Results 7,081-7,100 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (2 Nov 2004)
Dick Roche: Grants are not available for connections to local authority waste water collection systems and there are no proposals to introduce such a scheme. The arrangements relating to individual connections are a matter for the individual and the local authority concerned.
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (2 Nov 2004)
Dick Roche: The Tuam main drainage stage 2, Ballygaddy Road, scheme has been approved for construction in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme2004-2006 under the serviced land initiative. Contract documents for the scheme were approved in August 2003 and my Department is now awaiting submission of Galway County Council's tender recommendation. Details of the areas proposed to be served by...
- Seanad: Grant Payments. (27 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: The agriculture chapter of Sustaining Progress includes a range of commitments from the Government encouraging nature conservation requirements. Constructive discussions on these issues took place between my Department and representatives of the farming pillar, resulting in an agreement in July 2004. Part of this agreement was for an increase in the rates of compensation where cessation of...
- Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements. (20 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: I am pleased to be in the Seanad again not as a Senator but as a visitor to the scene of old crimes. I take this opportunity to address the Seanad on priorities in the planning area, an issue in which I know Senators take a particular interest given their relationship with councillors and county councils. Land use planning has a higher profile in Ireland than ever before given that we are...
- Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements. (20 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: The Local Government Computer Services Board has developed a wide range of planning-related programmes for authorities. E-planning has great potential for planning authorities and that potential must be unlocked. I cannot understand the reason no planning authority allows the submission of planning applications on line. Let us look at what the Revenue Commissioners have done. They have made a...
- Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements. (20 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: The Senator has an interesting social life.
- Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements. (20 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: We will be back.
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: I consider that An Taisce carries out valuable work on a number of environmental and amenity initiatives. These include the national spring clean and the blue flag schemes, both of which receive substantial grant assistance from my Department and a green schools programme, which is widely supported by local authorities. Article 28 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 includes An...
- Written Answers — Marine Conservation: Marine Conservation (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: Given my Department's limited resources for wildlife conservation and protection, it is necessary to target grant assistance towards projects which will fulfil our obligations under EU directives, maximise conservation benefits and address the overall protection of threatened and vulnerable species and habitats. There is an abundant population of seals in Irish waters and the seal species are...
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 566 and 570 together. The Ennistymon, Liscannor, Miltown Malbay and Spanish Point sewerage schemes which are being procured as a grouped project, are included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006 to commence construction in 2006. My Department is awaiting the submission by Clare County Council of a preliminary report for the schemes.
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: The Ennis-Clarecastle sewerage scheme is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006 as a scheme to commence construction in 2005. Clare County Council's preliminary report for the scheme is under examination in my Department and will be dealt with as quickly as possible.
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: The compilation of detailed statistics on waste generation, recovery, recycling and final disposal are a matter for the Environmental Protection Agency which prepares the national waste database, NWD, every three years. The most recent such report published in 2003 in respect of waste arising in 2001 is available from the EPA. The agency will in future be compiling the NWD every two years...
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: The west Clare regional water supply scheme, contract 6, is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006 as a scheme to commence construction in 2005. Clare County Council's design review report and contract documents for the scheme are under examination in my Department and will be dealt with as quickly as possible.
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: The Ballyvaughan, Corofin and Doolin sewerage schemes which are being procured as a grouped project, are included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006 to commence construction in 2005. My Department is awaiting the submission by Clare County Council of contract documents for the schemes.
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: Stage 2 of Lisdoonvarna water supply scheme, extension to Ballyvaughan and Fanore, has been approved for construction in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006. Clare County Council's contract documents for the scheme are under examination in my Department and will be dealt with as quickly as possible.
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: Within the frameworks of the national development plan and the Good Friday Agreement, my Department, together with the Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland, is taking forward enhanced North-South co-operation and joint action in a range of areas including environmental research, information and awareness raising, water quality management, waste management, environmental impacts of...
- Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: Under the Waste Management (Farm Plastics) Regulations 2001, producers, that is, manufacturers and importers, of farm plastics â silage bale wrap and sheeting â are required to take steps to recover farm plastics waste which they have placed on the market or alternatively to contribute to, and participate in, compliance schemes to recover the waste in question. The farm plastics recovery...
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: From an environmental or development control point of view, there is no general statutory requirement limiting construction work on development sites in residential areas to specific times and there are no proposals in that regard. However, as detailed in reply to Question No. 385 of 6 April 2004, the Planning and Development Act 2000 enables planning authorities to impose planning conditions...
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: On 23 January 2003, the European Commission issued Ireland with a reasoned opinion to the effect that the â¬20 fee for the making of a submission on a planning application which requires environmental impact assessment is contrary to the public participation provisions of Directive 85/337/EEC on Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA. A reply, responding to each of the points raised in the...
- Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (19 Oct 2004)
Dick Roche: The latest comprehensive data on waste arisings and recovery in respect of all waste streams are contained in the National Waste Database Report for 2001, published by the EPA in July 2003. No aggregate recycling rate for all waste streams is indicated in the report. Agriculture is the single largest source of waste in Ireland, accounting for an estimated 76.5% of all waste arisings in 2001....