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Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The business plan for this group is currently in the process of being appraised. My Department expects to receive a recommendation from POBAL in relation to this group before the end of the month and the group will be notified of the outcome in March.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is a matter, in the first instance, for my colleague the Minister for Health and Children. Deputies will be aware, however, that the general aim of my Departments policies and programmes is to provide support to communities in the most appropriate way as they work to shape their own futures and achieve their full potential. I have adopted a co-ordinated approach in this work within my...

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department was established in June 2002. Since that date, a number of schemes and programmes have been operated by my Department which were — or continue to be — funded in full or in part by the European Union. Details of these programmes and schemes and the funding allocated to them since establishment of the Department are outlined below. Programme...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: At present my Department has no specific scheme for the funding of defibrillators for sporting bodies. However, for completeness I should mention that groups, including local sporting organisations, may be eligible for funding towards the cost of defibrillators under my Department's programme of Grants for Locally Based Community and Voluntary Organisations, the RAPID programme or the CLÁR...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (5 Feb 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The costs of answering PQs are not currently available in my Department. However, I have asked the Department to prepare costings based on a representative sample of questions arising over the next two months and I will advise the Deputy accordingly.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy may be aware that, on foot of an announcement in the 2008 Budget of an efficiency review of administrative spending across the public service, each Department is required to examine such spending, both within its own ambit and of bodies under its aegis, and to provide proposals for administrative savings to the Department of Finance by March 2008. The process of conducting the...

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to inform the Deputy that the construction of a new boat slip at the location in question commenced in October 2007. I understand that the slipway, which has nearly been completed, will be ready for use before the start of the boating season on 17 March 2008. The approximate cost of the slipway is estimated at €120,000.

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Waterways Ireland has advised me that since the publication of the RPS Cairns Report in 1995, there has been substantial development of lands adjoining the Royal Canal in the Dublin area, the extent of which could not have been envisaged in the context of the strategic thinking underlying the report. However, I understand from Waterways Ireland that cognisance has been given to the...

Written Answers — Judicial Reviews: Judicial Reviews (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 776 and 777 together. As the Deputy is aware, my Department was established in June 2002. Since then my Department has not been involved in any applications for judicial reviews and, consequently, it has incurred no costs or damages that would require to be paid by the State.

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Houses of the Oireachtas have passed five Acts — as outlined — which were sponsored by my Department, between the years 2003 and 2007: Year 2003 Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Act 2003 Official Languages Act 2003 2005 Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Act 2005 British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Act 2005 2007 Community, Rural and...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy will be aware from previous PQ replies in relation to this subject that the core objective of the process is to simplify and improve local delivery of programmes operated by my Department through the integration and alignment of local delivery structures. The intention is that for the future there will be one local development company in any given area and fewer local development...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In 2006 one laptop and a memory stick was stolen from a Departmental official and not recovered. In the same year another official lost a memory stick and this was not recovered either. I am informed that no sensitive or private data was compromised in any of these cases.

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department is satisfied that its computer systems are well protected against hacking, cyber attacks or other malicious computer breaches.

Written Answers — Calafoirt agus Céanna: Calafoirt agus Céanna (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá iarratas faighte ag mo Roinn ó Chomhairle Chontae Dhún na nGall ar chúnamh le haghaidh feabhsúcháin a dhéanamh ar Ché Inis Bó Finne ar chostas measta de bheagnach €500,000. Tá an t-iarratas á mheas faoi láthair i gcomhthéacs an tsoláthair airgid a bheidh ar fáil do mo Roinnse le caitheamh ar fhorbairt oileán i gcoitinne, ag tógáil san áireamh na tosaíochtaí agus na...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The CLÁR programme operates two measures to provide additional funding to Local Authorities to carry out works on roads in CLÁR areas, the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) measure and the Class II and III Roads measure. There is no specific allocation of funding for roads in the Gaeltacht areas of Co. Mayo. Under the LIS measure €500,000 was allocated to Co. Mayo in 2007. The allocation...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Under Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge, which is administered by my Department, grants are paid to qualified households in Gaeltacht areas who accommodate Irish students attending recognised Irish courses in the Gaeltacht. This scheme indirectly helps parents by reducing the cost they are required to pay when sending their children to the Gaeltacht to learn Irish. However, my Department...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Under Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge a grant of €260 per school year is payable to qualified families in the Gaeltacht who satisfy my Department that Irish is their normal spoken language. Where a family fails to demonstrate the degree of fluency required under the Scheme, my Department may pay a reduced grant of 50%, if it is satisfied that the family can eventually reach the appropriate...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy is aware, my Department was established in June 2002. In carrying out its functions, the Press and Information Office in the Department employ a media monitoring/press cuttings service to monitor the national and regional media (English language and Irish language) noting both direct and more general coverage of matters relevant to the work of the Department. In this context,...

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since my Department was established in June 2002, there have been no known instances where personal data held by my Department were compromised in any way. I also understand that there has been no instances, since June 2002, where personal data held by agencies under the ambit of my Department, were compromised in any way. The review of data security procedures, announced by An Tánaiste on...

Written Answers — Equal Opportunities Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (30 Jan 2008)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Currently 2% of the staff of my Department have a disability. My Department did not hire people with disabilities from outside the civil service in the period from 2002 to date in 2008.