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Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: The information requested in the question is set out in the following table. Name of the Report Cost Independent Assessment of Proposed Acquisition by the Irish Heritage Trust Limited of Anne's Grove House, Garden and Home Farm, Castletownroche, Mallow, Co Cork. €14,520 Independent Assessment of Proposed Acquisition by the Irish Heritage Trust Limited of 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 988 and 989 together. A scheme to extend the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme from Shrah to Westport and to upgrade the water treatment plant in Tourmakeady is included for funding in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007 — 2009. My Department received proposals in July 2009 from Mayo County Council for progressing the scheme to...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: Lixnaw is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007 — 2009 as part of the NSS Hub Cluster Sewerage Scheme which will serve a number of towns and villages in Co. Kerry. Further information is awaited from Kerry County Council to enable my Department to examine the Preliminary Report for Lixnaw. I understand that Kerry County Council is undertaking a strategic...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 991 and 992 together. The information requested in relation to my Department is set out below: DOEHLG 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total Early Retirement 5 6 3 23 37 Resigned 10 8 3 4 25 Contract Terminated 1 0 0 0 1 Total 16 14 6 27 63 There is no cost to this Department in relation to staff who retire — lump sums are paid by this Department but subsequently...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce comprehensive legislation on noise pollution within the lifetime of this Government. Earlier this year, following an extensive consultation process, the General Scheme of a Noise Nuisance Bill was prepared in my Department and approved by the Government. The Noise Nuisance Bill is included in Section A of the Government...

Written Answers — National Parks: National Parks (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: In September 2008, I requested South Dublin County Council to arrange for an evaluation of lands between Palmerstown and Lucan Bridge, the existing area of special amenity and the N4/old Lucan Road/Old Hill Road, in order to assess the suitability of some or all of these lands for designation as a new area of special amenity, having regard to the provisions of section 202 of the Planning and...

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: Postal voting is provided for in respect of certain categories of person as specified in electoral law. Electors who are eligible for, but not already included on, the postal voters list may apply for entry on the supplement to this list and they can do this at any time. Under section 15A(4) of the Electoral Act 1992, as inserted by section 7 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001, an...

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: My Department's contract for the provision of mobile phones is with Vodafone. The contract is in place from June 2008 to date.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: My Department has not sanctioned or applied for the payment of a top-up or discretionary payment on retirement to any staff member of my Department in the last three years. In relation to the agencies under the aegis of my Department, within the last three years one retirement was sanctioned in 2006 by my Department and the Department of Finance under the terms of Department of Finance...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: One member of staff in my Department was dismissed in 2006 for failing to fulfil the terms of their contract. No other members of staff were dismissed in the past 5 years.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: In a judgment in July 2008, the European Court of Justice ruled that the retention permission system as it applies in Irish law with regard to projects that require or may require an environmental impact assessment (EIA) under the EIA Directives does not comply with the Directives and needs to be amended. The response to the judgment, including any provisions for exceptional cases, will be...

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: Having regard to available budgetary resources, priority is being given under the bog purchase scheme this year to those wishing to sell their interest in the 32 raised bog sites which were nominated for designation as Special Areas of Conservation in 1999. For these sites, the derogation given by the Government, which allowed the continuation of turf cutting for personal domestic use,...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1010 and 1011 together. Data in relation to social housing starts and completions are published in my Department's Quarterly Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas library and on my Department's website, www.environ.ie. The following table sets out my Department's recoupment to the housing authorities in County Kildare...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 14 June 2006, sets out the controls applicable to shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community. Exports of waste are classified as either amber waste, applicable to waste going for disposal, or green waste, for non-hazardous waste going for recovery. Amber listed waste is subject to prior...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (6 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: The Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, published in June 2009, provides an amendment to section 42 of the Planning and Development Acts, which currently provides that the duration of a planning permission must be extended, subject to certain conditions, where substantial works have been carried out before the expiration of the original permission. The proposed amendment provides for...

Juvenile Offenders. (24 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: I thank Deputy Shortall for raising this issue. I am not the Minister with responsibility for this area so I will read a prepared script. I hope it goes some way to answering some of the questions she has raised. The future of the children detention school located in Finglas cannot be divorced from the future development of children detention schools services generally. The Irish Youth...

Dublin Mayors. (24 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: I thank Deputy Creighton for raising this important issue for the people of Dublin. On 12 May, I announced that the Government had decided to introduce a directly elected mayor for the Dublin region in 2010. This decision arises from a commitment in the programme for Government and from the considerations in the Green Paper on local government that I published in April 2008. A central...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (24 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: The Government decided to broaden the revenue base of local authorities by introducing a charge on all non-principal private residences. The charge is set at €200 per dwelling and payment must be made by 30 September 2009. The most important exemption under the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009 is for principal private residences. If a person owns a property other than one that they...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (24 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 998, 1024, 1057 and 968 of 16 September 2009. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (24 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: The amount collected by 23 September is set out in the following table. â'¬ Dublin City Council 1,764,600 Cork County Council 716,200 Fingal County Council 645,400 Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council 568,600 Wexford County Council 552,000 Kerry County Council 436,000 South Dublin County Council 417,800 Donegal County Council 377,000 Galway City Council 327,200 Clare County...