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- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: I am not going to do that.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: He did not.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: I am proposing amendment No. 63 which is linked to the proposals on a local economic and community plan for which provision is being made in the new sections 66A to 66H and which we will discuss later. The new provisions for the local economic and community plan will cover, in section 66H, the making of regulations concerning the new integrated plan. Accordingly, the provisions of section...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: The companies spent the money.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: Are these the same people the Senator wants to discharge the programmes?
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: The individual companies.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: It was corrected.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: The Senator is.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: I have answered that already and I have answered several times to the effect that the community will be partners with the local authority in delivering programmes.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: I do not hold any remit for private companies limited by guarantee but Senator Ó Clochartaigh knows that the directors of those companies are obliged under company law to conform with the various aspects of community law. Whether they are limited by guarantee or not they are still under the umbrella of the Companies Acts in which there are very serious responsibilities for directors,...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: It is 35% in some companies.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: I draw Senator Ó Clochartaigh's attention to the published documentation by Pobal regarding the financial statements about these companies that they issue from time to time.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: Senator Ó Clochartaigh trots out the mantra that we will close down this or that. That is not the case. Of the approximately 1,900 people employed in the local development companies, around 1,650 are Exchequer funded. I provided €47 million for the sector in 2014, the same level of funding I provided in 2013. This sum will fund 1,650 positions on the same basis next year as...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: We - Fine Gael and Labour - were the first Government to give the community and voluntary sector a statutory remit in the local government system. Deputy Cullinane thinks that is a bad thing. We have respect for the local elected members, who were democratically elected and will be charged with the responsibility to discharge their functions and account for them in regard to disbursement...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: The Senator is not well informed on this. Work is going on in an alignment group, between the Irish Local Development Network, ILDN, the county and city managers and the Department, for the past year, working out the details in regard to implementation and we have made substantial progress. I expect we will reach agreement in the next couple of weeks. Also, at my request, the officials of...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: Whoever worked out the figures in the past, it was not me. The plan was agreed in 2009, but the resources of the State have taken a fair leap in the opposite direction, unfortunately.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: All I can say is that my actions this year have ensured that the full programme funding will be met. Some €370 million will be committed over the programme period. My obligation is to ensure that happens.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: I did not promise any money to anybody; I do not know what the Senator promised. An additional €4 million was allocated today, of which €1 million will go to the Gaeltacht areas, for the former MFG companies that were starved of finance because of the liquidation of the company and the skullduggery that went on.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: A minute ago, the Senator was saying no consultation took place, but now he is saying it has happened.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Phil Hogan: It might not be right.