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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Consultations (20 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Officials in my Department engage on an ongoing basis with European and international colleagues in relation to radio spectrum issues of common interest. My Department is also represented at various European fora and at the World Radiocommunication Conference at which radio spectrum issues are discussed. The National Broadband Plan published last year following extensive consultation with...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (20 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: This is an operational matter for the company involved and I, as Minister, have no role or function in this regard. However, my Department has requested that EirGrid, which has statutory responsibility for the East West Interconnector, will furnish further information directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Contracts (20 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: This is an operational matter for the company involved and I, as Minister, have no role or function in this regard.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: This relates to two factors, those being, the improved performance in finishing previously unfinished estates-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: -----and the application of a standardised nationwide methodology of assessment. Deputy Michael McGrath well knows the background to the property tax. He ought to, given the fact that his party authored it.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The tax's purpose is to broaden the tax base so that the Government can avoid putting additional taxes on income and people at work. In terms of fairness and consistency, I am sure that the Deputy will agree that it would not be fair to require some citizens to pay while exempting others. The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government assures me that it has gone through...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not see how Deputy McGrath thinks he can leave politics out of it.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The reason we have the unfinished estates is because of the chronic mismanagement that went on under the Fianna Fáil-led Government.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the reason-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the reason we have the legacy of unfinished estates.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: It is difficult to listen to Deputy McGrath bleeding for the citizens when his Government authored the property tax-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: -----and made it a condition that must now be implemented to comply with troika funding. It was a Fianna Fáil proposition. The party was in favour of property tax then and now because it is in the middle of a by-election it pretends to be opposed to it.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The report from which Deputy McGrath quoted is out of date. It was completed last summer-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: -----and the situation worked out since between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and local authorities focused on estates one-by-one on the basis of certain criteria, for example, the installation and commissioning of public lighting, provision of potable water supply, provision of wastewater collection, treatment and disposal systems, access roads to at least...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: They have gone through the criteria and decided that 421 developments do not comply with the standards.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The 421 developments in question will be exempt but, otherwise, the local property tax, which Fianna Fáil introduced, will be implemented-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: -----because it is a requirement of the funding arrangement with the troika.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Sinn Féin is clearly disappointed that progress has been made on unfinished estates but that is the case.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: When the local household charge was introduced it was a holding arrangement and was announced as such at the time and a broad-brush approach was taken to the exclusion of unfinished estates. Since then, based on the criteria to which I have referred, and in arrangement with local authorities, the estates have been addressed one-by-one. I am sorry Sinn Féin is disappointed that the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I hope Deputy McDonald will also welcome the exclusion of estates built by developers who used pyrite and who built homes that resulted in extraordinary hardship and misery for householders. In terms of criteria that warrant exemption, they have been gone through with a fine-tooth comb and I regard what the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government has now published as fair.