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- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Here is the bottom line figure. The Government gave out €28 million in December last year. How much of that has been spent in total, between efficient and inefficient authorities?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: So there is €11 million unspent. That is the figure that I was given.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: It is €11.394 million.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Would the Minister ever dream of giving further pre-funding to somebody who has not spent all their money from last year?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: I set it up.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: We should be fair to Eir and everybody involved. Eir got the notion of doing a rural roll-out and there was great difficulty in the Department dealing with this. People were saying it will be done or it will not be, etc. Eventually, an agreement was signed that Eir would do a certain area and no more or less. We must be careful. Is it a fact that if Eir started to extend beyond those...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Rather than dumping on a company, will the Minister of State confirm that if it suddenly expanded beyond the area agreed, there would have to be remapping and we would go back to square one?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: If it does 350,000 or 400,000 premises, would there not need to be remapping?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: It is in the contract.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, everywhere.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: That is exactly my point.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to get clarity. Before this we were told that when Eir decided to cater to the 300,000 premises that the whole place had to be remapped. Eir could decide to do the whole country tomorrow.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Will that mean remapping? If so, we know the delays that will ensue. That is the problem with this kind of EU set-up but that is the way we have to do this.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Exactly.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Acting Chairman sure about that? We have not gone through the Estimates subhead by subhead.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: I have read all of this material, perused it carefully and formulated many questions. At the beginning of this meeting my comments were just a general introduction. I would like an opportunity to go through the Estimates subhead by subhead.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: Can we adjourn the meeting at 12 o'clock and resume later? We are meant to be examining Estimates here and there is a massive amount of questions.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: That is no harm. This is the first meeting. The one thing we should not do is rush our business and thus not do it thoroughly. I know that the Minister for Rural and Community Development and his Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, are anxious that we go through every line of what they are at and show an interest. There is nothing more frustrating for the public servants to spend many hours...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer to subhead A.3 on dormant account measures. Can the Minister tell us the amount of uncommitted funds? In other words, one cannot touch the statutory reserve. Also, schemes have been approved that have not spent the money that was committed to them. How much uncommitted funds reside in the Dormant Account Fund?