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Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (6 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: My Department's customer service action plan has the objective to ensure that persons who wish to conduct their business through the medium of Irish are facilitated and that correspondence received in Irish will be answered in Irish. At present, some 3% of staff surveyed in the Department are available to provide services through the medium of Irish. A number of other staff who may not be as...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: As stated in reply to Question No. 532 of 28 March 2006, peat extraction below ten hectares in area is exempted development except where it could have significant effects on the environment. The threshold has been set at a level that ensures that the vast majority of sub-threshold peat extractions will not have a significant effect on the environment. If a person proposing to carry out peat...

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I will arrange to have details of all candidate special areas of conservation in Galway which are proposed for designation under the European Communities (Natural Habitats) Regulations 1997 to 2005 sent to the Deputy.

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Ireland signed the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters on 25 June 1998. Progress towards ratification of the convention is closely aligned with work at European Union level. To date, the European Union has adopted two directives as part of the ratification process for the convention. These deal with...

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

Dick Roche: The Dromcollogher, Hospital, Pallasgreen and Bruff sewerage schemes, which are being advanced as a grouped project, have been approved to advance through planning in my Department's water services investment programme, 2005 to 2007. In June 2005, I approved Limerick County Council's brief for the appointment of consultants to prepare a preliminary report for the grouped project. The council's...

Written Answers — Local Authority Boundaries: Local Authority Boundaries (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I have written today to Limerick City Council regarding its proposal for an extension of the city boundary with a view to building a strong consensus on a viable way forward. I considered that it was premature to pursue the proposal in its current format. However, I have stressed the need to develop the Limerick to Shannon gateway to its full potential, in line with the national spatial...

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

Dick Roche: Roscommon County Council's design review and water services pricing policy reports and implementation strategy for these water supply schemes are now being further examined in my Department following receipt, last week, of additional information requested from the council in September 2005. Following approval by the Department, the council will be in a position to prepare contract documents...

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: While the establishment of the NDA was portrayed in some quarters as a new dawn for nuclear clean-up in the United Kingdom, particularly at Sellafield, we in Ireland have been down the road before when other new dawns have proved false. As with so much else, the devil is in the detail in so far as the NDA is concerned. The Irish Government considers that this authority is fundamentally...

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: If the Deputy wants to submit a parliamentary question, I will give him a comprehensive reply.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: We are making statements.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy has asked me to answer a number of specific questions but I understood that we were here to make statements. If the Deputy wishes to ask a particular query, I will provide an answer if he tables it in the form of a parliamentary question.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy asked for a specific answer.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I wanted to draw the Ceann Comhairle's attention to the matter.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The car is already on order. The Deputy should not worry. I will give him a ride in it some day because it will be the only time he will be in a position to travel in it.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: There is a delay in receiving such cars.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Yes.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: I thank Deputy Durkan for his contribution and congratulate him on his effective use of the time available. I agree with him that if the answer to the question was nuclear, it must be a very foolish question. I am reminded of a placard held up by a young schoolgirl in Navan during the course of an election campaign a number of years ago which read, "If the answer was Fine Gael, it must have...

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: Not in this regard. International relations and government to government relations and government to government messages were excluded from the Deputy's original draft and from every subsequent draft under the Freedom of Information Act. If the Deputy has any doubts about that, I refer him to the Act.

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: The salient point is that if the Deputy believes the decision of the information officer in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government was wrong, he could have made an appeal to the Information Commissioner but he did not do so. If the Deputy was genuinely interested in the issue — I do not doubt his sincerity——

Nuclear Safety: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Dick Roche: If the Deputy was genuinely interested in the issue rather than in hollow grandstanding, he would have asked the Information Commission to explain the position.