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Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The household charge is a local authority charge, the proceeds of which are being used to fund vital local services in our communities, including planning and development, fire and emergency services, public parks, open spaces and leisure amenities, and maintenance and cleaning of streets and street lighting. I have established an Inter-Departmental Group on Property Tax to consider the...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 848 and 875 to 877, inclusive, together. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce competitive tendering for household waste collection, under which service providers would bid to provide waste collection services in a given area, for a given period of time and to a guaranteed level of service. A public consultation designed to inform the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 849, 856 and 859 together. The Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) is administering the household charge system on a shared service/agency basis for all county and city councils. The costs arising, including those in relation to advertising, printing and distribution are a matter for the LGMA and the county and city councils.

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Household Charge) Regulations 2012 provide the legislative basis for the household charge. Section 2 of the Act sets out the meaning of "residential property" for the purposes of the Act. In particular, section 2(2)(d) of the Act provides that a building that is wholly used as a dwelling (other than a dwelling that...

Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: I refer to the topical issue debate on this matter taken on 28 February 2012. Given that the nature of the current application is for site investigation purposes only and the drilling of an exploratory well, the fact that it has already been the subject of a public and prescribed bodies consultation process, and that the submissions received under this process and the responses of the...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: Under section 33 of the Waste Management Act 1996, local authorities are not required to collect, or arrange for the collection, of household waste within their functional areas, if an adequate waste collection service is available, if the estimated costs of undertaking waste collection by the local authority would be unreasonably high, or if the local authority is satisfied that adequate...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) is administering the household charge system on a shared service/agency basis for all county and city councils. I understand, from data provided by the LGMA, that as of 16 April, 2012, a total of 675,252 property declarations have been processed by the household charge bureau. 660,597 registered for payment of the charge and 14,655 residential...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: I refer to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 8 March 2012. The information requested has been forwarded to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Motor Fuels: Motor Fuels (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: My Department does not have a role in regulating fuel standards from a consumer perspective in terms of quality assurance or the operational performance of the fuel. My Department's responsibility for fuel quality standards arise from the perspective of ensuring that petrol and diesel sold in the State meet prescribed environmental specifications to reduce the polluting effect that certain...

Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: From 1 January 2012 to 31 March 2012, 1,191 Parliamentary Questions were answered by me and Ministers of State at my Department. Full replies were provided to 1,188 Questions and in the case of 3 Questions, follow up replies were issued directly to the Deputy concerned.

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended, set out the legislation underpinning the household charge and the charge on non-principal private residences respectively. Application of the legislation in particular circumstances is a matter for the relevant local authority. Interpretation of the legislation is a matter for legal...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 862 and 863 together. The information requested is set out in the following table: Office Special Adviser Sanctioned Salary on appointment Salary increases since appointment Salary increases requested by Minister/Minister of State Minister Hogan Claire Langton 80,051 3,286* None Sean McKeown 92,672 None None Minister of State O'Sullivan Aidan Culhane...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: I refer to the replies to Question numbers 131 and 134 of 29 September 2011, 466 of 24 January 2012, 196 of 22 February 2012, 352 of 6 March 2012, 348 of 21 March 2012 and 186 of 29 March 2012, in which I stated that it is a matter for each local authority, including Sligo County Council, to manage its own day-to-day finances in a prudent and sustainable manner. At the request of Sligo...

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The issue of the potential health effects of electromagnetic fields masts was the subject of an Expert Group Report commissioned by the Government and published in March 2007. This Report, entitled Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, which considered issues such as digital signals, microwaves and mobile phone masts, is available for download on my Department's website (www.environ.ie)....

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: There are 35 Local Action Groups (LAG) 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 are made in the context of the local development strategy of the individual groups and in line with Departmental operating rules and EU regulations. There...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Household Charge) Regulations 2012 provide the legislative basis for the household charge. Interpretation of the legislation is a matter for legal advice in individual cases and ultimately a matter for the Courts. Section 3(4) of the Act provides that where a residential property is owned by two or more persons, those...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Sligo and Environs Sewerage Scheme, which includes the extension to Cummeen, is included as a scheme at planning in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013. My Department wrote to Sligo County Council in July 2011 advising that the Design Review Report for the scheme could not be considered further until such time as the Council completed a Local Area Plan for...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended, set out the legislation underpinning the household charge and the charge on non-principal private residences respectively. Application of the legislation in particular circumstances is a matter for the relevant local authority. Interpretation of the legislation is a matter for legal...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The household charge is a local authority charge, the proceeds of which will be used to fund vital local services in our communities. The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 provides that income from the household charge is to be paid into the Local Government Fund. I will disburse monies back to local authorities in general-purpose grants, making it possible for me to equalise...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Household Charge) Regulations 2012 provide the legislative basis for the household charge. Under the legislation, an owner of a residential property on the liability date of 1 January 2012 is liable to pay the household charge by 31 March 2012, unless otherwise exempted or entitled to claim a waiver. The household...