Results 12,341-12,360 of 12,487 for speaker:John O'Donoghue
- Tourism Industry. (25 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: ââbut it would not come within the remit of my Department. Without being short with Deputies, they should put down a question to the Minister with responsibility for this, the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources.
- St. Patrick's Festival. (25 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No. 143 of 6 April 2004, which referred to the disturbances which occurred in the aftermath of the St. Patrick's Festival last March. In the newspaper article to which the Deputy refers, I referred to the scenes of public drunkenness, saying visitors tend to avoid such occasions, but I qualified my remarks by indicating that Ireland compared...
- St. Patrick's Festival. (25 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: The festival company will liaise closely with the Garda to ensure incidents similar to the thuggish incidents which occurred during and after the festival do not occur. I understand the position will be closely monitored and I assure the Deputy that every effort will be made to ensure that disruption is eliminated.
- St. Patrick's Festival. (25 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: St. Patrick's Day has traditionally been on 17 March and I would no more attempt to change that date than change the date of Christmas Day. On Deputy Deenihan's question, there has been a fairly significant fall-off in public order offences. Naturally the Government is anxious that such offences are stamped out completely.
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (18 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: The 2004 national lottery funded sports capital programme was advertised in the national newspapers on 30 November and 1 December 2003. The closing date for receipt of applications was 16 January 2004. A total of 1,304 applications were received before the deadline. They were evaluated against the programme's assessment criteria, that were outlined in the guidelines, terms and conditions. On...
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (18 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: My Department operates the business expansion scheme for the music industry. Details of the scheme are in section 496(8) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. The Finance Act 1996 broadened the scheme to include investment in qualifying musical recordings and the Finance Act 2004 extended it to the end of 2006. The tax incentive scheme allows an individual to obtain income tax relief on...
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (18 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: The national lottery funded sports capital programme allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. It is advertised on an annual basis. A review of the programme was completed at the end of 1998. Since then every application for funding each year is treated on its merits and evaluated against detailed assessment...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (18 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: My Department approved grant aid of â¬1,500,000 for the development of an arts and resource centre in Castleblayney. To date payment has not been made because a legal framework is still being worked out between my Department's legal advisors and solicitors for the project. Payment will commence without delay once the outstanding legal issues have been resolved.
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (18 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 278 to 280, inclusive, together. The national lottery funded sports capital programme allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. It is advertised on an annual basis. A review was completed at the end of 1998. Since then applications for funding each year have been evaluated against...
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (18 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: The national lottery funded sports capital programme is administered by my Department. It allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. It is advertised on an annual basis. My Department evaluates applications in accordance with published assessment criteria. To obtain an assessment score applicants must meet basic...
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (18 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: My Department administers the national lottery funded sports capital programme. It allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. It is advertised on an annual basis. The closing date for receipt of applications under the 2001 sports capital programme, and indeed for the 1999 and 2000 programmes prior to that, was early...
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (13 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 136 to 138, inclusive, together. The 2004 national lottery-funded sports capital programme was advertised in the national newspapers on 30 November and 1 December 2003. The deadline for receipt of applications was 5 p.m. on 16 January 2004. A total of 1,304 applications were certified as having been received before that deadline and these were evaluated...
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (13 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: Decisions on the allocations of funding under the 2004 sports capital programme were finalised late last week with a view to publication of the complete list of successful applicants on the Department's website on Friday. Arrangements were also made for the simultaneous release of information to national and local media. Unfortunately it took somewhat longer than had been anticipated to...
- Written Answers — Property Acquisitions: Property Acquisitions (4 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: My Department has had no discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition by purchase or leasehold of the property in question.
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (4 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: The 2004 sports capital programme was advertised in the national newspapers on 30 November and 1 December 2003. The closing date for receipt of applications was 16 January 2004. A total of 1,304 applications were received before the closing date, including one from the organisation in question. All applications are currently being evaluated against the programme's assessment criteria, which...
- Written Answers — Arts Council: Arts Council (4 May 2004)
John O'Donoghue: I have no powers to direct the Arts Council, as suggested by the Deputy.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
John O'Donoghue: No debate on the proposed referendum on citizenship would be complete without an examination of the historical record. In this respect I wish to refer to the laws enacted, measures adopted and structures put in place when I was Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 1997 to 2002. When I became Minister in 1997 I inherited an immigration and asylum service which was completely...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
John O'Donoghue: Additionally, the administrative structures were in a state of chaos. A mere handful of staff was working on thousands of applications which had built up over previous years. During its period in Government, the rainbow coalition produced the Refugee Act 1996. The 1996 Act was woefully inadequate and hopelessly flawed. The result was that the backlogââ
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
John O'Donoghue: ââof applications for asylum continued to rise. There should be no surprise about this. The rainbow coalition did not know what to do about the asylum problem and accordingly did what it did best, nothing. I proceeded to put in place a modern, up-to-date legislative and administrative framework ââ
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
John O'Donoghue: ââfor the procession of asylum applications. This included the Immigration Act 1999, which introduced provisions for the effective processing of applications for refugee status; the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, a new independent statutory agency to decide on asylum applications; the Office of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, a second independent statutory agency to decide...