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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (22 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: The establishment of Irish Water involves major organisational change, an entirely new funding structure governed by economic regulation and the roll-out of a national domestic metering programme. The role of my Department is to drive the overall water sector reform process which includes developing the policy and legislation and ensuring delivery of the implementation strategy which was...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (22 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: The moratorium on recruitment and promotion in the public service was introduced in March 2009 in response to the financial crisis. My Department operates a delegated sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for implementation of the moratorium in relation to local authorities, and any exceptions to the moratorium in local authorities require sanction from my Department....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Sector Management Appointments (22 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: I am committed to ensuring that senior level appointments of the kind referred to are publicly advertised in line with general public service recruitment policies and practices and reflecting the Government’s commitment to ensure that such posts, which are central to the effective performance of our system of public administration, attract the widest range of high calibre...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Outsourcing of Public Services (22 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: The information requested in the question is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible. My Department already uses outsourcing as an effective and efficient way of providing services in areas such as ICT for telephony services, building services and property evaluation for foreshore licence applications. Given the mainly policy orientation of my Department the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Bodies Establishment (22 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Local Government Management Services Board and the Local Government Computer Services Board have merged with the establishment of the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) in August 2012. The LGMA also took on residual functions from An Chomhairle Leabharlanna, which was dissolved as of 1 November 2012. The Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency (HSCA) was established in 2012....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (22 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: No employee in any semi-State body under the aegis of my Department received bonus payments in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: I did not answer questions on service level agreements asked by Deputies Murphy and Cowen. I will put up a generic service level agreement on the website today and each local authority must explicitly account for it in its accounts with Irish Water.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: We only have a generic service level agreement since the Bill was passed before Christmas so we could not do anything before now. It will be put on the website to show what will be involved. Local authorities must then account for it explicitly in their accounts afterwards. The Deputy will be able to get the full picture. The director of services, finance or water should be able to explain it.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: This is why the rural water programme is with local authorities. Irish Water will be more concerned with major urban areas and major investment opportunities which will provide jobs-----

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: I have retained group water schemes and rural water schemes in local authorities so we can target all of the issues Deputy Mulherin raised with regard to CLÁR areas. Does Deputy Flanagan know about CLÁR areas given that he is from Roscommon?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: They are a legacy issue I inherited from Deputy Ó Cuív where funding was cut in 2010. We must now find money to finish schemes in very remote rural areas which otherwise could not be finished. We are examining it, as Deputy Mulherin knows, to see what we can do to supplement community groups and ensure they have the basic human right of adequate water.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: Or an environmentalist.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: Deputy Corcoran Kennedy asked a number of questions regarding local government. The commercial rate will be struck by the county or city authority, not by the municipal district. However, the municipal district members will be members of the plenary session when that happens, whatever municipal district they are from. If they want to have certain enterprise initiatives at local authority...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: However, the Deputy did not acknowledge that we were at last, making an investment there. Some 50% of the population of Roscommon will have an enhanced water supply. With regard to people on boil water notices, I am prepared to tell the CER that this and such issues must be taken into account before charging these people. I would see it as very unfair for the regulator not to take these...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: The EPA has to license all wastewater treatment plants. Perhaps the Deputy's experience in Roscommon is that the local authority goes out and investigates issues itself, but that should not be the case. The EPA should be doing it as part of the licensing conditions.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: Did Kildare County Council receive a cut in its funding in 2014?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: Would the Deputy not talk to-----

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy should ask the county council's director of water services.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: It is all on page 16 on the Revised Estimates briefing paper circulated to the committee. Under subhead D3, income and expenditure of the Local Government Fund, income from local property tax comes to €550 million, gross motor tax receipts amount to €1.16 billion, and interest from local government moneys invested in the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA,...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Phil Hogan: Yes.