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Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (1 Apr 2009)

John Gormley: Section 254 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides for a licensing system for the placement of various structures and appliances on, under, over or along a public road, including maps for indicating directions or places. This licensing system enables a local authority to exercise control over the placing of structures on roads to prevent traffic hazards arising. The Planning and...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (1 Apr 2009)

John Gormley: The development of a Memorandum of Understanding on the acquisition of school sites is a matter for the Department of Education and Science and the City and County Managers Association. I understand that discussions are ongoing with a view to finalising the terms of the Memorandum as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (1 Apr 2009)

John Gormley: The Kinsale Sewerage Scheme is approved for funding under my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007 – 2009 at a cost of €19 million. My Department approved Cork County Council's contract documents for the upgrade/extension of the collection system in the town in May 2007; the contract was signed in December 2007 and work is now underway on this element of the scheme. The...

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (1 Apr 2009)

John Gormley: Section 19 of the Litter Pollution Acts 1997 to 2009 makes it an offence to exhibit any article or advertisement on any structure that is visible from a public place unless the exhibitor is authorised in writing by the owner to do so. An exemption from prosecution under this section is provided for those exhibiting election or referendum posters for a specified time period prior to and after...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: As previously advised, the facility in question is provided for in the Dublin regional waste management plan for which the four Dublin local authorities have statutory responsibility under the Waste Management Acts. Section 60(3) of the Waste Management Act 1996 precludes the Minister from exercising any power or control in relation to the performance in particular circumstances by a local...

Written Answers — Pension Levy: Pension Levy (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: I am aware that under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act, 2009, a deduction is being made from the remuneration of members of local authorities on the same basis as in the case of other office holders and employees of public service bodies.

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 372 and 377 together. As indicated in previous replies on this matter, work has been ongoing for some time in my Department in drafting measures to provide for statutory regulation of dog breeding establishments within the dog control legislative regime. This process has included discussions with a number of organisations, bodies, public agencies and...

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 375 and 376 together. The conclusions adopted by the September 2008 EU Competitiveness Council recalled the aim of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy on Green Public Procurement and provided a comprehensive overview of developments and commitments. The Government's commitment to green public procurement was confirmed in the 2008 Framework For...

Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 379 and 392 together. No specific information is available to my Department on the volumes of waste tyres collected or recycled for the last 12 months, and, there is no requirement for every tyre to be registered for recycling purposes. National waste statistics for waste streams are independently produced and published on an annual basis by the EPA in the...

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: The total expenditure on the development and roll-out of the electronic voting system to date is some €51.3 million, the bulk of which has been incurred in purchasing the voting machines and ancillary equipment. The machines were purchased and there are therefore no ongoing lease costs related to their ownership. Based on figures received in my Department from Returning Officers, the...

Written Answers — Community Policing: Community Policing (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: Joint Policing Committees are comprised of members of local authorities, An Garda Síochána, members of the Oireachtas, and community and voluntary interests. Each agency involved is generally expected to meet the expenses arising for itself in establishing and operating the Committees from within its own budget.

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: Under the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, the erection on or within the curtilage of a house of a dish type antenna used for the receiving and transmitting of signals from satellites is exempted development, subject to the following conditions: 1. Not more than one such antenna shall be erected on, or within the curtilage of a house. 2. The diameter of any such antenna shall not...

Written Answers — Local Authority Grants: Local Authority Grants (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: My Department made funding of €99,000 available to Roscommon County Council in 2008, for the local authority conservation grant scheme under my Department's built heritage capital programme. Allocations for the various programmes and schemes under the 2009 built heritage capital programme will be finalised and announced following publication of the Revised Estimates for 2009.

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: In 2007, over 60% of the electronic voting machines (some 4,762 in total) were moved to a central storage facility located at Gormanston Army Camp. Costs incurred to date in respect of the movement and storage of this equipment are some €328,000. These are largely one-off costs related to the preparation of the facility, transportation of the machines and the acquisition of storage...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (31 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: Animal welfare and the legal protection of animals from cruelty are the responsibility of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Written Answers — Archaeological Sites: Archaeological Sites (26 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: A licence for the proposed excavation issued on 18 March 2009.

Written Answers — Water Charges: Water Charges (26 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: The Water Framework Directive was adopted on 23 October 2000. Article 9(1) of the Directive requires Member States to take account of the principle of the recovery of the cost of water services, including environmental and resource costs. However, Article 9(4) of the same Directive stipulates that a Member State will not be in breach of the Directive if it decides, in accordance with...

Written Answers — Water Charges: Water Charges (26 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: The Government's Water Pricing Policy requires local authorities to recover the cost of providing water services from non-domestic users of these services. The Policy exempts domestic users from charges for water services. As such, landowners are only levied with charges if they are engaged in commercial activity on their property, for example, farming. The policy makes no distinction...

Written Answers — Natural Heritage Areas: Natural Heritage Areas (26 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: Bogs are important natural habitats and are home to unique ecosystems containing rare flora and fauna. Both blanket bogs and raised bogs are protected habitats under European and Irish Law and representative samples have been designated as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) under the Habitats Directive or Natural Heritage Areas (NHA) under the Wildlife Acts. Ireland has some of the most...

Written Answers — Natural Heritage Areas: Natural Heritage Areas (26 Mar 2009)

John Gormley: The overall area of land designated for nature conservation purposes constitutes 14% of the terrestrial area of the State. The location and amount of land designated follows on from the application of scientific site selection criteria that have been determined to meet the requirements of the European Union Birds and Habitats Directives for sites of European importance i.e. Special Protection...