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Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Staff Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: To clarify, the working group is not about union negotiations between workers and a private company employer. The working group is about the structures that will be put in place to deliver for the people and the communities. That is what I am interested in. What is the best way of ensuring we have robust structures to deliver best for the people? The union negotiations with workers in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Telecommunications Services Provision (3 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: My Department has no overall function regarding the implementation of the proposal referred to in the Question. It is a matter for each Government Department and public body to ensure that appropriate information is available to the public in relation to the services provided by them and to determine the manner in which such information is provided. With regard to local government, the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Services (3 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: Recently, as part of the Local Government sector’s shared services programme, Laois County Council was selected, following a competitive bidding process, to provide shared payroll and superannuation services on behalf of all local authorities. Subject to the completion of further detailed design, the new local authority shared service centre will begin operation from early 2014. As...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Litter Pollution Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Litter Pollution Acts 1997 to 2009 provide the statutory framework to combat litter. Under the Acts, the primary management and enforcement response to littering is a matter for local authorities.  Accordingly, it is a matter for each individual local authority to decide the most appropriate public awareness, enforcement and clean-up actions in relation to litter, taking account of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Resolution Board Remit (3 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: This is an operational matter which falls within the remit of the Pyrite Resolution Board. My Department understands that the figure of €500 is the overall maximum that will be recouped to applicants on confirmation by testing that a dwelling has a Damage Condition Rating of 2 consistent with pyritic heave. The figure was determined taking account of a number of factors, including the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Yield (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 has provide d the legislative basis for the Household Charge. The Local Government Management Agency has administered the Household Charge system on a shared service/agency basis for all county and city councils. The following table, based on data provided by the Agency, details total Household Charge revenue raised by local authority area , as...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Reform (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: In order to be able to vote at elections and referendums, a person's name must be entered in the register of electors for a constituency in the State in which the person ordinarily resides. Postal voting is provided for in electoral law in respect of certain categories of person who are entered in the register of electors and who may be abroad on polling day - whole-time members of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Nitrates Directive and Ireland's National Nitrates Action Programme are given legal effect by the consolidated European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2010. The objective of the Regulations is to protect ground and surface waters, including drinking water sources, primarily through the management of livestock manures and other fertilisers....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Library Projects (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: My Department recognises the valuable local resource that archives represent and the importance of their proper management. Under section 80 of the Local Government Act 2001, it is a matter for local authorities, in the first instance, to ensure that the appropriate arrangements are in place for the proper management, custody, care and conservation of local records and archives. There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 370, 400 and 402 together. The Water Services Investment Programme 2010 - 2013 provides for the development of a comprehensive range of new water services infrastructure in County Clare. The Programme includes contracts under construction and to commence to the value of some €41 million in County Clare during the period of the Programme. The Shannon...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 371 and 396 together. The Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Act 2013 provides for a three month transition period from the commencement of the Act to allow motorists to bring their motor tax status up to date and to make both a prospective and retrospective off-road declaration. At the end of the transition period, the Act provides that only a prospective...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: In 2007 a Funding Scheme to Support National Organisations in the Community and Voluntary Sector was developed. This Scheme amalgamated and replaced previous Schemes operated under the White Paper on Supporting Voluntary Activity. Applications under this new Scheme were invited from community and voluntary organisations that operate at a national level with evidence of a nationwide...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector Issues (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The arrangements through which the voluntary housing sector engages with the local government system will continue as heretofore. The Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS), which provides funding to Approved Housing Bodies of up to 100% of the approved cost of accommodation to meet the needs of persons with specific categories of housing need including older people, people with an intellectual,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Newtownmountkennedy Sewerage Scheme - Network (Garden Village) contract is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2010 - 2013 (WSIP) as a contract to start during the lifetime of the Programme. My Department is currently awaiting further information from Wicklow County Council in relation to the Brief for the engagement of Consultants to progress the contract...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Fuels Issues (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: My Department's responsibility for fuel quality standards arises from the perspective of ensuring that petrol and diesel sold in the State meet prescribed environmental specifications to reduce the polluting effect that certain substances have on the environment, when emitted to air as part of the fuel combustion process.  My Department does not have a role in regulating fuel standards...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Issues (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Water Services Act 2013 provides for the establishment of Irish Water as an independent subsidiary within the Bord Gáis Éireann Group and assigns the necessary powers to allow Irish Water to undertake the water metering programme. The criteria for the procurement process for the metering programme were developed by my Department, in consultation with Bord Gáis...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Strategy on Volunteering (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 383 and 401 together. The Government continues to advance a range of measures that support volunteering and active citizenship. My Department funds a network of twenty two Volunteer Centres. It also provides funding to Volunteer Ireland, the national volunteer development agency. The focus of Volunteer Ireland is to create an enabling environment for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I welcome publication of this first of four reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change that will, in due course, constitute their 5th Assessment Report. The findings of this first report are clear and robust, and a stark reminder of the need for a comprehensive global response to climate change. The report was developed and published in an international context and has no...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: In the context of the decision to wind-up the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA), the Government has confirmed Dublin City Council (DCC) as the organisation under which the future regeneration of the Dublin Docklands is to be continued. In practical terms, DCC is providing staffing and other supports to the DDDA to allow it to continue to operate for the remainder of its period of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (8 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The most recent annual accounts of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, for the year 2011, have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and are also available on the Authority's website, at The annual accounts for 2012 are being finalised and are expected to be submitted to my Department shortly. Once received, the accounts will be brought to Government after which they will,...