Results 26,321-26,340 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Clár Díláraithe. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá súil agam nach fíor don Teachta nach bhfuil aon rud déanta ag Foras na Gaeilge faoi seo. Tá an cás thar a bheith soiléir. Tá mé ag fanacht ar phlean gnó. Beidh na rudaí éagsúla maidir le foirgnimh, srl., sonraithe ansin. Ar dhá chúis, níor cheart go mbeadh sé seo ródheacair. Tá 65 postanna ceadaithe don fhoras, ach níl ach 44 daoine ag obair sa bhforas faoi...

Clár Díláraithe. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Níl aon deacrachtaí ann. Bhí comhráite le bheith ar bun. Bhí siad sin ann. Nuair a bhí an obair ar fad déanta, bhí cruinniú agam le David Hanson MP, a bhí mar aire stáit ag feidhmiú sa gcuid sin d'oifig Thuisceart Éireann ag an am áirithe sin. Nuair a bhuaileamar le chéile i mí Márta na bliana seo caite, rinne mé cinneadh foirmiúil i leith na ceiste seo. Níl aon...

Irish Language. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This grant was awarded to the Dublin City Business Association under the fochiste gnó. This scheme, which was announced by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs on 26 November 2005, was open to applicants throughout the country. It is intended that the scheme will be advertised again early in 2007. Applications which meet the criteria for the scheme will be considered...

Irish Language. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree with the Deputy. We do our best through press releases and contacting various projects to make people aware of these schemes but sometimes people apply because they know a grant is available. What struck me as being important in this case was that the people involved, the business traders in Dublin, got the idea of having the slogans on the Christmas lights in Irish. They...

Rural Transport Services. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: While I have not had any recent discussions with my colleague, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, regarding the provision of a rural transport service, I am very aware of the work he is doing in this regard and I fully support the rural transport initiatives being operated by his Department. Indeed, the rural transport initiative, RTI, has been a great success. It has been...

Rural Transport Services. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The easiest way for the Deputy to get an answer to this question is to ask the Minister involved.

Rural Transport Services. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. I do not have a responsibility in this area. The Minister for Transport——

Rural Transport Services. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: All the people of Ireland are my people——

Rural Transport Services. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ——when it comes to that. If we look at it logically, I have responsibility for rural affairs, all the deprived areas through the RAPID programme and so on. One could hardly find an area in which my Department, because of its geographic remit, does not have an input. If the Government had not made the mainframe decisions, intensive discussions would probably be taking place between my...

Ionad Oideachais Gaeilge. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mar a chuir mé in iúl don Teachta cheana, bhí cruinnithe agus plé agam leis an tAire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta ar ócáidí éagsúla maidir leis an gceist atá luaite ag an Teachta. Bhí an cás mar ábhar plé freisin ag cruinnithe éagsúla idir oifigigh mo Roinne agus oifigigh na Roinne Oideachais agus Eolaíochta. Chomh maith leis sin, d'fhreastail oifigigh de chuid mo Roinne ar...

Ionad Oideachais Gaeilge. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá an Teachta tar éis a mhéar a chur air ar bhealach. Ní thiocfaidh dul chun cinn ar chor ar bith faoi na riachtanais atá ann. Ní thiocfainn leis an Teachta, áfach, ar chor ar bith nach bhfuil tada déanta. Tá, mar shampla, na campaí samhraidh, scéim na bhfoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge, scéim na gcúntóirí teanga agus an méid atá caite ar an oideachas tríú leibhéil sa Ghaeilge.

Ionad Oideachais Gaeilge. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá fo-ionad ollscoile, tionscnamh ard-scileanna Gaeilge agus an rud céanna á dhéanamh ag an údarás atá tar éis airgid a infheistiú in oideachas sa nGaeilge. Mar sin, tá na cúig bliana atá imithe tharainn thar a bheith rathúil ó thaobh infheistithe ag mo Roinn agus an t-údarás i dtionscnaimh a bhaineann le cúrsaí oideachais trí Ghaeilge agus tacaíocht a thabhairt don...

Ionad Oideachais Gaeilge. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba é tús an scéil ná go ndúradh liom go raibh an áit seo ar fáil agus chreid mé agus é teorannach leis an eastát tionsclaíochta sula raibh aon chaint faoi áit oideachais a chur ann go mba cheart don údarás é a cheannach. Níl aon athrú intinne orm faoi sin. Má tá an ceart agam, thart faoi 40 acra atá um an fhoirgneamh díreach i lár an bhaile. Tá sé teorannach leis an...

Countryside Access. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy is aware Comhairle na Tuaithe has completed its work on the development of a national countryside recreation strategy. The members of Comhairle na Tuaithe, with the exception of the Irish Farmers' Association, have endorsed the report. I met the President of the IFA, Mr. Pádraig Walshe, the week before last to discuss the issue of access to land for recreational purposes. The...

Countryside Access. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy has asked a lot of questions. Any payment will be based on the cost of materials and labour in doing the works that are necessary. We will get competent people to calculate exactly what work is needed. I heard the interview Mr. Walshe gave on "Morning Ireland" and I obtained the transcript afterwards. I will provide a copy of it to the Deputy. Mr. Walshe was very clear that the...

Countryside Access. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is much more work going on behind the scenes than people realise. As I outlined when I launched the report at a meeting of Comhairle na Tuaithe at the ploughing championships, Fáilte Ireland has been working on getting agreement on a series of walks. It has also outlined the required works that need to be done in many cases. The option to use the rural social scheme is a very live...

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 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 recently extended to Ballyfermot. My Department, with the support of Pobal, has overall responsibility for the co-ordination of the RAPID programme. It is a matter for each...

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I should be interested to know which of the four to six areas the Deputy believes do not display all the characteristics he mentioned. As far as I am concerned all the areas involved in the RAPID programme have been found through independent analysis to display all the characteristics as regards the problems of inter-generational disadvantage and so on. They would not be RAPID areas,...

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I cannot find any record of a figure being put on it. As we said all along it was a matter of the re-prioritisation of existing national development plan moneys. This is what is written in the press releases. I assure the Deputy that a new national development plan is under development and the entire issue of social inclusion obviously will be part of it, just as it was in its predecessor....

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I presume the Deputy does not intend to take all the moneys for urban renewal, educational disadvantage, health and other issues from the line Departments and put them into the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. One of the Deputy's party's spokespersons suggested that all rural matters should be removed from this Department. It was suggested that the old Department of...