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Question· writtenPQ 40asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
71 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the detailed submission on the roll out of water metering; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 39asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
69 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will conduct an investigation into the provision of fire services in Counties Laois and Offaly to ascertain if the services currently provided are adequate.
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Question· writtenPQ 37asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
70 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the €5 million earmarked for making safe ghost estates has been allocated to local authorities; the housing estates, by county, that have been nominated; the allocations if any that have been made by county; if he intends to extend the €5 million allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 36asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
66 Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money drawn down by local authorities from the central funding provision to deal with immediate safety issues in unfinished housing developments.
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Question· writtenPQ 35asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
65 Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the death of a person (details supplied) who was left isolated in a detenanted flat block for over three years, the measures being taken to ensure that vulnerable persons are rehoused as soon as possible in situations like Ballymun, Dublin, where regeneration has slowed in progress and many blocks are left with very few tenants for extended periods of time.
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Question· writtenPQ 34asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
64 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he will publish his new waste policy; if this policy will be free from incineration and thermal treatment projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 33asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
63 Deputy Michael Moynihan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider issuing a directive to local authorities requesting them to reduce their commercial rates.
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Question· writtenPQ 32asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
61 Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 25 November 2010 the progress, if any, he has made regarding support for adopt a road initiatives across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 31asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
60 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to increase his level of proactive engagement with the British Government to lobby for the closure of Sellafield.
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Question· writtenPQ 30asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
58 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units built each year from 2005 onwards.
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Question· writtenPQ 29asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
57 Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if approval will issue in the near future for the Strandhill sewerage scheme, County Sligo.
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Question· writtenPQ 27asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
55 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to increase fines for illegal dumping.
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Question· writtenPQ 26asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
54 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address restrictions under the rural development programme which preclude hub towns from accessing certain funding streams because of their status under the national development plan.
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Question· writtenPQ 25asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
52 Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding the suggestion that property in the control of the National Asset Management Agency be used in part to house those who remain on the waiting lists of local authorities or in housing unfit for habitation.
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Question· writtenPQ 24asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
67 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the current criteria set down for social housing applications.
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Question· writtenPQ 23asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
51 Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a review of the current income thresholds in respect of applicants for social housing.
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Question· writtenPQ 22asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
50 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of affordable mortgage applications approved in 2010 by county; the average amount of the loan granted; if it is intended to modify this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 21asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
48 Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the Towards 2016 aim of ensuring that no person is in emergency accommodation for longer than an emergency; if he aims to achieve this within its lifetime; and the measures being taken to ensure this happens.
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Question· writtenPQ 20asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
47 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure that his Department plays a role in implementing the recommendations of the Working Group on Land and Forest Fires; and the measures that his Department will implement.
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Question· writtenPQ 19asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
46 Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he has taken, or will take, regarding the clean-up of Haulbowline, County Cork, following developments at the European Union Petitions Committee last month and the letter of formal notification which was issued to Ireland by the European Commission last year in respect of European Court of Justice case C-494/01; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 18asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
45 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has given consideration to the Hennessy report on the Poolbeg incinerator; his plans to publish the report; and his plans to commission other reports on the Poolbeg incinerator.
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Question· oralPQ 17asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
62 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to increase funding for the development of publicly provided social housing for older persons.
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Question· oralPQ 15asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
43 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a procedural problem with social housing applications whereby if a person needs to amend some part of the information on their form that they must resubmit their application in full and begin the process again; and his plans to rectify same.
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Question· oralPQ 14asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
42 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce equality proofing of legislation and policy initiatives that come from him.
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Question· oralPQ 13asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
49 Deputy Michael Colreavy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of Exchequer funding available to local authorities to assist them in maintaining an active voids reletting programme; and the amount of this funding that has been drawn down by each local authority area since it has been established.
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Question· oralPQ 12asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
41 Deputy Michael Colreavy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the average turn-around time for void houses in each local authority area across the State.
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Question· oralPQ 11asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
59 Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take regarding the reports from a programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· oralPQ 10asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
53 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a recent episode of a television programme which portrayed the unhealthy and inhumane conditions that many Dublin City Council tenants reside in, notably in an estate (details supplied) and other stalled regeneration projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· oralPQ 9asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
40 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent experience of regeneration projects (details supplied); and his position on the use of public private partnerships in view of this.
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Question· oralPQ 8asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
39 Deputy Michael P. Kitt asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to tackle sewerage and damp problems in social housing estates in which regeneration projects and the detenanting scheme have stalled in recent years; and his priorities for urban regeneration as committed to in the programme for Government.
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Question· oralPQ 7asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
38 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider using ghost housing estates held by the National Assets Management Agency for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· oralPQ 6asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
37 Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the high level expert group on unfinished housing developments will complete its work; and the date on which it will publish its final report.
