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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: A local authority may be at fault in not coming up with the 20%.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Will Mr. McCarthy provide a note on the Poolbeg project, rather than go into detail on it now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: I mentioned it in the context of people ending up in hotels when it would have been cheaper to maintain them in the accommodation in which they had been living, even at higher rent. People were not granted an increase in rent allowance or payments under other schemes to meet the rise in their rent.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Does the Deputy have further questions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: This has been a test case. In the past few weeks we broke at lunchtime and members had a second wind when we came back. As a result, we did not get out until 4 p.m. As such, I did not mention taking a break at 1 p.m. and we are finishing at 2.10 p.m. I thank everybody for their patience. Will we dispose of Vote 25, chapter 5 and special report No. 84? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to a previous parliamentary question in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, if the circumstances will be examined as a matter of urgency relative to an overpayment made to the person by her Department with a view to accepting a payment of €5 per week as an initial arrangement, based on the person's financial...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance if an application for tax relief under the drivers and passengers with disabilities scheme will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [26359/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that 65% of rate payers in County Limerick are to see a reduction in their rates at the expense of the other 35%, who will see an increase, in order that the total rates budget remains unchanged, and also that the increase particularly affects nursing homes, crèches and wind farms, all of which receive public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement between his Department, the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the impact of the valuation process for wind energy plants on our climate change goals, including our renewable energy targets. [26173/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any working group or other such committee was put in place in respect of the valuation process for wind energy plants. [26174/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement between his Department, the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and their counterparts in Northern Ireland and Scotland regarding the valuation process for wind energy plants. [26175/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that, assuming the tripling of rates for wind farms now proposed in County Limerick is repeated across Ireland, the total rates bill for wind farms would exceed total support payments received by wind farms by some 50%, supports which have been approved by the European Commission under state aid rules (details...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a comprehensive cost benefit analysis was carried out weighing the risk of a failure to achieve the State's binding targets on renewables by 2020 against the additional revenue to be gained by the increased rates for wind farms. [26177/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Valuations Office or the Government has assessed the potential liability and exposure under European Union law, including under state aid rules, of discrimination against renewable energy plants through affording more favourable treatment to fossil fuel plants, thereby distorting the market. [26178/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that the revaluation method for commercial rates for wind farms as applied in County Limerick, namely revenue and expenditure, is different from the method used for the commercial rates for generating stations using fossil fuels, contractor's method; that this change arose only after the submission of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the detailed basis, market information and specific assumptions used in the revaluation of wind farms; if he will recommend that the Government legislate for the application of a 50% state of industry allowance to at least partly offset these disparities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the actual basis used to establish the theoretical rent applied to wind farms, and the providence of the quotation. [26181/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that the figure taken for the long-term revenue of a plant has been adjusted to the market price when the renewable energy feed in tariff programme lapses after 15 years. [26182/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Milk Quota (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a court judgment and payment due in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will provide a comprehensive outline of his position on the matter. [26360/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the oversight arrangements in place in her Department relative to the funds being administered by Caranua; if her Department insists on a monthly report on the operations of the organisation; the number employed by Caranua; the cost of administration of Caranua for each year since its establishment; the level of financial assistance granted in...