Results 26,181-26,200 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I take it the Deputy is referring to non-exchequer sources of funding. As the Deputy will be aware from information provided in response to previous questions, details of expenditure by my Department which is funded by the National Lottery and the Dormant Accounts Fund are included in the Audited Appropriation Accounts published by the Comptroller and Auditor General for the years 2002-2005....

Written Answers — Offshore Islands: Offshore Islands (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since 1997, my Department and its predecessor, the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, have provided some €8.7m for essential capital works on the islands off the County Donegal coast. These works included pier and road improvements, water supply, waste management, car parking facilities and village renewal. Assistance is also available for the provision of community...

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was pleased to launch the Irish Rural Link Strategic Plan 2007-2009 recently. Irish Rural Link are working through their Plan to achieve vibrant, inclusive and sustainable rural communities, aims shared by my Department and delivered through the LEADER Programmes, CLÁR, the Rural Social Scheme and other measures funded by my Department. I welcome the Plan and hope to see continued...

Written Answers — Cumhachtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Cumhachtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I dtús báire ba mhaith liom a chur i gcuimhne don Teachta go bhfuil Foras na Gaeilge, ar iarratas uaim, tar éis córas creidiúnaithe d'aistritheoirí Gaeilge a fhorbairt. Is é seo an chéad chóras dá leithéid a bheidh ar fáil d'aistritheoirí Gaeilge na tíre seo. Reáchtáladh dhá scrúdú i 2006 agus de thoradh na scrúdaithe sin tá áthas orm a rá gur éirigh le 75...

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Development Plan 2007 — 2013 indicates that work is under way to explore the possibility of restoring the Ulster Canal to provide a major inland waterway for the border region. My Department continues to liaise with the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in the North with a view to taking this issue forward and I am hopeful of being in a...

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No 315 of 14 February 2007. I regret that the information I gave was incorrect — it was based on information available to my Department at the time. I now understand that the pier in question is just inside the Gaeltacht. I can now confirm to the Deputy that the provision of financial assistance towards the development of the pier at Mulranny...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: At present my Department funds two pilot programmes that provide direct support to families in the Gaeltacht that are raising their children through Irish. These programmes are administered by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Co Kerry and Muintearas Teo in Co Galway. They involve a variety of activities ranging from home visits, workshops and lectures to support services, parent/children...

Written Answers — Aistritheoirí Béarla-Gaeilge: Aistritheoirí Béarla-Gaeilge (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Chuir mo Roinn tús le hathbhreithniú cuimsitheach ar chumhachtaí agus fheidhmeanna Údarás na Gaeltachta ionas go bhféadfaí moltaí a chur faoi bhráid an Rialtais chun an reachtaíocht faoina bhfeidhmíonn an tÚdarás faoi láthair a leasú mar is cuí. Mar chuid den phróiseas sin, thug mé cuireadh don phobal aighneachtaí a chur faoi bhráid mo Roinne agus fuarthas 67 aighneacht...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This application will be considered, together with other applications under the scheme, when the next list of roads is being prepared for approval under my Department's Gaeltacht Access Road Scheme.

Written Answers — Rural Transport: Rural Transport (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The operation of the Rural Transport Programme (formerly known as the Rural Transport Initiative) is a matter for my colleague Minister of State Pat the Cope Gallagher TD, Department of Transport.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department provides funding for projects through a number of schemes and programmes including Community & Voluntary Grants, the LEADER and CLÁR Programmes and Gaeltacht Schemes. Funding may also be available for projects, such as the one that the Deputy refers to, through the Dormant Accounts Fund. Each of the schemes and grant programmes operated by my Department are governed by rules...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 230 and 233 together. As the Deputy is aware, the CLÁR Programme is a targeted investment programme for rural areas, which was launched in October 2001. The areas covered by the Programme were reviewed in 2002 and, more recently, in 2006 and as a result, CLÁR now covers parts of 22 counties and all of Co. Leitrim and benefits a population of nearly 727,000....

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 231 and 232 together. The RAPID Programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion within the 45 designated RAPID areas. In addition, RAPID priority status was extended to Ballyfermot in 2006. My Department, with the support of Pobal, has overall responsibility for the co-ordination...

Written Answers — Rural Resettlement Scheme: Rural Resettlement Scheme (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The National Spatial Strategy (NSS) addresses many of my concerns on issues such as rural housing. The rural settlement policy framework contained in the NSS, which represents overall Government policy on rural housing, aims to sustain and renew established rural communities while strengthening the structure of villages and smaller settlements to support local economies. In this way it seeks...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Records maintained by my Department indicate that a total of €3.798m was expended by my Department in grants and assistance to groups in Co. Kildare during 2006 under various programmes as summarised below. A further €2.114m was also expended by Waterways Ireland within the county during 2006. € € Community Development Projects Athy CDP 125,300 The Bridge CDP 98,625 ...

Countryside Recreation Strategy. (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 75, 102, 113, 114, 119, 130 and 141 together. Comhairle na Tuaithe presented its report on a national countryside recreation strategy to me in September 2006. The strategy defines the scope and vision for countryside recreation and sets out the broad principles under which sustainable countryside recreation can be managed into the future. It also sets out...

Countryside Recreation Strategy. (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I cannot discuss specific forests but we want to develop a programme and my Department can play a role in the provision of capital rather than marketing. We feel marketing should be conducted by Fáilte Ireland or Tourism Ireland as they are the places everyone looks, both natives and visitors, when seeking to partake in tourism activities in Ireland. I am a great believer in the one stop...

Countryside Recreation Strategy. (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have done a great deal of work in this regard, though I cannot say I have an answer to the Deputy's specific question. We have had discussions with the IFA, the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association and the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association. I am going to the Sheep's Head Peninsula, Skibbereen, tomorrow and I intend to walk on the famous walkway there that seems to have...

Countryside Recreation Strategy. (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will try to answer all of the Deputy's questions. I envisage that a walk manager will have two functions. First, he or she will negotiate possible new walks in developing the product, working from home and using a mobile telephone. The walk manager's second function will be to avoid conflict. A person seeking information about walks in an area will be given the walk manager's telephone...

Irish Language. (28 Feb 2007)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I have already indicated to the House, I have had discussions with the Minister for Education and Science on various occasions with regard to the development of an Irish language education centre at Baile Bhuirne, County Cork. Consultations have also taken place between officials of my Department and the Department of Education and Science with a view to progressing this matter. The...