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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (23 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I provided to the Oireachtas, in this House, the Government response to the first report of the Convention on the Constitution. The Government welcomed that report and accepted the main recommendations of the convention in the report. These included a recommendation that the Constitution should be changed to provide for a voting age of 16 years. The Government committed therefore to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (23 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: In June 2012, as part of a commitment in the Programme for Government to examine the introduction of a levy on packaging in conjunction with a waste reduction programme, I initiated a root and branch review of all aspects of the Producer Responsibility Initiative model in Ireland. The aim of the review was to assess the nature and level of the challenges which are currently facing the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Yield (23 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The information requested i s not available in my Department. Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Act 2001. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Seniors Alert Scheme Issues (23 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: My Department manages the Seniors Alert Scheme which encourages and assists the community's support for older people by means of a community-based grant scheme to improve the security of people over 65 years of age. The Scheme is administered by local community and voluntary groups with the support of my Department. The aim of the Seniors Alert Scheme is to support independent living for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Yield (23 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I assume that the question refers to the Household Charge and the Local Property Tax. The Local Government Management Agency has administered the Household Charge system on a shared service/agency basis for all county and city councils. I am advised by the Agency that in excess of €5.3m has been raised in respect of the Household Charge in Kerry. The aggregate proceeds of the Charge...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (23 Oct 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. The main vehicle for achieving these objectives for public domestic water supplies is the multi-annual Water Services Investment...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Issues (23 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The provision of a fire services in local authority areas, including the establishment and maintenance of fire brigades, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of premises is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the provisions of the Fire Services Act 2001. My Department supports fire authorities through the setting of general policy, provision of training...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Pollution (23 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 and 172 together. In respect of monitoring of water quality, the EPA, local authorities, Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Marine Institute all monitor rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters, and groundwater quality under the Water Framework Directive on a three-year cycle. This extensive monitoring programme provides a good overview of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (23 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175 and 176 together. Funding is currently provided under my Department's Rural Water Programme towards group water schemes, group sewerage schemes, small public water and wastewater scheme works and some miscellaneous grants. The allocation for the Programme in 2013 is €39.6 m. The allocation for the Programme for 2014 will be €27.7 m. The...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I am surprised that the Deputy does not know what is happening.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I assure the Deputy that they know what is happening.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy could be wrong. They do not all live in Dublin.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill provides for the most fundamental overhaul of the local government sector in 100 years, bringing the Irish local government system into the 21st century so that it is more representative of and more responsive to the needs of our citizens and communities. This Government was elected with a mandate to reform the economy, the...

Local Government Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: The One Percent Difference National Giving Campaign: Statements (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I thank the significant number of Members of the House who have made a contribution to this debate. I thank them for sharing their personal experiences in so many cases but also for their suggestions to ensure we are going in the right direction and for their proposed changes to make it a better strategy. There is no better person than Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú who has spent a...

Seanad: The One Percent Difference National Giving Campaign: Statements (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: How Sinn Féin channels and spends the money is its own business, but in the case of the arts, literature and music there are rules which perhaps might not comply with the normal political fund-raising Sinn Féin carries out in the United States-----

Seanad: The One Percent Difference National Giving Campaign: Statements (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: I know it is a sensitive matter for Sinn Féin, but what we are trying to do-----

Seanad: The One Percent Difference National Giving Campaign: Statements (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: -----is to have a general conversation about how we can improve matters in order to benefit disadvantaged communities, the arts and the music world and to deal with educational disadvantage. We plan to generate a not-for-profit sector which is transparent and regulated. I take on board Senator O'Brien's point on the charities regulator. I will have a conversation with the Minister for...

Seanad: The One Percent Difference National Giving Campaign: Statements (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: -----rather it means giving by ordinary people on a national level. We want a situation where everyone's contribution of time or money will be valued and every contribution is valued equally. That is our mission statement. I will take on board the Senator's point on the use of the word "philanthropy". I am curious that Senator Marc MacSharry had not heard about The One Percent Difference...

Seanad: The One Percent Difference National Giving Campaign: Statements (22 Oct 2013)

Phil Hogan: That is what I am trying to do in the community sector.