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Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (4 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides that planning authorities may attach conditions to a grant of planning permission. Section 34(4) lists specific conditions that may be attached, but this is expressly without prejudice to the generality of the power to attach conditions set out in subsection (1). The interpretation and application of the relevant legislation...

Written Answers — Local Authority Rates: Local Authority Rates (4 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Act 2001. Commercial rates are normally paid by the occupier of the premises in question. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each...

Written Answers — Water Supply: Water Supply (4 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: The operation, maintenance and management of the water supply are in this instance a matter for Dublin City Council. The Service Indicators in Local Authorities 2008 report, a copy of which is available from the Oireachtas Library, includes information on Unaccounted for Water (UFW) in each local authority. During the period from 1996 to 2002 Dublin City Council, as the lead authority in the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: For local authority employees the mandatory retirement age is 65 for pre 1 April 2004 entrants. Under The Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 for new entrants, i.e., post 1 April 2004, there is no set retirement age; however the minimum retirement age is set at 65.

Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 333 and 334 together. Following the enactment of the Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Act 2009, my Department assumed responsibility on 15 January 2010 for a range of foreshore functions including all foreshore energy-related developments (including oil, gas, wind, wave and tidal energy). The foreshore application made by Eirgrid in respect of the...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: My Department's statutory Development Management Guidelines, published in June 2007, were issued under Section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and An Bord Pleanála is obliged to have regard to them in the performance of its planning functions. The Guidelines advise that potential applicants should be made aware at pre-application stage of the necessity to ensure that the design...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: The Castlefin Sewerage Scheme was included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007-09 as part of a bundle with a number of other schemes. My Department is awaiting the submission of Donegal County Council's preliminary report for the bundled schemes. Local authorities were asked in July 2009 to submit an assessment of needs for water and sewerage services to my...

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: In order to be able to vote at elections and referenda in this jurisdiction, 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. The Electoral Act 1992 provides for postal voting...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: The Office of Public Works has responsibility for the provision of office accommodation and/or rental costs, where they occur, under the decentralisation programme. In advance of the relocation to the Department's new headquarters in Wexford, some 130 staff have been accommodated in three temporary offices in Wexford town. Details of these offices are set out in the following table: ...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Local Government Elections: Local Government Elections (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: The Government's decision to introduce a directly elected mayor of Dublin will deliver significantly strengthened leadership for the city and region, with enhanced accountability and a direct connection with the citizen. The mayor will primarily act as a strategic policy maker who will also work to integrate the activities of local government and the wider public service in and across...

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: I was hoping the Senator would go on.

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: I am pleased to join with Members to debate the recent severe weather event which we all encountered in December and January. We should not forget those people who are still experiencing the effects of it, mostly through recovering from injuries received from falls on the ice or where there are difficulties with water supply. One matter on which I think we can all agree is that severe...

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: That is a simple fact. Of course, we were lucky in the sense that all over Europe there was significant demand for salt and, therefore, it was very difficult. However, I can tell Senator Coffey that the national emergency committee co-ordinated that. We ensured that salt got to the areas where it was most needed and also ensured that we got our embassies onto it to get salt supplies from...

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: I am referring to the framework document and the suite of guidance and protocol documents which, together with the local major emergency plans on which response is built, form a plan for dealing with not only single major emergencies but also events such as we have had since November last. This suite of documents enables the principal response agencies to prepare for and make a co-ordinated...

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: I can only conclude that Fine Gael wants to establish such an agency because the party wants to privatise our water services. Such a move might be in line with Fine Gael's call for a fire-sale of State assets-----

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: -----but it is one to which I am completely opposed.

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: The Senator might be in denial.

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: Of course not.

Seanad: Water and Roads Infrastructure: Motion (3 Feb 2010)

John Gormley: When the Senator's party leader was asked a simple question about water meters, he could not answer it.