Results 1,381-1,400 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 3: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount his Department received in motor tax receipts in the years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and the estimated total to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36887/06]
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is a significant amount of money collected by the Department. However, the Department has informed the Minister that one in ten people evades paying this tax. In 2005 the estimated amount uncollected, which should have been used for rural roads, was â¬40 million. It is at least the same amount this year. The Minister has failed in his duty to bring in a proper strategy to collect...
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister did not turn up for it.
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: The figure is from the Minister's office. It comes from his note to the Taoiseach this time last year. He informed the Taoiseach that one in ten drivers evaded their car tax and that this amounted to â¬40 million uncollected. He went on to say car tax would not increase and the reason for that was that he was going to change the system. However, he has not changed it. The reality is...
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have not.
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: Waffle.
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister is incompetent and cannot even get the electoral register right.
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: I always listen to the Minister.
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister's comments. Green taxes are constructive and those based on CO2 emissions would meet the needs. I am concerned that the Minister did not include HGVs in his comments because they do many more journeys than the average motor car. I do not have the emissions figures to hand but I believe that a significant number of HGVs are over six years old and therefore would be...
- Motor Taxation. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: I support the Minister on it.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: I despair of the Minister of State.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: If the local authorities are not doing their jobs and producing the houses, responsibility should be removed from them. They must meet their responsibility in respect of the applicants. Reference was made to a reduction in the number on waiting lists for housing. In County Louth, there has been an increase â the number almost doubled in the past year. This may be because more single...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.
- Waste Management. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the increase in the rates of recycling. Question No. 10 was tabled after some recycling companies stated in the media that they could not compete with landfill facilities. It has been suggested that people are choosing to dump rather than recycle because the cost to such companies of recycling waste products is greater than the cost of dumping those products. The companies in...
- Waste Management. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: We need to put in place more measures of that nature. If we do not ensure that recycling is economic, for example by subsidising it to make it economic, we will defeat the purpose of it.
- Waste Management. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is the same in Drogheda.
- Waste Management. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: There is a cost issue too.
- Environmental Policy. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: Can the Minister of State explain how compensation is arranged?
- Environmental Policy. (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: Are they happy with that?
- Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (8 Nov 2006)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 62: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has undertaken a capital appraisal of the proposal to centralise the storage of electronic voting machines; the result of such appraisal; if he will publish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36640/06]