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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1038 and 1040 together. My Department carries out various awareness campaigns and initiatives to promote public understanding and behaviour change, or to provide information. Details of the amounts paid in respect of hiring external public relations and consultancy persons and organisations for the years 2010 and 2011, and in the period since February 2011,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: Staffing of my private and constituency offices and that of my colleague, Ms. Jan O’Sullivan, T.D., Minister of State, is in accordance with the agreed reduced staffing numbers set out in the Instructions on Ministerial Appointments for the 31st Dáil and the Guidelines on Staffing of Ministerial Offices of March 2011. During the period in question, former Minister of State...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: The information requested is set out in the accompanying table: Purpose of Consultancy Consultant Amount Paid Since February 2011 Retrofitting Code of Practice. Building Research Establishment Ltd €27,635 Testing of Hydraulic Efficiency - national annex for septic tanks and wastewater treatment. Irish Concrete Federation Ltd €2,270 Sound insulation research to inform...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Transport (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: My Department has spent €275,389 on ministerial transport arrangements since the formation of the Government.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: Information on external reports commissioned and funded by my Department is set out in the accompanying table: Description of Report Consultant etc. Amount Spent Since February 2011 Retrofitting Code of Practice. Building Research Establishment Ltd. €27,365 Sound insulation research to inform the drafting of Part E (Sound) of the Building Regulations. Napier University...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1046, 1070, 1071, 1072, 1075 and 1077 together. Seventy four estates were identified to the Pyrite Panel as possibly having pyrite. In the case of 23 of these estates, no pyrite related claims have been made to structural guarantee companies nor did there appear to be any significant evidence, at the time the Panel undertook its work, to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: The pyrite report pointed to the need for Government to ensure that responsible stakeholders should engage constructively in processes to deliver effective solutions for homeowners and should bear the costs of remediation. On receiving the pyrite report I engaged with the key stakeholders outlining my position to them in the context of what I expected from them. I set a deadline of the end...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: My preferred approach to advancing solutions for homeowners affected by pyrite is for responsible stakeholders to take ownership of the problem and work with me to provide an industry-led solution for homeowners. In this regard I have set a deadline of the end of September for the relevant stakeholders to come back to me with credible proposals. However, in the absence of positive outcomes...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Pyrite Panel undertook a desktop study to establish facts in relation to the potential exposure to pyrite in private dwellings, including apartments and duplexes. As the pyrite problem relates to under-floor hardcore stone fill only ground floors in apartments and duplexes were considered.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Labour Court Recommendations (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: There are no Labour Court recommendations that have been issued in respect of my Department or agency under its aegis that have not been complied with.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Labour Court Recommendations (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: Implementation of Labour Court Recommendations, by individual local authorities, is a matter for the local authority concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1053, 1058 and 1104 together. The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended, broadened the revenue base of local authorities by introducing a charge on non-principal private residences. The charge is set at €200 and liability for it falls, in the main, on owners of rental, holiday and vacant properties. Under the Act, it is a function of a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Funding (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: Some €40 million in Exchequer funding was allocated to the Rural Water Programme in 2012. In March 2012, my Department notified local authorities, who have responsibility for the administration of the Rural Water Programme, of block grant allocations totalling €31.625 million. This consisted of €20.010 million towards group water schemes and €11.615 million towards...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: There are no plans to abolish Pobal, which delivers a range of publicly and EU funded programmes on an out-sourced basis on behalf of a number of Government Departments. It also delivers funding on behalf of a number of Departments involved in supporting services in the not-for-profit, community and voluntary sectors, and is in a unique position to bring considerable value-added because of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: The number of employees with a disability in each local authority as at 31 December 2011 is set out in the table below. My Department collects information on an annual basis regarding the number of persons with a disability employed in each local authority. Local Authority Number of Employees with a Disability as at 31 December 2011 Carlow Co Council 8 Cavan Co Council 31 Clare Co...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Rehiring (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: Part 5 of the Disability Act 2005 requires all public bodies, in so far as practicable, to take all reasonable measures to promote and support employment by them of people with disabilities. Unless there are good reasons to the contrary, public bodies are required to employ 3% of staff with disabilities and report every year on compliance. As of December 2011, my Department exceeded this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Management (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: The provisions for Managers’ Orders are set out in Section 151 of the Local Government Act 2001. The manager is required to keep a register, with a copy of every order made by him or her. At every meeting of a local authority so much of the register as contains any orders made since the previous meeting must be made available for inspection by the elected council. Any member of a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Management (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: Question No. 1060 answered with Question No. 86.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: RAPID Programme (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: I understand that arrangements are being made to hold a RAPID National Monitoring Committee meeting this autumn, which I hope to attend, subject to diary and Dáil commitments. The RAPID Programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion within designated RAPID areas nationally.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Management (18 Sep 2012)

Phil Hogan: Disbursements on dormant accounts measures are paid in the first instance “up front” from Departmental Votes in the same way as with any other spending programme. Therefore, Government Departments have to source funding for dormant accounts programmes from their annual Exchequer allocations. At a time of severe budgetary pressures, resulting in reduced allocations across all...