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Ionad Oideachais Gaeilge. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá an Teachta tar éis a mhéar a chur air ar bhealach. Ní thiocfaidh dul chun cinn ar chor ar bith faoi na riachtanais atá ann. Ní thiocfainn leis an Teachta, áfach, ar chor ar bith nach bhfuil tada déanta. Tá, mar shampla, na campaí samhraidh, scéim na bhfoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge, scéim na gcúntóirí teanga agus an méid atá caite ar an oideachas tríú leibhéil sa Ghaeilge.

Ionad Oideachais Gaeilge. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá fo-ionad ollscoile, tionscnamh ard-scileanna Gaeilge agus an rud céanna á dhéanamh ag an údarás atá tar éis airgid a infheistiú in oideachas sa nGaeilge. Mar sin, tá na cúig bliana atá imithe tharainn thar a bheith rathúil ó thaobh infheistithe ag mo Roinn agus an t-údarás i dtionscnaimh a bhaineann le cúrsaí oideachais trí Ghaeilge agus tacaíocht a thabhairt don...

Ionad Oideachais Gaeilge. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba é tús an scéil ná go ndúradh liom go raibh an áit seo ar fáil agus chreid mé agus é teorannach leis an eastát tionsclaíochta sula raibh aon chaint faoi áit oideachais a chur ann go mba cheart don údarás é a cheannach. Níl aon athrú intinne orm faoi sin. Má tá an ceart agam, thart faoi 40 acra atá um an fhoirgneamh díreach i lár an bhaile. Tá sé teorannach leis an...

Countryside Access. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy is aware Comhairle na Tuaithe has completed its work on the development of a national countryside recreation strategy. The members of Comhairle na Tuaithe, with the exception of the Irish Farmers' Association, have endorsed the report. I met the President of the IFA, Mr. Pádraig Walshe, the week before last to discuss the issue of access to land for recreational purposes. The...

Countryside Access. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy has asked a lot of questions. Any payment will be based on the cost of materials and labour in doing the works that are necessary. We will get competent people to calculate exactly what work is needed. I heard the interview Mr. Walshe gave on "Morning Ireland" and I obtained the transcript afterwards. I will provide a copy of it to the Deputy. Mr. Walshe was very clear that the...

Countryside Access. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is much more work going on behind the scenes than people realise. As I outlined when I launched the report at a meeting of Comhairle na Tuaithe at the ploughing championships, Fáilte Ireland has been working on getting agreement on a series of walks. It has also outlined the required works that need to be done in many cases. The option to use the rural social scheme is a very live...

Community Development. (13 Dec 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. In addition, RAPID priority status was recently extended to Ballyfermot. My Department, with the support of Pobal, has overall responsibility for the co-ordination of the RAPID programme. It is a matter for each...

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I should be interested to know which of the four to six areas the Deputy believes do not display all the characteristics he mentioned. As far as I am concerned all the areas involved in the RAPID programme have been found through independent analysis to display all the characteristics as regards the problems of inter-generational disadvantage and so on. They would not be RAPID areas,...

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I cannot find any record of a figure being put on it. As we said all along it was a matter of the re-prioritisation of existing national development plan moneys. This is what is written in the press releases. I assure the Deputy that a new national development plan is under development and the entire issue of social inclusion obviously will be part of it, just as it was in its predecessor....

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I presume the Deputy does not intend to take all the moneys for urban renewal, educational disadvantage, health and other issues from the line Departments and put them into the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. One of the Deputy's party's spokespersons suggested that all rural matters should be removed from this Department. It was suggested that the old Department of...

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is how it must be done. I do not presume the Labour Party is suggesting anything different. It does not intend to take all the housing renewal moneys for RAPID areas from the urban development and environment portfolios.

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is what we are about.

Road Network. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In 2006, for every €2 spent by local authorities on local improvements schemes, LIS, in CLÁR areas on non-public roads, my Department is providing an additional €1 from CLÁR funding for works on further LIS roads within the CLÁR areas. This, in effect, will increase investment on LIS roads in these areas by 50%. The projects are selected by the local authorities. I allocated...

Road Network. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Deputy Boyle misunderstands fundamentally one aspect of CLÁR, that is, that CLÁR provides money to accelerate existing programmes and does not make up new rules for the main schemes. The people who lay down the rules for LIS are the officials of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. They give lumps of money to local authorities to carry out LIS and give...

Road Network. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are back again at the beginning of the story. On the issue of undertaking an overall analysis of value for money, there are ongoing value for money audits in all Departments and, I presume, in local authorities. Therefore, it is a for the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to carry out a value for money audit on the scheme. The Department of the Environment,...

Road Network. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. Constitutionally, Ministers are collectively responsible for all Departments. The idea of running Government as if it were a series of parallel independent republics is not only stupid, but it is fundamentally unconstitutional. The collective nature of Government is fundamental to the Constitution. As regards the specific issue, the role rests with the Minister for the Environment,...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the Bill and the explicit provision for translation services. I wish to clarify some issues. First, it is the Constitution that requires translation of Acts and the only way of doing away with that requirement is to change the Constitution. Second, since the foundation of the State, prior to the Constitution responsibility for the translation of Acts traditionally rested with the...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to be absolutely clear about this.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to make it absolutely clear that anything my officials said at that meeting would have been subject to further discussions with the Department of Finance because they were not in a position to do otherwise. I know the officials involved and they would never have given undertakings unless they had been pre-checked. The indications given were at official level to the effect that...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am standing by my officials.