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- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: I have had no discussions on the matter raised in the Question.
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182 and 195 together. The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Household Charge) Regulations 2012 provide the legislative basis for the household charge. There is a range of options available for persons to pay the household charge. An online system www.householdcharge.ie is in place in the Local Government Management Agency...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: The independent Pyrite Panel is due to submit it's report to me shortly. On receipt of the report I will give careful consideration to the position of home owners whose homes are affected by pyrite. The identification of dwellings affected by pyrite is quite complex and this issue will need careful consideration following receipt of the report.
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: Part 10 of the Local Government Act 2001 provides for agreements between local authorities concerning the discharge of functions. Such agreements could include the procedures for discharge of such functions, as appropriate. Section 85(5) of the Act provides that the making of an agreement by a local authority, in so far as it relates to it, is a function reserved to the members of the authority.
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta (MFG), the group contracted by my Department to deliver Axes 3 & 4 (LEADER) of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) in Gaeltacht Areas, went into liquidation on 7 September 2011. Progress is ongoing in the context of the legal "winding up" process and all relevant RDP (LEADER) project files have been released by the liquidator and are now with my Department....
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta Teo (MFG) confirmed that its Board, upon examination of the company's financial situation, took the decision to cease trading on 7 September 2011 on the basis of insolvency and the company is now in liquidation. As the matter is now in the hands of the Liquidator, I am not in a position to comment on the financial status of the company.
- Written Answers — Local Government Audit Service: Local Government Audit Service (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: It is a matter for each local authority, including Sligo County Council, to determine its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources. The elected members of a local authority have direct responsibility in law for all reserved functions of the authority, which include adopting the annual budget...
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to open the debate in the Dáil on the Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012. The primary purpose of the Bill is to give legislative effect to the increases in motor tax rates and trade plate licences contained in the financial resolution on motor tax passed by the Dáil on budget day, 6 December 2011. The new rates...
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: I did not say that. I said it was only â¬2 a week.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: Deputy Healy-Rae will have to reduce the commission.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: Did Deputy Healy-Rae not support that for years?
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: I caught Deputy Healy-Rae on that one.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: I caught Deputy Healy-Rae on that one.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy's father had that problem for a while too.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: I call it hypocrisy.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: He did.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: He did not do the Kilgarvan sewerage scheme.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy did not send it up from Kerry yet.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: Fourteen years and he could not do the sewerage scheme in his village.
- Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy should be ashamed of himself.