O'Dowd, Fergus

Tuesday, 27 May 2003

Dáil Eireann Debate
Vol. 567 No. 5

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Priority Questions. - National Drugs Strategy.

Asked the minister: the actions he intends to take following the recent report from the National Advisory Committee on Drugs on the prevalence of opiate abuse here; the strategy he intends to adopt; and the changes he wi...More Button

While I welcome the results of the survey of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs, is it not a fact that last week a 16 year old boy was declared by the High Court to be in real danger on the stre...More Button

I put it to the Minister that there is no space available for people under 18 in respite care. That is a disgrace and it is a shame that the Minister of State's policy in government—More Button

Will the Minister of State comment on the statement by Tony Geoghegan, the director of the Merchant's Quay Project in Dublin, that the Government's policies lack flexibility and vision, that there sho...More Button

Priority Questions. - Local Area Partnerships.

Asked the minister: if he will reconsider the recent unnegotiated changes in the system of funding partnerships from multiannual funding to year-on-year funding, in view of the fact that in many cases plans are already i...More Button

I am unhappy with Minister's response because the partnership companies will tell him, through PLANET, their organisation in Wexford, that there is a shortfall of over €2.2 million in their budgets. I...More Button

I repeat that the facts are that the partnerships' budgeting is multiannual, and the Minister knows that.More Button

I am not talking about the Minister's budget, which is annual, but the partnerships were budgeting on multiannual funding. They spent approximately €400,000 before Christmas and the remainder of the €...More Button

Written Answers. - Partnership Companies.

Asked the minister: the action he will now take to assist Drogheda Partnership which faces budget losses of between ?30,000 and ?40,000 due to changes in multi-annual funding.More Button


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