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Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Comhtháthú.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom, ar dtús báire, buíochas a ghabháil le chuile dhuine a ghlac páirt sa díospóireacht. I thank everybody who took part in the debate. I will briefly deal with some of the valid points raised. A point was raised in regard to Inch Island. Islands connected to the mainland by bridges present a challenge. My constituency is the greatest beneficiary if one counts the islands...

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are not connected by bridges to the mainland so they are not considered in this context. We define as islands those cut off by the tide once a day in a normal tide. They must have a permanent population and not be in the ownership of one person. The legislation allows us to make the definition so if, for example, the causeway to Inch Island gets washed away, we can define it as an...

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We did away with the means testing of remote area grants and increased them substantially. Since I became Minister, thanks to the support of the Minister for Education and Science and his predecessors, secondary schools now exist on Tory Island and Inishmaan. We have also helped with the provision of health services. There are doctors on the three most populated islands, Inisheer, Inishmaan...

Seanad: Order of Business. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tuigeann siad "airgead" iontach maith. I doubt there were more than three words in the speech which were not easily understandable. We have a policy of writing i gcaint na ndaoine – in the way ordinary people speak Irish. However, if there is a technical concept which has to be explained, it is only right to encourage the import or creation of terms which match the new words coming into the...

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (10 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Senators for their co-operation in bringing this Bill forward and passing it in the House. One of the issues involved was a matter that was ultra vires and which the Bill will regularise. With regard to infrastructure, it should be recognised that there have been significant improvements. My view is that one of the problems was that infrastructure was always built from the centre...

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Powers and Functions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (10 Dec 2003)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would not do it at all now. I would have to find some other way of doing it. I do not wish to bore Senators, but all languages have words and phrases that are borrowed from other languages. For example, in Irish we use the words buneagar, bunstruchtúr and infreastruchtúr. We should be relatively careful in decrying such borrowing because words like café and rapporteur are now considered...

Written Answers — Countryside Access: Countryside Access (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have decided to establish a countryside council, to be called "Comhairle na Tuaithe", which will address issues relating to waymarked ways and access to land. This decision follows consideration by the rural-agri-tourism advisory group of a report presented recently by the consultation group on access to waymarked ways, which I established last April. The establishment of a countryside...

Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department has reviewed its statutory instruments for compliance with the requirements of Bunreacht na hÉireann in the light of the recent High Court judgment concerning the Immigration Act 1999, and I can advise the Deputy that there are no orders made in my Department of the type to which he refers.

Written Answers — EU Presidency: EU Presidency (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: First, I wish to confirm the information I have already given to the House on a number of occasions during the past year in response to questions concerning my Department's plans to contribute to the promotion of Ireland's Presidency of the EU, viz., that our programme comprises the following events: a conference on territorial Cohesion (formerly islands) in Galway on 25 to 27 May 2004; a...

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department does not have any restaurants and the canteen facilities are provided on the basis that staff provide their own food.

Written Answers — Departmental Travel: Departmental Travel (3 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The amount paid by my Department in 2003 for car mileage expenses was €246,397. The amount paid to cover rail and bus expenses was €7,481.

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (10 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The issue raised by the Deputy about plans to upgrade, refurbish and utilise the Grand Canal from Harold's Cross Bridge, Dublin, to Cherry Orchard, Dublin, is the day-to-day responsibility of Waterways Ireland, a North-South implementation body for inland waterways, set up under the British-Irish Agreement Act 1999. Waterways Ireland informs me that in partnership with Dublin City Council it...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (10 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 460 and 461 together. Sherkin Island Development Society — SIDS — Limited has received funding under the community development programme since 1997. This funding primarily allows the project to employ a development officer and an administrative assistant, in addition to covering administrative costs and overheads associated with maintaining a premises. My...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (10 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my response to Questions Nos. 151, 153, 156, 163, 172, 173 and 185 on 4 February 2004.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (10 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Questions Nos. 338, 343 and 345 of 12 February 2003. The expenditure for media purposes and advertising placed by my Department and its predecessor, the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, in 2002 and by my Department in 2003 was as follows: Brindley Advertising holds the Government contract for advertising in the print media, mainly for...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (17 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy will be aware that my Department was established in June 2002. Details of cost overruns on contracts funded or co-funded by my Department since that time are set out in the attached tabular statement. With regard to marine projects, practical arrangements, including options for fixed tender prices and price variation clauses are in place to manage costs, where appropriate, arising...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (17 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy will, of course, be aware that my Department was established in June 2002. The information requested by the Deputy as regards reports, consultancies or other advisory commissions awarded or continued by my Department since its establishment in June 2002 are set out in the attached appendix. Having regard to their technical, specialised nature or financial sensitivity, publication...

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (17 Feb 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Deputy will be aware one of the functions of Waterways Ireland, a North-South Implementation body established under the British-Irish Agreement Act 1999, is to examine the possible restoration of the Ulster Canal. A study was commissioned which estimated the cost of the restoration of the full canal at approximately £90 million sterling based on 2000 costs. At this time, no decision...

Written Answers — Údarás na Gaeltachta: Údarás na Gaeltachta (30 Mar 2004)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom a mheabhrú don Teachta go bhfuil an fhreagracht ar Údarás na Gaeltachta maidir le diúscairt a mhaoine féin, faoi réir rialacháin an Stáit agus na hEorpa. Sa chás áirithe seo, bunaithe ar an eolas is deireanaí atá curtha ar fáil ag Údarás na Gaeltachta dom, tuigim go bhfuarthas 11 tairiscint i leith thithe saoire Eanach Mheáin. Cuireadh luach gach ceann...