Written answers

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

 
  • Motor Taxation
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that would be raised for the Exchequer by abolishing the off the road facility for motor tax; if he will confirm...
  • Regeneration Projects
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application for funding for the regeneration project (details supplied) in County Carlow....
  • Local Authority Staff
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Statutory Instrument 291 of 2012, if he will provide a list of existing city and county managers who will still be...
  • Pyrite Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken in relation to a pyrite problem (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53774/12]
  • Local Authority Staff
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if staff in water services will be redeployed, sub-contracted or re-employed amongst councils. [53779/12]
  • Local Authority Management
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a list of all companies or persons providing an external professional service to the Local...
  • Capital Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of the October Exchequer returns, the reason the capital spending for his Department was €150m below profile...
  • Local Authority Services
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if supports are available for residents in housing estates which have not yet been taken in charge by the local authority, when...
  • Local Authority Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1131 of 18 September 2012, if he has considered the report of the independent financial...
  • Local Authority Staff
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Workforce Planning Group has recommended that between two and three...
  • Household Charge Collection
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the latest registration figures by local authority area of the household charge and the respective target...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will announce the new guidelines for the new tenant purchase scheme that is replacing the current tenant purchase...
  • Planning Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on planning issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53928/12]
  • Water Meters
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the contractors who are to be given the work of installing water meters nationwide have been appointed; the names of these...
  • Electoral Commission
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made towards the establishment of an Electoral Commission as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if...
  • Saturday Voting
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to carry out research to ascertain the impact of Saturday voting in the recent Children’s Referendum and to...
  • Regeneration Projects
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will explain the operation of Ballymun Regeneration Limited; if he is satisfied with the level of engagement that the...
  • Election Management System
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the Dublin County Sheriff operated a fair and transparent method of recruitment for polling station...
  • Private Residential Tenancies Board
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the efforts made to ensure that first time landlords are aware of their obligations to register with the Private Residential...
  • Arts Council Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will protect the allocation of funding to the Arts Council and local authorities (details supplied); and if he will make...
  • Unfinished Housing Developments
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the money for works to be carried out on an estate (details supplied) in County Longford are earmarked for particular works...
  • Waste Management
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which the Programme for Government commitment to introduce a national waiver scheme for waste collection services...
  • International Agreements
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when Ireland will fully implement the Aarhus Convention; if this will have an impact for wind farms here; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Staff
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of veterinary inspectors who availed of the early retirement scheme earlier this year that are currently working for...
  • Cross-Border Co-operation
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline projects which his Department cooperates with the Department of the Environment in the North. [54154/12]
  • Fire Service
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the budget allocated to the Fire Services Capital Programme for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; the actual amount...
  • Housing Adaptation Grants
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if further funding will be provided to Fingal County Council in order to fund housing adaptations grants that have been...
  • Septic Tank Registration Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his view on a submission (details supplied) regarding septic tanks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54266/12]
  • Scenic Walks
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a walk being developed in South Kerry called the Bolus Head in Ballinskelligs County Kerry could be combined as an extension...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list, for each county, the villages/towns with a public foul sewer network discharging to a public effluent...
  • Housing Statistics
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of timber framed housing units that have been completed here since 1992. [54275/12]
  • Departmental Agencies
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he intends removing the legal immunity enjoyed by the Environmental Protection Agency as per the recommendations in the...
  • Waste Management
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to problems with the standards of service being provided by private operators who have replaced...
  • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the best practice guidelines his Department has issued to local authorities in relation to dealing with shared ownership cases...
  • Planning Issues
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason local authorities do not have to make the details of their own planning applications available online as it the case...
  • Unfinished Housing Developments
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of unfinished housing estates in County Meath and the category in which each is classed; if he will list the estates...
  • Anti-Social Behaviour
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if guidelines exist regarding anti-social behaviour in local authority housing; the number of evictions each respective county...
  • National Asset Management Agency
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the use of the National Assets Management Agency stock of housing to alleviate the problem of homelessness...
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to enable local authorities to utilise the mortgage to rent scheme whereby persons in significant areas...
  • Household Charge Collection
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will endeavour to ensure that the collection of household charges is structured and streamlined in such a way as to ease...
  • Climate Change Policy
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the impact of carbon reduction is minimised on domestic households until the economic situation...
  • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority housing loans issued in each of the past four years to date; the number of shared ownership and...
  • Waste Management
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the various forms of waste management are currently being used with particular reference to the maximum use...
  • Air Pollution
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which air pollution level at various vantage points throughout the country continue to be monitored; the degree...
  • Local Authority Funding
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he hopes to be in a position to provide adequate funding for local authorities in the coming year...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which funding for group water and sewerage schemes and small schemes is likely to be available to the local...
  • Register of Electors
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which inaccuracies in the voter's register continue; his plans to review the issues with the possibility of...
  • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if and when he expects to be in a position to introduce a local authority loans system to facilitate the needs of first time...
  • Official Travel
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form the total cost to the Exchequer of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
  • Local Government Reform
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government as part of local government reform, if he will introduce the DeHon’t method of appointing councillors to chairs and to...
  • Nuclear Safety
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost in producing the report Risks to Ireland from Incidents at the Sellafield Site; and if the British Government covered...
  • Local Government Reform
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in order to facilitate smaller parties, if he will consider increasing the number of councillors representing each local...
  • Water Charges
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in the event of a household not paying the forthcoming water charge if he intends to deduct this charge for their source of...
  • Legislative Programme
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the pieces of legislation needed to action Putting People First; and the timeframe for this legislation. [54583/12]
  • Unfinished Housing Developments
    To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will issue specific instructions to local authorities to intervene on public health grounds to maintain treatment plants...

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