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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: We have told you ten times.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Broughan is the dame.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Broughan should not be making personal comments.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy campaigned on it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: Conspiracy theories.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I fully support Irish Water.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I did.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy will be chasing them around with a hound.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Harbours and Piers Maintenance (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: My Department is currently consulting with the Chief State Solicitor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office in order to identify the most suitable approach for dealing with the issues arising at the Old Mud Dock in Galway. My Department will consider what actions are appropriate in light of final legal advice on these issues.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: My Department is seeking information on this matter and I will write to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: The Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 provides the statutory framework for the pyrite remediation scheme and while the Act provides that the scheme may, subject to my approval, be amended, replaced or revoked, this can only be done in accordance with the scope of the Act. Any proposal to amend the scheme would, in the first instance, be a matter for the Pyrite Resolution Board and any such proposal...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I am grateful for the opportunity to present and discuss the proposed Supplementary Estimate for the 2014 Vote of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, for which I am seeking approval. The Supplementary Estimate covers two elements of the Department’s Vote, the Leader programme and recoupment to local authorities of costs incurred during the storms of last...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I thank both members for raising very important points on the subheads. I welcome the Deputies' support for the Leader programme, which is recognised as a very important source of funding for rural development. For 2015, €45 million has been identified and secured to fund the Leader programme, comprising €30 million from the old programme and €15 million from the new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (9 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 414 and 419 together. Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses. The Social Housing Strategy 2020 approved by the Government and published last month includes a commitment to introduce the new tenant purchase scheme by the second quarter of 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (9 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: My Department is currently consulting with the Chief State Solicitor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office in order to identify the most suitable approach for dealing with the issues arising at the Old Mud Dock in Galway . My Department will consider what actions are appropriate in light of final legal advice on these issues.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: From inquiries made of Limerick County Council, it is understood that a number of pre-planning meetings took place with the person concerned before he lodged his first planning application for proposed development works ( ref 06/3641). The Council has indicated that there w ere a number of planning issues with this application and after a number of further meetings with the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: Under planning legislation, enforcement of planning control is a matter for the planning authority, which can take action if a development does not have the required permission, or where the terms of a permission granted have not been complied with. Planning authorities have substantial enforcement powers under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. A planning authority may...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: It is a fact that the Deputy's people held these meetings. What happened when they penalties and charges for non-payment were introduced?

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: This group of public representatives abandoned the very same people. They are vulnerable and it was not the correct thing to do. I heard Deputy Halligan from my constituency say he had attended a protest march in my home town of Portlaw which had been attended by more than 800 people. The organisers said the attendance was 200. Any debate should be factual. I know the people concerned,...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: Future generations will not thank us if we do not invest in this critical national public infrastructure. The Bill is about introducing a fair and affordable system of domestic water charges. We want to ensure we will be able to invest in water and wastewater infrastructure, as happens in every other country in the OECD and most other countries in the developed world. It is about financing...