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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Location of Wind Turbines: Discussion (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: Do the community groups represented here today feel there has been a failure to implement the EIS? How will the proposed strategic environmental assessment, SEA, work, particularly in relation to Article 3 of the EIA and all the facts outlined? What do they propose? That will come up for public consultation, where they will have a role. What do they see as the important factors that can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Location of Wind Turbines: Discussion (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: This is a major issue in the midlands. One would want to be sleeping in an ivory tower not to know about it. I understand Mr. Bowdler is an advisor on acoustics and his experience in this area stretches back to 1976. He has made a comprehensive submission to the wind energy guidelines review. Will he summarise the key points of his submission and, in particular, how the noise could affect...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who appealed a decision by Student Universal Support Ireland in relation to the refusal of their application for a student grant has not yet been informed of the decision of the review despite numerous contacts with SUSI notwithstanding that the result of same has been furnished to a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the payments available to a person who will be 65 years old in February 2014, and who has to retire upon the grounds of ill health; the transitional provisions that would apply to them until their 67th birthday; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42346/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 358. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of funding that is provided to community and voluntary groups for computer training through the benefit funding programme; the number of groups that benefitted from same; if it will be continued in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42153/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Resources (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 363. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will set out a clear and definitive timetable for the development of the SEA which will underpin the export energy national planning network; if he will clarify the position regarding the plans for classifying electricity export projects as strategic infrastructural developments so as to allow them to proceed...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 404. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will amend the planning regulations to ensure that wind development companies which were seeking to install industrial style wind turbines across the Midlands and elsewhere will have to put in place a significant index-linked bond to cover the costs of removing and decommissioning these turbines at the end of their...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Impact Statements (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 405. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that his Department's draft guidelines on EIA assessment 2012 are finalised and that the requirement on planning authorities to carry out an independent assessment of the EISs prepared by developers, as required by Article 3 of the EIA Amendment Regulations 2012, is fully communicated to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 406. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if in the comprehensive review of the 2006 wind energy guidelines he will take steps to ensure that all the criteria that must be assessed pursuant to Article 3 of the EIA directive are fully identified and appropriate guidelines for identifying the environmental impact of threshold wind farm developments, particularly...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electricity Exports (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 407. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis and reasons for classifying electricity export projects as strategic infrastructural developments, so as to allow them to proceed directly to An Bord Pleanála rather then to the local authority of the jurisdictional areas; if same will now be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42336/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 408. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in the context of the current review of the wind energy guidelines 2006, the review will incorporate the EPA guidance note for noise 2012 which addresses tonal or impulsive noise from wind turbines and if regard will be taken of the practices pertaining to noise which apply in Denmark, Germany and south Australia; if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Issues (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 409. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department and Irish Water have made a definitive decision on the way water supplied to individual consumers by way of a private water supply will be assessed in the context of the metering proposals and if a charge will be levied thereon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42343/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations Closures (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 466. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to address the shortage of An Garda Síochána in rural areas, particularly in the context where closures have been effected of Garda stations in rural areas; if it is proposed to put in place appropriate mobile patrols and other such measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42344/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 620. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a draft report from Bord Fáilte which indicates that the presence of wind farms has a negative impact on the future likelihood of visiting Ireland for 24% of tourists surveyed at various locations here, which was completed in 2013 when just 1,200 or so on shore turbines are in place; his views on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will pursue all possible avenues to avoid increasing the pupil teacher ratio in primary schools in Budget 2014 due to, for example, the fact that such a mooted change would see a six teacher school reduced to a five teacher school with teachers shared between eight classes, meaning class sizes increasing from the mid twenties to an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annuitant Arrears (1 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason correspondence (details supplied) regarding a proposal regarding dealing with annuitant arrears has not been replied to; if same will now be addressed and the proposal therein accepted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40939/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Services Funding (1 Oct 2013)

Willie Penrose: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that no further cuts are proposed to the intellectual disability budget for 2014 as they have already incurred a 16% reduction in funding and there is no longer any further scope for savings from efficiencies that would not impact upon frontline services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40940/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (25 Sep 2013)

Willie Penrose: 128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure there are no cuts to the allocation for homeless accommodation in the Budget 2014, as this funding is essential to underpin the commitment to end long-term homelessness by 2016 using a housing-led approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39868/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (24 Sep 2013)

Willie Penrose: 358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the disallowance of a claim for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39854/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Willie Penrose: 416. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the solutions available to a local authority where buildings are left derelict by their owners who are identified, and who fail to take remedial action by way of refurbishment or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39849/13]