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Written Answers — Leader Programme: Leader Programme (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: Axes 3 and 4(LEADER) of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2007-2013 have total funding of €427m available to be allocated to qualifying projects up to the end of 2013. One of the objectives of the RDP is to equip rural dwellers and communities with the appropriate range of skills and training to derive maximum social and economic benefit from the initiatives available under the Axes....

Written Answers — Leader Programme: Leader Programme (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: To date 53 such applications have been received by my Department, 40 of which have received approval to proceed. A full and detailed assessment of each of these projects is required and my Department is awaiting clarifications in relation to two projects. A further four were returned for re-consideration to the relevant Local Action Group as the projects as proposed could not be approved. ...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Question Nos. 231 and 232 together. Responsibility for the RAPID programme transferred to my Department on 1 May 2011. The RAPID Programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion within designated RAPID areas nationally. It is a matter for individual Departments to report on the provision of...

Written Answers — Forbairt Pobail: Forbairt Pobail (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: Beidh a fhios ag an Teachta go ndearna Pobal, a riarann an Clár Forbartha Áitiúil agus Pobail ar son mo Roinnse, iniúchadh ar Mheitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta Teo (MFG) i mí Eanáir 2010. Cé gur cuireadh na fionnachtana agus na moltaí a ghabhann leo in iúl do MFG i mí an Mheithimh 2010, tá aghaidh le tabhairt fós ag an gcomhlacht sin ar chuid de na ceisteanna a n-éiríonn sa...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: In general, planning permission must be obtained for the erection of an antenna support structure or mast. A decision on a planning application is, of course, a matter for the relevant planning authority or An Bórd Pleanála on appeal. Under Article 6 and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, certain classes of development carried out by a statutory undertaker...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 236, 255 and 256 together. In October 2009, the European Court of Justice ruled that Ireland failed to adopt the necessary legislation to comply with Articles 4 and 8 of Council Directive 75/442/EEC, known as the Waste Directive, regarding domestic waste waters disposed of in the countryside through septic tanks and other individual waste water treatment...

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: The numbers of Whole-Time Equivalent staff employed in Local Authorities in County Louth in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 to date, are set out in the table. Local Authorities in County Louth Permanent Temporary Total December 2007 681 60 741 December 2008 710 24 734 December 2009 679 13 692 December 2010 667 7 674 March 2011 662 9 671

Written Answers — Water Services: Water Services (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Question Nos. 240 to 242, inclusive, and 268 together. Almost €6 billion in Exchequer funding has been invested in water services infrastructure between 1997 and 2010. The expenditure is administered through the Water Services Investment Programme and the Rural Water Programme. The Water Services Investment Programme is a multi-annual investment plan for the provision of...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: Responsibility for this area transferred to my Department on 1 May 2011. I have not received any recent correspondence from the South West Inner City RAPID Area Implementation Team.

Written Answers — Water Services: Water Services (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Ballymore Eustace Wastewater Treatment Plant was approved for funding under the Serviced Land Initiative of my Department's Water Services Investment Programme. Work on schemes under this Initiative must be completed, and funding drawdown applications received, by the end of 2012. The first annual review of the main Water Services Investment Programme is currently underway. Kildare...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Community related functions of the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs transferred to my Department on 1 May 2011. The former Department had, over the past number of years, pursued a process of cohesion of local delivery structures in order to simplify and enhance the effectiveness of the delivery of a range of local development programmes. This process has resulted...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: In relation to the proposal to allocate funding for the Mullingar RAPID area, projects have been assessed and prioritised by Pobal, and these are currently being considered by my Department in the context of the reduced level of funding available in the current year, and also in the context of the review of expenditure that is being undertaken. Any decisions arising will be notified to all...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: Responsibility for this area transferred to my Department on 1 May 2011. I have not received an application from the RAPID group referred to in the Question under the Community CCTV Scheme.

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: Under the programme in question, I understand that an Area Implementation Team (AIT), which draws up a plan based on the particular needs of the area so that available funding can be targeted where it will do the most good in the community, has been established for the area in question. The inaugural meeting of the AIT took place on 15 April 2010. The AIT includes representatives of the...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Dormant Accounts Acts provide for an annual transfer by credit institutions and insurance undertakings of monies in accounts determined to be dormant into the Dormant Accounts Fund (DAF). Since its establishment in April 2003 to the end of February 2011, the transfers to the DAF have totalled some €589m, which includes interest earned of some €35m. Funds reclaimed in that period by...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes (The McCarthy Report) recommended the discontinuation of Dormant Accounts Board (the DAB), which has statutory functions relating to disbursements from the Dormant Accounts Fund. The Report stated that this would result in an annual saving to the Exchequer of €1.7m. It should be noted, however, that the...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: As regards the purposes for which dormant accounts funding may be spent, any measures approved for funding by the Government from the Dormant Accounts Fund fall under one of the three purposes listed in the Dormant Accounts Act 2001. I should add that expenditure by Departments from the Fund is subject to scrutiny by the Comptroller and Auditor General in the same way as other funding programmes.

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: As regards the discretion of the Dormant Accounts Board, I am satisfied that disbursements approved by the Board have been properly and fairly applied. However, the statutory powers of the Dormant Accounts Board were substantially diminished by the Dormant Accounts Act, 2005, and, as a consequence, since then the Board has not been involved in approving specific dormant accounts...

Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: The information requested is set out in the following table: Review Undertaken by Expected Completion Date A review concerning financial reporting by the local government sector. My Department. End June 2011. An economic analysis of the potential impact on competition and consumer prices of eliminating or relaxing the floorspace cap on retail premises. My Department, the Department of...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (10 May 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2012 , a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas Library, provides for the development of a comprehensive range of new water services infrastructure in County Kerry. The Waterville Water & Sewerage Scheme (Design/Build/Operate Contract) is included in the Programme amongst the list of contracts in the county to start in the period 2010...