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Topical Issue Debate: Food Safety Standards Regulation (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: I subscribe to the sentiments expressed by Deputy McNamara. It is a constant battle to reduce the regulatory approach that some of our agencies take in respect of small businesses, particularly in the food sector. Deputies in the House from rural constituencies will share my view that it is often difficult to explain to small businesses why so many inspections take place in the food area....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Administration (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: Under section 157 of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012, commencing in 2014, the Minister for Finance will pay into the Local Government Fund an amount equivalent to the Local Property Tax paid into the Central Fund during that year. Questions concerning the use of Local Property Tax revenue raised in 2013 should be directed to my colleague, the Minister for Finance. The Government has...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Inspections (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: In December 2012 I announced my intention to introduce a grant scheme to provide financial assistance to households whose septic tanks and other domestic wastewater treatment systems are deemed to require remediation following an inspection under the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012. The grant scheme will only apply to owners of treatment systems which are the subject of an Advisory Notice...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Portrane/Donabate/Rush/Lusk Sewerage Scheme is included in my Department’s Water Services Investment Programme (WSIP) 2010 – 2013, with some elements to advance to construction and others to advance through planning during the lifetime of the Programme. Fingal County Council made a submission to my Department in February 2013 relating to the priority assigned in the WSIP...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors Issues (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Government legislation programme for the summer session includes an Electoral (Amendment) Bill which will provide for amendments to the Electoral Act 1992 in relation to the date for applications for inclusion in the supplement to the postal and special voters lists in advance of elections and referendums. The Bill is in preparation and the detail will be published when the text is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (15 May 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 are...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: The requested information is currently being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Referendum Expenditure (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Government Legislation Programme includes an Electoral (Amendment) (Referendum Spending and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill to provide for the disclosure of expenditure and donations at a referendum campaign and for the extension of the spending limit period that applies at Presidential, Dáil, European Parliament and local elections. This Bill will be progressed later this year and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Law (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: There are 31 Acts of the Oireachtas in force concerned with electoral matters and 77 related Statutory Instruments. I have no plans at this time to consolidate primary or secondary electoral law.

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: I am pleased to have the opportunity to address the Seanad on the Seanad Bill 2013. I recognise and acknowledge the work that has gone into the preparation and development of the Bill. It is a comprehensive Bill and many of its proposals are innovative and deserving of detailed consideration in their own right. I note that the Bill was preceded in September 2012 by the consultation paper,...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Senator does not know everything.

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: One would not want to believe everything one reads in the paper.

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Local and Community Development Programme (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: I thank Senator Reilly for the opportunity to clarify some the matters that have been in the ether, as it were, and providing a great deal of misinformation to communities. I do not know by whom this has been done. The proposals I am pursuing regarding enhanced alignment between local government and local development are part of the document, "Putting People First - Action Programme for...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Local and Community Development Programme (15 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: It will come afterwards.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (16 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: An exemption from the local property tax applies to developments listed in the schedule to the Finance (Local Property Tax) Regulations 2013. The list of unfinished housing developments eligible for the exemption was compiled by local authorities utilising the categorisation employed for the purposes of the National Housing Survey 2012. The Survey was carried out over the course of summer...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection (16 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009 broadened the revenue base of local authorities by introducing a charge on non-principal private residences. The self-assessed charge is set at €200 and liability for it falls, in the main, on owners of rental, holiday and vacant properties. Under the Act, it is a function of a local authority to collect the Non-Principal Private Residence...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (16 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: The details of the proposed Housing Assistance Payment Scheme (HAP) are being developed by my Department in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection, the County and City Managers Association and other relevant bodies through the project Steering Group. It is intended that the HAP scheme will come under the remit of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. Section 86(1) (a) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (16 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: I and relevant officials met a delegation from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe on 4 October 2012. This was part of the periodic monitoring process undertaken by the Congress on the application of the principles in the European Charter of Local Self Government in Member States. I understand that the delegation also had discussions with a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Expenditure (16 May 2013)

Phil Hogan: My Department currently contracts a total of 51 Local Development Companies to deliver both the Local Community Development programme (LCDP) and the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programmes 2007-2013 (RDP). Mayo North East LEADER Partnership Ltd and South West Mayo LEADER Partnership have informed my Department that no payment was made to MOR Public Relations, Galway in the...