Results 24,261-24,280 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Polasaí don Ghaeilge. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is dóigh go dtaispeánann sé sin go soiléir go bhfuil an coimisinéar neamhspleách agus go ndéanann sé inscrúduithe. Tagann sin lena bhreithiúnas. Ghlac mo Roinn leis a bhreithiúnas sa gcás a thóg sé leis an Roinn. Bhí plé ann agus tháinig seisean ar a thuairim. Tá an rud atá i gceist aige á fheidhmiú ag an Roinn anois. Ní rud an-mhór atá ann. Rud a bhain le...

Tourism Support Services. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I take it the Deputy is referring to the appointment of rural recreation officers, RROs, who have been appointed to promote walking tourism and to assist in the implementation of the walks scheme. Twelve RROs were appointed in 2008 to act as contact persons for walking tourists and to provide a broad range of support and advice in this area. The officers are employed by the following local...

Tourism Support Services. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will get the detailed information the Deputy has requested and pass it on to him. There has been significant progress in this area. One of the most gratifying aspects of recent developments in rural tourism is the substantial increase in the number of tourists who include walking as a particular objective of their holidays. In 2003, this number was 168,000, increasing to 511,000 in 2007....

Tourism Support Services. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As one of the sponsoring Ministers, I have encouraged Waterways Ireland to look at waterways in an holistic fashion, including their development for the purposes of walking and recreation. A plan is currently in place in Dublin in which many of the statutory agencies, including Dublin City Council, are involved to develop the amenity value of the canals as far as the city boundary. Much of...

Dormant Accounts Fund. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government approved allocations, on 28 April 2009, of €1.56 million to support 80 family support services, and €1.5 million to support 20 projects under the homeless measure. The mid-term review of the national drugs strategy in 2005 identified the provision of family support services as crucial in delivering the strategic aim of reducing harm to families. The funding of €1.56...

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When the Deputy sees the list, he will discover that funding was spread throughout the county and not confined to urban areas.

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that. However, when the Deputy does see it, he will discover that what I am saying is true. Some 1,000 places are reserved for recovering drug addicts on community employment schemes. In addition, such individuals are also included in the community services programme. Subject to the necessary funding being available, I would like to examine the possibility of making further places...

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is one for everyone in the House.

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I concur with the Deputy. There is a need for joined-up thinking in order to ensure the different agencies work together. As stated, 1,000 places have been set aside for recovering drug addicts. These schemes have been incredibly important for people recovering from other forms of drug misuse such as alcohol misuse. We must ensure the most vulnerable in society obtain places on the...

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When the Deputy sees the list to which I referred, she will be pleased to discover that Merchant's Quay Project Limited received two sums, €113,000 and €90,000, and Youth for Peace in Kildare received €37,700. I do not believe any money was allocated in County Mayo. I accept that these are small sums. However, I am a great believe that the ocean is full of drops and that if one...

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department currently employs 14 people on temporary contracts. Three of these contracts are due to expire in 2009. Information furnished to me on temporary contracts in agencies-boards funded from my Department's Vote group is set out in the following table: Agency/Body No of temporary contracts No of contracts to expire in 2009 Commission of Charitable Donations and Bequests Office 1...

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Leader companies are independent. There has not been a cutback in the Leader programme which, in fact, has been expanded considerably. Money for the partnership programme has been reduced and perhaps it is to this that the Deputy refers. However, that matter is not really the subject of this question. It may also have come to his attention that it is my intention to transfer the...

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Deputy referring to those at MFG?

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the first instance, the companies to which the Deputy refers are not the subject of the question. The second point I would make is that they are private companies and, therefore, it is their own business as to who they hire and fire, etc. As I informed Deputy O'Shea, it is intended that over time and as the various contracts for the programmes in which we are involved with them are...

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On the question of engagement from MFG, to have a preliminary discussion on this issue I asked the two chief executives involved to meet me, last November. I have tried, time and again, to get engagement from MFG and a process. It is inevitable that we have to make savings. MFG has lost opportunities and done no service to its workers because we could have progressed much further, acting...

Funding to Support Homeless People (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In the wider scheme all I can do is work with the budget I have this year. None of us knows where we will be until the Estimates process is completed at the end of the year. We are living at a time when money is short and all of us have been told by the Opposition many times that we should do all in our power to reduce overheads. The Minister of State and I are trying to ensure that the...

Decentralisation Programme. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs is scheduled to relocate under the decentralisation programme to offices at Na Forbacha, Galway, and Charlestown, County Mayo. Our commitment to Na Forbacha has been met in full with ten staff now relocated to the Department's offices at that location. Significant progress has been made to date with decentralisation of the Department's...

Decentralisation Programme. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Decisions in the Leader programme are made in what is termed the bottom-up development. The Deputy is correct that IRD Kiltimagh Limited made moneys of €12,000 and €9,675 available to Cairn International Trade Centre for a feasibility study. The Western Development Commission made a loan on certain terms to the building which is secured on properties in Kiltimagh. The issue raised by...

Decentralisation Programme. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am anxious that we would give as much information as is possible. Decisions of the Western Development Commission on any amounts up to €1 million are separate from me. It is also important that the Deputy is made aware that the group in question applied for dormant accounts funding. This was initially recommended by Pobal. It came to the committee I chair which believed there were...

Official Languages Act. (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Deputy O'Shea is aware that since the enactment of the Official Languages Act 2003, I have made it clear that certain documents should be published on compact disc or on the Internet, rather than in hard copy, to the maximum extent possible. I refer to those documents, such as annual reports and strategy statements, which are required by section 10 of the 2003 Act to be published...