Written answers

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

 
  • Local Authority Charges Application
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he has implemented to improve competitiveness in relation to commercial rates and water rates; and if he will make...
  • Property Taxation Application
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the difficulties surrounding the introduction of a fair property tax (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Mortgage Arrears Report Implementation
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on mortgage to rent schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37791/12]
  • Nitrates Action Programme Implementation
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if in view of the very wet weather this summer and the need to conserve fodder it is intended to relax the rules in relation to...
  • EU Directives
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the recent passing of European Parliament legislation on reducing the sulphur levels in shipping fuels; if...
  • Homelessness Strategy
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to phase out the use of bed and breakfast accommodation for dealing with homeless persons; and if he will make a...
  • Waste Management Regulations
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the ongoing waste dumping in our forests, bogs, and all over our country, if he will consider amending the Waste...
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he expects a testing protocol to be put in place for the testing of pyrite in homes; the date on which he...
  • Local Authority Charges Application
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale considered by him or his Department in preparing the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local...
  • Proposed Legislation
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he intends to publish the heads of a Bill in respect of Climate Change legislation; and if he will make a...
  • Local Authority Housing Insurance
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a situation in which local authority tenants are unable to get house insurance because they...
  • Departmental Bodies
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of agencies, authorities, boards, committees, working groups, tribunals, council services, task forces, agencies or...
  • Job Creation Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new jobs created by his Department as a result of the jobs initiative; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount spent on taxis by his Department since February 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37324/12]
  • Departmental Staff Numbers
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of press officers in his Department; the number of press officers in each agency under his auspices; the total cost...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of board appointees he has made since he came to office; the names, salaries and expenses of each; and if he...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail, in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office inclusive of costs...
  • Ministerial Staff
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number and names of all special advisers, special press  ;advisers, or any other type of...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations and consultancy persons and organisations...
  • Ministerial Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the gross annual salary costs for his private and constituency offices at present; the same figures for this time last year;...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail in tabular form, the amount paid to consultants since February 2011; the name of each organisation used; and...
  • Ministerial Transport
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on drivers and Ministerial transport since February 2011; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount spent since February 2011 on external reports commissioned by his Department, including payments from...
  • Planning Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a planning matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37641/12]
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in the context of the recent report of the Pyrite Panel, all houses in the 74 identified estates in the report are to be...
  • Unfinished Housing Developments
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a site resolution plan will be put in place for development (details supplied) in County Westmeath so that the development...
  • Labour Court Recommendations
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will supply a list of all Labour Court recommendations that have been issued in respect of his Department and...
  • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans (details supplied) in respect of the non-principal private residence charge; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Water Services Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the additional allocations under the rural water programme to various local authorities in...
  • Community Development Initiatives
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current position regarding the abolition of Pobal and merging of their functions with local authorities; and if he will...
  • Local Authority Staff
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the number of people employed in each local authority with a disability and the number of people...
  • Departmental Staff Rehiring
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding recruiting persons with a disability; the number of persons currently employed in his Department; the...
  • Local Authority Management
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider making provision for decisions of local authorities which are made by way of managers' orders are published...
  • RAPID Programme
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when it is intended to hold the next meeting of the National Rapid Coordinating committee; if he intends attending this...
  • Dormant Accounts Fund Management
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends running a module for flagship projects using dormant account funding similar to that delivered by the previous...
  • Leader Programmes Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money allocated to each Leader Company broken down between administration and project expenditure; the amount...
  • Environmental Schemes
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date of all meetings that have been held of Comhairle na Tuaithe since March 2011; the number of these meetings he...
  • Planning Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of developers being refused planning permissions under Section 35 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as...
  • Building Regulations
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a system of mandatory registration of builders and property developers; if builders and developers who...
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a waiver from the household charge and forthcoming property tax for homeowners affected by pyrite until...
  • Insurance Industry Regulation
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce regulations regarding structural insurance, home insurance and insurance for building projects and...
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has requested Bord Gáis networks to inspect and monitor potential leaks due to upheaval from pyrite in all 74 known...
  • Local Authority Charges Yield
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of commercial rates raised in 2011 in a townland (details supplied) in County Galway or within the most...
  • Register of Electors
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made with the updating of the electoral register and linking it to PPS numbers; and if he will make...
