Results 4,341-4,360 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: If things had been so good, I would have inherited very few problems.
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and I am glad he is in the Chair.
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: The process is one that the Deputy put in place and that cannot be changed until the end of this programme period, which is the end of this year. I am considering all those issues in the context of reform, including the high level administration that the Deputy put into the system.
- Other Questions: Pyrite Panel Report Recommendations (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 83 and 93 together. I attach a very high priority to preparing the necessary primary legislation to underpin the imposition of a levy on the quarrying and insurance sectors, in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General. The Department is currently advancing the drafting of the general scheme of a Bill. While there are particular complexities...
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: We continue to have a major water rehabilitation programme in the Dublin area and a significant amount of money will be spent on replacing the pipe network, which is an ongoing programme.
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: Funding of €314 million is available under the rural development programme 2007-13 for allocation to qualifying projects up to the end of 2013. There are 35 local action groups, LAGs, contracted on my Department’s behalf to deliver the rural development programme throughout the country and these groups are the principal decision-makers on the allocation of project funding....
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: Of those under assessment, yes.
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: I would like to think it is simple to approve every project, but that is not true of any project, whether under or over the level of €150,000. They must meet certain criteria and are subject to an EU audit. The larger the project, the greater the degree of care and the attention paid by the local action group. Larger projects often require the assistance of the Department in order...
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: I thank the Deputy. We estimate that 300,000 households may not be metered. We are currently carrying out a survey in Wexford - Deputy Mick Wallace may have been surveyed himself - involving 9,000 houses in the last six weeks. A higher than expected number have been found already to have boundary boxes. We had estimated that 100,000 properties nationally had boundary boxes installed as...
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: I will try to be helpful and get the information from Irish Water for the Deputy.
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: To reply to Deputy Dessie Ellis, there will be assessed charges for people in apartment blocks which we will not get around to metering. In terms of some of the types of terraced properties Deputy Barry Cowen mentioned, there will certainly be technical difficulties initially. The assessed charge will take account of the free allowance based on a certain amount of permitted litres per...
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: May I answer the question? The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and I will be in discussions and we will let the Deputy know the outcome in due course.
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 81 and 91 together. The programme for Government and the memorandum of understanding with the European Union, the IMF and the European Central Bank 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 has decided that water meters should be installed in...
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: I expect that by the end of 2014 approximately 50% of households will be metered. An estimated 300,000 households may not be metered initially owing to the high cost or technical difficulties.
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: Yes. That is our estimate.
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: That is high.
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: I do know the source of the Deputy's figures. I can only go on what-----
- Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: Yes.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: Deputy Ó Cuív got caught out.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Phil Hogan: Deputy Ó Cuív was caught out.