Results 1,661-1,680 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche
- Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The regional planning guidelines for the greater Dublin area, which implement national spatial strategy principles and policies at regional level, comprise the principal framework for the sustainable development of the greater Dublin area. Their objective is to consolidate the physical and population growth of Dublin within the metropolitan area, and to provide for concentrated development...
- Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The last point is a good one and should be included in the debate. I am anxious that apartment blocks should be more family appropriate. I welcome support from Deputy O'Dowd and his party for greater densities because that is the way to go. He is right to say it is the way to go. If we do not go up we will go out. That has been a problem. We must have some sort of regulation when local...
- Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: I will note that because one of the complaints in the area is about houses going up. Building in south Dublin is down 1.9%. Interestingly, it is down in Wicklow and Meath but up in Kildare. A pattern of sorts is emerging. I support the Deputy's point that brownfield sites should be brought on stream and I agree that in areas such as the Dublin docklands greater densities would be...
- Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The Deputy is entitled to his views. The question was about Dublin, not Limerick and Cork.
- Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The question was about preventing urban sprawl in Dublin. I do not disagree with the Deputy that the way forward is to have better quality, higher density, full amenity developments.
- Planning Issues. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The recent development in the Dublin docklands area, one of the most successful projects of its kind, shows the way ahead. I agree that is the appropriate way to bring forward some of the brownfield sites in particular. That is how we will deal with urban sprawl.
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: On 15 December 2006, the chairman of the planning tribunal on his own initiative wrote to me to advise that the tribunal's public hearings would not be completed by 31 March 2007, the target date for the termination of the tribunal's work identified in 2004. The chairman stated that he anticipated that the tribunal would be involved in public hearings until the end of 2007 and possibly into...
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: All correspondence is covered by a confidentiality requirement. My natural disposition is to be open on the issue of correspondence. The correspondence is not completed and to break confidentiality I would show discourtesy to the tribunal. It is also more important that I complete this issue and then I will visit the issue of making all material available. I do not disagree with the...
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The Deputy is correct that a decision was made that, from 31 March 2007, different, lower per diem rates would be paid. The point can fairly be made from the point of view of the tribunal, and this is part of the ongoing dialogue, that while the tribunal would have anticipated a timetable for 2007, there has been a series of legal actions which have impeded or prevented the completion of...
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: No, I am not saying that.
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: If the Deputy would let me finishââ
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The decision on a lower tariff of fees was that they would come into operation from 31 March this year. There is to be a dialogue between me and the tribunal on the timetable issue. The tribunal can fairly put forward a case that legal actions have impeded its work. The tribunal has a case to make and we must listen to it. I ask the Deputy not to press me to anticipate what will happen...
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: I am not sure that tribunal fees are a Labour Court matter.
- Waste Management. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The Government's waste management strategy has delivered demonstrable and successful results, including the achievement of domestic and EU targets well ahead of schedule. This strategy, as formulated in successive policy documents, has been framed against the background of EU objectives to move to specified recovery rates for various waste streams and to divert biodegradable waste from...
- Waste Management. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: The answer to most of the Deputy's rhetorical questions is "No". There is a degree of extraordinary hypocrisy in the Green Party's stance on this issue. I was pleased last week that, in the course of the debate, Deputy Quinn made it clear that incineration or waste to energy will have to be part of any integrated waste strategy for the future. Recovery and reduction of waste will also have...
- Waste Management. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: I do not agree with Deputy Cuffe. We have achieved extraordinary targets in waste management in recent years, for which the public is to be congratulated. We are in a position where recycling is a possibility and one on which we must work. Deputy Cuffe did not address the issue of combined heat and power energy production. To use waste as an energy resource is the next step.
- Waste Management. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: CHP, where energy is recovered from waste, has been adopted in every other European country. Even the deputy leader of the German Green Party boasted about it.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: Ireland will deliver fully on its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. While the relevant Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report shows the downward trend in greenhouse gas emissions was interrupted in 2005, this was expected and was in line with projections published by the Department in 2006. The report notes much of the 2005 increase in emissions can be attributed to two factors,...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: I do not agree that Ireland is one of the worst countries in Europe. The Deputy should examine other comparisons. The Deputy is correct that there have been significant increases in emissions in the transport area. One reason is there are more cars on the road but there are other factors. The Deputy is correct that there is no rail link to Dublin Airport. However, there are advanced...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)
Dick Roche: I hope the Deputy does not expect me to answer the last question in the affirmative.