Written answers

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

 
  • Property Taxation Administration
    544. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that 80% of the local property tax collected in any one local authority area will be retained towards...
  • Local Government Fund
    545. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is envisaged that the proceeds of the local property tax in a full year will be sufficient to replace the current...
  • Motor Tax Yield
    546. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount of revenue raised through motor tax in each emissions category for...
  • Housing Adaptation Grant Applications
    547. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be made available for the installation of a downstairs bathroom (details supplied) [26868/13]
  • Property Taxation Collection
    549. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the purpose of the fees in respect of two or more properties liable in 2013 for payment of non-principal private residence...
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    550. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he is satisfied that his Department can continue to meet on-going carbon reduction targets; and if he...
  • Proposed Legislation
    551. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to regulate funeral businesses and ancillary services relating to this primary activity; and if he will make a...
  • Local Authority Members' Remuneration
    552. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the gratuity scheme/voluntary retirement scheme in place for town and county councillors; the terms of same; and if he...
  • Local Government Reform
    553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made in establishing social economic committees; their terms of reference and what the make up...
  • Departmental Funding
    554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the cut to funding that has been imposed on a project (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and the reason he...
  • Local and Community Development Programme Expenditure
    555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for funding local development programmes from 1 January 2014. [27164/13]
  • Rural Development Programme Funding
    556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent review of LEADER funding, the way it is envisaged that the revised funding amounts will be...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    560. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the amount of money that was spent on reports commissioned by his Department for 2010,...
  • Property Ownership
    561. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered introducing measures to provide persons who have sites in caravan parks to acquire legal rights,...
  • Wind Energy Guidelines
    563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the terms of reference and the timescale in relation to the the comprehensive review of the guidelines for Wind Energy...
  • Nitrates Usage
    566. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline his timetable for the review of the Nitrates Directive; if he will replace calendar restrictions on the...
  • Wind Energy Guidelines
    567. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out in detail the process through which a company such as Saorgas would establish an offshore wind farm in...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
    569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a budget has been allocated by his Department to Donegal County Council for the Dungloe Glenties DBO scheme; the...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
    570. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions 341 on the 5 March 2013 and 503 on the 17 July 2012, if he has considered the...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
    571. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has now issued full approval of the contract documents for the Donegal Group B sewerage schemes; the...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
    572. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Ballyshannon water supply scheme, County Donegal; if this scheme has now received full...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
    573. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that rental accommodation scheme currently costing Dublin city Council...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    574. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his policy in relation to housing services for those with autism and or autistic spectrum disorders; and if he will make a...
  • Library Projects
    575. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the funds which have been made available from his Department for public libraries in each of the past...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the amounts allocated to each local authority for traveller specific accommodation in each of the past...
  • Local Authority Funding
    578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the capital allocation for housing to a local authority (details supplied) in County Wicklow in 2013 [26792/13]
  • Rural Development Programme Funding
    580. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 17 April 2013, the current position of the application by a club (details...
  • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
    581. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the report from the Boundary Commission on the Local Elections; if so, when he intends to publish same;...
  • Septic Tank Inspections
    582. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the provisions that will be made for householders who have registered and qualify for a septic tank grant should it be...
  • Local Authority Charges Application
    584. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the circumstances in which a residential property will be classified as uninhabitable and the owner not liable for the...
  • Irish Water Remit
    589. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended that Irish Water will have jurisdiction over local and group water schemes; and if he will make a...
  • Priory Hall Development
    592. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he has last been briefed on the Justice Finnegan process to resolve all outstanding issues for the residents of...
  • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
    593. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Dublin City Council has voted to move away from the historic points and...
  • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Exemptions
    594. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider relaxing the non principal private residence tax to 50% for this year, as an individual who owns a...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
    595. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to a previous Parliamentary Question, when details of the new 2013 tenant purchase scheme be made available; when...
  • Housing Issues
    596. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will advise on an ordeal involving anti-social behaviour in a local authority housing unit (details supplied) in...
