Showing results 21 - 30 of 33 for the category: Voluntary sector.
Cuts to Traveller services
Cuts in social services were an important focus of the Dail in January 2011. Roisin Shortall (Lab, Dublin NW) asked about what she called the damaging impact of the cuts to Traveller education services (Dail Eireann, Debates, 27th January 2011,…
Launch of Tús
The Minister for Social Protection, Eamon O Cuiv, announced the launch on 21st December of the new community work placement initiative, Tús, (Dail Eireann, Debates, 12th January 2011, 378). The minister told Billy Timmins (FG, Wicklow) that it provided 5,000…
New National Economic and Social Council
The Taoiseach announced in the Dail that he had made, on 20th January, fresh appointments to the National Economic and Social Council (Dail Eireann, Debates, 25th January 0211, 460-1)). The appointments for the voluntary and community pillar were Fr Sean…
Funding for community development in 2011
Funding for community development in 2011 ‘No more fancy lunches’ The Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey, was questioned about the levels of funding available for community development in 2011 (Dail Eireann, Debates, 14th December 2011, 13-15,…
Oireachtas Brief §12 December 2010 (1) Budget 2011
Welcome to Oireachtas Brief, the information service for social justice NGOs and voluntary sector activists interested in issues of poverty and social exclusion in the Oireachtas. Oireachtas Brief is provided by The Wheel and the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN)…
Department of Health & Children lottery allocations – second tranche to be allocated
The Minister for Health & Children, Mary Harney, told Noel Grealish (ind, Galway W) that her national lottery allocation for 2010 was €3.786m (Dail Eireann, Debates, 25rd November 2010, 330). So far, €2.637m had been paid out and €1.147m was available…
Community Services Programme, 2011-2013
The Minister Social Protection, Eamon O Cuiv, announced that the majority of community groups providing services under the Community Services Programme had received notifications in recent weeks and he soon hoped to consider proposals for the others (Dail Eireann, Debates,…
Future of funding for national voluntary organizations
The Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey, responded to concerns expressed by Pat Rabbitte (Lab, Dublin SW) and Dan Neville (FG, Limerick W) about the funding of national voluntary organizations, from which 64 had received funding of…
Cuts in voluntary and community sector
On the adjournment of the Dail, Joe Costello (Lab, Dublin C) raised the issue of cuts in the budgets of voluntary and community organizations (Dail Eireann, Debates, 14th October 2010, 645-8). Funding for voluntary and community group was down -8%…
Active citizenship
Asked about the government’s progress on its policy for active citizenship, the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs Pat Carey told the Dail that the steering committee had initiated an audit of community, sports and arts facilities. 32 of…
