Results 201-220 of 2,551 for speaker:Pat Carey

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: As I recently advised the Deputy, the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes presented a set of options to reduce expenditure and staff numbers across the public sector. These options were considered by the Government in the context of the 2010 Budget. Gross savings of some €57 million, or almost 12%, were achieved in the 2010 Revised Estimates...

Written Answers — North-South Implementation Bodies: North-South Implementation Bodies (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: My Department supports and co-funds two North/South Implementation Bodies under its remit - Waterways Ireland and An Foras Teanga (comprising Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency /Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch). These Bodies were set up under the British-Irish Agreement Act 1999. My Department has ongoing discussions with its co-sponsor Department in Northern Ireland - the Department...

Written Answers — Offshore Islands: Offshore Islands (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: My Department provides subsidies – costing some €5.7m in 2010 - for a range of transport services to and from the main inhabited islands. These services include passenger, cargo, air and connecting bus services. Details of the various services can be found on my Department's website www.pobail.ie and I am arranging for a copy to be circulated with the Official Report. The number of...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy is aware, in the current economic circumstances, we continue to be faced with difficult decisions. Over the course of the economic downturn, the Government has considered a number of measures to maintain a prudent fiscal outturn for 2009 and 2010 and also to provide the basis for a sustainable approach to the current financial situation. Across Government, our approach has been...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: I welcome the publication of the report outlining the continued extensive work undertaken by the organisation in question in dealing with the drugs problem. Heroin use remains as a major problem in our country. All the indications are that, while the use of heroin is relatively stable in the Dublin region, it has become more widely dispersed around the country, particularly in the major...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department's headquarters are scheduled to decentralise to Charlestown, Co Mayo, under the Decentralisation Programme. To date, a total of 100 staff have relocated to interim accommodation in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo. This number has now reduced to 81 owing to recent reductions in staff numbers and also the transfer of the Rural Social Scheme and Community...

Written Answers — Straitéis Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge: Straitéis Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: Tógfaidh mé Ceisteanna Uimh 58, 83 agus 92 le chéile. Mar is eol do na Teachtaí, tá an dréacht-Straitéis 20 bliain don Ghaeilge foilsithe ag an Rialtas ó dheireadh 2009 agus cuireadh os comhair an Chomhchoiste Oireachtais do Ghnóthaí Turasóireachta Cultúir, Spóirt, Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta í le breithniú. Tuigtear dom go raibh cruinnithe éagsúla ag an...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 59 and 62 together. The Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2007-2013 has funding of €425m available to be allocated to qualifying projects up to the end of 2013. One of the objectives of the RDP is to identify and provide appropriate cultural and leisure facilities to local communities that would not otherwise be available to them. In principle, therefore,...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: In its 2006 Statement on the Irish Language, the Government affirmed its policy to strengthen the Gaeltacht as an Irish-speaking community, with the emphasis being on the transmission of the Irish language to the next generation as a living household language in the Gaeltacht and empowering future generations of young Gaeltacht parents to raise their children through Irish. I am sure that the...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 61 and 75 together. The Dial to Stop Drug Dealing campaign ran in three phases - across 15 Local and Regional Drugs Task Force areas - in 2008 and 2009. To the end of last week, there were almost 8,000 calls made to the confidential line. Calls are spread right across the country, including areas that have not directly run a campaign, which highlights the...

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: The Government is committed to ensuring the economic and social well being of rural communities and to providing the conditions for a meaningful and fulfilling life for all rural dwellers, as part of our key priorities in building an inclusive society and combating poverty. My Department undertakes a range of actions that work to address rural isolation and related social exclusion issues,...

Written Answers — Bóithre Straitéiseacha agus Bóithre Áise: Bóithre Straitéiseacha agus Bóithre Áise (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: Tá soláthar de €2m curtha ar fáil i Meastacháin mo Roinne in 2010 le haghaidh feabhsúcháin sa Ghaeltacht, ar a n-áirítear bóithre straitéiseacha agus áise, muiroibreacha, grúpscéimeanna uisce agus a leithéid a chur i gcrích. Baineann €950,000 den soláthar seo le bóithre áise agus bóithre straitéiseacha. Níl aon chinneadh déanta maidir le soláthar 2011 go fóill.

Written Answers — Údarás na Gaeltachta: Údarás na Gaeltachta (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: Mar is eol don Teachta, tá moratóir i bhfeidhm maidir le líonadh post i ranna agus in áisínteachtaí Stáit i gcoitinne agus, ach an oiread le gach eagras Stáit eile, ní mór d'Údarás na Gaeltachta cloí le téarmaí an mhoratóra agus a chuid acmhainní foirne a bhainistiú dá réir.

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: The RAPID Programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion within designated RAPID areas nationally. It is a matter for individual Departments to report on the provision of funding and progress on delivery with regard to projects under their responsibility in the different RAPID areas. Nevertheless, it is worth...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: The Garda Youth Diversion Programme is administered by the Department of Justice and Law Reform. I understand that the programme operates in, or adjacent to, 50 of the 51 RAPID areas. Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, which was newly designated as a RAPID area in 2009, is the sole exception at this time.

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: The Dormant Accounts Acts provide for an annual transfer by credit institutions and insurance undertakings of monies in accounts determined to be dormant into the Dormant Accounts Fund (DAF). Since its establishment in April 2003, to the end of September 2010, the transfers to the DAF have totalled some €587.5m, which includes interest earned of some €34.4m. Funds reclaimed in that...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: The Deputy will be aware that my Department has, over the past number of years, been pursuing a process of cohesion of local delivery structures in order to simplify and enhance the effectiveness of the delivery of a range of local development programmes. The realignment of local delivery structures has reduced the overall number of local development bodies from 94 to 52, comprising 15 local...

Written Answers — Juvenile Diversion Programmes: Juvenile Diversion Programmes (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 71, 81 and 87 together. With regard to the National Youth Justice Oversight Group, which monitors the progress of the National Youth Justice Strategy 2008-2010, while my Department is represented on the group, the development of juvenile diversion programmes is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Law Reform, and the Garda Síochána....

Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: To date, eight groups have registered to operate the Seniors Alert Scheme in County Kildare. The details requested by the Deputy are set out in the table. Community Group Area of Coverage Evergreens / Clane Senior Citizens Clane / Rathcoffey Lullymore Barnaran Drumsru and Cappanargid Community Alert Lullymore / Barnaran / Drumsru / Cappanargid Maynooth Senior Citizens Committee Maynooth...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (3 Nov 2010)

Pat Carey: The work of the Garda Juvenile Diversion programmes in all areas where they have been established is seen as being important in the context of the National Drugs Strategy, as it makes a significant contribution to the targeting of youth at risk with respect to drug use. I understand that a total of 100 projects are being operated under these programmes - details are available on www.iyjs.ie....