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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Issues (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 587 to 589, inclusive, together. Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Act 2001. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Issues (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Act 2001. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority. The annual rate on valuation (ARV), which is applied...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 592, 596, 597, 614 and 619 together. The Water Services Acts 2007 and 20012 (Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems) Regulations 2012 provide that treatment systems should be de-sludged at intervals that are appropriate to the tank capacity and to the numbers of persons resident in the premises to which the system is connected or as recommended by the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 593 and 594 together. The Pyrite Resolution Board will, in conjunction with my Department, draw up the terms and conditions for a pyrite remediation scheme, including the eligibility criteria that will be applied. In this context, the Resolution Board will have regard to I.S 398 –– Reactive pyrite in sub-floor hardcore material –...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Sector Pension Numbers (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The information requested in the question is not readily available in my Department. In Public Service Pension schemes, the minimum preserved pension age is 60. Accordingly, it would be expected that the majority of persons currently in receipt of pensions from either local authorities or agencies under the aegis of my Department would have been recruited prior to 6 April 1995. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Stations (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs, the provision of a premises and the making of such other provisions as it considers necessary or desirable, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the provisions of the Fire Services Act 1981 and 2003. Dublin Fire...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The provision of fire services in a local authority area is a statutory function of individual fire authorities. Under Section 10 of the Fire Services Act 1981, a fire authority is required to make provision for the delivery of fire services in its functional area, including the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of premises. Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: My Department supports fire authorities through the setting of general policy and guidance, and the provision of capital funding, including the recoupment, within the overall funding available, of costs incurred by fire authorities in relation to the approved purchase of fire appliances and specialist emergency and communications equipment as well as construction and upgrading of fire...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Action Programme for Effective Local Government , which sets out Government decisions on local government reform, has affirmed, in paragraph 4 .3.1, that, with the exception of functions relating to water supply that will be assumed by Irish Water and certain functions relating to river basin management planning that will be transferred from local authorities to the EPA, the functions...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 611 and 612 together. The overall strategy of investment in water services is to ensure that the timing and scale of investment facilitates economic and other development, achieves compliance with statutory requirements and promotes environmental sustainability objectives. The main vehicle for achieving these objectives for public domestic water supplies is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The location of illegal waste activities comprehended by the European Court of Justice judgment in Case C 494/01 involve sites at Ardristan in County Carlow, Whitestown and Castleruddery in County Wicklow, and the illegal infill of wetlands in County Waterford. My Department, on behalf of the State, has been liaising with the European Commission to ensure that the requirements of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: It is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources. The elected members of a local authority have direct responsibility in law for all reserved functions of the authority, which include adopting the annual budget and authorising borrowing, and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Grants (5 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: Allocations from the Dormant Accounts are focussed on programmes or projects to assist: the personal and social development of persons who are economically or socially disadvantaged; the educational development of persons who are educationally disadvantaged; or persons with a disability. Details of Dormant Accounts funded projects in County Waterford are summarised in the following table....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Architectural Qualifications (6 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131 and 139 together. The register of persons entitled to use the title of architect was introduced as a consumer protection measure and is designed to prevent persons who fail to demonstrate the required level of competence from passing themselves off as architects. There can be no question of allowing any person to use the title of architect unless he/she...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Stations (6 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs, the provision of a premises and the making of such other provisions as it considers necessary or desirable, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the provisions of the Fire Services Act 1981 and 2003. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Radon Gas Levels (6 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Government, largely through the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII), has worked to assess the extent of the incidence of radon in Ireland, and to increase public awareness of the issue. The Government’s approach to radon, which is similar to that of the majority of EU Member States, is to concentrate efforts on increasing public awareness of the risks posed by radon...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge (6 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009 broadened the revenue base of local authorities by introducing the Non-Principal Private Residence Charge. The Charge is set at €200 and liability for it falls, in the main, on owners of rental, holiday and vacant properties. It is a matter for an owner to determine if he or she has a liability and, if so, to declare that liability and pay the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff (6 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: Retired public and civil servants are engaged from time to time by my Department in areas where specific expertise is required for a short fixed period, and these staff provide a level of knowledge, experience and background compatible with such requirements. The abatement principle, which ensures that the fee paid plus pension does not exceed the rate of pay the pensioner would receive if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Political Funding (6 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012 introduces new provisions along with amendments to the Electoral Acts to further enhance the openness and transparency of political funding in Ireland. In response to the Programme for Government commitment on corporate donations the new provisions in the Act include a ban on the acceptance of donations over €200 for political...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (6 Feb 2013)

Phil Hogan: The third phase of the EU Emissio ns Trading Scheme commenced on 1 January 2013 and will run over an eight year period to the end of 2020. Following a major revision to the trading scheme, approved in 2009, the third phase is significantly different to the first two phases; key differences include – 1. a single EU-wide cap on emissions instead of twenty seven national caps; 2. ...