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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 217. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a definition of architectural conservation. [27797/15]

Statement of Estimates for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion (7 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Aire mar go raibh sé sásta glacadh leis an díospóireacht seo. Ní raibh mé ag iarraidh díospóireachta chun gearán a dhéanamh, ach chun a mheabhrú do dhaoine nach bhfuil gach uile pháirtí ar Choimisiún Thithe an Oireachtais. The minutes of the commission are available...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Expenditure (7 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of an age-related back to education allowance payment at the end of April 2014 and at the end of April 2015. [27122/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Expenditure (7 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 95. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the higher estimate indicated in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 26 May 2015 compared to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 9 July 2014. [27509/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the capacity of the employability service to accommodate an extra 1,000 persons. [27496/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (7 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 44 and 45 of 25 June 2015, the primary causes of her Department's overspend and underspend, as referenced in her reply. [27497/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Places (7 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 25 June 2015, the estimated additional cost to her Department of introducing 4,000 additional community employment scheme places in 2016. [27498/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure (7 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 66 and 67 of 25 June 2015, the estimated combined cost of raising the cut-off age of the one-parent family payment to 12 years old, and raising the one parent family payment income disregard to €120, in 2016. [27499/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Applications (7 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 103. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason an application for a fuel allowance to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4 was refused. [27716/15]

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I did not say it was millions. The Minister heard Deputy Catherine Byrne say this about the waste management debt that Dublin City Council sold to Legal and Trade Collections and other legal firms to pursue and recuperate as much of that debt as it could. They are still trying to do that. That is why it is still an issue. I have not said people should not pay but that people need to...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I said that about Irish Water and the waste management companies. I did not raise the issue of waste management and people with €1,500, or whatever, left over. That debt is sold. That is what companies do. They will make a provision in their annual accounts to write it off after two or three years. It is not worth the time of most of these companies chasing the €500 or the...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was sorry to hear the previous speech because I had a different speech laid out. Deputy Catherine Byrnehas reminded me that we are here to deal with legislation on civil debt. She spoke a great deal about fairness and is correct that people need to budget. Many families who are now in debt budgeted on the basis of their income. They took out a mortgage and tried to pay the cost of...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Since this is such an important matter, I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is a substantial round of amendments. In many ways, from the Minister of State’s point of view and that of the previous Government, this is the logical conclusion to the removal from local authorities of waste management. It is now in the hands of private operators who operate it as a business rather than a service, but up to now they have had very little interest in regard to...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Like tyres. There is a huge market for tyres. If one talks to the tyre companies, they will say how many they produce. However, the companies that recover tyres are asking where the tyres have disappeared to. They are not all on Orange bonfires so that means we have a problem in that somebody is dumping them somewhere. In the countryside, we can see them on hay bales and so on.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no problem with that because they are visible. However, the problem is those who are dumping them at scenic sites around the country or burning them, whether in the city or not. In my area, fires are regularly set by different groups, although it is usually not tyres but other material they are burning, such as electrical wires and the like in order to get copper from them. In...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There has been a problem for several years about those who are authorised to collect waste and those who are not. It is necessary to ensure that the system of penalties for those in breach of the licensing regulations is accurate. I am involved with Liberties Recycling which recycles clothes. It is mainly a community employment project which also tries to "recycle" people, those who have...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I apologise to the Minister because I could not be here for most of the debate yesterday. I had a number of committee meetings to attend. I hope what I am asking in respect of this group of amendments has not been asked previously by another contributor. The amendments to amendment No. 20 have just been mentioned by Deputy Paul Murphy. I have not had the time we normally have to consider...

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We did not say that it was not.