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Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I refer to the reply to Question No. 596 of the 17 October 2006. The submission of the revised Preliminary Report to my Department is a matter for Kildare County Council.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: There are no such proposals at present.

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: In order to be able to vote at elections and referenda in this jurisdiction, a person's name must be entered in the register of electors for a constituency in the State in which the person ordinarily resides. Subject to this primary requirement, the person's citizenship then determines the polls at which he or she is entitled to vote. Irish citizens who are registered to vote may vote at all...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I refer to the reply to Question No. 1820 of 31 January 2007.

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The Government decision to proceed with the movement of the electronic voting equipment to centralised premises was made taking into account a range of factors, including costs of current and centralised arrangements and the likely benefits to be realised. In this regard, the Commission on Electronic Voting in its Second Report concluded that, as the current arrangements under which voting...

Written Answers — Spray Paint Regulation: Spray Paint Regulation (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I assume that the Question refers to the problem of graffiti. The sale of spray paint is not regulated in this regard.

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 215 and 218 together. I understand that the persons concerned were offering for sale a specific type of turbary right which had originally been purchased from the Land Commission. It transpired that it was not possible to transfer this type of turbary right to the State, but only to extinguish the right. The complex issues involved in cases of this kind were...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I understand that a letter of offer to purchase Turbary Rights issued from my Department to the person concerned in August 2006. To date, no response to this offer has been received from the person or their Solicitor.

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I understand that Contracts in this matter are currently being examined by the Chief State Solicitor's Office who are liaising with the vendor's solicitors with a view to finalising this transaction.

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I understand that a letter of offer to purchase Turbary Rights issued from my Department to the person concerned in May 2006. To date no response to this offer has been received from the person or their Solicitor.

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I understand that Contracts in this matter are currently being examined by the Chief State Solicitor's Office who are liaising with the vendor's solicitors with a view to finalising this transaction.

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I understand that Contracts for Sale in this case were forwarded by my Department to the Chief State Solicitor's Office on 14 February 2007. The Chief State Solicitor's Office will be liaising with the vendor's solicitors with a view to finalising the transaction.

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (22 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The Ballinahown Sewerage Scheme was ranked 24th in the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by Westmeath County Council in response to my Department's request to local authorities last year to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the assessments. The priorities adopted by the members of Westmeath...

Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The regional planning guidelines for the greater Dublin area, which implement national spatial strategy principles and policies at regional level, comprise the principal framework for the sustainable development of the greater Dublin area. Their objective is to consolidate the physical and population growth of Dublin within the metropolitan area, and to provide for concentrated development...

Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The last point is a good one and should be included in the debate. I am anxious that apartment blocks should be more family appropriate. I welcome support from Deputy O'Dowd and his party for greater densities because that is the way to go. He is right to say it is the way to go. If we do not go up we will go out. That has been a problem. We must have some sort of regulation when local...

Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I will note that because one of the complaints in the area is about houses going up. Building in south Dublin is down 1.9%. Interestingly, it is down in Wicklow and Meath but up in Kildare. A pattern of sorts is emerging. I support the Deputy's point that brownfield sites should be brought on stream and I agree that in areas such as the Dublin docklands greater densities would be...

Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The Deputy is entitled to his views. The question was about Dublin, not Limerick and Cork.

Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The question was about preventing urban sprawl in Dublin. I do not disagree with the Deputy that the way forward is to have better quality, higher density, full amenity developments.

Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The recent development in the Dublin docklands area, one of the most successful projects of its kind, shows the way ahead. I agree that is the appropriate way to bring forward some of the brownfield sites in particular. That is how we will deal with urban sprawl.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: On 15 December 2006, the chairman of the planning tribunal on his own initiative wrote to me to advise that the tribunal's public hearings would not be completed by 31 March 2007, the target date for the termination of the tribunal's work identified in 2004. The chairman stated that he anticipated that the tribunal would be involved in public hearings until the end of 2007 and possibly into...