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- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: The Navan mid-Meath water supply scheme is included in my Department's water services investment programme 2004-06 as a scheme to commence construction in 2005. Meath County Council's preliminary report for the scheme is being examined in my Department and will be dealt with as quickly as possible. The council will be in a position to prepare contract documents once the preliminary report has...
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: The Navan water mains replacement scheme, which will improve the quality and reliability of water supplies in the town, has been approved for construction in my Department's water services investment programme 2004-06 at an estimated cost of â¬4.8 million. I understand that phase 1 of the scheme is nearing completion and I have recently approved Meath County Council's contract documents for...
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: The Ashbourne Ratoath and Kilbride sewerage scheme is approved for construction under my Department's water services investment programme 2004-06 at an estimated cost of â¬20.6 million. Meath County Council's preliminary report for the scheme is being examined in my Department and will be dealt with as quickly as possible. The council will be in a position to prepare contract documents when...
- Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: The compilation of a register of electors is a matter for the appropriate registration authority in accordance with electoral law. In order to be able to vote at elections and referenda in this jurisdiction, a person's name must be entered in the register of electors for a constituency in the State in which the person ordinarily resides. Subject to this primary requirement, the person's...
- Written Answers — Archaeological Sites: Archaeological Sites (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: Works carried out at the Rock of Dunamase prior to the national development plan, NDP, consisted mainly of archaeological excavations. The nature of these excavations unavoidably resulted in the site being left in a more fragile condition. This first phase of works established the methodology to be adopted in subsequent phases and involved comprehensive topographical, photographic and...
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: Moville water supply is an element of the Inishowen regional water supply scheme which was ranked 23rd in the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by Donegal County Council in response to my Department's request to all local authorities in 2003 to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: In May 2005, I announced proposals for a pilot project for the provision of a number of skateboard facilities. My Department wrote to all city and county councils at that time enclosing details of the initiative, including the selection criteria, and invited councils to submit an application to participate in the pilot project. Funding under that scheme is intended for capital purposes only....
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: Of the court judgments referred to in the question, my Department is taking action in a number of cases. Case C494-01 refers to the waste framework directive. The European Court of Justice, ECG, judgment is being studied by a high-level group of officials from my Department, the Office of Environmental Enforcement, the Department of Finance and the local authorities, with a view to preparing...
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 679 and 680 together. The European Commission is currently in correspondence with my Department in respect of 56 cases relating to possible infringements of EU environmental legislation. Reasoned opinions have been received in 30 of these cases.
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 681 and 682 together. There have been 13 judgments against Ireland delivered by the European Court of Justice, nine of which relate to areas for which my Department has responsibility. At this time, the court has not indicated dates for hearings or the delivery of judgments in relation to cases currently before it.
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: As part of its measures to comply with its Kyoto commitments, the Government has indicated its intention to purchase quantities of carbon allowances each year in the Kyoto Protocol commitment period 2008-12. In order for the credits to be purchased on behalf of the State, it will be necessary to put in place institutional arrangements for the actual purchase and management of allowances....
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: I am advised that problems caused by mass balloon releases were first highlighted at a conference in Canada in 1989 on plastic and other debris found at sea. Balloons, some still partially inflated, had been found accumulating on islands off the east coast of Canada. In response to these findings some countries curtailed balloon releases. I am further advised of reports showing that an...
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: The Oughterard sewerage scheme has been approved for construction in my Department's water services investment programme 2004-06. My Department is awaiting submission of Galway County Council's preliminary report for the scheme for approval.
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: The greater Dublin strategic drainage strategy study report was recently submitted to my Department and is currently being examined. Proposals in the report for new water services infrastructure will be considered for inclusion in my Department's water services investment programme. Details of water services schemes currently approved for funding by my Department are set out in the water...
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 691 and 692 together. My Department does not routinely compile information on local authority waste collection services, which are a matter for those authorities. However, earlier this year in the context of the move to pay-by-use waste charging systems, the Department compiled data on the waste collection services being locally provided. I am arranging to...
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: My Department does not maintain data to the level sought in the question. In particular, there is no breakdown available on materials accepted at individual recycling or bring centres. Data on bring sites and civic amenity sites at end 2004, for the purposes of providing a subvention towards their operating costs, are still being compiled. The most recent available figures refer to the...
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 694 and 695 together. The compilation of detailed statistics on waste generation, recovery, recycling and final disposal are matters for the Environmental Protection Agency, which prepares the national waste database, NWD, every three years. The most recent such report was published in 2003, in respect of waste arising in 2001, and is available from the EPA....
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: The 2004 Revised Estimates provision for the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Vote 25, was â¬2,309,788,000, net, made up of â¬685,346,000, current, and â¬1,624,442,000, capital. The final outturn was â¬2,228,701,000, net, made up of â¬682,058,000 current and â¬1,546,643,000, capital, giving rise to a surplus of â¬81.087 million comprising â¬3.288 million,...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: My Department has been included in the first tranche of public bodies required to produce an Irish language scheme under the Official Languages Act 2003. Our scheme, which has recently been approved by the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, will take effect from August 2005. Specific costs incurred by my Department in the implementation of the Act to date amount to â¬11,277...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (30 Jun 2005)
Dick Roche: I expect to be in a position to submit a final version of Ireland's nitrates action programme to the EU Commission in July. Work is ongoing in my Department in consultation with the Department of Agriculture and Food and the Commission on the operational details of the programme.