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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos . 449 and 456 together. The Water Services Act 2013 designated Irish Water as the metering authority. Numbers of water meters installed, employees and contracts are operational matters for Irish Water. I also refer to the reply to Question No. 115 of 14 November, 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 450 and 460 together. The Programme for Government sets out a commitment to the introduction of water charges based on usage above a free allowance. The Government considers that charging based on usage is the fairest way to charge for water and it has, therefore, decided that water meters should be installed in households connected to public water supplies....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Numbers (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: My Department gathers quarterly data on staff numbers in local authorities. The data gathered do not provide detail in respect of individual grades or job titles within each local authority, and accordingly, the information requested is not available in my Department. As part of the engagement process between local authorities and Irish Water current staffing numbers, working in each local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Water Services Act 2013 provides for the establishment of Irish Water as an independent subsidiary within the Bord Gáis Éireann Group and assigns the necessary powers to allow Irish Water to undertake this metering programme. The Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 is currently in preparation, and will provide for the transfer of responsibility for the delivery of water services...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: On 30 October 2013 my Department was notified by Dublin City Council that problems were being experienced with the treatment process at the Ballymore Eustace Water Treatment Plant. Contact between my Department and the City Council continued over subsequent days and I visited the plant on 4 November to see, at first hand, the issues involved and how the matter could be resolved. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: The local government funding model will change considerably in 2014. Under the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012, commencing in 2014, the Minister for Finance will pay into the Local Government Fund an amount equivalent to the Local Property Tax paid into the Central Fund during that year; this revenue will be allocated to local authorities from the fund. The funding to be provided to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 468 to 470, inclusive, together. The information requested is being compiled in my Department and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Programme for Government sets out a commitment to the introduction of water charges based on usage above a free allowance. The Government considers that charging based on usage is the fairest way to charge for water and it has, therefore, decided that water meters should be installed in households connected to public water supplies. Following discussions of water affordability issues...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: My Department provides funding to member organisations of the Community and Voluntary Pillar to cover costs directly related to their contribution to policy-making in the social partnership process that was not funded by any other source. The funding provided each year from 2007 to 2012 to each organisation under the fund to facilitate engagement in the social partnership process is outlined...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: A waste collector must comply with the conditions attached to their waste collection permit, issued under the Waste Management (Collection Permit ) Regulations 2007, as amended, which set out the environmental standards in relation to the collection of waste. Waste collection in individual local authority areas may also be subject to local bye-laws. The charges applied by waste management...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: Lanesborough Regional Water Supply Scheme is listed in my Department’s Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013 (WSIP) as a scheme to progress through planning. I recently approved the Preliminary Report for the Lanesborough Regional Water Supply Scheme along with the inclusion in the current WSIP of two contracts to start which will allow the scheme to be advanced. It...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009 broadened the revenue base of local authorities by introducing a charge on non-principal private residences. The self-assessed charge is set at €200 and liability for it falls, in the main, on owners of rental, holiday and vacant properties. I understand that the Non Principal Private Residence Charge has raised in excess of €1.37 m in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Stations Upgrade (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs, the provision of a premises and the making of such other provisions as it considers necessary or desirable, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the provisions of the Fire Services Act 1981 and 2003. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: Laois Grouped Towns Sewerage Scheme – Network Contract is listed in my Department’s Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013 as a scheme to start during the life of the programme. The contract, which has an estimated cost of €11.6m , consists of a number of works to service the towns of Abbeyleix, Clonaslee, Durrow, Mountrath, Rathdowney and Stradbally....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: The overall strategy of investment in water services to date has been to ensure that the timing and scale of investment facilitates economic and other development, achieves compliance with statutory requirements and promotes environmental sustainability objectives, including meeting the requirements of relevant EU Directives. The main vehicle for achieving these objectives for public domestic...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: I assume the Question is referring to the former one-stop-shop initiative, launched in 1998. I have no information with regard to the operational costs of these offices as this is a matter for each local authority concerned. Current policy is set out in the Government’s Action Programme for Effective Local Government ; this addresses a range of local government reform measures, and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (19 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: Local authorities have identified total savings of €839m since 2008. In the period since the preparation of the Local Government Efficiency Report, from 2010 to end 2012, the savings achieved are reported at €561m. Shared services have been identified in the Local Government Efficiency Review and the Public Service Reform Plan as an important opportunity to make further...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: Good.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: Deputy Dowds is a great person.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Phil Hogan: What reduction was there in 2013?