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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: The Minister can deal with the amendments that are tabled only.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, column 1, lines 40 and 41, to delete “Dublin Bay South” and substitute “Dublin South East”.I do not challenge the independence of the commission or the outcome with regard to the boundaries and the number of Deputies. However, I wish to challenge the change made by the commission in its report of the name of the constituency...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund (5 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to provide funding for urban community centres under the dormant accounts scheme or other programmes in view of the fact that centres in urban areas cannot access schemes such as LEADER; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5082/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund (5 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grants or funding available to urban community centres under programmes administered by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5081/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Education Schemes (5 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the application for a place on a momentum course by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 will be reconsidered, taking into account that they have been unemployed since December 2010, apart from March to October 2012, when they received illness benefit, and in view of the fact that their eligibility would not be in doubt if they had not been sick...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Energy Schemes (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I will consult with the Leas Ceann Comhairle later on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: We all remember when the farming community highlighted the issues relating to the CAP in their protest in October. This aid programme is very important and I hope that during our Presidency it will be to the forefront in our considerations on this area. Ireland's overseas aid programme is approximately €639 million and the EU aid's programme is €3.3 billion and, therefore, any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank our guests for their attendance. What we are discussing is a maximum budget of €972 billion up to 2020. As our guests have outlined, this is a reduction on what was initially proposed. I wish to focus on two small but important matters. At present, just over €52 million comes through the MFF for social infrastructure projects in rural areas. That money is extremely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Yes, it comes through the MFF and is paid out via the Leader programmes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I am glad Ms Cannon is aware of this matter. The type of social in question is extremely important. Deputy Pearse Doherty referred to the NUTS 2 and BMW regions. There are large swathes of urban areas which do not receive social infrastructure funding. They previously received such funding via the Dormant Accounts Fund. However, there is no longer any social infrastructure funding for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Are there any concrete proposals? I am not aware of any funding coming into urban areas from the ERDF at present. If our guests do not have the relevant information in their possession, I would be grateful if they could forward it to me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: That is correct. However, those entities do not have responsibility for urban areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Yes, but that fund does not relate to social infrastructure projects. This is what gives rise to the deficit in urban areas. It is for small businesses and allows them to connect with businesses in other cities, etc. However, it is not used in the context of building social infrastructure such as community centres, halls, sports facilities and so forth. It is on the latter that the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Resources (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of oil and gas respectively extracted from Ireland and our territorial waters in 2012; the areas from which that extraction occurred; the estimated value of those resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4603/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Resources (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied with the current arrangements and supports for the extraction of oil and gas in Ireland's territorial waters; his plans for changes in this policy area in the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4604/13]

Other Questions: Merger of Cultural Institutions (30 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a timetable for the public service reforms to the operation of the National Library and National Museum; if he will consider a separate advisory council for each body with a statutorily independent director, in view of the fact thateach will operate pro bono as currently proposed for joint advisory council; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council Funding (30 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider seeking the implementation of a multi-annual funding framework for those funded through the Arts Council to provide more certainty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4259/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (30 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the submission from Dublin City Council on the Rathmines and Pembroke sewerage scheme in late November/early December under the Water Services Investment Programme 2010 - 2013; the funding available for a consultant to prepare a preliminary report for the scheme; if the brief for hiring a consultant is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme (29 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people transferred to partial capacity benefit in 2012; if she will indicate the number of people in each assessment band of capacity; the number that were assessed as mild and not eligible; her views on the way the scheme is operating; if she has any plans to review its operation after one year; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (29 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been any study or analysis within her Department or associated agencies of the flexicurity welfare state model that is used in Denmark and Germany and may be introduced in France; if she has considered any aspects of this model in the reforms currently underway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3922/13]