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Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (5 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: The total amount paid in terms of fees or expenses for the appointment of press or public relations consultants in my Department since 2002 is €6,854,289. Full details, on a project-by-project basis are listed in the following table. Public relations Completed by Cost Date € Anti-litter awareness advertisement Irish international/OMD 135,249 2002 Advertising campaign...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: Many of the appointments in my Department arising from the normal recruitment process are made in an unestablished capacity. I assume that the Question relates to temporary unestablished civil servants appointed to provide support services to Ministers. The following are the total number of posts (based on whole time equivalents) occupied in my Department on the basis of appointments by...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 553 and 554 together. The staffing composition of my private and constituency offices (detailing permanent civil servants and temporary unestablished civil servants) are set out in the following tables. Private Office Permanent Civil Servants Temporary Unestablished Civil Servants Full time Equivalents Grade Full time Equivalents Title 1...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (5 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: I expect a decision to issue in this case within the next few weeks.

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (5 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: Limerick City Council's contract documents for the civil works element of a pumping station being provided at Westbury under Contract 3.7 of the Limerick Main Drainage Scheme are being examined in my Department and are being dealt with as quickly as possible. The Council's contract documents for the mechanical and electrical element of the project and its proposals for the laying of a rising...

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (5 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: In circular S.12/2005 of 5 August 2005, my Department issued comprehensive guidance to local authorities about a revised method of calculating pension entitlements for non-officer grades in local authorities whose pensions are integrated with social welfare benefits. Local authorities were requested to communicate with all persons who are in receipt of such integrated pensions from the local...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: I compliment Deputy O'Dowd on making creative use of his time.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: It is a very interesting discussion. I draw the Deputies' attention to section 37C(3). That requires the board to keep a record in writing of any consultations under section 37D with regard to a proposed development, including the names of those who participated in the consultations; and that such a record should be placed and kept among the relevant documents. That is transparency in the...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: I have listened with great patience and I would ask the Deputy to indulge me and let me develop my point. The Deputy can then respond.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: It is not a question of trying my patience, but of simple courtesy and good manners. If the board differentiates from the decision of the inspector or rejects its decision, it should not be decried. The inverse is that the board must always accept the views of the inspector. I am not arguing that Deputies stated this. This would mean the board has no place at all, and it would not be...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: That is the good practice established by the Act.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: It will. It will be cross-referenced to this by the board itself. I will deal with specific references because I have strayed somewhat from them. The amendments would change the requirements on the question of what information is available to the public on both pre-planning applications and mediation meetings. It is important that minuted meetings be kept, and as I have mentioned, this is...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: I move amendment No. 13: In page 6, to delete lines 27 and 28 and substitute the following: "(b) the development would contribute substantially to the fulfilment of any of".

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: I move amendment No. 34: In page 7, to delete line 40 and substitute the following: "(7) No application for permission in respect of a development referred to in subsection (1) shall be made to a planning authority unless or until a notice is served under subsection (4)(b) in relation to the development. (8) In this section 'appropriate planning auth-".

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: I move amendment No. 36: In page 7, line 45, to delete "that subsection" and substitute "subsection (1)".

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: During the course of the long debate on Committee Stage and elsewhere we had constructive discussions on this issue. Deputy Murphy, I am sure inadvertently, has touched on the core of the issue. The matter of the colour of notices was previously dealt with in regulation. I suggest there will be colour differentiation but as in the case of the yellow notice, which the Deputy said is helpful,...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: I am grateful to Deputy Cuffe for giving me the opportunity to repeat the point I made several times on Committee Stage that I intend that regulations will cover. That is exactly the arrangement that exists at present. I am pleased to make that point clear. In reference to the point made by Deputy Murphy the best way to do that is by different colours being required by regulation. I am...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: Perhaps Deputy English will tell us what he stated to his constituents about the system?

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: The poster read, John Bruton, Damien English, John Farrelly, 1, 2, 3.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Dick Roche: There was no fifth Deputy.