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Written Answers — National Monuments: National Monuments (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: In accordance with my undertaking to the relatives group, I have asked the applicant to provide them with details of the proposed works to the national monument for which consent has been sought under the National Monuments Acts and also to facilitate a visit by the relatives to the site itself. With regard to making public other documents associated with the consent application, my...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department was established on 2 June 2011. It oversees and has policy responsibility for the conservation, preservation, protection, development and presentation of Ireland's heritage and culture. My Department also seeks to promote the Irish language, to support the Gaeltacht and to assist the sustainable development of island communities. Information in...

Written Answers — Architectural Heritage: Architectural Heritage (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I can advise the Deputy that officials from my Department actively engaged both with Longford County Council and the St Mel's Cathedral authorities in the aftermath of the fire in December 2009 to offer advice on the conservation of this nationally important protected structure. As part of my Department's capital programme, €500,000 has been allocated in 2012 specifically for protected...

Written Answers — Archaeological Sites: Archaeological Sites (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: My Department has no role in relation to the provision of public liability insurance and is not in a position to assist in the specific case referred to. I would, however, refer the Deputy to the report by the Expert Group established by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, to examine and make recommendations on Legal Issues of Land Access for...

Written Answers — Ministerial Advisers: Ministerial Advisers (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department was established on 2 June 2011. The salary levels of the two special advisors currently appointed to my office correspond to the first point of the Principal Officer Standard Scale, although, in the case of one advisor, that salary is abated as the person is in receipt of a public service pension. No special advisors have been appointed in the...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I note the Deputy's request for details of the annual saving to the Exchequer if all board members fees paid to agencies under his aegis were cut by 25%, 35% and 50% and I trust that the Deputy will appreciate that it is not possible to provide the quantitative information requested to this hypothetical question. However, the annual fees payable to board members of the boards of statutory...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy will be aware, issues in relation to public service pay policy are a matter for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I am advised that the maximum annual saving that could arise from the implementation of a pay cap of €100,000 to the salaries of Chief Executive Officers of State agencies funded from my Department's Vote Group is estimated to be €133,000.

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 427 and 430 together. Since my Department was established on 2 June 2011, there has been no case of outsourcing responsibility for core public service provision to the private sector. However, certain work is contracted out from time to time in cases where particular expertise is required. In that regard, the information requested by the Deputy in relation to...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: My Department has not incurred any costs in relation to agency staff. With regard to the bodies/agencies within the ambit of my Department, I am advised that the costs associated with the use of agency staff in such bodies/agencies for the period from 1 January 2012 to end-June 2012 is €442,841.

Written Answers — Public Private Partnerships: Public Private Partnerships (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: There are no public private partnership projects currently in train in my Department.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: My Department's gross allocation to deliver its wide range of programmes and measures in 2012 is €268.451m. For the Deputy's information, on 30 June 2012, my Department's net expenditure totalled €122.5m. This represented approximately 95% of the published profile and 46% of the REV allocation. I expect expenditure to remain on profile and that my allocation will be fully drawn down. I...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The State bodies/agencies currently funded from my Department's Vote Group are listed in the table below. It should be noted that Waterways Ireland and An Foras Teanga (comprising Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency) are North-South Implementation Bodies and are subject to dual arrangements in relation to funding. Details of the expenditure allocations made available to the bodies...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 433 and 434 together. No retired civil or public servants have been rehired or retained by my Department on the bases set out by the Deputy by my Department since March 2012.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The 2012 Revised Estimates Volume allocation for my Department's postal and telecommunications services is €0.715m.

Written Answers — Flood Prevention Measures: Flood Prevention Measures (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: Article 6(4) of the Habitats Directive provides for derogation to allow an activity which has been determined, following appropriate assessment, as potentially having an adverse impact on the integrity of a Special Area of Conservation or Special Protection Area. Such derogations must be considered within the parameters of the Irish legislation which transposes Article 6(4). These are...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy will be aware my Department was established on 2 June 2011. In the period from 2nd June 2011 to 31st December 2011 there was a total of 3,977.55 sick days taken by staff in my Department. The average number of sick days taken per employee over this period was 6.22 days. Sick Leave records are not maintained on a section by section basis.

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (18 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8, 24, 28, 37, 44 and 198 together. Earlier this year, at the request of the Government, Mr Conor Skehan, Chair of the Peatlands Council, convened a Peatlands Forum, under the chairmanship of Mr. Justice John Quirke, and involving my Department, the IFA, the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association (TCCA), Bord na Móna, and representatives of turf-cutting...

Written Answers — EU Culture Programme: EU Culture Programme (18 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The Culture Programme is the EU support programme for organisations working in the field of culture. There are Cultural Contact Points in each of the participating countries of the EU Culture Programme. Their role is to provide information, advice and technical assistance to anyone in the country interested in applying to the EU for funding under the Culture Programme 2007–2013. The CCP...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (18 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy will be aware, the position of Director of the National Museum of Ireland is a statutory one and is currently being filled on an acting basis. My officials are liaising with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to the filling of this post on a permanent basis. When sanctioned by that Department, it is intended that the position will be filled by means of...

Written Answers — Cultural Policy: Cultural Policy (18 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The Government's policy on the arts is to promote and strengthen the arts in all its forms, to increase access to and participation in the arts, and to make the arts an integral and valued part of our national life. I am continuing to work towards this goal with my Department and the agencies within its remit. The Programme for Government 2011-2016, along with my Department's Statement of...