Results 721-740 of 2,551 for speaker:Pat Carey

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

Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department's mandate includes the promotion and support of both urban and rural communities. Against this background, my officials and I liaise on a daily basis with a wide range of communities across the country, including urban and rural support groups involved in social regeneration such as integrated local development companies, rural development groups,...

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

Pat Carey: In order to ensure the continued relevance of the RAPID Programme, a review of RAPID area boundaries, including an analysis of data from Census 2006 across a range of socio-economic and deprivation indicators, has been undertaken with the intention of allowing adjustments necessary to ensure that areas are appropriately targeting the most disadvantaged communities. Following the review, the...

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

Pat Carey: Funding of €8m is being provided for the CLÁR Programme in 2010 by my Department. However, as CLÁR leverages funding through other Departments and Agencies, the value of the investment that is being supported in rural areas through the Programme will be considerably higher. I have no immediate plans to further expand the Programme.

Departmental Priorities. (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, the Taoiseach recently announced the restructuring of a number of Departments and agencies in order to group functions whose combination is more appropriate to the country's current priorities, to ensure greater coherence and produce more efficient delivery and to underline the priority issues for this Government in a way that mobilises a broad response. The...

Departmental Priorities. (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I thank the Deputy for his good wishes. We will not be able to support him on the latter part; we will be around for a fair while yet. On the term "rural" in the title of the Department, while it is no longer in the Department's title I consider the reference to "community" to be sufficiently broad and embracing in order that it can and will encompass urban and rural communities. While the...

Departmental Priorities. (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I can give the Deputy the precise information now or at another time regarding who is responsible for what. I will pass it onto him. The cost associated with the establishment of the new Department will be kept to an absolute minimum. A written instruction has issued to all staff in this regard. It was one of the first actions I took. It is my intention to use all old stocks of...

National Drugs Strategy. (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2 and 3 together. My Department has received a large number of complaints regarding the operation of head shops and the new psychoactive substances being sold in these outlets. I covered many of these issues when replying to an Adjournment debate tabled by Deputy Ring last night. These range from letters from individuals, to correspondence in relation to...

National Drugs Strategy. (1 Apr 2010)

Pat Carey: I thank Deputy Wall for his good wishes. I also would like to be associated with the remarks made by Deputies Wall and Ring about the former Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, and the former Minister of State, Deputy Curran. I agree they did excellent work in the Department. I wish my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Mary White, well and I look forward to working with her. I assure the...

Firearms Certificates. (31 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: I am taking this Adjournment matter on behalf of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. As Deputy Charles Flanagan will appreciate, that Department is at present in the course of a major transformation of the firearms licensing system. It has brought into operation long overdue changes, such as the requirement for referees, provision for background medical checks and standards...

Head Shops. (31 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: I thank Deputy O'Rourke for raising this issue and for her good wishes. The Deputy's assertion is correct. When I was in this Department in 2007 and 2008, headshops were beginning to be an issue at that time. There were 26 such shops known to be in operation, primarily in Dublin. I agree with Deputy O'Rourke and others who have raised the matter on the Order of Business and I understand...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (31 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 164 and 165 together. Currently, there is provision for 2,600 participants and 130 supervisors on the Rural Social Scheme (RSS). All available places (both participant and supervisor) have been allocated and quotas have been assigned to each of the Implementing Bodies who manage the scheme on my Department's behalf throughout the country. The annual cost of...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (31 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: I can assure the Deputy that I share the concerns to which he refers regarding the activities of head shops and the new psychoactive substances, represented as "legal highs", which are being sold in these outlets. Indeed, my colleague, Mr John Curran, T.D., while Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, voiced similar concerns on many occasions and held a number...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy is aware, following on from the recent announcement by the Taoiseach in respect of the restructuring of Departments and agencies, the process of transferring functions and changing Departmental titles is in hand. I understand that the Department of Finance, in consultation with the relevant Departments, will bring proposals in this regard to Government for approval in due...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (31 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: The Scheme of Community Support for Older People (CSOP) is open and continues to accept applications from local community and voluntary groups. To date, 116 groups have received funding in 2010. Information on grants paid to groups since 2004 is updated monthly on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie. The Deputy will be aware that the CSOP was re-introduced in October 2009 following...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (30 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: The table below sets out the salaries paid to CEOs of relevant agencies/bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group on the dates referred to by the Deputy. With regard to voluntary pay cuts, the Deputy will appreciate that these are a private matter for the individuals in question. Bonuses were not payable in respect of the year 2009, except in the case of the CEO of Údarás na...

Written Answers — Forbairt Pobal: Forbairt Pobal (30 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: Ón mbliain 2002, tá os cionn €2 milliún i ndeontais ceadaithe ag mo Roinn faoi Scéim na mBóithre Straitéiseacha Gaeltachta chun feabhas a chur ar an bhóthar a fhreastalann ar Aerfort Idirnáisiúnta Dhún na nGall ar an Charraig Fhinn. Déanfar an cheist maidir le deontais bhreise a cheadú faoin scéim in 2010 a mheas i gcomhthéacs an tsoláthair airgid atá ar fáil chun na...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (30 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: It should be noted that responsibility for the matter referred to by the Deputy is a matter for Donegal County Council in the first instance. In the period since 2002, under the Gaeltacht Strategic Roads Scheme, my Department has provided grant aid in excess of €2 million for this particular road that serves Donegal International Airport at An Charraig Fhinn. The question of approving...

Written Answers — Departmental Functions: Departmental Functions (30 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 308 to 310, inclusive, together. As the Deputy is aware, as part of the restructuring of Departments and agencies announced by the Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann on 23 March last to ensure greater coherence and produce more efficient delivery, the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs will become the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (30 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy is aware, the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes represented a set of options to reduce expenditure and staff numbers across the public sector. These options were considered by the Government within the context of framing the 2010 Budget. Gross savings of some €57 million, or almost 12%, were achieved in the 2010 Revised...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (30 Mar 2010)

Pat Carey: As no details were supplied in this case, I regret that I am unable to answer the Deputy's Question. If the Question is re-submitted with details of the group in question, I will be glad to respond appropriately.