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Written Answers — Household Charge: Household Charge (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 161 and 168 together. The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Household Charge) Regulations 2012 provide the legislation underpinning the household charge. Under the legislation, an owner of a residential property on the liability date of 1 January 2012 is liable to pay the household charge by 31 March 2012, unless otherwise...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: I will chair the High-Level Inter-Departmental Group on Sustainable Development (HLGSD) which will coordinate and drive overall implementation of Our Sustainable Future - A Framework for Sustainable Development for Ireland. The HLGSD will report on progress to the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and the Green Economy, chaired by the Taoiseach. My Department has written to the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: Our Sustainable Future is a joined-up approach to policy making on sustainable development and sets out clear measures, responsibilities and timelines in an implementation plan that will ensure we improve our quality of life for current and future generations. It will be a matter for individual sectors led by the relevant Departments to promote and coordinate delivery of the measures in Our...

Written Answers — Water Meters: Water Meters (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: Since 2001, local authorities have been responsible for the installation of water meters on supplies to non-domestic customers. Where properties had mixed commercial and domestic use, meters were installed and the customers were given an allowance for the domestic element of the water usage. As the non-domestic metering programme was devolved to the local authorities my Department does not...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce competitive tendering for household waste collection, under which service providers would bid to provide waste collection services in a given area, for a given period of time and to a guaranteed level of service, a system otherwise known as 'franchise-bidding.' A public consultation designed to inform the policy development...

Written Answers — Water Services: Water Services (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: The overall strategy of investment in water services is to ensure that the timing and scale of investment facilitates economic and other development, achieves compliance with statutory requirements and promotes environmental sustainability objectives. The main vehicle for achieving these objectives for public domestic water supplies is the multi-annual Water Services Investment Programme....

Written Answers — Water Supply: Water Supply (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: My Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013 places a high priority on water conservation. Funding is particularly targeted at areas where the level of unaccounted for water is unacceptably high. In the year to end September 2011, some 200 kilometres of public water supply pipes were replaced or rehabilitated under this programme. Since the national water conservation...

Written Answers — Air and Water Pollution: Air and Water Pollution (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: With regard to detection of air pollution, ambient air quality monitoring and assessment in Ireland is carried out in accordance with the requirements of Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe, also known as the CAFE Directive. The CAFE Directive consolidated and replaced the earlier Air Quality Framework Directive and the first three so-called "daughter"...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: My Department continues to have responsibility for a range of community focused programmes and actions, in line with its high level objective to facilitate integrated development at local level and foster vibrant, sustainable and inclusive communities and to support the Community and Voluntary Sector in its contribution to an active, democratic and pluralist society. My Department funds a...

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: The preparation of the Register of Electors is a matter for each local registration authority – the city and county councils. It is their duty to ensure as far as is possible, and with the cooperation of the public, the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the register. The publication of the draft register in November each year in preparation for the coming into effect of the register on...

Written Answers — Fire Service: Fire Service (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: It is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under Section 10 of the Fire Services Act 1981 to provide a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs, the provision of a premises and the making of such other provisions as it considers necessary or desirable. Outside of the main cities which...

Written Answers — Household Charge: Household Charge (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: The household charge is on a self-assessment basis and it is a matter for an owner of a residential property on the liability date of 1 January, 2012 to determine if he/she has a liability and, if so, that person is required to declare that liability by completing the household charge declaration form and to pay the household charge by 31 March, 2012. There is a range of options available for...

Written Answers — Tidy Towns Committees: Tidy Towns Committees (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: The guiding principle of TidyTowns is volunteerism and self-help, using one's own skills and resources. There is no specific funding scheme for TidyTowns groups but they, like any community group, can qualify under other schemes. The TidyTowns Unit of my Department is responsible for the payment of prize monies, provided through sponsorships, to the various category winners in the TidyTowns...

Written Answers — Non-Principal Private Residence Charge: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: 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 local authority to collect non-principal private residence charges and...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: Since the request for the Minister to hold a public local enquiry under section 212 of the Local Government Act 2001 into aspects of the handling of the grant of a waste permit for the creation of a borrow pit at Ballybeg in Co. Wicklow, including into the role of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, the matter has been the subject of communications between my...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: Entitlements and provisions in relation to sick leave are set out in the relevant sick leave circulars issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Measures that have been put in place in my Department to monitor and manage sick leave include the following: · On foot of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 09 of 2010, which provides for a general framework...

Written Answers — Public Sector Reform: Public Sector Reform (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: An integrated annual progress report under the Public Sector (Croke Park) Agreement 2010-2014 for my Department and its agencies was published on my Department's website in May 2012. An integrated Action Plan for the implementation of the Agreement by my Department and its agencies was also published on my Department's website in March 2012. I am satisfied with the pace of reform reported...

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

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Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

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Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Phil Hogan: The courts are dealing with it.