Results 18,041-18,060 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: That is it, yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: That is capital. On the current side-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: That is my understanding, yes. Deputy Ó Broin asked a question about the infringement proceedings. What was that again?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: That is part of the €184 million.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: That is a capital contribution against Irish Water's business plan. It is the Irish Water business plan, which is the response the Commission is looking at. That is across multiple investments. The Exchequer contribution towards that is €184 million, but there is a bigger contribution towards dealing with the issue because of the other funding Irish Water provides for itself.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: Could the Chairman please clarify?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: Is the Chairman referring to the 80-20 issue and seeking earlier decisions so people know what they have to spend? My officials have just informed me that we will try and do that at an early stage so that when budgets are being put together in September, there would at least be some clarity as early as July. This might give local authorities some lead-in time rather than obliging them to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: At the moment, it is not on the table.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: There has been no discussion in my Department with me in respect of this issue. I do not anticipate that there will be another payment of this kind. The local authorities that are having to self-fund some of their housing programmes from local property tax are being asked to use just a portion of their overall gain from that tax. They still have additional moneys left over from the local...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: As we discussed earlier, it is a contribution towards the service that Irish Water provides. Irish Water has many other revenue streams. I do not think anybody is pretending in the current environment that Irish Water will be able to raise all of its money from a charging system which is about to be suspended. As we are deciding how to fund water provision, we have to strike the right...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: Some €42.5 million is being provided in 2016 for SICAP, which will be subject of a value for money review and a programme review this year. A review of the targets has already been completed. We can provide details of that review to the Deputy if he wants them. Preparations are already under way for the post-2017 SICAP. There is a focus on building vibrant communities through a...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: The Deputy was not the subject of my comment.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: I have heard people talking about this matter as if water was never-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: No, no.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: We have good robust discussions at meetings of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party. This case is often made as if motor tax did not fund water services for years. The only point I am making is that motor tax was used in that way. I take the point that the big decision that is made in September really determines what is possible in the budget a few months later. I am told that Revenue...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: No, it will remain in my Department.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: I do not disagree with any of that. In respect of Met Éireann staying with my Department, I must point out that the organisation is building capacity around medium-term flood forecasting. I think we learned some very expensive lessons in the past few years around the predictability of flooding. We have looked at what other countries can do and what we cannot do in terms of having...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: That is made up by the other income streams available to An Bord Pleanála. The €14 million is to meet other costs for offices, including rental. Nearly €1 million is being spent on IT systems. There are other costs in running An Bord Pleanála simply beyond salaries.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: My understanding is total salary costs are €9.5 million. We are looking at whether An Bord Pleanála needs more staff. It would be ridiculous, if we are trying to build significantly more houses - we are talking about an expenditure programme in the billions - to slow the process down because we need half a dozen staff in An Bord Pleanála. It is a little like getting fire...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016) Simon Coveney: I will get the Deputy the breakdown, but the figure is over 100. Obviously, there are the board members, but there is a whole infrastructure around them. A comprehensive review of An Bord Pleanála was finished a few months ago. We have not started implementation or the assessment of it for implementation. That will get under way in the coming months. On turnaround times, we often...