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Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government is firm in its commitment to Rural Development. We know that the challenges facing our rural communities differ from those in urban areas, and recognise also that strong, vibrant rural communities are essential to the well-being of the entire country. Ireland is a member of a European Union that prioritises rural development and diversification, and indeed, as the only...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department operates a wide range of measures, programmes and schemes supportive of both urban and rural communities. This includes the RAPID Programme, which specifically has a regeneration focus for disadvantage areas in both provincial towns and larger urban settings. The RAPID Programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial...

Fishing Industry. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The rural social scheme, RSS, was established to provide income support for low income farmers and fisherpersons who are in receipt of certain specified social welfare payments and to provide certain services of benefit to rural communities. The renewal process, for the fifth year of the rural social scheme, to commence on 26 July 2008, is currently under way. All rural social scheme...

Fishing Industry. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What the Deputy appears to be saying, if I understand him correctly, is that the reason the fishermen, to whom he has referred, are not eligible is because of the means test.

Fishing Industry. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Fish assist or farm assist is based on 80% of one's income over the actual period. My understanding — I stand corrected if I am wrong — is that if one has a dramatic fall in income from a self-employed basis and one applies for farm assist or fish assist, the Department will take that into account. It is not obliged to take the full previous year's income into account.

Fishing Industry. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not a social welfare expert but it seems to me there is an income issue in regard to means testing. For argument sake, let us keep the rural social scheme aside. The Deputy said the person has no income.

Fishing Industry. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department takes that into account. I suggest the Deputy raise that matter with the Minister for Social and Family Affairs. I must have some way of gauging a person's income, the reason for which is simple. There are only 2,600 places and we want to direct them towards those on low income. For example, there could be a fisherperson who had other business interests or whose spouse or...

Fishing Industry. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a good question. Initially we assumed that if one had a herd number one was an active farmer. I recall that somebody in the Deputy's county wrote to the Department complaining that a person in receipt of the rural social scheme was not a farmer, that the herd number was inactive and long dead. The person had no cattle or sheep but had the herd number. That issue posed a dilemma....

Fishing Industry. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We specified that one had to be an active farmer. On the form one must prove, in any one of four ways, that one is an active farmer. For example, a letter from the DVO stating that one has an active herd number, that is, the DVO has a record of one having stock, would suffice. Also a copy of one's area aid application for the current year would suffice. If the person has a problem I...

Plean Náisiúnta na Gaeilge. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Faoi mar atá curtha in iúl don Teach cheana, bunaíodh an Coiste Rialtais a luann an Teachta chun breathnaithe ar shaincheisteanna a thagann chun cinn i gcomhthéacs na hanailíse agus na moltaí sa tuarascáil a d'eascair ón Staidéar Teangeolaíoch ar Úsáid na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht. Bhí an chéad cruinniú den Choiste ann ar 10 Aibreán 2008. Ag éirí as ath-ainmniú an Rialtais ar...

Plean Náisiúnta na Gaeilge. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Fágfaidh mé an píosa deiridh sin faoin Cheann Comhairle agus faoi Choimisiún Thithe an Oireachtais. Tá sé fíor — thóg mé faoi deara é. Fágfaimid é sin sin ar leataobh. Tá obair an choiste aireachta ag dul ar aghaidh. Leag mé amach an chaoi ina bhfuil an obair ag dul ar aghaidh go díreach i gcomhthéacs an phlean don Ghaeilge. Ní bheidh mórán cruinnithe don fhochoiste...

Scéimeanna Teanga. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá 79 scéim teanga, a chlúdaíonn 141 comhlacht poiblí ar fad, daingnithe agam agus foilsithe go dáta. Sa bhreis ar sin, tá 37 scéim teanga nua eile, a chlúdaíonn 69 comhlacht poiblí, á n-ullmhú. Ba mhaith liom a lua chomh maith go mbeidh tréimhsí ama na gcéad scéimeanna teanga, a dhaingnigh mé i 2005, ag teacht chun deiridh i 2008. Dá bhrí sin, i gcomhréir le...

Scéimeanna Teanga. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Níl. Is muidne a thionscnaíonn an t-éileamh le haghaidh scéimeanna, srl. Is sinne a scríobhann chucu chun scéimeanna a iarradh. Is fúinn atá sé. Ar ndóigh, níl ach achmhainní áirithe taobh istigh den Roinn leis an obair seo a dhéanamh. Is fearr é a dhéanamh go slachtmhar. Má bhreathnaimid ar na comhlachtaí Stáit ar fad, feicimid go bhfuil baint an-bheag ag cuid acu...

Scéimeanna Teanga. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Faoin dlí, caithfear freagra a thabhairt. Caithfear plean a réiteach laistigh de sé mhí agus níl aon rogha faoi sin. Más buan mo chuimhne, sin mar a leag muid síos sa dhlí nuair a d'achtaigh muid é. Ní fios domsa go bhfuil éinne ann a dhiúltaigh plean a réiteach nuair a iarradh orthu sin a dhéanamh. Maidir leis na húdaráis áitiúla, iarrfaidh mé ar oifigigh na Roinne...

Scéimeanna Teanga. (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bheadh súil agam go mbeadh agus tá sé tábhachtach go mbeadh. Níos tábhachtaí ná sin, tá obair le déanamh anois, go mór mhór nuair atá seans ag comhlachtaí, agus iad ag teacht isteach sa dara scéim taithí a fháil ar an gcéad scéim agus na fadhbanna a d'éirigh leis. Tá sé fíor thábhachtach go ndéanann muid cinnte go bhfuil na scéimeanna nó na pleananna foirfe iontu...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I also wish the Deputy well but they are meeting Galway in the next round of the championship so we will not wish them too much luck. I listened carefully to what the Deputy said. Very little could be found that was wrong——

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá mé ag roinnt ama le mo chomh-bhádóir, an Teachta Eamon Scanlon. I could not fault anything the Deputy said because he took a balanced and reasonable approach to the problem. We must face the reality of the huge damage the over-consumption or abuse of alcohol is causing in our society. Nobody is talking about people who take a social drink. However, the reality is that on every...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (25 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No EU directives have been issued to my Department since its establishment in June 2002.

Seanad: Legal Practitioners (Irish Language) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is sé an tuiscint atá agam ná go mbeidh sé in ann. What we propose is to change the section in such a way that any person who completed the degree course of barrister at law before the repeal of the Legal Practitioners (Qualifications) Act 1929 and who did not comply with section 3 of that Act shall be deemed to have complied with that section. This is a fancy way of saying one did it...

Seanad: Legal Practitioners (Irish Language) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mar a mhínigh mé cheana, creidim go bhfuil sé seo tábhachtach, go mórmhór d'aturnaetha — más féidir liom é a rá — ach freisin d'abhcóidí. Nuair atá gairmithe cúirte, srl., ag dul thart, ba deas an rud é dá mbeadh fios acu ar na bun-téarmaí dlí. Creidim gur soláthar úsáideach é an cúrsa agus go mbainfí go leor úsáid as. Beidh sé sin riachtanach do gach...