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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: But the expenditure-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: With the permission of the Chair, may I ask a question on SICAP? In all the briefs we receive, there is a fetish for numbers. As the Minister of State knows, however, the temptation is to go for the low-hanging fruit, namely, the person nearest to the labour market who might get into it without any assistance. This means that a company can tell the Department and the auditor what a great...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister saying it does not now relate to urban, highly concentrated, deprived areas any more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: To save time, will the Minister indicate if there is a published scheme outlining what RAPID is since this has been done? I have made a freedom of information request for the review that has been done, and I will get that in due course, no doubt. I hope there will not be a song and dance made in giving me that information. Is there a revised scheme where I can get a detailed description of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is there a published scheme that one can access showing what are the scheme's objectives? Normally there is published scheme setting out the objectives, the areas targeted, the operation of programmes and their methodology. If there is a scheme like that, can the Minister send it to me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is very nebulous-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: -----in a whatever and whoever way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I mean no disrespect, but the Minister and I have seen, throughout our lives as politicians, that every community thinks it is the poorest community in Ireland but when we read a socio-economic analysis, the really deprived communities jump out at us. By reading the Central Statistics Office, CSO, statistics and visiting the areas in question, we can see they match. As far as I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad but the Minister does not seem to understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have just asked him if there is a scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Did the Minister actually start spending money and reinstitute the scheme last year without a scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I think it would be fair to say that the LCDC in Galway showed very little understanding of the realities of the county which it was meant to serve because the majority of the members come from the east of the county and ignored the requirements of the west of the county. The Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, and I are suffering the consequences in respect of remotely delivered services in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I was involved in introducing the legislation for a charities regulator. The big charities needed it. They are professionals, with offices and staff but I was concerned from the beginning about killing volunteerism at the small level. It is making it very hard for people to continue. The level of compliance required at the small level, where there might be a small charity in a local area...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They were big charities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer to the appropriations in aid. There is an express train of bad news coming down the line. It is the EU budget whereby they would like to spend more on arms than on rural development. The contribution will obviously be down because the British intend pulling out of the European Union and they are massive contributors in cash. I was wondering what effect this will have on the rural...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I say to the Minister that he will have to press his point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: My worry is that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, might not support the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What I mean by that is that if there is a cut, he will make sure there is a disproportionate cut outside the farm gate, which is the part that goes to the Minister's Department, in other words Leader, rather than the inside the farm gate. It is a tricky equation. It is not easy to square but the Minister is the small one here and the money goes through the Department of Agriculture, Food...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government will get about €12.8 million from Europe this year.