Results 1,421-1,440 of 2,551 for speaker:Pat Carey
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (12 Mar 2008)
Pat Carey: I understand that Dublin City Council and Donnycarney Community & Youth Centre (which is funded through the Young Peoples Facilities & Services Fund operated by my Department) have a current lease agreement for a term of 4 years and 9 months. The lease is due to expire on 22nd November 2008 at which point the City Council proposes to offer the group a long-term 22 year lease agreement.
- Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (12 Mar 2008)
Pat Carey: The Community Development Programme provides financial assistance to some 180 Projects nationally. These projects operate local resource centres or provide services aimed at addressing the problems faced by communities caused by poverty and disadvantage. Funded Projects meet the needs of women and children, those with disabilities, the homeless, lone parent families, the elderly, the...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (11 Mar 2008)
Pat Carey: I refer the Deputy to my reply to question number 433 on 19 February 2008.
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (11 Mar 2008)
Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 339 and 340 together. I refer the Deputy to my reply to question number 433 on 19 February 2008.
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (11 Mar 2008)
Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, the Young Peoples Facilities and Services Fund (YPFSF), has until recently, focused on the 14 Local Drugs Task Force areas (12 in Dublin, Bray and Cork), as well as Limerick, Waterford, Carlow and Galway. Recently, I announced that I was expanding the Fund to four additional towns â Athlone, Dundalk, Wexford and Arklow â and arrangements to give effect to...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (5 Mar 2008)
Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 271 and 273 together. I would refer the Deputy to my reply to question number 433 on 19th February 2008.
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (4 Mar 2008)
Pat Carey: I would refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No. 433 on 19 February 2008.
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (4 Mar 2008)
Pat Carey: The Project in question is funded under the Community Development Programme. The Community Development Programme provides financial assistance to some 180 Projects nationally. These projects operate local resource centres or provide services aimed at addressing the problems faced by communities caused by poverty and disadvantage. Funded Projects meet the needs of women and children, those...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (27 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 and 134 together. I refer the Deputy to my reply to question 433 on 19 February 2008.
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (27 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: My Department funds the Programme of Grants for Locally-Based Community and Voluntary Organisations, which supports the activities of local voluntary and community groups. The most recent Programme offered three schemes of once-off grants and applications are assessed under the guidelines and criteria set out for the Programme. The group to which the Deputy refers applied unsuccessfully for...
- Seanad: Drugs Task Forces (27 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: Members will be fully conversant with the background to the establishment of local drugs taskforces, LDTFs, as a result of the Rabbitte report. Staff were seconded to the task forces from the health boards and development workers and other staff were recruited. At the end of the first round, some projects were mainstreamed into Departments and Government agencies. That is the point at...
- Seanad: Drugs Task Forces (27 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: I do not have a copy of it with me.
- Seanad: Drugs Task Forces (27 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: Ideally, I would like everyone to sign up to everything as soon as possible. However, we are anxious not to leave workers, who are dependent on these arrears and on the security of their positions, swinging. We are anxious to resolve the issue, even on a case by case basis.
- Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (26 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: Disbursements from the Dormant Accounts Fund are designed to assist three broad categories of persons: those who are socially or economically disadvantaged; those who are educationally disadvantaged; and persons with a disability. The legislation provides for Government to make decisions on disbursements from the Fund following a transparent process. The 2008 Dormant Accounts Programme is...
- Written Answers — Drugs Rehabilitation Programmes: Drugs Rehabilitation Programmes (26 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 279 and 280 together. Over 230 projects with a treatment and rehabilitation focus were funded through the Local & Regional Drugs Task Forces in 2007 at a cost of approx. â¬16m. Of these, in the region of 150, with expenditure of â¬10m in 2007, are located in the 12 Dublin Local Drug Task Force (LDTF) areas. A further 20 are located in the Bray and Cork LTDF...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (26 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: Research is one of the five pillars of the National Drugs Strategy. The key objective under this pillar is to have valid, timely and comparable data available on the extent of drug misuse in Ireland. In this context, the National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) was established in 2000 to advise Government in relation to the prevalence, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and...
- Written Answers — Drugs Awareness: Drugs Awareness (21 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: As the Deputy will appreciate, the funding of secondary schools is a matter in the first instance for my colleague, Mary Hanafin T.D., Minister for Education & Science. The Department of Education & Science currently provides funding in respect of the Social Personal and Health Education (SPHE) programme at second level, thus ensuring that all school children now receive substance misuse...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (21 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: All appointments to the Dormant Accounts Board are made by myself, in my capacity as Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, in accordance with Section 32 of the Dormant Accounts Acts 2001 to 2005. The Board was established on 4 January 2006 and attached, for the Deputy's information, is a list of the current Board membership. Dormant Accounts Board Membership Name Background...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (21 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: Pursuant to Section 8 of the Charities Act 1961, the members of the board of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland are appointed by the Government, as occasion requires. The board has a full complement of eleven members at present.
- Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (20 Feb 2008)
Pat Carey: Grants in respect of personal alarm systems are available for senior citizens as part of my Department's 'Scheme of Community Support for Older People'. The funding available under the Scheme (maximum amounts) is as follows: â¬300 in respect of the once-off cost of installing a socially monitored alarm system; â¬200 in respect of physical security equipment; â¬200 in respect of security...