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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 178: In page 157, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “ No. 17 of 1992 Foreshore (Amendment) Act 1992 Section 1 Definition of “local authority” Substitute: “ ‘local authority’ means a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended by the Local Government Act 2013) and any...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: It effectively gives consistency to the use of the term "sanitary authority". The amendment refers to the definition of "sanitary authority" under the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act 1960. My amendment substitutes the previous definition of "sanitary authority" with the new definition under the Local Government Act. The change should probably have been made in the Local...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: It is definitely very flawed, yes.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: It could be.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: It would be the first thing the Deputy has not blamed me for.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: He has found something at last.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 126: In page 97, after line 5, to insert the following: “PART 12 Dublin Docklands Development AuthorityAmendment of Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act 1997 67.(1)In this section “Act of 1997” means the Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act 1997.(2)Section 20(1)(a)(i) of the Act of 1997 is amended with effect from 27 November 2013 by...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 127: In page 112, to delete line 17.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 128: In page 114, to delete line 43 and in page 115, to delete line 1 and substitute the following: 77 Section 127 Subsection (2) Delete in paragraph (b) "or municipal policy committee". 78 Subsection (2) Delete in paragraph (d) "area or other".

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 129: In page 116, to delete lines 20 to 30.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 130: In page 118, line 15, column 3, after “district” to insert “members”.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 131: In page 120, line 29, column 3, after “134” to insert “, 134A(6)”.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 132: In page 121, line 31, column 3, after “authority” to insert “(within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2013)”.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 133: In page 125, lines 23 and 24, column 3, to delete “Definition of “manager”.Amendments Nos. 133 to 145 are required to reflect in the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 the revised structure and governance of local government that is being put in place in the Bill. In the main, the amendments relate to updating the definition of "housing...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: They will. The Deputy asked other questions also. The service level agreement is with local authorities for operation and maintenance. On the one hand, people say we are taking local authority staff out of the equation, but when I leave them in it, there is a problem also.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: They are not. Irish Water will manage the direct relationship with the local authority staff through a service level agreement. These agreements will be signed before the end of the year. Nobody I am aware of has received a severance payment.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: They transferred under their existing pay and pension provisions to Irish Water from the local authority on secondment. If people retired and subsequently obtained a post at Irish Water, that is obviously different. However, 99% of those involved are operating on the basis of their pay and conditions of employment in local authorities, but they are working for Irish Water.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The €600 million about which we are talking transferring to the Exchequer in water tax is not going to Irish Water. It is going to the Minister for Finance for deficit reduction purposes.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The sum of €500 million is what the Exchequer agreed to.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The sum of €500 million is what is-----