Results 24,701-24,720 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

RAPID Programme. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I believe the figure was €7.8 million and is now €6.5 million, indicating a shortfall of €1.3 million. That fund was not very big in the beginning. I still believe we can have a very good programme this year. The leverage fund only covers the small projects as the big projects are covered by the Departments from their own funding. It is not within the scope of the RAPID leverage...

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government is committed to providing essential public services in rural areas to secure a proper environment for economic development, promote social inclusion and support dispersed, viable rural communities. To this end, the programme for Government contains a series of commitments to strengthen and underpin public service provision in rural areas across a range of Departments and...

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have agreed with much of what Deputy Ring has said today. However, sometimes we make a song and dance in defending services which are not used by anybody. Some years ago, for example, Eircom announced that it was removing a public telephone box in my constituency. In response to a telephone call from a local resident, I made a representation for its retention. The Eircom representatives...

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, it was working perfectly.

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The reality is that few people in rural areas use public telephones because most of them have a mobile telephone. From speaking to people in these areas, I am aware that this is not the service with which they are most concerned. What people are shouting about is the provision of broadband. With the announcement of the rural broadband scheme, I have no doubt that companies such as Eircom...

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My attitude when I see Aldi and Lidl stores opening in Clifden, and a Tesco store opening in Ballinrobe, is that, in their absence, the people who shop there would instead travel to supermarkets in Galway and other large towns. One can view it either as the multiples coming to the people or the people going to the multiples. The reality is that most people tend to go to the multiples when...

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have expressed publicly my surprise at learning that these three áisitheoir poiblí positions are being removed. Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta must explain why, out of its 60 staff, this particular position is being targeted. There are no other staff in these small Gaeltachtaí but they are the first positions to go. I do not understand it. However, we must recognise that the entire...

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We cannot continue to provide additional finance to administrators simply because they inevitably make decisions to cut the post that is based in the most remote place. I understand Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta has funding for some 60 jobs. It is a matter for that body to ensure it configures that staff complement so as to provide effective services to these outlying areas. If I were...

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hope to have time to respond to Deputy Ring's question on the hub towns.

Community Development. (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am so much in agreement with Deputy Ring today that I am beginning to be worried. The Deputy is aware of my passion for keeping people in rural areas, I have devoted a lifetime to it. He and I see eye to eye on this issue. All I want is modern services. My point, however, is that it is not conducive to the best interests of rural areas to seek always to protect services which are no...

Written Answers — Voluntary Sector Funding: Voluntary Sector Funding (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is responsible for a range of schemes, which provide assistance, including financial assistance, to the youth work sector. The relevant schemes that support youth work and youth club activity at local level are the Local Youth Club Grant Scheme, the Youth Service Grant Scheme, Special Projects for Youth and the Young People's Facilities and...

Written Answers — An Teanga Ghaeilge: An Teanga Ghaeilge (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tógfaigh mé Ceisteanna 12, 13 agus 24 le chéile. Faoi mar is eol do na Teachtaí, tá Coiste Rialtais bunaithe chun scrúdú a dhéanamh ar na saincheisteanna a thagann chun cinn — ceist teorainneacha na Gaeltachta san áireamh — i gcomhthéacs na hanailíse agus na moltaí atá sa Tuarascáil a d'eascair ón Staidéar Teangeolaíochta ar Úsáid na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht. Tá an Coiste...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14 and 21 together. As the Deputies will be aware, the Government's Statement on the Irish Language includes a commitment to develop a 20-year Strategy for the Irish language, which is intended to be the foundation for practical action for supporting and promoting the language, based on a modern, integrated approach. During the last year, my Department, in...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The CLÁR Programme provides funding and co-funding to Government Departments, State agencies and local authorities to accelerate investment in selected priority developments in areas that have suffered significant depopulation. These investments support physical, economic and social infrastructure across a variety of measures. The measures introduced under the Programme reflect the...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 18, 121 and 123 together. 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). Since its establishment in May 2003 to the end of December 2008, the net transfers to the DAF have totalled some €306m. It is...

Written Answers — Caiteachas na Roinne: Caiteachas na Roinne (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is é oll-mheastachán caiteachais mo Roinne-se do 2009 ná €523.085m. Aontaíodh ar an bhfigiúr seo mar chuid de phróiseas na meastachán agus foilsíodh é in Imleabhar Meastachán na Cáinaisnéise i mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2008. Mar a thuigeann an Teachta, tá cinnithe deacra romhainn sna cúinsí eacnamaíochta ina bhfuilimid. Tá céimeanna áirithe á bhreithniú ag an Rialtas...

Written Answers — Iocaíochtaí Deontas: Iocaíochtaí Deontas (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Cuirtear bunmhaoiniú do 19 eagras deonach Gaeilge ar fáil trí Fhoras na Gaeilge. Is trí Vóta mo Roinne féin agus tríd an Roinn Cultúir, Ealaíon agus Fóillíochta ó Thuaidh a chuirtear an t-airgead sin ar fáil don bhForas d'fhonn an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn ar bhonn uile-oileánda. Chuir Foras na Gaeilge athbhreithniú ar bun le linn 2008 maidir leis na heagrais Ghaeilge atá á...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The 2006 Health Behaviour in School aged Children (HBSC) report, to which the Deputy refers, indicated that 29% of Irish 15-year-olds had reported that they had been drunk at least once in the last 30 days. This placed us second among the 9 countries that reported on this item in the survey. I accept that this figure, and the international comparison involved, is a cause for concern....

Written Answers — Cruthú Fostaíochta: Cruthú Fostaíochta (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tuigim ó Údarás na Gaeltachta gur cruthaíodh 1,269 post sa Ghaeltacht i 2008 agus gur cailleadh 1,102 post sa thréimhse chéanna i gcuideachtaí a fuair cúnamh ón Údarás.

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (29 Jan 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy is aware, my Department administers and delivers a wide range of programmes and measures, descriptions of which are available on its website at www.pobail.ie. My Department's provisional gross expenditure outturn for 2008 is €541.398m and the following table provides a breakdown for each of my Department's programme areas. Provisional Outturn 2008 (€m) Programme Area...