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Friday 1 December 2000 Private Consultancy Firms Dr O’Hagan asked the Minister of Finance and Personnel if he will detail the amounts paid to private consultancy firms to carry out consultations since 1995 and if he will give a breakdown by (a) year and (b) Department. (AQW 436/00) The Minister of Finance and Personnel (Mr Durkan) [holding answer 14 November 2000]: The expenditure on external consultants by Northern Ireland Departments and the Northern Ireland Office since the 1995/96 financial year is as follows:
Notes: 1. No figures are available yet for the financial year 2000/01. 2. Figures for 1999/00 are not available in the new departmental structure and have been provided on the departmental basis of the previous administration. Biodiversity Indicator Mr Ford asked the Minister of Finance and Personnel if he will include a biodiversity indicator among the macro indicators listed under the Environment Priority of the Transitional Objective 1 Operational Programme. (AQW 682/00) Mr Durkan: Under the Environment Priority of the Transitional Objective 1 Operational Programme there is a proposed allocation of 33 meuro - of which only 3 meuro is for environmental actions which include the promotion of biodiversity. Given the difficulty in measuring biodiversity within the Priority, it has been decided not to include this as a macro indicator. In assessing the impact of environmental actions across both Operational Programmes within the CSF consideration is being given to the inclusion of parameters measuring, amongst other things, biodiversity as part of a number of macro indicators. I have appointed representatives of independent environmental bodies as permanent members of the Monitoring Committees, which will oversee the work of all European Programmes. Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust Mr Dodds asked the Minister of Finance and Personnel if he will detail those ex-prisoner groups to which the Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust allocated European Union and Government funding in each of the last five years. (AQW 707/00) Mr Durkan: The ex-prisoner groups allocated funding by the Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust under the European Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (the Peace I Programme) and the Northern Ireland Single Programme (Physical and Social Environment Programme) in each of the last five years are listed below. This is based on information provided by NIVT. The list also includes allocations to organisations which are not ex-prisoner groups but which have funded projects for ex-prisoner groups. 1995-96 EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre Linc Resource CentreTar Anall Linc Resource Centre Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement (Shankill) West Belfast Community Festival (Féile an Phobail) 1996-97 Probation Board for NI Upper Springfield Development Trust Amber House Ulster Community Action Network Ar Ais Arís Cairde Strabane Republican Ex-Prisoners Group Committee on the Administration of Justice Community of the Peace People Cumann Na Meirleach Ard Mhacha Theas Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre Eastway Community Fitness Suite Fermanagh Prisoners Dependants Association Linc Resource Centre Prison Arts Foundation Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement (Shankill) Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement East Belfast Prisoners Enterprise Project (South Belfast) Tar Abhaile Tar Anall Tar Anall - Iúr Cinn Trá Teach na Failte (Prisoners & Defendants Welfare Assoc) The Welfare Unit (Maze Prison) Trá Ghearr Prisoner’s Group Ulster Quaker Service Committee West Belfast Community Festival (Féile an Phobail) Ar Ais Arís Coalisland Allottment Association Prisoners Aid Post Conflict Resettlement North Belfast West Belfast Community Festival (Féile an Phobail) 1997-98 New Lodge Forum Cumann Na Meirleach Ard Mhacha Theas EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre Trá Ghearr Prisoners Support Group Cairde Strabane Republican Ex-Prisoners Group Glencairn People’s Project INTERCOMM (Inter Community Development Project) Innis Toide Crafts Ltd Larne Co-operative Enterprise Development Linc Resource Centre Lisburn Prisoners Support Project Mourne Workshop Trust Newtownabbey Prisoners Resettlement Group Phoenix Drama Society Prison Fellowship (Northern Ireland) Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement East Belfast Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement Group Prisoners Aid Post Conflict Resettlement North Belfast Prisoners Enterprise Project (South Belfast) Tar Abhaile Tar Anall Tar Anall - Iúr Cinn Trá The Welfare Unit (Maze Prison) Ulster Prisoners’ Aid Ulster Quaker Service Committee Female Republican Prisoners in Maghaberry Prison Fermanagh Prisoners Dependants Association Newtownabbey Prisoners Resettlement Group 1998-99 Highfield Community Advice Centre New Lodge Forum Tar Anall Innis Toide Crafts Ltd Educational Trust (N.I.) Linc Resource Centre Trá Ghearr/BIFHE Programme Coiste na n-larchimí Ard Eoin Amach Agus Isteach EPIC NORTH Fermanagh Prisoners Dependants Association Gae Lairn Project, Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlemen Larne Associated Enterprise Development (L.A.E.D.) Linc Resource Centre Mediation Resource Centre New Lodge Forum Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement (Shankill) Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement East Belfast Prisoners’ Aid Networking Group Support for Non-Aligned Prisoner (SNAP) Tar Anall - Iúr Cinn Trá The Welfare Unit (Maze Prison) An Eochair Ex-Prisoner Support Group Ar Ais Arís Ard Eoin Amach Agus Isteach EPIC (North Ulster Branch) EPIC (Mid Ulster Branch) EPIC EAST EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre GOITSE Gae Lairn Project, Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlemen Highfield Prisoners in Partnership Law Centre (NI) Lisburn Prisoners Support Project Monkstown Community Resource Centre Prisoners Aid Post Conflict Resettlement North Belfast Ulster Quaker Service Committee Venture International Tar Abhaile Tar Anall Cumann Na Meirleach Ard Mhacha Theas 1999-00 Áras Tar Abhaile Cumann Na Meirleach