Results 4,001-4,020 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche

Written Answers — Local Authority Services: Local Authority Services (23 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The report, Service Indicators in Local Authorities 2004, which was published by the local government management services board in July 2005, contains comprehensive information on local authority performance in 2004 across a wide range of activity programmes, including enforcement of planning control, recycling, enforcement of litter legislation and the average time to re-let local authority...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (23 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 209 and 210 together. The local government sector operates under public procurement guidelines issued by the Department of Finance. These require contracting authorities, including local authorities, to ensure that tenderers have regard to minimum pay and other legally binding industrial or sectoral agreements when preparing tenders and that tender documents...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: That would be a good idea.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: That is a good idea.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Humour was never Deputy Jim O'Keeffe's strong point.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Opposition has really lost it here.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: It is about the same as calling Deputy Ó Caoláin's crowd a constitutional party.

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has no detailed information on the proposal referred to in the question. It is, however, probable that an installation proposing to emit this quantity of methane would be subject to integrated pollution and prevention control licensing by the Environmental Protection Agency. This licensing system is fully capable of having...

Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Attorney General had discussions with the tribunal in question concerning the possible sub-division of the tribunal into a number of divisions, as provided for in the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence)(Amendment) Act 2004, in order to expedite its work. The tribunal confirmed to the Attorney General that it intends to utilise this power to sit in divisions when it is appropriate and...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has no record of having received representations from, or having had meetings with, the Open Republic Institute.

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Kiltimagh sewerage scheme is approved for funding in my Department's water services investment programme 2005-07 as a scheme to commence construction this year. My Department approved Mayo County Council's preliminary report and the preparation of contract documents for stage 1 of the scheme in February 2004. The council's contract documents for the collection network were received in...

Written Answers — Noise Regulations: Noise Regulations (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Section 107 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 provides local authorities with powers to require measures to be taken to prevent or limit noise. These powers are generally exercised in preventing and limiting noise from commercial and industrial premises within their functional areas. Under the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and Noise Regulations 1994, a local authority...

Written Answers — Vehicle Registration: Vehicle Registration (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Recording of changes of vehicle ownership on the national vehicle and driver file, NVDF, takes place centrally at the offices of my Department in Shannon, County Clare. In excess of 22,000 such notifications are received each week. There is no undue delay in updating the NVDF records, which are manually updated, and a vehicle registration certificate issues to new owners within five working...

Written Answers — Local Government: Local Government (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: While there is no specific legislative provision obliging county councils to provide town authorities with such reports, one of the objectives of the Local Government Act 2001 was to strengthen town local government and provide for linkage and co-operation with the county in the delivery of more integrated and improved service to the public for both the town and its surrounding areas. A town...

Written Answers — Water Quality: Water Quality (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Local authorities are responsible for the operation and maintenance of individual water supply systems and for the compliance of drinking water supplies with prescribed EU and national quality standards. The duty on local authorities to take the necessary measures to ensure that drinking water meets these standards is performed under the general supervision of the Environmental Protection...

Written Answers — Archaeological Sites: Archaeological Sites (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: I refer to Question No. 660 of 25 October 2005. The working group I established to advise on the most appropriate strategy for the future preservation and management of the Woodstown site has met twice. The group comprises two senior archaeologists, including my Department's chief archaeologist; a senior archaeologist from the National Roads Authority; two representatives of the National...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy should try.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy is a former Minister for sport.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: With regard to the scale and nature of the physical development which has taken place over past decades, there is common cause in this House that it is not good enough that, as has happened in the past, we built without putting the infrastructure in place. Certainly, nobody can suggest that I have any less interest in this than anybody on the benches opposite because I have a record on the...

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: If I am wrong, I accept that. I have never witnessed Green Party support.