Results 28,161-28,180 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (10 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 460 and 461 together. Sherkin Island Development Society — SIDS — Limited has received funding under the community development programme since 1997. This funding primarily allows the project to employ a development officer and an administrative assistant, in addition to covering administrative costs and overheads associated with maintaining a premises. My...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (10 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my response to Questions Nos. 151, 153, 156, 163, 172, 173 and 185 on 4 February 2004.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (10 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Questions Nos. 338, 343 and 345 of 12 February 2003. The expenditure for media purposes and advertising placed by my Department and its predecessor, the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, in 2002 and by my Department in 2003 was as follows: Brindley Advertising holds the Government contract for advertising in the print media, mainly for...

Written Answers — Countryside Access: Countryside Access (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have decided to establish a countryside council, to be called "Comhairle na Tuaithe", which will address issues relating to waymarked ways and access to land. This decision follows consideration by the rural-agri-tourism advisory group of a report presented recently by the consultation group on access to waymarked ways, which I established last April. The establishment of a countryside...

Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department has reviewed its statutory instruments for compliance with the requirements of Bunreacht na hÉireann in the light of the recent High Court judgment concerning the Immigration Act 1999, and I can advise the Deputy that there are no orders made in my Department of the type to which he refers.

Written Answers — EU Presidency: EU Presidency (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First, I wish to confirm the information I have already given to the House on a number of occasions during the past year in response to questions concerning my Department's plans to contribute to the promotion of Ireland's Presidency of the EU, viz., that our programme comprises the following events: a conference on territorial Cohesion (formerly islands) in Galway on 25 to 27 May 2004; a...

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department does not have any restaurants and the canteen facilities are provided on the basis that staff provide their own food.

Written Answers — Departmental Travel: Departmental Travel (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The amount paid by my Department in 2003 for car mileage expenses was €246,397. The amount paid to cover rail and bus expenses was €7,481.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (10 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Senators for their co-operation in bringing this Bill forward and passing it in the House. One of the issues involved was a matter that was ultra vires and which the Bill will regularise. With regard to infrastructure, it should be recognised that there have been significant improvements. My view is that one of the problems was that infrastructure was always built from the centre...

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (10 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would not do it at all now. I would have to find some other way of doing it. I do not wish to bore Senators, but all languages have words and phrases that are borrowed from other languages. For example, in Irish we use the words buneagar, bunstruchtúr and infreastruchtúr. We should be relatively careful in decrying such borrowing because words like café and rapporteur are now considered...

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá ríméad orm bheith sa Seanad inniú chun na díospóireachta ar an Dara Céim den Bhille an Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (Cumhachtaí agus Feidhmeanna) 2003 a oscailt. Tugann an Bille deis dúinn díriú isteach ar chursaí a bhaineann lenár n-oileáin amach ón gcósta. Tá mé ag tnúth go mór le cloisteáil ó na Seanadóirí ar ball maidir lena gcuid tuairimí ar...

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá na focail anseo in úsáid ar Raidió na Gaeltachta.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An rang scoile atá ar súil?

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ultra vires– tá fadhbanna ansin ach sin Laidin.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: "Siar" is "back" and "ghabháil" is to "go."

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá a lán daoine i gCorca Dhuibhne a thuigfeadh seo.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ní thuigfidís muintir Chorca Dhuibhne de minimis.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Comhtháthú.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom, ar dtús báire, buíochas a ghabháil le chuile dhuine a ghlac páirt sa díospóireacht. I thank everybody who took part in the debate. I will briefly deal with some of the valid points raised. A point was raised in regard to Inch Island. Islands connected to the mainland by bridges present a challenge. My constituency is the greatest beneficiary if one counts the islands...

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are not connected by bridges to the mainland so they are not considered in this context. We define as islands those cut off by the tide once a day in a normal tide. They must have a permanent population and not be in the ownership of one person. The legislation allows us to make the definition so if, for example, the causeway to Inch Island gets washed away, we can define it as an...