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Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (1 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: The Ballybay Sewerage Scheme is being advanced, with schemes for Castleblaney and Clones, as a grouped project under my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2005-2007 at an overall estimated cost of €6.63m. My Department is awaiting submission of a Preliminary Report for the project by Monaghan County Council.

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (1 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: In law, the preparation of the Register of Electors is a matter for each local registration authority. It is their duty to ensure, as far as possible and with the cooperation of the public, the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the Register. Authorities were required to publish the final Register for 2007/8 by 1 February last. In working to compile the Register, authorities undertook and...

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (1 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: Responsibility for the security and safe storage of manual voting equipment (such as ballot boxes, stamping instruments, and stationery) is a matter for returning officers, who are statutorily responsible for conducting the polls. Accordingly, similar responsibility was assigned to them in relation to the storage of the electronic voting equipment. The electronic voting equipment (including...

Written Answers — Wildlife Conservation: Wildlife Conservation (1 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: My Department has not received an application for a horseracing event to take place in 2007 at the above site. However, applications for horse racing at Aillebrack beach were refused in 2005 and 2006 after detailed consideration of all issues involved. The most fundamental consideration was that a race meeting would have a significant negative impact on the machair habitat, which is a...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (1 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: Planning regulations class as exempted development the change of use of a house to a residence for persons with an intellectual or physical disability or mental illness and for persons providing care for such persons. Conditions applying to this exemption limit the number of persons with such a disability or illness living in a house to a maximum of 6, and the number of resident carers to a...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (1 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: My Department has received a copy of the correspondence referred to. A comprehensive reply issued to the correspondent and in the circumstances I do not propose to meet with the group. I refer to the reply to Question No. 205 on 22 February 2007 on wastewater systems.

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: To address the issue of accumulated backlogs of farm plastic, designated facilities are being provided on a temporary, once-off basis by local authorities where farmers may deposit stockpiled farm film plastic and silage wrap. This arrangement operated on a pilot basis in the first instance in counties Galway, Clare, Mayo, Offaly and Waterford during June and July of last year. This...

Written Answers — Home Improvement Grants: Home Improvement Grants (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: Grants are not available from my Department to individual householders for the replacement of septic tanks. However, under the Rural Water Programme, grants of €2,031 per house are available from county councils to groups of householders who provide common sewerage facilities in cases where existing facilities are deficient and giving rise to pollution.

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: Under the provisions of Section 40 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, a planning permission is normally granted for a period of 5 years beginning on the date of the granting of permission. All development, including that necessary to comply with the terms of any condition imposed by the planning authority or An Bord Pleanála on appeal, must be substantially completed within this...

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I am advised that it has been the practice since 1968 to limit development in areas known as "red zones" around the 3 state airports of Dublin, Cork and Shannon, for reasons both of air navigation safety and public safety. In 2000, my Department and the Department of Transport jointly commissioned Environment Resource Management (ERM) to review the specific issue of addressing public safety...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The Glin Sewerage Scheme, which is being advanced as part of a grouped project that also involves Athea, Askeaton, Foyes and Shanagolden, is approved for funding in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2005-2007. My Department is awaiting submission of Limerick County Council's Preliminary Report for the project.

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The geographical areas referred to (Carn Park and Crosswood Bogs) were proposed as candidate SAC in December 2002 and were publicly notified at that time in accordance with the requirements of the Habitats Regulations 1997. Land Title enquires revealed that 75 persons with turbary rights were affected by the designation. People who are cutting turf for their own personal domestic use are...

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The waste to energy plant proposed to be located at Poolbeg is being procured as a public private partnership by Dublin City Council acting on behalf of the four Dublin local authorities, and within the framework of the statutory regional waste management plan. Dublin City Council has informed my Department that the selected service provider for the project has been seeking significant...

Written Answers — Regional Development: Regional Development (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: My Department and the Department of Finance are currently working up the terms of the operational framework for the Gateway Innovation Fund, established under the National Development Plan 2007-2013. Qualifying or assessment criteria have not yet been finalised.

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: Funding for small public and for private group sewerage schemes is allocated to local authorities by my Department through annual block grants under the Rural Water Programme. The prioritisation and approval of individual schemes under the Programme is a devolved function of the local authorities. Expenditure on small public water and sewerage schemes under the 2006 Programme amounted to...

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 103, 120, 132, 157 and 213 of 27 February 2007. It will be a matter for the National Treasury Management Agency, on enactment of the Carbon Fund Bill, to decide on the modalities for future purchases of carbon credits. In relation to the Kyoto Protocol commitment period 2008-2012, the Government has signalled its intention to purchase up to a maximum...

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: Yes, and I will deal with that in my response.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I thank Deputies for their many interesting contributions, some provocative and some grotesquely inaccurate. I will address the last point made by Deputy Eamon Ryan, since I nodded many times while he spoke. Several points can be made. The Nairobi conference was one of those life-changing events. It was in the right place because the impact of global change was all around. The cries from...

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I agree with the Deputy saying "Not as our only response".

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: It is not Ireland's only response and the Deputy knows that as well as I. Two or three weeks after Kofi Annan's remarks, 600 scientists produced their report on climate change at a conference in Paris. They unequivocally placed on the record exactly where we are going on climate change. If there were any doubts about it, they were dispelled at that stage. Mr. Nicholas Stern spoke at that...