Written answers
Tuesday, 30 May 2006
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Departmental Bodies
8:00 pm
Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context
Question 606: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the public bodies under the control of his Department; their function, role, location and establishment date; the administration costs of each body in the year 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20478/06]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context
The following is a list of the public bodies under the aegis of my Department, the function, role, location, establishment date of each body and the funding granted to each body by my Department in 2005:
| Name of public body: | Affordable Homes Partnership |
| Function/ Role: | To co-ordinate and add impetus to the delivery of affordable housing in the Greater Dublin Area |
| Location: | Fenian Street, Dublin 2 |
| Establishment Date: | 2005 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €1,100,000 |
| Name of public body: | An Bord Pleanála |
| Function/ Role: | To determine appeals and certain other matters under the Planning and Development Acts, 2000 to 2004, and appeals under the Building Control Act, 1990, the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts, 1977 and 1990 and the Air Pollution Act, 1987. |
| Location: | Marlboro St, Dublin 1 |
| Establishment Date: | 1977 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €12,074,000 |
| Name of public body: | Building Regulations Advisory Body |
| Function/ Role: | To advise the Minister on matters relating to building regulations, and provide such advisory services for or on behalf of the Minister, as the Minister may, from time to time, specify. |
| Location: | Custom House, Dublin 1 |
| Establishment Date: | 1992 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €10,200 |
| Name of public body: | An Chomhairle Leabharlanna |
| Function/ Role: | (a)to provide advice, assistance and services to library authorities in relation to the public library service, |
| (b)to make such recommendations to and the provision of such services for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government) in relation to the public library service as the Minister may request or as the Council sees fit, | |
| (c)to promote and facilitate library co-operation, and | |
| (d)to maintain and operate the central library established under Section 2 of the (Public Libraries) Act of 1947 | |
| Location: | Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2 |
| Establishment Date: | 1947 |
| Department funding for 2005: | NIL |
| Name of public body: | Comhar |
| Function/ Role: | The forum for national consultation and dialogue on all issues relating to sustainable development. Comhar's terms of reference are to advance the national agenda for sustainable development, to assist in devising suitable mechanisms and advising on their implementation, and to contribute to the formation of a national consensus in these regards. |
| Location: | St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2 |
| Establishment Date: | 1999 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €95,322 |
| Name of public body: | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Function/ Role: | To protect and improve the natural environment for present and future generations, taking into account the environmental, social and economic principles of sustainable development. It aims to be a powerful agent for change, both in attitudes to the environment and in actions on environmental protection. It works to place environmental issues at the heart of international, national and local decision-making processes. |
| Location: | Johnstown Castle Estate, Co. Wexford |
| Establishment Date: | 1992 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €24,620,716 |
| Name of public body: | Fire Services Council |
| Function/ Role: | To assist fire authorities through the provision of training courses and seminars to supplement the training provided by the authorities themselves. |
| Location: | Custom House, Dublin 1 |
| Establishment Date: | 1983 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €435,000 |
| Name of public body: | Heritage Council |
| Function/ Role: | To propose policies and priorities for the identification, protection, preservation and enhancement of the national heritage |
| Location: | Rothe House, Parliament Street, Kilkenny |
| Establishment Date: | 1995 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €8,987,000 |
| Name of public body: | Housing Finance Agency |
| Function/ Role: | (a)to advance funds to local authorities to be used by them for any purpose authorised by the Housing Acts; and |
| (b)to borrow or raise funds for these purposes. | |
| Location: | Eden Quay, Dublin 1 |
| Establishment Date: | 1982 |
| Department funding for 2005: | NIL |
| Name of public body: | Irish Water Safety Association |
| Function/ Role: | To promote public awareness of water safety; to promote measures, including the advancement of education, related to the prevention of accidents in water; to provide instruction in water safety, rescue swimming and recovery drills; other services related to water safety. |
| Location: | The Long Walk, Galway |
| Establishment Date: | 1999 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €553,000 |
| Name of public body: | Local Government Computer Services Board |
| Function/ Role: | (a)to organise, administer and provide, or arrange for the provision of, a service for the supply of computer facilities (including facilities relating to the preparation of data for input to a computer, computer programming, systems analysis and design, and the operation of data processing facilities) for local authorities. |
| (b)to coordinate, and secure compatibility in, the use of computers by local authorities generally with a view to securing the most effective use of available resources. | |
| (c)In matters relating to (a) and (b) above to provide, or arrange for the provision of, training and education, carry out, promote or assist the carrying out of, research, and furnish advice, information and assistance to the Minister and to local authorities | |
| (d)to host websites on behalf of certain specified bodies, sell software products developed for local authorities, to provide, subject to the consent of the Minister, consultancy services in respect of a product developed or employed by the Board. | |
| Location: | Cunningham Road, Dublin |
| Establishment Date: | 1975 |
| Department funding for 2005: | NIL |
| Name of public body: | Local Government Management Services Board |
| Function/ Role: | To provide for local authorities and such other bodes as may be designated from time to time services related to staff negotiations, including proceedings under any scheme of conciliation and arbitration and Labour Court proceedings and such other management services as may be required by the foregoing bodies. LGMSB also provides services for meetings and such other support services as may be required for County and City Managers. |
| Location: | Fenian Street, Dublin 2 pending redevelopment of its offices at Ushers Quay, Dublin 8. |
| Establishment Date: | 1997 |
| Department funding for 2005: | NIL |
| Name of public body: | National Building Agency |
| Function/ Role: | To provide consultancy services to local authorities in the provision of social housing and to undertake urban renewal projects on a commercial basis on its own or in joint venture arrangements with builders and developers |
| Location: | Milltown, Dublin 6 |
| Establishment Date: | 1960 |
| Department funding for 2005: | NIL |
| Name of public body: | Private Residential Tenancies Board |
| Function/ Role: | To perform the functions assigned to it under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; primarily the operation of a national registration system for all private residential tenancies; the operation of a dispute resolution service; and the provision of information, carrying out of research and the provision of policy advice regarding the private rented sector. |
| Location: | Canal Road, Dublin 6 |
| Establishment Date: | 2004 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €3,286,000 |
| Name of public body: | Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland |
| Function/ Role: | To provide the Government and the public with advice on all matters relating to radiological safety and undertake research in relation to such matters. Also operates an extensive monitoring function in relation to the presence and origin of environmental radioactivity and regulates the provision, use and disposal of radioactive substances employed in the health sector and in industry. |
| Location: | Clonskeagh, Dublin 14 |
| Establishment Date: | 1992 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €3,225,000 |
| Name of public body: | Rent Tribunal |
| Function/ Role: | To determine the rent and other tenancy terms of dwellings which were formerly rent controlled under the Rent Restrictions Acts and to which the Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Act 1982 continues to apply. |
| Location: | Custom House, Dublin 1 |
| Establishment Date: | 1983 |
| Department funding for 2005: | €61,000. |
No comments