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Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: My Department approved funding for 2009 totalling €12 million to local authorities and bodies under its aegis to continue a programme of work begun in 2005 under the National Disability Strategy. My Department has written to all Local Authorities informing them of their allocations. Local authorities and other public bodies have a key role in implementing the requirements of the...

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: The EPA is responsible for emission projections. Its most recent analysis, which reflected the ESRI's then assessment of the changed economic situation, was published in March 2009. The updated figures indicated a Distance to Target for the Kyoto period 2008-2012 in the range of 1.3-1.8 million tonnes per annum, a reduction of around 3 million tonnes from the projections of Autumn 2008. In...

Written Answers — Docklands Development: Docklands Development (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 757 and 767 together. I refer to the reply to Question Nos. 477, 478 and 499 of 7 July 2009. The Cork Docklands Development Forum Report envisages very significant investment in public infrastructure, including the provision of an Eastern Gateway Bridge and the relocation of the port to Ringaskiddy. Due to the prevailing budgetary conditions, decisions in...

Written Answers — Litter Pollution: Litter Pollution (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: I recently published the 2008 National Litter Pollution Monitoring System results which showed that chewing gum constitutes almost 31% of litter nationally, second only to cigarette related litter at 46%. The empirical data from the results indicate, however, that the general litter levels recorded nationally have decreased steadily over the last number of years. This position is supported...

Written Answers — Local Government Reform: Local Government Reform (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: The White Paper on Local Government will be published later this year following, inter alia, the Government's consideration of the Report of the Commission on Taxation.

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: Kildare County Council's revised contract documents for the scheme are still awaited in my Department.

Written Answers — Water Quality: Water Quality (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: Local authorities operate under the general supervision of the EPA in relation to the performance of their environmental functions. Article 29(6) of the European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2009 requires, inter alia, the EPA to make recommendations and give directions to a local authority in relation to the monitoring and inspections to be...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 766 and 777 together. In line with national policy, the Exchequer does not fund new heavy waste infrastructure, landfills or incinerators. These are to be provided as purely private sector commercial initiatives or by way of public private partnerships with local authorities. In consequence, the capital cost of this project will not fall to be met by the...

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: In law, the preparation of the Register of Electors is a matter for each local registration authority. It is their duty to ensure, as far as possible and with the cooperation of the public, the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the Register. Electoral law provides that each application for entry to the supplement to the Register must be signed in the applicant's local Garda station in the...

Written Answers — Electronic Voting: Electronic Voting (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: On 23 April 2009, I announced that the Government had decided not to proceed with the implementation of electronic voting in Ireland. The Government decision provided for the establishment of an Interdepartmental Task Force, chaired by my Department, to bring the project to an orderly conclusion, and to oversee the disposal of the electronic voting and counting equipment and the ending of...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: My Department provides the necessary statutory and policy framework within which individual development contribution schemes are adopted by each local authority. However, the adoption of development contribution schemes is a reserved function of the locally elected members of each planning authority. It is a matter for the members to determine the level of contribution and the types of...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: Funding for service provision, as opposed to capital infrastructure, comes from a range of income sources such as commercial rates, housing rents, environmental and other waste charges and charges for non-domestic water services. Taken as a whole these provide over half of the current funding needs of local authorities. The balance comes from the Local Government Fund in the form of...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: The Government has considered the position in relation to the former Irish Steel/Ispat site at Haulbowline noting the outcome of the site investigations; the requirement for various works and further monitoring recommended by the environmental consultants and the development issues, particularly technical constraints, site boundary issues, zoning issues and regulatory requirements, meriting...

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: The detailed information sought in the question is not readily available and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time and work. The Department procures all goods and services in accordance with the Department of Finance Public Procurement Guidelines.

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: My Department has not contracted the company in question to build facilities on behalf of the State.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: My Department carries out a number of advertising campaigns relevant to its remit, in order to promote awareness and behaviour change, to consult with the public, or to provide information. Details of advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by my Department carried out during 2008 and the first six months of 2009 are set out in the following table. Costs...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: The harsh reality is that our country is in a financial crisis. As a small open economy, the international recession has hit us harder than most. The mess in which we find ourselves has arisen in no small part from the greed and stupidity of a minority of those involved in banking, land speculation and building developments. The property frenzy, largely driven by this minority, only halted...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: I will not name him because I have a great deal of respect for him. However, he also made the interesting comment that if Fine Gael and the Labour Party were to form a coalition and enter Government in a few weeks' time, they would introduce NAMA.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: I share the anger of people who see bankers' greed and stupidity and ask reasonably why we should not allow them to fail and face the same consequences every other citizen faces if he or she messes up his or her finances. Until recently, we had to listen to lectures from incompetent and amoral bankers telling ordinary workers that they did not have a right to modest pay increases and that...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: We have the policies and solutions to fix these problems and have insisted on them being introduced in tandem with NAMA. My party has a proud record of standing up to vested interests when others turned a blind eye.