  • Rural Development Programme Projects
    597. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a project (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and receive funding; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Leader Programmes Applications
    600. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a project (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and receive funding; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Noise Pollution Issues
    601. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current legislative position and other regulations that govern noise pollution of model aircraft flying clubs; and if...
  • EU Directives
    602. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the work his Department is currently undertaking on various pieces of upcoming legislation, through a potential Bill to go...
  • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
    603. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of requests he has received during the period 1 January to 31 May 2013 from Fingal County Council and Dublin...
  • Rural Development Policy
    604. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the measures he intends to take upon the completion of the work of the Commission for the Economic...
  • Fire Service Issues
    607. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the impact of the national plan to consolidate fire services on the services provided in counties Westmeath and Longford;...
  • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection
    608. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the non-principal private charge in respect of a premises; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Planning Issues
    609. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions No. 167 of 29 May 2013 and No. 183 of 30 May 2013, if he will confirm that,...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    610. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if group traveller housing was covered under the previous tenant purchase schemes; and if not, the reason that it was not...
  • Island Communities
    611. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cén méid airgid do thograí atá curtha ar fáil do Chomhar na nOileán Teo agus é briste...
  • Community Development Initiatives
    612. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cén méid airgid a bhí ceadaithe ag MFG do thograí sula ndearnadh é a leachtú, cén...
  • Building Regulations Amendments
    613. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will he examine the attached submission (details supplied) regarding the effect on independent architects that the...
  • Noise Pollution Legislation
    614. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the Noise Nuisance Bill; if he will ensure the speedy progression of this Bill; and if he will make...
  • Leader Programmes Funding
    615. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which north and east Kerry Development Partnership officially took responsibility for the administration of...
  • Burial Grounds
    616. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form, of all the different categories, types and levels of fees charged by each...
  • Water Charges Introduction
    617. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons with private wells will be liable for water charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27646/13]
  • Rural Development Policy
    621. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total allocation made under the CLÁR programme each year since 2005; the amount of each yearly allocation that...
  • RAPID Programme
    622. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total allocation made under the RAPID programme each year since 2005; the amount of each yearly allocation that has...
  • Local Elections Expenditure
    623. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the spending limits per candidate that applied at the last local authority elections; the details of the items that were...
  • Water Meters Installation
    624. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when installing water meters if he will confirm that the meters will be installed on the footpaths outside homes and that...
  • Fire Service Issues
    626. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has any plans to increase the number of emergency vehicles in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Derelict Sites
    628. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department has spent on tackling dereliction of buildings, especially improving shop fronts over the past...
  • Property Taxation Collection
    631. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No.182 of 30 May 2013, if he will answer the question posed in relation to local...
  • Leader Programmes Funding
    632. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will eview and increase the LEADER allocation to South Kerry Development Partnership Ltd., in view of the fact that...
  • Fire Service Issues
    633. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of 999 calls for the Fire Brigade service that were put through to Dublin control from County Laois in the...
  • Water Services Provision
    634. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a provision in the legislation that set up Irish Water for a statutory requirement for water pressure in...
  • Local Government Reform
    635. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the proposed alignment of local community development structures and local government....
  • Local Authority Finances
    636. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that Sligo County Council's unaudited annual financial statement for the year...
  • Fire Safety Regulations
    639. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he proposes in relation to the tens of thousands of housing units built since 1992 which do not comply with...
  • Tax Clearance Certificates
    641. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is considering taking measures to prohibit those who do not qualify for tax clearance certificates from the Revenue...
  • Water and Sewerage Scheme Grants
    642. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to enhance the group sewerage scheme grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27966/13]
  • Planning Issues
    643. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures currently being taken or that are being planned to ensure that local authorities have the knowledge and skill...
  • Proposed Legislation
    644. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the public consultation regarding the proposed new Foreshore Bill; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Local Authority Housing Rents
    645. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person participating in the jobsbridge scheme has their payment included in the calculation for means within the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    646. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to address the social housing waiting list in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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