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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Inspections (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 499 and 528 together. The Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012 assigns responsibility to the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to make a National Inspection Plan for domestic wastewater treatment systems. The National Inspection Plan 2013: Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systemswas adopted and published by the EPA in February 2013. The Plan provided for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides for the transfer of water services functions from the 34 water services authorities to Irish Water. Under the legislation, Irish Water now has the powers previously held by local authorities in relation to the takeover of Group Water Schemes and this means that Irish Water may acquire by agreement a waterworks or waste water works, but subject...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Noise Pollution Legislation (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Programme for Governmentincludes a commitment to take further steps to address noise pollution, inter alia, through the introduction of fixed payment notices (also known as on-the-spot fines).  The development of new noise legislation by my Department is being considered in the context of this commitment. However, as indicated in the Government’s Legislation Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 502 and 544 together. Capital expenditure on public water and wastewater schemes was provided through various Water Services Investment Programmes, copies of which are in the Oireachtas library. Details of capital expenditure recouped to Cavan County Council from 1997 to 2011 in respect of such schemes is outlined in the following table. Table: WSIP...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Government expects to respond to the recommendations in the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution to give citizens resident outside the State and citizens resident in Northern Ireland the right to vote in Presidential elections before the end of the current Dáil session.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: As part of the Producer Responsibility Initiative (PRI) Review, my Department published a report on waste tyres in November 2013, which concluded that the current system is not functioning as intended, with a lack of basic information, poor structure, poor environmental outcomes in the form of large stockpiles of waste tyres and somewhere between 24% - 50% of waste tyres unaccounted for. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: Pursuant to the EU Effort-Sharing Decision of 2009 ( Decision No. 406/2009/EC), Ireland has ambitious, legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for each year between 2013 and 2020 inclusive. Under the Decision, emissions in the year 2013 should be no more than the average of those same emissions in the years 2008 to 2010.  In the year 2020, the target is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: With charges effective from 1 October 2014 Irish Water is in the process of compiling the relevant data to ensure that customers can be billed accurately based on the tariff structure approved by the CER. Irish Water has sent application packs to approximately 2 million households, which refer to the effective charging date and the fact that billing for domestic customers in receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Programme Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 has provided significant financial resources to rural communities all over Ireland. Along with the direct support for economic activity in rural areas, the Programme has increasingly provided support for community activity which ensures the maintenance of vibrant communities that are a critical component of a healthy rural economy. Funding under the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Yield (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 508 and 509 together. Audited local authority financial data for 2013 is not yet available. Data relating to the water charges collected by the local authorities in 2012 was published in the Local Government Audit Service Activity Report 201 4 . This report is available on my Department’s website at the following link:

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 511 and 512 together. With effect from 1 January 2014, Irish Water is responsible for public water services. The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides that Irish Water shall collect charges from its customers in receipt of water services provided by it. The Act also provides that responsibility for the independent economic regulation of the water sector...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff Remuneration (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. The employment terms and conditions for Irish Water staff are a matter for the company and I understand that the particular pay model is something which was inherited from the parent company Ervia and therefore was not...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. I understand from the latest data supplied to my Department by Irish Water that 531 staff have been recruited. Of these, 160 have been recruited from local authorities, 87 from Bord Gáis Éireann (BGE)/Ervia, 5 from...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: The establishment of Irish Water is an integral component of the Government’s water sector reform strategy and involves major organisational change. The establishment of a high performance utility will lead to lower costs and improved services in the future, providing much better outcomes for customers and the environment. Details of Irish Water’s financial forecasts for the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended, provides the legislative basis for the Non-Principal Private Residence Charge. The NPPR Charge, which has since been discontinued, applied in the years 2009 to 2013 to any residential property in which the owner did not reside as their normal place of residence. Under section 77 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Water Framework Directive establishes a common framework for the protection of inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and groundwater. The overall aim of the Directive is to maintain high and good status waters where they exist and to restore waters that do not currently support aquatic ecosystems adequately. River basin management planning, structured in 6-year...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: Since 1 January 2014 Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels including the delivery of water services capital infrastructure. Irish Water has published its proposed Capital Investment Plan (CIP) 2014-2016 and this is available online at . The CIP sets out details of Irish Water’s...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the purchase of existing local authority houses, which will be open to local authority tenants in receipt of social housing support for a prescribed period of at least one year who have not previously purchased a house under a tenant purchase scheme and who have a minimum prescribed annual income. The new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: Since 1 January 2014 Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels including the delivery of water services capital infrastructure. The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 requires Irish Water to put in place an investment plan setting out where it considers investment in infrastructure is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (11 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: Irish Water’s liability in respect of property damage in such situations is the same as the Local Authorities’ liability would have been prior to the transfer of water services functions from local authorities to Irish Water. If there is negligence on the part of Irish Water, Irish Water would, under the terms of its public liability insurance, be responsible for third party...