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Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1511: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if planning enforcement officials in the local authorities are part of a network enabling them to increase their abilities and share in their knowledge of their legal responsibilities; and if not if he has any plans to assist in the establishment of such a network. [33431/10]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1508: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if any instances have come to his attention of retention being permitted by a local authority for a project falling under the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive since his circular letter Circular PD 5/08 of 15 August 2008 detailing the illegality of such consents. [33427/10]

Written Answers — National Parks and Wildlife Service: National Parks and Wildlife Service (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1510: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if officials of the National Parks and Wildlife Service are part of a network enabling them to increase their abilities to ensure the implementation of European law and share in their knowledge of their legal responsibilities; and if not if he has any plans to assist in the establishment of such a network....

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1512: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the involvement he has in the training of the Judiciary to build their capacity to deal with environmental litigation and access to justice under European environmental law and the Aarhus Convention. [33432/10]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1526: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is addressing the competition for forestry thinnings between State subsidised biomass projects and private utilization. [33421/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1542: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to proposals to amalgamate part or all of Coillte Teo and Bord na Mona. [33434/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1616: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has considered, in the context of the ongoing review of afforestation, premia including areas of scrubland as eligible for such premia to allow the increase of the national forest estate without the need for payment of establishment grants and to reduce the number of wildfires used for controlled management of...

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1617: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the proposed scheme in the Revised Programme for Government through which some of the moneys currently set aside to purchase carbon credits abroad will be diverted for forestry investment here. [33412/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1618: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a list of derogations from the obligation to replant forestry given in the past five years, distinguishing between those given on environmental grounds and those given for commercial purposes.. [33420/10]

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1619: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to concerns of the local community of Castletownbere, County Cork, in relation to the loss of the Colt Rock, an historic insignia, from its traditional location at the exit to the harbour without notice during the installation of a safety beacon last year; and if he can confirm that the...

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1666: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost to the national forest estate of the wildfires in 2010. [33409/10]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1667: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will confirm the clawback of €5.75 million in single farm payments and disadvantaged area payments by his Department on the grounds that areas of scrubland unavailable for foraging were included in their applications; and if his views that this action has intensified the number of wildfires in 2010 intended to...

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1668: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to any plans to afforest peatlands held by Bord na Mona; and if such planting was approved if Bord na Mona is eligible for afforestation premia. [33413/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1669: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the review of State forestry policy to take account of its role in relation to climate change, detailing the way climate change is affecting decision making in the Forest Service and Coillte Teo. [33414/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1670: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the progress of the new Forestry Act for which public consultations were first held in 1999; and if he will confirm if this review will include the 1988 Forestry Act establishing Coillte Teo. [33415/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1671: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will confirm that calculations of afforestation on peatlands include greenhouse gas targets; and if the calculations include changes in soils below ground as well as biomass. [33416/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1672: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will identify the area of peatlands which has been replanted with forestry after felling in each year since 2000. [33417/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1673: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if any analysis has been done or is held by his Department of the environmental effects of replanting of forestry on peatland; and if he will furnish any relevant reports. [33418/10]

Written Answers — Nitrates Directive: Nitrates Directive (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1674: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will include within the definition of peat soils used by the Forest Service not only the wider considerations of species selection, estimation of potential rooting depth, potential yield, and crop stability and so on, but also the peat soil classification criterion by organic matter content as used to determine the...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1685: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the reason for the delay in payment to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [31799/10]