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Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: I refer to the reply to Question No. 1089 of 12 April 2005.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: The following table outlines expenditure under section 10 for refuges and transitional housing which cater for women only and for women and children. Expenditure on hostels which cater for women only is also outlined. My Department refunds local authorities 90% of their expenditure for the provision of this accommodation and related services. In addition, under the local agenda 21...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: I have indicated that it is my intention, using the powers available to me under section 60 of the Waste Management Act 1996, to issue a policy direction in regard to the approach which the appropriate authorities should take to illegally deposited waste and those responsible for it. This policy direction is now being finalised.

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: Under the Waste Management Act 1996, the Environmental Protection Agency has statutory responsibility for waste licensing and is independent in the discharge of its functions. In accordance with article 18(1) of the Waste Management (Licensing) Regulations 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency forwarded a copy of a waste licence application relating to the case in question and a copy of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: The payment of any overtime to personal secretaries in my Department is in accordance with Department of Finance guidelines.

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: Enforcement of planning control is a matter for each planning authority which can take action where a development requiring planning permission has not obtained this permission or where permission has not been complied with. Accordingly, I have no plans to introduce a planning inspectorate to enforce planning law. My Department's role in this matter is to provide the legislative framework...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: I refer to the reply to Question No. 152 of 13 April 2005. In this I stated that I have asked for a copy of the relevant symposium papers to be sent to my Department so that its findings can be taken into account in the ongoing development of planning policies. This process already involves two broadly based working groups: an interdepartmental steering committee which oversees the...

Written Answers — Motor Taxation: Motor Taxation (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: It is estimated that the annual cost to my Department of the online motor tax system is some €2.17 million and the average cost per transaction is €3.80. The annual cost includes fixed charges and, as a result, the unit cost per transaction reduces as the volume increases.

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: Three tax incentive based regeneration initiatives, the urban and town renewal schemes and the living-over-the-shop scheme, are being examined by the Department of Finance and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners as part of a review of a wide range of tax incentive schemes and tax exemptions. Pending the outcome of this review and developments at EU level concerning regional aid guidelines...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: Information in relation to development contributions collected by planning authorities are published in my Department's annual planning statistics and the collection of the 2004 figures is under way. The total amount of development contributions collected by planning authorities in 2003 was €215,449,057.

Written Answers — Library Projects: Library Projects (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: Local authorities were asked in 2004 to review their capital programmes for library development and to submit a prioritised list of proposals which they wished to have considered by my Department in its current review of the programme. In its submission, Kildare County Council has listed five projects for consideration in the following order of priority: mobile library vehicle; school library...

Written Answers — Architectural Heritage: Architectural Heritage (19 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: Statutory protection of the architectural heritage is primarily a matter for planning authorities to whom my Department provides advice in the exercise of their functions in that regard under the Planning and Development Act 2000. Under the provisions of the Act, each planning authority shall for the purpose of protecting structures or parts of structures which are of special architectural,...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (14 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: Responsibility for the administration of the group water schemes measure of the rural water programme has been devolved to local authorities since 1997. However, the question may relate to stage two of the Lisdoonvarna public water supply, which involves an extension of the scheme to Ballyvaughan and Fanore, and has been approved for construction in my Department's water services investment...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (14 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: In July 2004 my Department concluded an agreement with the farming pillar under Sustaining Progress which involved increased rates of compensation for the cessation of turf-cutting in bogs that have been proposed as designated conservation areas. This agreement incorporates retrospective provisions benefiting landowners who participated in the original 1999 scheme for disposal of raised bogs...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (14 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: The Malin town sewerage scheme has been approved for funding in my Department's water services investment programme 2004-2006 under the rural towns and villages initiative. My Department approved Donegal County Council's preliminary report for the scheme in June 2004, subject to a number of conditions, including a review by the council of the design population of the scheme prior to...

Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (14 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: The recycling of post-consumer plastic beverage containers and other types of plastic packaging is generally more problematic than for other packaging materials due to the light weight to volume ratio, sorting and pre-treatment requirements, high end market specifications and the associated costs involved. Accordingly, the recycling rate of plastic packaging is generally lower than that for...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (13 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 66 and 78 together. I am familiar with the recent report by the Law Society's reform committee entitled Discriminatory Planning Conditions: The Case for Reform. Section 39 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as was the case with previous planning legislation, provides that a condition may be attached to a grant of planning permission for a house,...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (13 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: Development by or on behalf of a local authority which requires environmental impact assessment must be submitted to An Bord Pleanála for approval. With regard to development by or on behalf of a local authority which does not require environmental impact assessment, the manager of the planning authority must consult the public and prescribed authorities. The manager must submit to the...

Written Answers — Litter Pollution: Litter Pollution (13 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 71 and 108 together. On foot of the success of the environmental levy on plastic bags, which was introduced in March 2002 and has resulted in a reduction in the dispensing of plastic shopping bags at retail outlets by over 90%, An Agreed Programme for Government contained a commitment to consider the extension of the levy on plastic bags to other materials...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (13 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 72 and 88 together. The making of waivers in respect of waste charges connected with services provided by, or on behalf of, local authorities is a matter for the local authority concerned. My Department has no function in the matter. The issue of waste charges in the context of low income persons-households has been raised in a social partnership context...