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European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 June 2016
Austria · National Council · 15 June 2016
Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Josef Schellhorn, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Immissionsschwellenwerte in der Gewerbeordnung
France · Senate · 15 June 2016
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 June 2016
I will attend the EU Environment Council in Brussels on the 20th June, along with my Noble Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Climate Change (Lord Bourne). Following adoption of the agenda, the list of “A” items will be approved. Under ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 June 2016
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment and Rural Affairs (Rory Stewart) has today made the following statement.I will attend the EU Environment Council in Brussels on the 20th June, along with my Noble Friend the Parliame...
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
193. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue payment to a person (details supplied) under the agri-environment options scheme 3; the reason for the delay; why he applied a penalty and the monetary value of the penalty; if he requires the person to be a member of the Connemara Pony Breeders Society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16298/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
191. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue payment to a person (details supplied) under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16257/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
184. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue payment to a person (details supplied) under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16088/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
116. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why a person (details supplied) with a child diagnosed with Crohn's disease has to wait so long for funding to be made available for necessary home adaptations. [16374/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
115. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the assistance his Department is offering to local authorities to upgrade halting sites (details supplied). [16373/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
114. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for the amalgamation of library services in counties Leitrim, Sligo and Roscommon, which implies a drastic reduction in library services for those counties; the cost savings of this amalgamation; and the cost of necessary new builds to compensate for the closure of small local libraries. [16332/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
113. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has or when he will approve an application by Galway City Council for additional funding for additional technical staff in its housing department, given the urgency to recruit additional technical staff and to progress construction of extension works to local authority houses in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16326/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
112. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff that have been recruited in the county councils' road maintenance division in 2015, in tabular form. [16365/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
111. Deputy Martin Heydon asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for advice on dealing with nuisance noise caused by a dog; the provisions available in law; the remedies available if the relevant local authority is not acting on the case; his plans to strengthen the by-laws and legislation in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16359/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
110. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the local authorities due to be revalued in 2016 as a result of the Valuation Office's global revaluation for commercial rates; and the net effect on local authority revenue of each revaluation that has been carried out or which he expects to be carried out in 2016, by local authority, in tabular form. [16287/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
109. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the schemes he provides under which the Irish Men's Sheds Association can apply to for assistance in its important social and community work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16267/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
108. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses that were included under the affordable housing scheme through Part V agreements since Part V was introduced, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16107/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
107. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social houses allocated under Part V agreements, by county; the number of social houses in existence under this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16106/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
106. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if persons who were allocated social housing under the Part V arrangements will be eligible to buy out their houses under the tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16105/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
105. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if persons who acquired houses under the shared ownership scheme will be eligible to purchase houses under the new tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16104/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
104. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to report on the forthcoming national housing needs assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16096/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2016
103. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to offer financial support to the Irish Men's Sheds Association, for its important social and community work; the grant schemes his Department operates under which the individual men's shed groups can apply for assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16266/16]
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 2016
Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act of 2016 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow energy tax credits through 2020 for investments in: (1) qualified biogas property, or (2) qualified manure resource recovery property. The bill also permits new clean renewable energy bonds to be used for such properties. "Qualified biogas property" comprises a system that: (1) uses anaerobic digesters or other specified processes to convert biomass into a gas which is at least 52% methane; and (2) captures the gas for use as a fuel. The term includes property that cleans and conditions the gas for use as a fuel. "Qualified manure resource recovery property" comprises a system that uses specified processes to recover the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus from a non-treated digestate or animal manure by reducing or separating at least 50% of the nutrients, excluding any reductions during the incineration, storage, composting, or field application of the non-treated digestate or animal manure. The term also includes certain processing equipment. The Department of the Treasury must enter into an agreement with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for a study of biogas and report to Congress on the study.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 June 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Evans of Bowes Park on 7 June (HL Deb, col 656), of the 6,660 apprenticeship starts in the constituency of Richmond, Yorkshire, as published in government statistics for 2014–15, what perc
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
522. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the AEOS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15955/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
520. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15931/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
515. Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a year 5 payment under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15658/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
514. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the farm payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15654/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
509. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15578/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
494. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of the investigation of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and his Department into elevated polybrominated diphenyl ethers concentrations in milk samples, as outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency 2010 and 2012 dioxin reports on dioxin levels in the Irish environment; if he has identified the source of the contamination and whether milk from the sites affected was allowed into the food chain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15350/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
275. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take to stop the ongoing pumping of raw sewage into the sea at Rush harbour and beach in County Dublin. [16084/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
274. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses Galway City Council approved for construction and approved for persons with a disability in the past year; the details of applications from Galway City Council for approval to construct local authority housing that he has not yet decided on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16082/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
273. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a revenue audit held on 30 March 2016 at the offices of Sligo County Council resulted in a liability of €256,521.51 for relevant contracts tax, value added tax and related penalties; if he issued misleading guidelines to the council and other local authorities in respect of payments for works carried out under the special resolution fund; if he will compensate the council to cover the cost of the said tax liability and penalties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16024/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
272. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the executive of Sligo County Council, in a report to councillors dated 1 June 2016, stated that payments for works carried out under the special resolution fund by Sligo County Council were made without deduction of relevant contract tax; and that when the Revenue Commissioners contacted the council querying the tax treatment that had been applied to payments made from the fund, the council advised the Revenue Commissioners that payments were made without deducting the relevant contract tax in line with the guidance issued by his Department. [16023/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
271. Deputy Bobby Aylward asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he, the consumer, the local authority or Irish Water is responsible for alleviating the problem of hard water in residential water supplies caused by excessive lime levels in areas of limestone bedrock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15996/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
270. Deputy Bobby Aylward asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he has or will put in place to tackle excessive lime levels in residential water supplies which can damage household appliances such as kettles, washing machines and dishwashers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15995/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
269. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will offer compensation from the local government fund in 2017, as was offered in 2016; the amount he will offer, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15962/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
268. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the new Department of housing, planning and local government will officially be established. [15943/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
267. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a new charging regime by companies (details supplied) is in line with recent regulations agreed by his predecessor; if he will review the regulations, given the significantly higher cost of bin services these companies have charged under this new regime. [15937/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
266. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he will take to ensure the needs of persons with disabilities are incorporated into future housing policies, as per the programme for Government; and when he will implement this commitment. [15915/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
265. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of an application by Leitrim County Council for funding for a sewerage scheme for Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, including when he will provide this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15903/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
264. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the affordable housing schemes in place; if an affordable purchase price will be a significant part of the policy soon to be announced; and his advice to persons (details supplied). [15883/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
263. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will remain responsible for Leader, the social inclusion and community activation programme and the scheme to support national organisations; and if not, the Minister who will assume primary responsibility. [15748/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
262. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff recruited by local authorities to deliver more social housing units under the social housing strategy 2020 in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15739/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
261. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue collected from the payment of development levies, by county council, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15735/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
260. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the functions and responsibilities that will be transferred from his Department to the Department of housing, planning and local government. [15733/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
259. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social houses built, by county, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; his plans for further building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15728/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
258. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the savings to his Department following the abolition of town and borough councils under the Local Government Reform Act 2014; his plans to reverse this abolition, given the deficit of democratic representation it has created; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15727/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
257. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications received and approved under the mortgage-to-rent scheme, by county, in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15726/16]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2016
256. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the national rents framework and when he will commence and complete the review of differential rent schemes, as mentioned in the current programme for Government. [15725/16]