Ard Mhacha Theas EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre Linc Resource Centre Lisburn Prisoners Support Project Monkstown Community Resource Centre Tar Anall Trá Ghearr Prisoners’ Group Tús Nua (Upper Springfield Development Trust) Coiste na n-larchimí Cúnamh, Tar Abhaile, Donegal Republican Ex-Prisoners Group ECOM/MENTOR Fountain Street Community Association Larne Associated Enterprise Development (L.A.E.D.) Prison Arts Foundation Tí Chulainn An Eochair Ex-Prisoner Support Group EPIC (South Belfast) EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre Highfield Prisoners in Partnership Lisburn Prisoners Support Project Media Training Services/PANG Newtownabbey Prisoners Resettlement Group Prison Arts Foundation Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement (Shankill) Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement East Belfast Tar Abhaile Tar Isteach Ulster Prisoners’ Aid Ar Ais Ar An Ómaigh Caaaa Ar Ais Arís Ard Eoin Amach Agus Isteach Cairde Strabane Republican Ex-Prisoners Group Coiste na n-larchimí Cumann Na Meirleach Ard Mhacha Theas EPIC (East Ulster) EPIC (Mid Ulster Branch) EPIC EAST EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre EPIC WEST BELFAST EXPAC (Ex-Prisoners Assistance Committee) Fermanagh Prisoners Dependants Association Gae Lairn Project, Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement Glencairn People’s Project GOITSE Highfield Prisoners in Partnership Inner East Youth Project Linc Resource Centre Lisburn Prisoners Support Project Magilligan Family Centre - NIACRO Newtownabbey Prisoners Resettlement Group Ógánaigh le Chéile Portadown Irish Prisoners Group Prisoners Aid Post Conflict Resettlement North Belfast Prisoners Enterprise Project (South Belfast) Tar Abhaile Tar Anall Tar Anall - Iúr Cinn Trá Teach na Fáilte (Prisoners & Defendants Welfare Assoc) Ulster Prisoners’ Aid Gae Lairn Project, Prisoners Aid & Post Conflict Resettlement Prisoners Enterprise Project (South Belfast) The Greater St James’ Ex-Prisoners Association U.D.A. Prisoners Victims of Violence Mr Dodds asked the Minister of Finance and Personnel if he will detail what funding was allocated from (a) European Union and (b) other funds, to projects and groups associated with victims of violence in each of the last five years. (AQW 708/00) Mr Durkan: The Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust (NIVT) is the Intermediary Funding Body responsible for selecting the victims of violence projects funded under the European Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (the Peace I Programme) and the Northern Ireland Single Programme (Physical and Social Environment Programme). The following table shows the amount of EU and Government funding allocated by NIVT to victims of violence groups under each Programme over the last five years. In addition, over £6·25 million has also been allocated through the Victims Liaison Unit (Northern Ireland Office) for a series of initiatives to support the needs of victims in line with the themes of Sir Kenneth Bloomfield’s report ‘We Will Remember Them’. The allocation and administration of this funding is a matter for the NIO, and any further information relating to this element of funding for victims would need to be obtained directly from them. It should be noted that victims of violence groups also have access to funding from other sources such as private trusts, local and national charities and the Lottery but this information is not held by Departments.
Peace I: Job Creation Dr O’Hagan asked the Minister of Finance and Personnel if he will detail (a) the number of jobs created as a consequence of the delivery of the European Union Special Support Programme Peace and Reconciliation (EUSSPPR) by intermediate funding agencies by electoral ward and parliamentary constituency and (b) the level of EUSSPPR finance awarded to the creation of jobs by electoral ward and parliamentary constituency, (AQW 709/00) Mr Durkan: The information provided in the following tables has been extracted from the monitoring database established for the European Union Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (Peace I). The information contained in the Peace I monitoring database is supplied by projects via funding bodies on an ongoing basis. The tables are wholly based on the information received from these funding bodies at a given point in time and are, therefore, subject to change. The background notes outline the assumptions used to generate the information and the definitions on which the information is based. European Union Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation Table Showing by Electoral Ward (A) Jobs Funded Within Projects;(B) Jobs Generated By Projects; and (C) Funding Awarded Under Employment Measures.
Budget: Transferred Matters Mr Paisley Jnr asked the Minister of Finance and Personnel to detail what representations he has made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in advance of the UK Budget and to clarify what impact it will have on transferred matters. (AQW 779/00) Mr Durkan: The First Minister and the Deputy First Minister submitted a number of tax proposals for next year’s UK Budget on behalf of the Northern Ireland Departments, including the Department of Finance and Personnel, in November. This was also an opportunity to restate the Executive’s concern over the high level of fuel excise duty. The Pre-Budget Report which outlines the next stage of reforms on which the Chancellor will be consulting in the run-up to next year’s Budget contains a number of tax and expenditure measures which will be of benefit to many groups in Northern Ireland. In a wide-ranging statement the Chancellor announced additional support for pensioners, deprived areas, small businesses, farmers, and the road haulage industry. Referral Dental Officer Mr Leslie asked the Minister of Finance and Personnel to detail how many applications for the position of Referral Dental Officer (job reference SB/85/00) have been received by the Department in (a) the English language and (b) the Irish language. (AQO 375/00) Mr Durkan: The Recruitment Service has received six applications in the English language and none in the Irish language. |
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