Results 13,181-13,200 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: I am sticking to the questions. The Minister for Finance has included rainwater harvesting and other conservation measures in the home renovation scheme. Work in this regard can be included in whatever work is done in order to draw down the grant, if one is interested in grant assistance. Irish Water will be publishing a water conservation plan with additional measures in order to ensure...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: The Deputy called on me to resign last week; one could not get worse than that.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: Gambler.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: To take the Deputy's last question first, I will definitely be doing that. I agree with the Deputy wholeheartedly-----
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: As soon as I can. I have already told the Deputy that I will do it in 2014 and I am doing everything I can to amend the building regulations to ensure that new buildings and new planning applications will have to include a rainwater harvesting plan. I totally agree with the Deputy on that point. I will provide the committee with the one or two pages of information on the financial issues...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: I do not know the answer to that but I will check.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: I have no difficulty if it is retrospective. I am simply telling the Deputy that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has agreed to bring this in as soon as possible. That is all I can say. I cannot put a date on it. I believe I have dealt with the issues raised.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: The savings will be €2 billion. The Irish Water funding model will yield a potential saving of €2 billion over seven years. This is based on a comparison between the projected funding under the transitional arrangements to 2021 and the Irish Water funding model and it reflects projections regarding potential customer revenue, the funds from third parties, the likely levels of...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: They were taking into account efficiency gains of approximately €1 billion over the seven-year period but the gross savings that we are talking about are €2 billion.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: I would have thought that the Deputy from Laois, my good friend Deputy Stanley, would actually welcome the 11% increase in funding to Laois County Council and all of the county councils in the allocations they received before Christmas-----
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: I cannot understand it-----
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: I know it is a disappointment to the Opposition that it does not have another bone to pick with regard to the funding of local government because the local authorities got an increase of 11%.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: The carcasses are all strewn around the midlands. An additional €100 million has been given to the local authorities in 2014 to fund their programmes. That includes the proceeds of the local property tax.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: The underspend on what?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: The Mountmellick scheme has been delayed because there was a difference of opinion between Laois County Council and Mountmellick Town Council with regard to the extent of the scheme.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: That was just resolved last October and the Deputy knows that. The scheme is now with Irish Water and I will make inquiries to see what we can do to advance that scheme, as will Deputy Stanley. My Department has had a limited amount of resources for the past few years and hopefully the model we are introducing now will give us additional resources to try to make sure that the legacy issues...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: In case anybody will come along and say I did not give more information, although it does not really concern this Vote I will provide information on the metering programme because I am sure Members are interested in it.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: Yes, the Deputy did.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: The current water meter installation programme commenced in August 2013. I am sorry to cut across Deputy Murphy but this might be helpful in terms of a question she asked about meters. I know they are busy installing meters around Leixlip. The approved budget for the metering programme is €539 million, excluding VAT, which includes the supply of the materials and the installation...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Phil Hogan: Meters.