  • Planning Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied). [38049/12]
  • Environment Fund
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any consideration has been given to ending the ring-fencing of the Environment Fund or reducing the amount of the bag and...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Application Numbers
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total number of housing units in the rental accommodation scheme as of 1 September 2012;...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Payments
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, by local authority area the total arrears accumulated by 1 September 2012, on housing units...
  • Control of Dogs
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of lifetime dog licences purchased since the commencement of the scheme in January 2012; if he will provide a...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Application Numbers
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his policy regarding accumulated arrears in housing units in the rental accommodation scheme; the enforcement action open to a...
  • Local Authority Charges Application
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the compliance rates with the second home tax; the number of dwellings to which the tax is...
  • Local Authority Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will explain cuts in local authorities' funding at a rate in accordance with the compliance or non-compliance with regard...
  • Local Government Reform
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the abolition of town councils (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Public Sector Recruitment
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will approve an application for the employment of a person in a local authority (details supplied) in County Laois; and...
  • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the threshold of €25,000 which needs to be earned by a person to obtain an annuity loan for a house purchase through...
  • Local Authority Housing Evictions
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any review is taking place in relation to the Supreme Court judgment in the Donegan Case and the use of section 62 of the...
  • Departmental Staff Training
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual cost of producing the average house price series by his Department; the justification for this expenditure in view...
  • Air Quality
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding alleged atmospheric contamination by chem trails from jet airliners; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Leader Programmes Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a Leader grant in respect of an event (details supplied). [38647/12]
  • Capital Assistance Scheme Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding, if any, available for the capital assistance scheme; the position of a project (details supplied) in County Cork...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline, in tabular form, both the number and the percentage of women and men on State boards under the aegis of his...
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the publication of the Pyrite Panel Report, his views on whether a close reading of the report suggests that the...
  • Housing Grant Payments
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make additional funding available to Kerry County Council for the following grant schemes, housing aid for older...
  • Water Quality
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government noting the statement in the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012 information leaflet that there is no question of applying the...
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government noting the Pyrite Panel report, his views on whether the stone fill being sold by quarries in counties Dublin, Meath, Kildare...
  • Household Charge Collection
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken to hold to account those who have not paid the household charge; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a major update in housing policy with particular reference to the need to provide an adequate supply of...
  • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that will be available to finance the mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Schemes
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made with the Mountain Access Project since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37868/12]
  • Rural Development Policy
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new walks developed under the walkways scheme of the rural recreation section of his Department since March 2011;...
  • Departmental Staff Numbers
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the change in the number and grade of civil servants in the rural recreation section of the Department since March 2011; and if...
  • Security of the Elderly
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends providing further funding this year for the senior alert scheme in view of the importance of this scheme to the...
  • Household Charge Collection
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of reminder letters that have been sent out to residents in relation to the non-payment of the household charge; and...
  • Local Authority Charges Application
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the practice of Cavan County Council writing off substantial amounts of planning...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Applications
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any funding requests have been submitted by Dublin City Council for the redevelopment of an area (details supplied); and if...
  • Local Authority Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Sligo County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39242/12]
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority is permitted by law to take foster care allowance into account as means for rent calculation (details...
  • Local Authority Charges Application
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which it is intended that local household or other service charges will go directly towards the provision of...
  • Local Authority Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended to give any particular financial recognition by way of incentives to local authorities with a better than...
  • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will identify and provide for a reorganisation of the shared ownership loan system which is currently penalising holders...
  • Voluntary Housing Sector
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when it is expected to bring the structures appertaining to the operation of voluntary housing associations into line with the...
  • Local Authority Housing Provision
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when it is expected that a local authority house building programme can be put in place in view of the vast number of...
  • Fire Service Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the future development of the fire services operated by the local authorities continues to be examined with...
  • Water Quality
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the upgrading, improvement and development of the quality and quantity of domestic drinking water in all...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he has received submissions from the local authorities in County Kildare in respect of their prioritised...
  • Fuel Laundering
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the financial cost to each local authority in 2010 and 2011 of cleaning up residue from illegal laundering and smuggling of...
  • Capital Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the payments made by the State to private land owners in 2010 and 2011 to acquire land for use in...

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