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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: Some €550 million from the local property tax receipts will go into the Local Government Fund. Some €600 million from motor tax receipts will be used for deficit reduction. We know why we need to do that. Members will be very surprised when the figures are published in the next week or so. The local authority budgets for 2014 will not be in any way worse than in 2013, which...

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: Can I make-----

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: Irish Water was established as a semi-State company because we wanted to borrow money on the markets as we do not, and will not for a few years, have money under the public capital programme for obvious reasons. To cater for the big demand that there is for water in areas where there is pressure, including in the areas represented by Deputies Cowen, Catherine Murphy, Stanley and, in...

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: There is a blocking system in local authorities.

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 Deputy is not explaining it properly.

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: These things happen.

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 Chairman should-----

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: There are very few-----

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 wish to answer Deputy Stanley.

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 having their own meeting over there. There will be very few local authorities in which there will be just two representatives under what I am proposing to do via ministerial order, which is the same approach taken previously in terms of regional authorities. Deputy Humphreys referred to the blocking proposals that emerge after local elections. These come into play in most 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: They will be filled, but it will be filled on the basis-----

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: Let us say that there are four places to be filled. Dividing that number by the number of councillors forms a block. If Sinn Féin has six councillors in Laois after the next local elections, it will be flying.

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: Deputy Stanley will have to bring the Northern jurisdiction into play.

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 movement amendment No. 116: In page 90, line 11, to delete "(xii) any other matter" and substitute "(xiii) any other matter".

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. 117: In page 90, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:"(c) An establishment order or an order amending an establishment order may contain such provisions as the Minister considers necessary or expedient consequential on the dissolution of a regional authority established by the Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order 1993 (S.I....

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. 118: In page 91, line 30, to delete "The establishment order" and substitute "An establishment order".

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. 119: In page 92, lines 4 to 6, to delete all words from and including "(within" in line 4 down to and including "section." in line 6 and substitute the following:"established by the Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order 1993 (S.I. No. 394 of 1993).".

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. 120: In page 92, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “PART 10 REGIONAL ASSEMBLIES AND REGIONAL SPATIAL AND ECONOMIC STRATEGYRegional assemblies and regional spatial and economic strategy 58. (1) The Planning and Development Act 2000 is amended by substituting the following for Chapter III of Part II: “CHAPTER III Regional Spatial and Economic...

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. 125: “PART 11 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUND AND IRISH WATERAmendment of section 6 of Local Government Act 199866. Section 6 of the Local Government Act 1998 is amended--(a) in subsection (2C) (inserted by section 7 of the Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Act 2013) by substituting the following for paragraph (a):“(a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c) the Minister...

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 community initiatives the Deputy mentioned which work very well will still be in place. It will be up to local authorities to ensure they make financial provision for them. The municipal district members will attend the plenary session of the local authority which provides for the final adoption so they will have two bites of the cherry. Town councils must work within small resources...