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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: That is all administration. It is predictable from the beginning of the 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: The Minister of State could take another €15 million out.
- 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 I give the Minister of State one suggestion? He had responsibility for sport. He will remember his days in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.
- 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: He would have found that, for one reason or another, even after two or three years some bodies did not spend all the money. As he quite rightly pointed out, even local authorities did not spend all of the RAPID money when I was in the Department in 2010. If the Minister is going to spend €250 million under the Leader programme, would he accept that he should allow for sanctioning,...
- 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 was a problem. I introduced final dates by which the money had to be used or lost. That dealt with that problem. Some projects lost funding. Such an approach does not ensure that every project is completed, for one reason or another.
- 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: In August 2017, €6 million was approved. When I was in the Department in 2010, €48 million was approved. I understand we spent €6 million or €8 million, and the Minister of State has spent €100,000. The Minister of State is behind where we were. He should not throw that one at me.
- 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 am giving the Minister of State a warning for the future. If only €10 million is sanctioned the full allocation will not be spent.
- 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: Under A8, the Minister of State said every county had an opportunity to submit eight projects. It seems a little unfair that large and small counties were treated the same. Counties like Cork and Mayo, Galway could submit the same number of projects as very small counties. Connemara is bigger than some counties. Why not be more scientific?
- 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 mentioned Cork. Castletownbere could submit eight projects.
- 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: Of that €12 million, how much does the Minister of State expect to spend? Nothing has been spent as of 10 November 2017.
- 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 will not get into petty issue. The LIS will be dealt with. It now appears there are major savings under subheads A.5, A.6 and A.8.
- 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 the figure be €30 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: We have not discussed the SICAP or RAPID programmes, both of which are major issues.
- 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 would like to go through it in detail because we appear to have departed from the previous approach. I do not see any reference to are area implementation teams, AITs.
- 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: When I visited these areas on my appointment as Minister I kept meeting people in suits. Under the RAPID structure, we established area implementation schemes in local housing estates and only people living in the relevant local authority housing estate could become community members of the schemes. This approach created a genuine local voice, as opposed to having people in authority doing...
- 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: Why did it need to be changed? Value for money reviews come up with all sort of weird and wonderful ideas, which the Minister is under no obligation to accept. I had value for money reviews put to me which were doing what the system wanted them to do. I did not accept them because I did not believe the system was right. That is the reason the Minister is the Minister.
- 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 equivalent to the great brainwave someone in the Minister's previous Department had when they allowed-----
- 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: -----people who had no connection to the Gaeltacht to elect a member to Údarás na Gaeltachta. That was a farcical change.
- 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 did not change the law. Before the change, people in the Gaeltacht made the decision.
- 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 the law and it was the Minister who introduced it. I am pointing out what the law is and before it was changed, people from the Gaeltacht elected the person. My point in regard to RAPID is that if LCDCs, which represent the whole of a city, have responsibility for these matters, we do not get the focused, concentrate input that is needed from the people who live in highly...