Results 41-60 of 2,551 for speaker:Pat Carey
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: The provision of telecommunications services, including broadband services, is a matter in the first instance for private sector service providers operating in a liberalised market regulated by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). Broadband services are provided by private service providers over various platforms including DSL (i.e. over telephone lines), fixed wireless,...
- Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: I can inform the Deputy that the number of semi-State bodies under the remit of my Department is 8. The information requested by the Deputy is reported in each body's published Annual Report. These reports are made available in the library of the Houses of the Oireachtas.
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: The provision of telecommunications services, including broadband services, is a matter in the first instance for private sector service providers operating in a liberalised market regulated by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). Broadband services are provided by private service providers over various platforms including DSL (i.e. over telephone lines), fixed wireless,...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: The arrangements regarding advertising campaigns carried out by bodies under the aegis of my Department are a day-to-day operational matter for the bodies concerned. As the Deputy will be aware, Public Bodies are required to comply with national and EU public procurement rules when procuring goods and services.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: There were no advertising campaigns, to promote any policies or programmes being implemented by my Department, carried out during 2010.
- Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: The details requested by the Deputy are available from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service. However, to be of assistance to the Deputy, my Department has asked the Service to provide the table. The Deputy can also access information on all legislation on the website of the Attorney General via the following link www.irishstatutebook.ie . If the Deputy has questions about a specific...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: I assume that the Deputy is referring to appointments to boards of State bodies under the aegis of my Department. I can inform the Deputy that I have made no appointments to the boards of State bodies under the aegis of my Department between 14th January 2011 and 25th January 2011.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: Payments made to staff in my Department for mileage for each of the years since 2007 are contained in the following table. Year Amount â'¬ 2007 434.229* 2008 158,179 2009 94,946 2010 72,960 2011 to date 395 *The figure for 2007 takes into account expenditure paid in respect of staff who transferred to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food due to the transfer of some...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: There are no civilian drivers employed on behalf of the current Minister of State at my Department. A former Minister of State at my Department, Mr Seán Power, T.D., employed two civilian drivers during his tenure at my Department from May 2008 to April 2009. These drivers were paid a salary of ⬠33,713 and ⬠33,866 respectively for that period. Minister of State Power was paid...
- Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: The number of staff in my Department who availed of maternity and other leave, following the implementation of the embargo on recruitment announced in March 2009, is 65. It is not Departmental policy to fill vacancies created by maternity and other types of leave.
- Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: The total number of full-time equivalents currently employed in my Department is 263. My Department is primarily engaged in policy advice and delivery of professional services. The number of frontline staff is therefore a very small proportion of the overall number referred to above.
- Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: The Deputy will be aware that, on 28 May 2009, the decision of Government to include Ballina, Co. Mayo, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, and Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, in the RAPID Programme was announced. Including the 5 new areas, there is now a total of 51 designated RAPID areas in the country. Each RAPID area has an Area Implementation Team...
- Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: Table 1 lists the State bodies/agencies funded from my Department's Vote Group, as well as the website address in each case. Table 2 provides similar information in relation to North/South Implementation Bodies co-sponsored by my Department. The annual accounts or financial statements of each body are published annually and laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. Relevant information is...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 487 and 488 together. I assume that the Deputy is referring to advertising campaigns carried out for particular promotional purposes, rather than cases where advertising was used in a standard way to draw the attention of the public to grant or sponsorship schemes. One such campaign was carried out by the Office of the Minister for Drugs, which is a...
- Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: The details sought by the Deputy with respect to Statutory Instruments signed by me, or by my predecessor, in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 are provided in the following table. I am advised that no Statutory Instruments were signed in respect of agencies under the aegis of my Department. Arrangements are being made for any Orders not yet placed before the Houses of Oireachtas to be laid as a...
- Written Answers — Deontais Reáchtála: Deontais Reáchtála (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: Tá soláthar airgid reatha de â¬3.3m curtha ar fáil ag mo Roinnse d'Ãdarás na Gaeltachta i mbliana le caitheamh ar fhorbairt teanga, cultúir agus pobail. Is as an soláthar seo a Ãocann an tÃdarás na deontais reáchtála leis na comharchumainn Ghaeltachta. Tuigim ón Ãdarás nach bhfuil soláthar crÃochnúil do na comharchumainn socraithe fós ach go mbeidh litreacha tairisceana...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: I have made no such appointments during the period referred to by the Deputy. For completeness, however, I should inform the Deputy that my colleague, Mr John Moloney, TD, Minister of State at my Department with responsibility for Disability and Mental Health, appointed Mr James O'Grady to the National Disability Authority on 18 January 2011 at an annual rate of remuneration of â¬5,985....
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: All payments made to staff in my Department for use of private cars for official travel are in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines and procedures. The payments made in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and to date in 2011, are set out in the table. The amount shown for 2010 includes payments made in respect of staff transferred into my Department on foot of the reconfiguration of...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware, Ministers of State are paid expenses towards the usage for official purposes of their private cars and, in this regard, can engage two civilian drivers, who work on a week on/week off rota. Details requested in relation to drivers employed on behalf of Ministers of State by my Department since 2007 are set out in Table 1. TABLE 1 Minister of State Civilian...
- Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (25 Jan 2011)
Pat Carey: I am advised that it is not the practice in the public service to recruit staff to fill positions where an officer has gone on maternity leave or another similar type of leave. The undertaking and covering of work arising from such absences is met from within existing resources.