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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Programme for Government and the Memorandum of Understanding with the EU, the IMF and the ECB provide for the introduction of domestic water charges. The Government considers that charging based on usage is the fairest way to charge for water and it has decided that water meters should be installed in households connected to public water supplies. The Government has also decided that...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: I set up the Pyrite Resolution Board to oversee and ensure the effective implementation of a pyrite remediation scheme for homeowners who have no other viable option to have pyrite remediation works undertaken. The Board is currently drawing up the precise scope and detail of a pyrite remediation scheme which will set out the eligibility criteria, priorities, procedures and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Issues (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: I have had a number of meetings with the Irish Local Development Network, the representative body of the 50 local development companies, to discuss the new arrangements arising from Putting People First: Action Programme for Effective Local Government and, in particular, the recommendations of the Steering Group on Local Government and Local Development Alignment. The meetings focused on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Litter Pollution Issues (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The taking of enforcement action in relation to any particular incident of illegal dumping is a matter for the relevant local authority concerned and also the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Enforcement which supervises the environmental protection activities of local authorities. In 2012, I introduced, as a once-off scheme, the Litter Enforcement Grant Scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Illegal Dumping (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: Enforcement action against illegal waste activity is a matter for the local authorities and the Office of Environmental Enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and my Department does not compile statistics in relation to fines imposed. For the years 2009 to 2011, such statistics are publicly accessible through the Local Government Management Agency's series of annual...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: As part of the process of preparing the National Housing Development Survey 2011, published by my Department in October 2011, local authorities provided details of all unfinished housing developments in their areas. Unfinished housing developments were divided into four categories as follows: - Category one, where the development is still being actively completed by the developer, or...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Issues (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: Following a thorough examination of project activity under the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) I announced, on 24 April 2013, the lifting of the embargo on project approvals. The completion of this review has facilitated the immediate issuing of RDP contracts for approximately €42 million worth of projects which have been approved by the Board of the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Programme for Government provides for the introduction of domestic water charges as part of wider reforms of water services provision. The Government considers that charging based on usage is the fairest way to charge for water and it has decided that water meters should be installed in households connected to public water supplies. The Government has also decided that Irish Water, the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The main aims of Axes 3 & 4 (LEADER) of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) are to support the diversification of the rural economy and improve the quality of life in rural areas. Through the RDP measure Conservation and Upgrading of the Rural Heritage , funding is provided to support an integrated approach to the protection of the local heritage through a suite of related...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Kildare Sewerage Scheme (Sewer Network Contract) is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2010 - 2013 as a contract to proceed to construction during the lifetime of the Programme. Kildare County Council's revised Contract Documents for this contract were received in my Department on 23 April 2013 and are under examination at present.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: Section 10A of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 (as amended) provides for a temporary exemption of at least three consecutive years from the charge to Local Property Tax (LPT) for residential properties that have been certified as having "significant pyritic damage". Regulations are currently being finalised in my Department and will be published shortly which will set out the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Collection (30 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 provides the legislative basis for the Household Charge. Under the Act, an owner of a residential property on the liability date is liable to pay the Household Charge, unless otherwise exempted or entitled to claim a waiver. It is a matter for an owner of a residential property to determine liability and pay the Charge. The Local Government...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: VAT Payments (25 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 182 of 24 April 2013 which sets out the position in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (25 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: I set up the Pyrite Resolution Board (PRB) to oversee and ensure the effective implementation of a pyrite remediation scheme for homeowners who have no other viable option to have pyrite remediation works undertaken. The Board is currently drawing up the precise scope and detail of a pyrite remediation scheme including the eligibility criteria, priorities, procedures and assessment /testing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Protection Agency Investigations (25 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Environmental Protection Agency is currently managing the site concerned, including works such as leachate and odour management. My Department continues to provide funding to support this work from the Environment Fund. I understand that contracts were signed on 27 February, 2013 for the provision of site management services and for the development of an options report for the future...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (25 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013 provides for the development of a comprehensive range of new water services infrastructure in County Cork. The Programme includes contracts under construction and to commence to the value of some €230 million in the county during the period of the Programme. The Castletownbere Sewerage Scheme is included in the Programme as...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Offshore Islands (25 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: In 2012 the Community Division of my Department provided funding for Inishbofin under the Local and Community Development Programme (€116,907.00) and the Rural Development Programme (€23,422.73). The funding was channelled through Comhar na nOileán, the Local Development Company with responsibility for Programme delivery on the offshore islands.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (25 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 149 and 150 together. Responsibility for the administration of the Rural Water Programme has been devolved to local authorities since 1997. The selection and approval of individual scheme proposals for advancement and funding under the programme, within the overall priorities set by my Department and subject to the block grant allocations provided, is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Application (25 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 is a matter for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. However, it is up to every local authority to determine its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process, having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources, including moneys received from paid parking. I have no plans at present to issue...

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Programme Funding (24 Apr 2013)

Phil Hogan: I thank the Acting Chairman, Deputy Ann Phelan. It is appropriate that she is in the Chair for this matter. Many Members from all parties have asked about this issue recently. I thank Deputy Coffey for using the time available to discuss topical issues to give me the opportunity to clarify matters. The Leader elements of the Rural Development Programme 2007-13, which my Department...