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Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: Regulation of the scrap metal industry is not a matter within my Department's remit. The regulation of waste activities is, of course, relevant to the industry. Such activities require authorisation in accordance with the Waste Management Act 1996; the terms of such authorisations are primarily derived from requirements of EU Directives on waste and specific waste streams such as end of life...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: I have no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), an independent statutory body established under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. The body has operated on a self-financing basis since 2010 and I have no plans to restore Exchequer funding to it.

Written Answers — Local Authority Expenditure: Local Authority Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The information requested is not available in my Department as day to day operational matters, including the calculation of the appropriate pay rates payable to individual local authority staff members, across the 34 local authorities, are a matter for each individual local authority.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 and 173 together. The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Library Projects: Library Projects (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: On the 19 July 2011, I announced a Public Library Capital Programme which included provision for the supply of a mobile library to Co. Waterford. The allocation for the Co. Waterford mobile library was €190,000 with an additional €50,000 for bookstock as this mobile was a new service. The mobile could not be procured on time by the end of 2011. This project can be reconsidered in 2012.

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 passed all stages in the Seanad on 14 July 2010 and was signed by the President on 21 July 2010. Alongside the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010, separate legislation on the related issue of greyhound welfare - the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 - which is the responsibility of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, was signed by the...

Written Answers — Local Government Review Group: Local Government Review Group (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government Efficiency Implementation Group was established in April 20101 and had its first meeting on 10 June 2011. The Group has met on six occasions to date and its overall work programme is progressing. In this context, the Group has recently completed an interim report, which I have asked the group to develop further. I understand the group is engaging with the County and...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The matter of progressing the projects in the new RAPID towns to contract stage will be kept under active review in the light of availability of funding in 2012.

Written Answers — Public Service Staff: Public Service Staff (14 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The moratorium on recruitment and promotion in the public service was introduced in March 2009 following a Government decision to implement savings measures across the wider public service, as a response to the financial crisis facing the State. The terms of the moratorium are explicit and provide that no public service post, however arising, may be filled by recruitment, promotion, or...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The total allocation for my Department in 2011 is €1,710m*, made up of €652m in current spending and €1,058m on the capital side. Actual outturns are not yet available pending completion of 2011 spending in the coming weeks. (*all figures are gross and include the full year cost of the Community programmes, for which responsibility transferred to my Department in May 2011).

Written Answers — Water Services Inspectorate: Water Services Inspectorate (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: On 3 November 2011, I published the Water Services Amendment Bill 2011 which will introduce a system of registration and inspection for septic tanks and other on-site waste water treatment systems. The appointment of inspectors is dealt with in Section 70E of the Bill. The Environmental Protection Agency will appoint inspectors for the purposes of the new system and specific criteria...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: There are 1,325 estates in total which fall into categories 3 and 4. I will arrange for a list of these estates to be emailed to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: As announced in the Government's Housing Policy Statement published on 16 June 2011, all affordable housing schemes, including shared ownership, have been stood down in the context of a full review of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The review will commence in early 2012 and will encompass the issues raised. It should be noted that at present where a person is selling and...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: Data in relation to affordable housing activity to the end of 2009 are available on my Department's website, www.environ.ie . Data for 2010 will be available shortly.

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The committees and advisory groups established by me since my appointment in March 2011, and under the responsibility of my Department are as follows: Local Government/Local Development Alignment Steering Group; Local Government Efficiency Review Implementation Group; Independent Group to review staffing levels in Cork City Council; Limerick Reorganisation Implementation Group; Tipperary...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: Funding of €427 million is available under the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2007-2013 for allocation to qualifying projects up to the end of 2013. There are 35 Local Action Groups (LAGs) contracted, on my Department's behalf, to deliver the RDP throughout the country and these groups are the principal decision-makers in relation to the allocation of project funding. Such decisions...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: Article 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2011 provides that any person or body, on payment of the prescribed fee, may make a submission or observation in writing to a planning authority in relation to a planning application within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application. The submission is made in relation to a particular...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The following table, as published by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in Part IV of Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2012-14 in the context of Budget 2012, details the 2011 and 2012 Estimates for my Department across the various programmes: 2011 Estimate 2012 Estimate Change2012Over 2011 Current Capital Total Current Capital Total Programme Expenditure €000 €000 €000...

Written Answers — Local Authority Mortgageholders: Local Authority Mortgageholders (15 Dec 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Board of the Housing Finance Agency decided at its meeting on 9 December to pass on in full the rate cut of 0.25%, announced the previous day by the European Central Bank, to those local authority borrowers with variable interest rate mortgages. As a result of this latest decrease local authority borrowers will enjoy a differential of well over 1.5% below the average variable rate in the...