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Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (15 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The land referred to by the Deputy is located in a natural heritage area designated in 2003. In 2010, the then Government decided that turf cutting should come to an end on raised bog natural heritage areas at the end of 2013. However, the current Programme for Government contains an undertaking to review the situation with regard to turf cutting on natural heritage areas. On 15 April...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (15 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 31st January 2012. There have been no changes to board memberships since that date.

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (15 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 328 and 329 together. Inch Strand is within a Special Protection Area and a Special Area of Conservation. Any proposal to develop a golf course on the site must be subjected to an appropriate assessment of the implications of such a development on these areas. Golf course developments are subject to planning permission and it would fall to the planning...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (17 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I am advised that my Department has found no record of providing direct funding to Curreeny Hedge School in the period referred to. If, however, the Deputy is in a position to provide any additional details, I will be glad to arrange for further enquiries to be made in the matter.

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (17 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 93 and 94 together. Under the provisions of the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations, and the Wildlife Acts, compensation is payable in certain circumstances where existing activities must cease for the conservation of a protected site. Bulrush, a large-scale commercial peat extraction company, had operations ongoing in Mouds Bog...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (17 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The whole area of the development of the Irish audiovisual industry, including industrial relations issues, was examined during the preparation of the Creative Capital Report – Building Ireland's Audiovisual Creative Economy. The Report was published in July 2011 and an Implementation Committee is at present examining the advancement of its recommendations. Specifically in relation to...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I assume that the Deputy is referring to costs arising where photographers were engaged by my Department to cover Ministerial or Departmental events. The table below lists the occasions on which photographers were booked for such events for the period since the establishment of my Department in June 2011 to date, the photographers or photographic companies engaged, and the actual or estimated...

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: Yes, indeed.

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I move amendment No.1: To delete all the words after "Dail Eireann" and substitute the following: "---looks forward to the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising and the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, a landmark in the history of the people of Ireland; ---recalls that in January 2007 the then Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government placed a preservation order on Nos....

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: In fact, Nos. 24 and 25 are a relatively newly built apartment block with a depot for the City Council's refuse collection service to the rear. Within the terrace, the monument buildings themselves, Nos. 14 to 17, which are protected under the National Monuments Acts, are by far the most intact surviving buildings from the period of the Rising. My immediate remit in this case, and the...

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I thought I picked that up from the Deputy's statement.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department is subject to the moratorium on recruitment which is currently in place across the public sector. At present my Department has no specific proposals in relation to graduate recruitment.

Written Answers — Architectural Heritage: Architectural Heritage (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Questions Nos 319 and 321 of 15 May 2012. My role as Minister, the role of local authorities, and the responsibilities of owners, with regard to protected structures are set out in the provisions of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2011. Under Part IV (Architectural Heritage) of the Acts, inclusion on the Record of Protected Structures places a duty of...

Written Answers — National Census: National Census (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: During the transcription of the 1911 census, independent statistical analysis, supplemented with scrutiny by a genealogist expert in Irish names, was commissioned to establish the levels of accuracy of transcription. The average level of accuracy was found to be 99.21%, regarded as perfectly acceptable by international standards. The accuracy threshold set by The National Archives in...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I am advised that the Statutory Instrument referred to in the Deputy's Question (S.I. 376/05) has not been amended to date. However, I understand that the relevant appeals board is to consider an appeal in the case in question and, if the outcome of the appeal gives rise to any boundary changes, the Statutory Instrument will be amended accordingly.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As I have previously advised the House, Mr. James Kenny, a retired schoolteacher, was appointed as a Special Adviser in my Department on 7th June 2011. Following abatement, the salary paid in respect of Mr. Kenny is €38,216 per annum.

Written Answers — Ministerial Transport: Ministerial Transport (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy will be aware, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was established on 2 June 2011, following substantial Departmental reconfigurations. Accordingly, it is not possible to provide a comparison of the annual cost for the provision of civilian drivers and Ministers using their own cars with the previous scheme of Garda drivers and State cars. The amount spent on...

Written Answers — National Monuments: National Monuments (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: While local authorities have statutory powers to make bye-laws to regulate activities of the nature referred to by the Deputy, as far as I am aware no bye-laws have been made for that purpose in the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains region. The European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations provide for Ministerial Directions to regulate the use of quad bikes, other off-road vehicles...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy will be aware, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was established on 2 June 2011, following substantial Departmental reconfigurations. The total amount of expenditure on consultancy during the period from 2 June 2011 to end-December 2011 was €8,229. The details are set out in the table. Name of consultant Amount paid Dr Evelyn Moorkens €1,929 Avia...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 May 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy is aware, the individual referred to in the Question has applied to sell his interest in land in a raised bog special area of conservation under the voluntary bog purchase scheme, administered by my Department. As outlined in my reply to Question No 287 of 8 November last, a contract for the sale of the site in question had been forwarded by the Chief State Solicitor's Office...