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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 78 and 102 together. Compliance with our 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target is a serious challenge but Ireland will comply; compliance is not an option, it is binding under EU law. While the priority i s to secure compliance based on actual greenhouse gas emission reductions , in the event that adequate mitigation measures cannot be mobilised in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment Issues (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: Castletownbere Sewerage Scheme was included in my Department’s Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013as a scheme to advance through planning during the life of the programme. A Preliminary Report for the Scheme was submitted by Cork County Council to my Department in July 2010. Further information was sought by my Department from Cork County Council in March 2011. Cork...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: I recently published both the National Policy Positionon Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development,and the General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Bill. As I have already stated in the reply to Question No. (25452/14, lottery 12) on today’s Order Paper, the National Policy Position provides high-level policy direction on adoption and implementation by...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Water Services Act 2013 provided for the establishment of Irish Water and assigned the company the necessary powers to allow it to undertake the water metering programme. Of the estimated 1.35m domestic properties connected to public water supplies, approximately 300,000 properties will not be metered as part of the current phase, due to the cost or technical difficulty of doing so....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 83, 97 and 103 together. The Pyrite Resolution Board commenced accepting applications from eligible homeowners for inclusion in the pyrite remediation scheme on 26 February 2014. As matters stand, the Board has received in the order of 500 completed applications and these are currently being processed. Each application must first be validated by the Board...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Policy (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Taoiseach launched the CEDRA report in April 2014. There are 34 recommendations in total which are broken into three broad categories covering Governance and Co-ordination, the Centrality of the Regional and Local Dimensions and Facilitating Economic and Community Participation. Full details of the recommendations are available on my Department’s website . The report’s...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 78, on today’s Order Paper, which sets out the position on compliance with our greenhouse gas emissions target. Regarding improved waste management, Ireland’s national waste policy is predicated on the waste hierarchy as set out in the Waste Framework Directive and aims to minimise the generation of waste, extract the maximum value from waste...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Incidence (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: A report on problems with the cracking of concrete blocks used in the construction of two local authority estates in Mayo was submitted to my Department by Mayo County Council in late October 2013. Subsequently the Council notified my Department that two houses in another estate may also be affected; it is understood that 17 houses in the three estates are affected by the cracking in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: Bord Gáis Eireann (BGE) had responsibility for most of the deliverables under the Government water sector reform implementation strategy. BGE developed a detailed programme initiation document within the framework of this strategy, which outlined all of the tasks required to establish a fully functioning integrated public water utility and provided this to my Department in August 2012....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides that Irish Water can collect charges from customers in receipt of water services provided by it. The Act also provides that responsibility for the independent economic regulation of the water sector is assigned to the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) and the CER has been given statutory responsibility for protecting the interests of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Water Services (No. 2) Act provided for the transfer of responsibility for public water services from the local authorities to Irish Water. Section 7 of the Act provides for the transfer of functions conferred on the local authorities by the Water Services Act 2007 to Irish Water, insofar as those functions relate to public water services. Accordingly, Irish Water has the necessary powers...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Water Services Act 2013 provides for the establishment of Irish Water as an independent subsidiary within the Bord Gáis Éireann Group, which conforms to the conditions set out in the Act and is registered under the Companies Acts. The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides for the establishment of an economic regulator for water services within the Commission for Energy...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water is responsible for the delivery of water services capital infrastructure. Irish Water has recently published its Proposed Capital Investment Plan for 2014 – 2016 and this is available on the Irish Water website, . The further progression of all water services capital projects is now a matter for Irish Water to consider. Irish Water has confirmed to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: RAPID Programme (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: The RAPID programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion in areas covered by the Programme. My Department administers the RAPID Leverage Schemes, which are designed to support small scale projects identified locally by Area Implementation Teams in each of the RAPID areas. Over the past three years I have...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Administration (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Government has indicated an intention to move to 80% retention of all Local Property Tax (LPT) receipts within the local authority area where the tax is raised. The remaining 20% of LPT collected will then be applied to equalise the impact of this level of local retention between local authorities. This year, the establishment of Irish Water presents local government with significant...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: I intend to use my powers under the Water Services (No.2) Act 2013 to issue a Water Charges Policy Direction to the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) in relation to a number of matters rela ting to domestic water charges, including any conditions attached to the Government funding to be provided to Irish Water. As required by the Act, a draft of the policy direction issued to the CER and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Administration (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 428, 433, 442 and 472 together. Effective from 1 July 2014, local authorities may vary the rate of Local Property Tax in their administrative area for the following year by up to 15% of the basic rate of the Tax. The decision must be taken by resolution of the Council and must be notified to the Revenue Commissioners by 30 September in order to apply for the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 431, 461, 463, 464 and 466 together. The proposals outlined in Putting People First - Action Programme for Effective Local Government seek to position local government “as the primary vehicle of governance and public service at local level – leading economic, social and community development, delivering efficient and good value services, and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Leader element of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 has an overall allocation of €250 million. The exact allocation per county will not be determined until after the Local Development Strategy selection process. The draft Rural Development Programme will be submitted by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, the Managing Authority for the Programme, to the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (17 Jun 2014)

Phil Hogan: In line with the ‘bottom-up’ approach to rural development under the Leader elements of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013, there are 35 Local Development Companies (LDCs) contracted, on my Department’s behalf, to deliver the Leader elements of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (RDP) throughout the country. The LDCs are the principal decision makers in...