with the issue of problem drug use in Ireland. Furthermore, I can confirm that responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy will rest with me, as Minister. The Government remains fully...

Written Answers — Departmental Equipment: Departmental Equipment (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 638 and 639 together. The table below sets out, in tabular form, the information requested by the Deputy in relation to my own Department, and as advised to me in regard to bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group. It should be noted that, due to ongoing industrial action, information could not be supplied in relation to the Western Development...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 640 and 641 together. The table below sets out, in tabular form, the information requested by the Deputy in relation to my own Department, and as advised to me in regard to bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group. It should be noted that, due to ongoing industrial action, information could not be supplied in relation to the Western Development...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (20 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: In order to ensure the continued relevance of the RAPID Programme, a review of RAPID area boundaries, including an analysis of data from Census 2006 across a range of socioeconomic and deprivation indicators, has been undertaken with the intention of allowing adjustments necessary to ensure that areas are appropriately targeting the most disadvantaged communities. Following the review, the...