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Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: To clarify demarcation lines on what the Department does about broadband and mobile phones, a task force called the mobile phone and broadband task force has been set up and I chair it. The Deputy mentioned getting everybody into the room but everybody is in the room for that task force. There are local authorities, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, the Department of Transport, Tourism...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: Regarding Deputy Ó Cuív's point about the meeting with Galway County Council, one tranche of the money from the previous round of the rural regeneration and development fund went to Dunmore. Deputy Fitzmaurice did a great deal of work on getting this project to the stage where we could get funding for it. That is in a small town and it be a real game changer. Without this fund,...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: Could the Deputy let me finish? What I was about to say is that it involved Clonbur, which is another small town. Not all the money went to Athenry. It was provided right across the county and that will continue. Tuam and Ballinasloe could apply for the urban funding if they have projects that are large enough.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: I will make two or three comments before answering the question on the Dormant Accounts Fund. The Dormant Accounts Acts provide the framework for the administration of unclaimed accounts. The main purpose of the legislation is to reunite account holders or policyholders with their funds but, in order to utilise the unused funds, the legislation also introduces a scheme for their...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: I take the Deputy's points. In November of last year, we launched the charities governance code. It consists of six principles of governance: advancing charitable purpose; behaving with integrity; leading people; exercising control; working effectively; and being accountable and transparent. One of the main points the code has recognised is diversity in the sector. It aims to be...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: In taking on board what the Deputy is saying, one must ask why there is governance at all. If one notes what happened with some charities, one realises there ought to be governance and transparency. The money is coming from the public purse to help the charities. I understand what the Deputy is saying about the smaller organisations but we have to protect the public and have governance....

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: Exempting smaller ones because we know what they are doing and on the grounds that the money will probably not go astray is not really the way we should be dealing with public money. We need to assist the charities in respect of the code and ensure the documents with which they have to work are written in plain English to ensure compliance. We give them the backup to make sure this happens.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: The code in place has been developed in consultation-----

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: Yes.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: In terms of the other developments aimed at alleviating the problem, work is being done on what we call a charity passport. This will mean that once the governance has been done correctly for one organisation, this work will not have to be done again. If an organisation is applying for funding, it can use the same document to apply for funding from other organisations. There is a conflict...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: The regulator is independent in its functions and we, as public representatives, cannot discuss its decisions. The issue of data protection also arises, which means the person who has an issue is the only person who can discuss it. I have come across this issue. Data protection may be the reason for the answer the Deputy received.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: Will the Deputy repeat the question?

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: What the Deputy is looking at is the figure for the western investment fund.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: That amount has been allocated for investment. Whether all of it will be invested depends on the projects it supports. That is the amount in the fund on the capital side.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: The strategy will be issued. At the start of 2018, the Western Development Commission had an investment fund of €21.4 million available for reinvestment in small and medium businesses. We can get the-----

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: The Deputy wants to know how much of that was invested in 2018.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: That money is for reinvestment but we will find out for the Deputy the amount invested last year.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: On the Western Development Commission, one of the problems is that we have to see what it is doing with the money. It has a new chief executive, Tomás Ó Síocháin, who I am sure will be glad to come in and answer to the committee. We have given the commission more money for staffing to ensure it is able to invest. It could be that €3 million of a revolving fund...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Stocks (2 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) manages salmon stocks on an individual river basis as each of Ireland’s 147 salmon rivers (including river sections and estuaries) has its own genetically unique stock of salmon. IFI is supported in its management role by scientific advice from Ireland’s independent Technical Expert Group on Salmon (TEGOS), comprising scientists from a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Mobile Telephony Services (2 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: In 2017, officials from my Department, the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and a small number of Local Authorities met to examine the potential for mapping mobile phone blackspots in Ireland. On foot of these meetings, an invitation was issued in late 2017 to all Local Authorities to provide data on 5-6 prioritised local blackspots. Some Local Authorities...