Results 4,381-4,400 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (3 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: Finuge Village is part of Phase 1 of the Kerry Villages Waste Water which is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2005-2007 as a scheme to commence construction in 2007. My Department is currently awaiting submission by Kerry County Council of a Preliminary Report for the scheme. However, I understand that the Council is also developing a countywide strategy to...
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (3 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: Milltown is part of Phase 1 of Kerry County Council's proposal to refurbish a number of village sewerage schemes which has been included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2005-2007. I understand that the Council is currently assessing tenders for the sewage collection system for Milltown and has advertised for expressions of interest from prospective tenderers for the...
- Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (3 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 528, 529 and 531 together. The Commission on Electronic Voting concluded in its Second Report on the Secrecy, Accuracy and Testing of the Chosen Electronic Voting System, which was published on 4 July 2006, that it can recommend the voting and counting equipment for use at elections in Ireland, subject to further work it has recommended. The Commission made...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I hope I will have less contentious news for Deputy Breen. Discussions between my Department and Clare County Council in respect of this scheme have been satisfactorily concluded. My Department has approved the council's revised proposals for the scope and scale of the new infrastructure to be provided in each of the locations involved which, I understand, do not involve any significant...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: The Deputy has referred to schemes which are not the subject of his question. I will deal with the water services pricing policy and specifically with the point made by the Deputy about Feakle, Quilty and Scarriff. When the preliminary reports for Feakle, Quilty and Scarriff were approved in 2000 and contract documents were received in late 2004, it appeared on the basis of the information...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I think the Deputy will accept that the figure of â¬56,000 per house is not acceptable. A further calculation was carried out with the county council to achieve the â¬8.808 million Exchequer grant. This was agreed in July 2006 and approved by the Department in August. It allows â¬10,000 each for 99 existing houses in Feakle, 372 existing houses in Scarriff and 351 existing houses in...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 115, 179, 209, 220 and 341 together. Since the publication of the national climate change strategy in 2000, the Government has put in place a variety of measures which, collectively, will deliver an average 8 million tonne reduction in greenhouse gas emissions during the period 2008-12. That is our compliance period for the Kyoto Protocol and it is the period...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: Deputy O'Dowd's comments are, to put it mildly, predicated on a misreading of the situation. He said the Government has no coherent transport policy. On a per capita basis, Transport 21 is the most ambitious public transport policy in Europe.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I listened carefully to the Deputy so he should let me finish the point. When his party was in power, investment in public transport averaged approximately â¬1 million per year. It is bizarreââ
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: This is now and we are delivering. In our worst year we delivered a multiple of what Deputy O'Dowd's party did in its best year.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: It is not ancient history. One is talking about the past ten years and the extraordinary ramp up of improvement. If the Deputy wishes, I can go through all the transport issues but that is not the question. It is simply mendacious for the Deputy to suggest it is ancient history. That is nonsense. It is rubbish, as the Deputy knows from the way in which he is talking. Let us deal with the...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I have already made it clear that the consultation period in Ireland's Pathway to Kyoto Compliance concluded at the end of last month and I intend to act on that. The distance to target as of this moment is roughly 7.2 million. If one nets out the figures I have already identified for the Deputy, one is talking about 3.5 million. The figure which the Deputy quoted, that is, approximately...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I have just answered the question. The Deputy asked three questions, the first being, what is happening? As I said, we have already published Ireland's Pathway to Kyoto Compliance.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I already said the consultation periodââ
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: I am surprised the Deputy, as a spokesperson for a serious party on the environment, does not seem to know that we have published Ireland's Pathway to Kyoto Compliance.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: We have already published that.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: That is not the energy strategy. The measures which come out of that consultation will be incorporated in a new policy document.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: It will be published as soon as may be. The consultation period ended fewer than seven days ago.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: Let me explain this. It will take a little time but it will be published.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)
Dick Roche: It will take as long as it takes.