Results 24,201-24,220 of 26,268 for speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 May 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the time frame for the introduction of a planning regulator; the nature of the regulator’s role and relationship with current planning bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20456/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Deposits (1 May 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 67. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the net amount transferred into the Dormant Accounts net of repayments to the financial institutions each year since the inception of the fund; the total amount transferred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20470/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Education Committees Staff (30 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding vocational education committee employees who are also members of local authorities being allowed to absent themselves from work in order to attend council meetings; the number of VEC employees that are members of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20321/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Redeployment (30 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if additional staff will be allocated to the Valuations Office in order to deal with the backlog of cases in the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20367/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Thatching Grants Expenditure (30 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 413. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total money available for thatching grants in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; the number of grants issued on a county basis in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13002/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (30 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 415. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the provision of funding by his Department for a sewage collection network at Kildare Town; the length of time which this network collection application has been with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20375/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Programme (30 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 501. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the legal challenge to the validity of outcome of the Children's Referendum has required delays in publishing legislation on the part of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19977/13]

Other Questions: Arts Centres (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We will have to agree to disagree on the issue of operating at arm's length. That said, I am not expecting the Minister to micro-manage arts centres, as he knows, but it is reasonable for the public to expect the Minister responsible for the arts to have a discussion with the local authorities and the Arts Council to ensure there are proper models of financial management in place. The...

Other Questions: Arts Centres (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: To a certain extent, I understand the Minister's response but he responded to me last month on the issue of the Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick. We all recognised the very valuable contribution that centre had made and all of us expressed concern that for the sake of €300,000, that it went into liquidation. I put this question to the Minister in the context of the overarching role...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I welcome the Minister's positive response. Does he have any plans to review the 2004 guidelines, which were the last such guidelines on public art projects issued to sponsoring bodies?

Other Questions: Cultural Institutions Merger (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I welcome the fact that the legislation that is required in this context is pending. It is good news. Once again, I emphasise Fianna Fáil's party political view that the arms-length principle has been abandoned by the Minister and express our considerable regret at that. As the Minister has heard these points before, I move to ask him whether a cost-benefit analysis been completed or...

Other Questions: Cultural Institutions Merger (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That is not possible.

Other Questions: Cultural Institutions Merger (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Notwithstanding what the Minister has said, am I to understand that no cost-benefit analysis at all has been carried out?

Other Questions: Arts Funding (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister for his encouragement for the scheme. I wish to avail of this opportunity to ask the Minister in these difficult times to request his Department to engage more actively with other Departments to ensure that this scheme is taken up. While the Minister is correct to mention art works by our roads and in schools, it has become a feature of life recently that the NRA and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Cultural Institutions (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures he is taking to audit and secure valuable artefacts and materials held by the State following recent high profile robberies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19540/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Cultural Institutions (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I commend the Minister on his response. I note that the gardaí have made an arrest in respect of one of these thefts. Two things arise. First, there is general concern among the public and the Members of this House that twice in the last 12 months, artefacts have been stolen from what we believed to be secure locations that had been acquired by the State. I suppose it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Cultural Institutions (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I wish I could share the Minister's optimism about the security that is in place. When I read about what happened on Balheary Road, I learned that the sole security man on the premises was tied up and that the thieves spent an hour on the premises before making off with the rhinoceros horns. Thank God nobody in this House needs the particular aphrodisiacs that are apparently produced from...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Cultural Institutions (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Nonetheless, it is frightful to think they could be stolen in such a manner. The Minister omitted to deal with the point I raised about artefacts that are out of sight. Why are we not attempting to maximise the number of artefacts that can be made available to the public, not just in the Dublin cultural institutions but throughout the country?

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 36. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made in the implementation of the Forum on Philanthropy report's recommendations within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (25 Apr 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19554/13]