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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a disadvantaged area scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has now registered as a horse premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55137/12]

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. Few subjects in Irish public discourse are as sensitive as the subject of abortion, which is the focus of the report of the expert group. Views are polarised on both sides and no solution will ever be found that will satisfy the demand of these polar opposites. However, it is worth noting that the tone of the current debate is much more...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: Is there still contact between the Department and the local authority trying to collect this money?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: What would Mr. Dowling's view be of the fact that some of the people who are receiving letters have already paid the charge?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: I understand that. However, I would probably use a different word to describe the situation than "irritation". Some of the people who received what they saw as a threatening letter saying they had not paid their charge are very elderly. These people were being patriotic in paying the charge, despite not liking the charge. Yet, they received this letter and were then asked to make a phone...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: Can it be assumed that if someone who received a second such letter rang up and confirmed the charge had been paid, that person would not receive a third such letter?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: Is that one per local authority or are they in one area?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: It is remarkable we do not have the detail of the five in question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: What are the implications for those five local authorities that did not submit any information to the EPA on the water treatment plants, or are there any implications for them? What are the consequences for that not happening?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: Of those five that did not submit information have they submitted that information now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: Is there no local authority that has not submitted that information at this point?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To go back to the point once more, for those who did not submit the results, was there a financial implication for those local authorities or any penalty or punishment for failing to do that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: Is it intended that there would be in the future? If local authorities are not compliant to the strictest of levels is there any intention to change that position into the future?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: I understand that but considering that we are asking primarily rural dwellers to register their septic tank to help with the safety of water management, does the Secretary General not believe that those people would expect local authorities to perform to an extremely high standard? That five local authorities did not submit results is shocking for those people.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: As of today what is the total number of septic tanks registered in the country?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: What is the total number of septic tanks expected to be registered?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: How many of those were registered in the first three months when there was a discount?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: What is the closing date? What is the last date for registering one's septic tank?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: What is the Department doing to continue to publicise the fact that one must register for those who have not done so?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paul Connaughton: If after that time there are people who have not registered their septic tank, what is the next legal action?