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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The legal advice received from the Attorney General is that all of these issues are comprehended by the wording and that the prudent management practice to which the Deputy refers is a matter for consultation and is being worked on.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: If it is helpful, I will circulate a note on the issue to the Deputy.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: Espoo is a separate convention and is not, therefore, included in the Bill. If it is helpful, I will have the officials provide the Deputy with a note.

Seanad: Child Protection: Motion (25 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Senators for placing this important debate before the Seanad today and the Labour Party Members who have done so. The Minister unfortunately is unable to attend due to pressing business although this is an important topic for everybody about which the Minister is particularly concerned. This motion serves to draw the Government's attention to the important issues of child protection,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (26 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am advised by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) that the lake in question, Lake Yganavan, is part of a Special Area of Conservation, (SAC no. 000370) and has not been previously stocked by IFI. I am also advised that as the lake in question is in an SAC any actions there would require submission of a Nature Impact Statement to the Competent Authority, the National Parks & Wildlife...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Illegal Israeli Settlements (26 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am replying to this matter on behalf of the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs who is unavoidably absent. The Government's position on Israeli settlements has been clearly articulated on many occasions. Such settlements are illegal and, as the Senator outlined, in many cases they involve the seizure of Palestinian land and resources. They are the cause of the great majority of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Illegal Israeli Settlements (26 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I assure the Senator that I will bring her comments, particularly the points she has just made, to the attention of the Tánaiste for direct reply to her good self.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: So am I.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Senator van Turnhout for raising this matter. I appreciate fully the issues she has raised, the fact that she has raised this matter on a number of occasions and that finality has not been brought to it yet. I will be happy at the conclusion of the Adjournment debate to ring the Department immediately and hopefully we will try and get the matter resolved. That is all I can do.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Hogan. The funding scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector commenced in 2008 under the then Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. This scheme amalgamated and replaced schemes previously operating under the White Paper on Supporting Voluntary Activity. The scheme aims to provide...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am happy to progress the matter by immediately getting in touch with the Department to see whether we can clarify dates.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Deputy might be over here.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Deputies for raising this important matter which I am taking on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. In recent months there has been extensive discussion of the issue of local property tax, LPT, and how local retention of that tax might impact on local authorities in the future. It is a complex issue that will need much...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have no intention of doing so.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will not either.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I assure Deputy Kevin Humphreys in particular that this Government is not ripping off the people of Dublin and it has no intention of doing so.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The facts are simple. I have clearly stated, and I repeat, that regardless of where people live, 80% of the funding will be spent where it is raised. That is the Deputies' Government and mine, their Ministers and mine, which are committed to this goal. We are also committed to the financial certainty that we all want, whether it is in Dublin, Drogheda, Cork, Kerry, Limerick or Tipperary....

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: We are not ripping off anybody but ensuring that there is fair and equitable distribution of funding. Everybody will get 80% of what they pay in and the balance will go to some counties or areas which do not have the funding to maintain basic services. The Minister, Deputy Hogan, is firmly of the view that certainty is important in this significant time, and he will continue to work with...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am advised by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) that the Salmon Conservation Limit (CL) in any river is the number of spawning salmon required to maintain a sustainable population and is used to indicate the number of salmon in a river system above which a harvestable surplus can be considered. Salmon conservation limits are set similarly for all of Ireland’s salmon rivers. The main...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland Expenditure (1 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am advised by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) that the Salmon Conservation Fund commenced in 2007 in which IFI were requested to prepare and undertake suitable qualifying projects for the rehabilitation of wild Atlantic Salmon stocks. This process was opened up to contributors to the fund in 2010 (anglers and commercial fishermen). The current protocol for all suitable qualifying projects...