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Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (8 Dec 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Section 8(43)(1) provides that the Minister must follow a detailed process which includes going to Government regarding schemes and programmes. That provision is included because not all these programmes will be relevant to a particular Minister's Department. Some will relate to the Department of Education and Science and others may relate to the Department of Health and Children. For...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (8 Dec 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Senators are not looking at it in its totality. If one examines section 43 of the principal Act, the amendments will not allow me to do what Senator Ryan is proposing. Section 43(1) states: "After consulting with the appropriate Ministers, the Minister shall, ... submit to the Government for their approval, with or without amendment, a proposal concerning the programmes or types of...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (8 Dec 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If one goes through all the hoops and yet the Government believes it has not adhered to these criteria, one has to go back and do it correctly. The Government would want good reason for doing so. The Government rather than the Minister makes the ultimate decision because three or four Ministers could be involved. There is no way it can be done outside the terms of the plan, as it would be...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (8 Dec 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I oppose the amendment.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (8 Dec 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The effect of this amendment is to delete section 10 of the Bill. Section 10 is consequential to the board's chain regarding decision making in that it moves the accountability of the chairperson to the Public Accounts Committee for decisions under disbursements made by the former board. Removal of this section would create an anomaly whereby the board would no longer make decisions on...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (8 Dec 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This amendment would apply the Freedom of Information Act to all aspects of the administration of the board under this Bill and the principal Act. Following the enactment of this legislation, the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act will apply with regard to the operation of Departments involved in the process of receiving and assessing applications for assistance from the dormant...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (8 Dec 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghlacadh leis na Seanadóirí ar fad as ucht an pháirt bhríomhar a ghlacadar sa díospóireacht. Ta súil agam go bhfuil an Bille níos fearr anois ó tá roinnt leasaithe déanta ann. Rinne mé iarracht éisteacht lena moltaí agus tá súil agam nuair a achtófar an Bille go bhfeidhmneofar go cothrom agus go cuíé. I thank Senators for their useful and robust...

Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No additional costs arise from my Department in the implementation of this statutory instrument. My Department consulted the public bodies primarily affected by this order, namely Ordnance Survey Ireland and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. I am advised that no significant additional costs arise for Ordnance Survey Ireland. As the Deputy will be aware, the...

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 601 to 606, inclusive, and 613 together. Current policy on rural development is set out in the White Paper on rural development, Ensuring the Future, published in 1999. Over five years later, while there has been significant change in rural areas and indeed throughout the country, the vision of the long-term future of Irish rural society articulated in the...

Written Answers — Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003: Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003 (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá ocht n-ordú logainmneacha déanta agam go dtí seo faoi fhorálacha Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003. Clúdaíonn na horduithe sin ainmneacha na n-aonad riaracháin sna ceantair Ghaeltachta móide ainmneacha na n-aonad riaracháin i sé chontae eile. Tá na horduithe seo go léir ar fáil ar shuíomh Idirlín na Roinne Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta www.pobail.ie. Tugann na...

Written Answers — Rural Social Scheme: Rural Social Scheme (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The scheme, the details of which were announced in May 2004, accepted its first participants in July 2004 and the numbers have been increasing steadily since then. Substantial progress has been made in this time. There are 1,026 participants on the rural social scheme. I expect the participant numbers will continue to increase and that all 2,500 places will be availed of by early this year.

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The State, semi-State, State-sponsored and statutory bodies under the aegis of my Department that are not subject to the Freedom of Information Acts are the National Advisory Committee on Drugs, An Foras Teanga, Arramara Teoranta, the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursement Board and Waterways Ireland. Proposals are being developed in the Department of Finance in the context of plans to extend the...

Written Answers — Coimisiún Craolacháin na hÉireann: Coimisiún Craolacháin na hÉireann (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Rinne Coimisiún Craolacháin na hÉireann suirbhé le déanaí chun leibhéal spéise an aosa óig timpeall na tíre i gcláir raidió trí mheán na Gaeilge a thomhas. Bhí an suirbhé comh-mhaoinithe ag an gcoimisiún, ag mo Roinn féin agus ag Foras na Gaeilge. D'fhoilsigh Coimisiún Craolacháin na hÉireann torthaí an tsuirbhé sin ar 20 Eanáir 2005 agus tá i gceist agam na torthaí...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The road in question has been examined by officials of my Department. An estimate for repairs to the road has been obtained from Mayo County Council and the application will be taken into consideration with other cases when funding is next being allocated.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In my response to Question No. 40 on 14 December 2004 and to previous questions in the matter, I set out the facts in regard to the grant paid to this company. The position remains unchanged.

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (26 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No non-Civil Service appointments have been made by me, in my Department, since the Cabinet reshuffle in September 2004.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Jan 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to advise the Deputy that two credit cards are used in my Department for official business purposes as appropriate. Credit cards have been issued to my private secretary and to the private secretary of the Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern. Since June 2002, approximately 90 transactions have been recorded against the two credit cards. It should be noted that all bank statements...

Written Answers — Community Schemes: Community Schemes (1 Feb 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Some €45.7 million is provided in my Department's Vote for the local development social inclusion programme to support local development social inclusion measures. Funding is allocated to partnerships and community groups to deliver the local development social inclusion programme under three measures — services for the unemployed, community based youth initiatives and community...

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (1 Feb 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I 2001, ar iarratas ó mo Roinnse, chuir Comhairle Chontae Dhún na nGall réamh-thuarascáil ar fáil maidir le forbairt na saoráidí calaíochta ag Rannach, Oileán Árainn Mhór. Moladh dhá rogha sa tuarascáil sin — síneadh 30 méadar a chur leis an gcé atá ann faoi láthair ar chostas €1.5 milliúin nó síneadh 65 meadar a chur léi ar chostas €3 milliúin. Dheimhnigh an...

Written Answers — Scéim na mBóithre Áise: Scéim na mBóithre Áise (1 Feb 2005)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá iarratas faighte ag mo Roinn ar chúnamh le haghaidh caoi a chur ar bhóthar chontae an Bhaile Ard ar Oileán Árann Mhóir. Déanfar an t-iarratas seo a mheas i gcomhthéacs an tsoláthair atá ar fáil dom le caitheamh faoi chlár oibre na n-oileán 2005 agus na n-éileamh éagsúil ar an soláthar sin.