Written answers

Thursday, 6 July 2006

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

 
  • Road Network
    Question 731: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress on rolling out a high standard sign posting system for the network of non-national roads; and the...
  • Housing Grants
    Question 732: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the financial supports available from his Department directly or indirectly to assist a physically disabled...
  • Local Authority Housing
    Question 733: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the directive he has made on the proposal submitted by Sligo County Council for the regeneration of an estate...
  • Regional Road Network
    Question 737: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding allocated to the low cost safety improvement works scheme of grants for non-national roads for...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 738: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the non-governmental agencies or organisations his Department has provided funding to in 2004, 2005, and 2006;...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 739: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has approved the contract documents for the Lower Liffey Valley sewerage scheme; and the details of the...
  • Town Councils
    Question 741: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the timeframe for the conclusion of consultations with local government interests regarding the creation of...
  • Local Authority Staff
    Question 742: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the serious anomaly in the ratio of local authority staff to population in...
  • Housing Grants
    Question 743: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects the review of the disabled persons grant scheme to be concluded. [27426/06]
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 744: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps being taken by his Department to ensure a sewerage scheme is installed in the Achill Sound area of...
  • Women's Refuges
    Question 754: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of women's refuges which have received funding from his Department; if he will provide funding for...
  • Noise Regulations
    Question 756: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce regulations which incorporate environmental noise resulting from movements into and out...
  • Social Inclusion
    Question 757: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authorities which have signed the Barcelona Declaration and which have action plans in place to...
  • Planning Issues
    Question 758: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to a project (details supplied) in County Galway; if documentation has been received...
  • Development Plans
    Question 760: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the submission made by his Department to variation number three of the Wicklow County Development Plan in...
  • Election Management System
    Question 761: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the security and risk assessment of all aspects of the electronic voting system; the additional...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 763: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the Waterford grouped towns and villages sewerage scheme; when the sewage scheme in each of the...
  • Recreational Facilities
    Question 764: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of playgrounds here; and his plans to increase their number; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Local Authority Housing
    Question 765: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will bring forward amending legislation to change the provisions of Part V of the Planning and...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    Question 766: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures he is undertaking to redress the predicament whereby single persons, in particular single men,...
  • Housing Grants
    Question 767: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he intends to take in view of the alarmingly high levels of radon in homes here; and if he will...
  • House Prices
    Question 768: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the assessment his Department has undertaken of the potential impact on house prices as a result of the...
  • Housing Grants
    Question 771: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a grant scheme to encourage the upgrading of septic tanks in areas in which it has been...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    Question 772: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of units of social housing which have been built on State land since 2002; and if he will make a...
  • Waste Management
    Question 773: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to establish a national waiver scheme for low income households to coincide with the increased...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    Question 774: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action plan he has to increase the output of local authority social and affordable housing; and if he will...
  • Private Rented Accommodation
    Question 777: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the numbers employed by the Private Residential Tenancies Board; its annual budget; and if he will make a...
  • Land Registry
    Question 778: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date in compiling a comprehensive register of land owned by local authorities as recommended...
  • Local Authority Housing
    Question 779: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority units which do not have either hot water or central heating; and the funding...
  • Local Authority Staff
    Question 780: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the numbers employed by each local authority for the years 2002 to 2005; the category under which they were...
  • Planning Issues
    Question 781: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to introduce legislation to ensure that a fairer system is available to all planning...
  • Local Authority Housing
    Question 783: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of households in the rental accommodation scheme; the cost of the project to date; and if he will...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 785: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of consultants or public relations personnel appointed by his Department in each of the past three...
  • Local Authority Housing
    Question 786: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of dwellings delivered to date under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; the number of...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 787: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of sewerage schemes in Milltown and Boolteens, County Kerry; and if he...
  • Planning Issues
    Question 788: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will permit a golf course to be developed at Inch, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Property Register
    Question 789: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of lands entered on the national public property register as property suitable for housing...
  • Proposed Legislation
    Question 790: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has issued a directive to local authorities to stop the practice of establishing management companies in...
  • Waste Management
    Question 791: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the areas to which the producer responsibility initiative for waste recovery has been put in place. [27659/06]
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 793: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a waste water plan for all towns and population over 1,000 has been put in place. [27661/06]
  • Animal Breeding Regulations
    Question 795: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reasons he ignored the minority report submitted by the Irish Kennel Club on breeding establishments; the...
  • Animal Identification Scheme
    Question 797: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to introduce universal micro-chipping for all dogs as most local authorities and veterinary...
  • Environmental Policy
    Question 798: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department's submission in respect of the new National Development Plan 2007-2013, which is currently...
  • Departmental Bodies
    Question 799: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason he appointed no women to the working group which he established to examine breeding establishments...
  • Register of Electors
    Question 800: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the preparations in hand to correct and update the voters register; when he expects the process to be...
  • Local Authority Housing
    Question 801: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of people on housing waiting lists in each local authority area in each of the years 1997 to date...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 802: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the budgetary allocation for each of the public bodies, executive agencies, advisory bodies and task forces...
  • Departmental Bodies
    Question 803: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of positions in State bodies under the aegis of his Department which are affected by the increase...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 805: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects the waste treatment works to be completed in Tramore, County Waterford; when the new sewage...
  • Housing Grants
    Question 806: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of essential repair grants supplied to people in Waterford city and county for every year since...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 808: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number and names of applications in his Department for sewage schemes in the city and county of Waterford;...
  • Departmental Programmes
    Question 810: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the major projects or programmes funded under the national development plan; the physical indicators of the...
  • Farm Waste Management
    Question 811: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures he is taking to ensure the back-log of farm plastics is collected; and if he will make a...
  • Recycling Policy
    Question 813: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the incentives he will introduce to promote the use of refill packaging for consumer goods; the level of...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    Question 814: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the value of subsidies towards repayments paid to persons on shared ownership and on affordable housing; and...
  • Litter Pollution
    Question 816: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the system in place for receiving reports from local authorities on litter blackspots in their areas; the...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 817: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 5 April 2006, the status of these regional water schemes; when he...
  • Community Development
    Question 818: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 8 June 2006, if he will approve the project in County Roscommon...
  • Waste Management
    Question 819: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to put measures in place to assist the elderly with the cost of bin charges; if it is...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    Question 820: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the specific funding allocated to Roscommon County Council for the Creagh sewerage scheme; the reason it is...
  • Special Areas of Conservation
    Question 821: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 31 May 2006, if a survey has been carried out on plots; when the...
  • EU Directives
    Question 823: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funds collected to date under the WEEE scheme on a monthly basis since its introduction; and if he will...
  • Environmental Policy
    Question 825: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to provide for the mandatory or discretionary use of solar water heaters on new homes; and if he...
  • EU Directives
    Question 827: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way in which he will calculate the rating system required for homes and other buildings under the European...
  • Local Authority Meetings
    Question 828: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of formal meetings held with Oireachtas Members, as indicated in the Statutes, following the...

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