Results 521-540 of 2,551 for speaker:Pat Carey

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (9 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: The organisation referred to by the Deputy is funded under my Department's Scheme to Support National Organisations in the Community and Voluntary Sector and has been allocated funding of €80,352 in 2010. Contracts with the various organisations which are being funded under this Scheme are due to expire on 31 December 2010. Officials in my Department are currently carrying out a review to...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (3 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: I wish to advise the Deputy that the transfer of responsibility for social inclusion policy and family policy from the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the transfer of responsibility for equality, integration, human rights and disability from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to the newly established Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht has now taken...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (3 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: Funding contracts under the scheme referred to by the Deputy are due to expire on 31 December 2010. Officials in my Department are currently carrying out a review to evaluate the scheme and to make recommendations for the future. The organisations involved in the scheme are being consulted as part of the review process. On the basis of the findings of the review, I will consider the options...

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (2 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: I wish to advise the Deputy that the transfer of responsibility for equality, integration, human rights and disability from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to my Department has now taken place and an Order has been made in this regard. The Order cites that my Department has responsibility for these functions from 1 June 2010. It is my intention to bring a Memorandum to...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: Firstly, I would once again emphasise that stipend payments were paid to students only in respect of time when they were actually present on the course. Where a student missed classes, the stipend payments payable to him or her were reduced accordingly. It was also the case that stipend and accommodation payments ceased as soon as a student left the course. Furthermore, my Department has...

Written Answers — Legal Proceedings: Legal Proceedings (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: My Department has been involved in one court case, which related specifically to the Official Languages Act, since the enactment of the Act in 2003. That case was the Central Applications Office Limited v the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Ireland and the Attorney General.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: Funding is available under the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 for the provision of basic services - including the development of amenity/leisure facilities and recreational infrastructure - for rural communities. The Programme also provides funding to build the capacity of community organisations, to encourage their participation in a broad range of social and economic activities, and...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: The Dormant Accounts Fund Acts provides for an annual transfer by credit institutions and insurance undertakings of monies in accounts determined to be dormant into the Dormant Accounts Fund (DAF). Since its establishment in May 2003 to end-March 2010, the net transfers to the DAF have totalled some €326m. The projects to which the Deputy refers are currently funded under a measure...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: The general practice in my Department is to make payslips available online. In a relatively small number of cases, where online access is not readily available, payslips have been printed and sent to individual staff members. The estimated cost (incorporating printing, stationery and postage) associated with issuing payslips in my Department has been constant over the years 2007, 2008 and...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: The Centre for Effective Services (CES) was developed in recognition of the fact that high quality research and data informs good social policy and that the application of evidence-based policy making can make a real difference in the quality of services delivered, and, ultimately, in the quality of beneficiaries' lives. At its most basic, the approach is to seek to provide a means to enable...

Written Answers — Calafoirt agus Céanna: Calafoirt agus Céanna (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: Is féidir liom a dheimhniú don Teachta go bhfuil roinnt iarratais ar láimh ag mo Roinnse le haghaidh deontais cóirithe do chéanna beaga i nDún na nGall, a bhfuil liosta díobh leagtha amach thíos. Cé na nDúnaibh Cé Mhucróis Cé Theilinn Oileán an Bhráighe Ros na Gurra Cé Áith an Aoil Cé Fhánaide Loch Cionn Caslach Maramaolán Cé Rannaigh Tá na hiarratais seo á...

Written Answers — Bóithre Straitéiseacha: Bóithre Straitéiseacha (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: Tá soláthar de €2m curtha ar fáil i Meastacháin mo Roinne i 2010 chun bonneagar na Gaeltachta a fheabhsú, ar a n-áirítear bóithre, muiroibreacha agus grúpscéimeanna uisce. I gcomhthéacs na ngealltanas éagsúla atá ar láimh cheana féin i ndáil le feabhsúcháin den chineál seo, áfach, ní léir dom go mbeidh ar chumas mo Roinne-se deontais bhreise a cheadú i leith...

Written Answers — Íocaíochtaí Deontais: Íocaíochtaí Deontais (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: Tá iarratas ag mo Roinn ar dheontas i leith an tionscadail atá luaite ag an Teachta ó mí Mhárta 2006. Is amhlaidh go raibh oifigigh de chiuid mo Roinne-se i gcumarsáid leis an iarratasóir faoi nithe éagsúla den tionscadal ó shin. Tar éis an t-iarratas a scrúdú, iarradh ar an iarratasóir athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar scála na forbartha d'fhonn an costas a laghdú. Chomh maith...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: The organisation in question is funded under my Department's Scheme to Support National Organisations in the Community and Voluntary Sector and has been allocated funding of €80,352 in 2010. Contracts with the various organisations which are being funded under this Scheme are due to expire on 31 December 2010. Officials in my Department are currently carrying out a review to evaluate the...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (1 Jun 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy is aware, the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme and the Community Development Programme were my Department's two main social inclusion/community development programmes. These came to an end on 31 December last and have been superseded by a new integrated programme, the Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP). A key difference between the new LCDP and its...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (27 May 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 and 177 to 179, inclusive, together. Firstly, I wish to refer the Deputy to my reply to Question 98 of 6 Bealtaine 2010, in which I indicated that the recognition of Irish as an official working language of the European Union with effect from 1 January 2007 presented the EU Institutions with a significant recruitment challenge. The Government took a...

Written Answers — Departmental Communications: Departmental Communications (27 May 2010)

Pat Carey: A list of the websites operated by my Department and by agencies/bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group, as well as annual maintenance costs arising, is set out in the table below. Entity Website(s) Website operated by Annual cost of maintenance Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (DCEGA) www.pobail.iewww.socialinclusion.iewww.combatpoverty.ie DCEGA €9,085...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (27 May 2010)

Pat Carey: The allocations from my Department to the 14 Local Drugs Task Forces and the 10 Regional Drugs Task Forces in 2010 are set out below in tables 1 and 2 respectively. The funding allocated will support nearly 500 initiatives that the Task Forces have prioritised for investment in their respective areas. In addition, I recently announced that funding of €600,000 is being made available for...

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (27 May 2010)

Pat Carey: The Deputy will be aware that the European Council at its meeting in March 2010 agreed on the inclusion of five headline targets in Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The targets constitute shared objectives guiding the action of the Member States and the Union on the key areas where action is needed: knowledge and innovation, a more sustainable economy,...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (27 May 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy may be aware, my Department is responsible for a number of grant schemes that may be relevant to the issue he has raised: · Under the EU co-funded Rural Development Programme Ireland 2007 - 2013, funding is available for the provision of basic services - including the development of amenity and leisure facilities - for rural communities. Details of the 36 groups administering...