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Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 945 and 991 together. These questions are understood to relate to disposal of plastic wrapping from silage bales. While the farm plastics recycling scheme has been operating successfully, I am aware that some difficulties are being encountered by farmers. My Department has been engaged in discussions with the Irish Farm Film Producers' Group, IFFPG, the...

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I refer to the reply to Question No. 262 of 30 March 2006. The position on release of serial numbers of voting machines is the same. On the other details sought in connection with this question, 7,504 voting machines in total have been purchased and are in State ownership. I will communicate further with the Deputy on certain of the other details involved.

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 947 and 996 together. Under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, a planning authority may not make a decision on a planning application until after a period of five weeks has elapsed since receipt of the application. The period during which the public may make submissions on a planning application is also...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 948, 949, 951, 952, 973 and 980 together. Ireland's national action programme under the nitrates directive was submitted to the European Commission on 29 July 2005 and the European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Waters) Regulations 2005 were made on 11 December 2005. These regulations give legal effect to the action programme and...

Written Answers — Architectural Heritage: Architectural Heritage (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Under the Planning and Development Act, works to a protected structure, which in normal circumstances would be exempted development, are exempted development only if the works in question would not materially affect the character of the structure or any element of the structure that contributes to its special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I have provided an overall block grant allocation of €4.29 million to Donegal County Council under the 2006 rural water programme, an increase of 52% on the council's expenditure for last year. As in previous years, I will consider making increased allocations to councils, from any savings elsewhere, where progress is ahead of schedule.

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The implementation of the waste electrical and electronic equipment directive in Ireland means that responsibility for the environmentally sound management of waste electrical and electronic equipment is a matter for the producers who place electrical and electronic equipment on the Irish market. Under the WEEE directive and the regulations which implemented it, manufacturers of electrical...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 955 and 957 together. In 2006, I have allocated general purpose grants to local authorities amounting to €875 million; this represents an increase of 6.5% over the corresponding figure for 2005, which is more than twice the current rate of inflation. The Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, set out provisions for the payment of fees for...

Written Answers — Local Authority Facilities: Local Authority Facilities (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Funding for 21 skateboard facilities to be provided by local authorities was approved by my Department in November 2005. Details of these grants are set out in the following table. Progress with the provision of the facilities is a matter for individual local authorities and timescales may vary taking account of matters such as planning and procurement requirements. Grants for Skateboard...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The report of the working group to review the management of dog breeding establishments, which was submitted to me on 7 September 2005, contains the majority report and the three minority reports submitted by individual members of the group. I have made arrangements to have a copy of the report of the working group, comprehending all of the above, forwarded to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I visited Malaysia, Thailand and Japan from 11 March to 19 March, accompanied by my wife for part of the journey and by my private secretary. During my visit, I met the vice president of the St. Patrick's Society in Kuala Lumpur, attended a signing ceremony between Allianze College of Medical Sciences, University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Galway and attended the St....

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Local authorities are responsible for the operation and maintenance of public water supply systems. I understand that the supply problem in this case was caused by a major pipe burst and that, in the course of locating and remedying the leak, Meath County Council maintained contact with affected consumers by means of leaflet drops and local radio, supplied drinking water in tankers to...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Section 34(1) of the Waste Management Act requires that any person, other than a local authority, who is collecting waste for the purposes of reward, with a view to profit or otherwise in the course of business must obtain a waste collection permit from the relevant local authority. The fee payable in respect of an application for a collection permit is set down in article 7(3)(e) of the...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: No proposals have been received by my Department from Cork County Council for sewerage works in Carrigimina nor were any such proposals included in the list of schemes submitted by the council in response to my Department's request to local authorities in 2003 to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas. Accordingly, no provision has been made for a proposal...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The Government's national water services pricing policy framework requires local authorities to recover the cost of providing water services from the users of these services, with the sole exception of households using the services for domestic purposes. The capital cost of domestic water services is funded in full by the Exchequer and has benefited from a significant investment of €2.7...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Under my Department's water services investment programme 2005-2007, Waterford County Council has been approved for total funding of €167.587 million in respect of 24 water and sewerage schemes, including an allocation of €2.6 million in respect of water conservation. Three of these schemes are at construction, the Dunmore East water supply scheme is due to commence construction later...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The west Waterford water supply scheme and strategic study, estimated cost €2.86 million, is included in my Department's water services investment programme 2005-2007. The scheme is due to commence construction in 2007 and the submission of the preliminary report for the scheme is awaited in my Department. I recently introduced new procedures to accelerate individual water and sewerage...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The design-build-operate model, which is the preferred procurement route for water and waste water treatment infrastructure funded under my Department's water services investment programme, offers worthwhile advantages over traditional procurement, including accelerated infrastructure delivery as payments to the contractor under the service phase do not commence until construction is...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 968 and 969 together. I consider it essential that the most efficient procedures are in place to ensure that water services infrastructure provision can continue to anticipate and respond effectively to demand for new or improved services. Against that background, I recently introduced new procedures to accelerate individual water and sewerage schemes through...

Written Answers — Natural Heritage Areas: Natural Heritage Areas (25 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Some 413 of 420 proposed candidate special areas of conservation have already been transmitted to the European Commission. All of these sites enjoy the full protection of the European Union natural habitats regulations from the date that they were first publicly advertised. I expect that the remaining seven sites, along with some additional proposals for marine cold water coral reef candidate...