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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Dec 2006)

Dick Roche: The responsibility for the field work lies with the councils. I recognised that this was a huge task for councils, and I appreciate that councils are working very hard. For all the negatives one hears about local government, much good work is going on in the local government sector. I would not blame a small city council like Waterford for the names of 1,400 people who have died being on...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Dec 2006)

Dick Roche: They stated that the occupant had until 9 December to contact the council indicating he or she was off the register. Those letters went out in early November. The response to those letters has been huge; replies to 20% to 30% of them are being received. That does not mean the remainder are disenfranchised. Some of the remainder of those 170,000 are people who have changed address. I did...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Dec 2006)

Dick Roche: No, unfortunately. With regard to Senator Cummins's question on whether the field work has been followed up, I issued a circular letter to councils advising them that when I checked the list of deletions in respect of cases in my area — a list which Senator O'Rourke has not yet received which I regret because local authorities should operate within the spirit of this process — I noted...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Dec 2006)

Dick Roche: I do, he is a nice man. We also gave an instruction to councils that before they deleted, for example, the name of a person from the register living as a tenant in a council house, they should use the other resources available to them. Where they had access to other databases, they should have been prudent and used those, particularly in areas where a disproportionate level of deletions...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Dec 2006)

Dick Roche: Until this process started, the straight answer to that question is "No, they were not". When the guidelines were being put in place I created a link between the register of births and deaths and each council office. Now when a registration form indicating a person is dead is received in the central office in Dublin, an automatic electronic list is passed to each council indicating a Mr. X...

Written Answers — Control of Animals: Control of Animals (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: Certain provisions of the Control of Dogs Act 1986 may be extended, by regulations, to other species of domesticated animals, including cats. In the absence of reliable data regarding the number of wild or feral cats, and of appropriate solutions, it is not proposed to place an additional responsibility on local authorities that might dilute their control efforts in relation to dangerous and...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: This correspondence referred to has been received in my Department and has been acknowledged. A substantive reply will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Motor Taxation: Motor Taxation (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: The Irish Bulletin of Vehicle and Driver Statistics, published annually and available in the Oireachtas Library, contains the information requested. Tables 5-8, inclusive, of these Bulletins contain data on the various tax classes for each licensing authority. The information for 2006, reflecting the position as at the 31 December next, will not be available until publication of the 2006...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: The information requested in relation to the period 1993 to 2006 (to end October) is set out in the following table. Information in respect of earlier years is not readily available in my Department. Amounts paid to Meath County Council 1990-2006 â'¬ 1993 15,788,200.81 1994 15,180,962.21 1995 13,622,550.97 1996 20,532,294.79 1997 28,730,283.81 1998 30,458,230.05 1999...

Written Answers — Kyoto Protocol: Kyoto Protocol (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: Ireland's response to the Ad-Hoc Working Group will be coordinated with other EU Member States for a single submission by the European Union by 23 February 2007. On the issue of public consultation, I have already received submissions on future mitigation potential for Ireland through the recent public consultation on Ireland's Pathway to Kyoto Compliance.

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: My Department leased temporary office accommodation in June 2006, for a period of one year, from Newport & District Development Company Ltd., Co. Mayo at a cost of €1,040 per month.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: The main purpose of the Bill is to provide for specific arrangements for postal voting by prisoners. In Ireland there is no legal prohibition on voting by prisoners once they meet the standard qualifying criteria under electoral law which apply on a general basis. However, while a person in legal custody may be registered as an elector, under section 11(5) of the Electoral Act 1992, he or...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: Is the Senator aware of the level of under-registration that exists in Northern Ireland?

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: They were never short of a few bob to attend a meeting though.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: They have never been better.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: That was worth waiting for.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: With regard to carbon credits, one of the big issues in Sir Nicholas Stern's report concerns how the carbon credit mechanism can and will work and will be the best way forward. We should also listen to what Mr. Al Gore and Kofi Annan have to say on the matter. Kofi Annan argued at length in Nairobi for the proper use of carbon credits, and to that extent I agree with Deputy Eamon Ryan....

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: I was interrupted. The carbon mechanism is a perfectly legitimate way forward. It is an appropriate way which every logical environmentalist around the world supports. I commend the motion to the House.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: The comments were favourable.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Dick Roche: Has Deputy Catherine Murphy read the European Commission's comments?