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Question· oralPQ 5asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
36 Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will remove the embargo on the filling of posts in the local government service in view of the fact that the reduction of numbers is having a perilously detrimental effect on services to the public by local authorities.
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Question· oralPQ 4asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
35 Deputy Michael P. Kitt asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for reviewing and updating the existing homeless strategy as committed to in the programme for Government; and if he will provide a time line for the introduction of this strategy.
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Question· oralPQ 3asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
34 Deputy Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will be using mechanical biological treatment or incineration to deal with the country’s residual waste.
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Question· oralPQ 2asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
33 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that parts of County Offaly are now without any fire service; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that substantial tracts of land have been damaged in bogfires since the closure of fire stations in Daingean, Kilcormac, and Bannagher; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· oralPQ 1asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
32 Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will provide further clarity on the proposed utility charge for 2012; and if this will involve the introduction of a flat rate fee.
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Record· Verzoek bij regeling van werkzaamheden2011Z10110concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 17 May 2011
Brief van de minister van Infrastructuur en Milieu over het bericht “Wrak krijgt kenteken”
Bill· SS. 1001 (112th)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 2011
Alternative Fuel Vehicles Competitiveness and Energy Security Act of 2011 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to expand the types of innovative technology projects that are eligible for loan guarantees by including projects that reduce oil imports through the use of alternative fuel and projects that would produce and distribute alternative fuel or advanced biofuel. Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to: (1) redefine "advanced technology vehicle," for purposes of the advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive program, to include certain vehicles that will reduce consumption of conventional motor fuel by 25% or more compared to existing surface transportation technologies that perform a similar function; (2) repeal the limit on the amount of appropriations that may be used for direct loans under such program; and (3) extend funding through FY2016 for such program. Directs the Secretary to: (1) assess the effectiveness of alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicles in reducing oil imports; (2) provide technical assistance for the deployment of alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure; and (3) award grants to provide training and education for vocational workforce development for the manufacture and maintenance of alternative fuel vehicles and the manufacture, installation, and inspection of alternative fuel recharging, refueling, and distribution infrastructure. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) redefine "idle reduction technology" to include a technology that uses an alternative fuel to reduce consumption of conventional fuel and environmental emissions; and (2) extend appropriations through FY2016 to reduce extended idling from heavy-duty vehicles and locomotives. Requires the Secretary to identify barriers and remedies in electric and natural gas and oil pipeline transmission and distribution systems to the distribution of alternative fuels and the deployment of alternative fuel recharging and refueling capability at economically competitive costs for consumers. Extends states' authority to allow inherently low-emission and energy-efficient vehicles to use high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. Requires the Secretary to support research, development, and demonstration of alternative fuel vehicles and charging and refueling technology that will: (1) allow the United States to meet or exceed the petroleum import reduction goals of this Act; (2) develop technologies that minimize life-cycle energy use in the production and distribution of alternative fuels; and (3) maintain U.S. technological leadership in alternative vehicle technology. Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to store the quantity of crude oil and petroleum fuels imported into the United States each year from countries that are not signatories to North American Free Trade Agreement during an average 90-day period during the most recent year. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary fill the SPR to its one billion-barrel capacity.
Bill· SS. 1000 (112th)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 2011
Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011 - Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act (ECPA) to direct the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to: (1) support the development and updating of national model building energy codes for residential and commercial buildings and establish goals of zero-net-energy for new commercial and residential buildings by 2030, and ( 2) encourage and support the adoption by states and local governments of building energy codes that meet or exceed the national codes. Establishes energy conservation standards for certain appliances, including heat pump pool heaters, base lanps, bottle-type water dispensers, commercial hot food holding cabinets, portable electric spas, refrigerators and freezers, room air conditioners, clothes dryers, clothes washers, dishwashers, reflector lamps, and commercial furnaces. Requires the Secretary to publish amended test procedures for refrigerators and freezers, residential clothes washers, and clothes dryers. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine whether to update the Energy Star criteria for residential refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and room air conditioners to incorporate smart grid and demand response features. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study of video game console energy use and opportunities for energy savings for such use, determine whether to establish minimum energy efficiency standards for such use, and conduct a follow-up study if an energy efficiency standard is not established. Directs the Secretary to establish Building Training and Assessment Centers at institutions of higher learning to identify and promote opportunities, concepts, and technologies for expanding building energy and environmental performance. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide grants for a revolving loan program to implement commercially available technologies or processes that significantly reduce systems energy intensity and improve U.S. industrial competitiveness; (2) establish collaborative research and development partnerships to promote energy efficiency technology development; and (3) assess commercially available, cost competitive energy efficiency technologies that are not widely implemented within the United States for specified industries. Establishes within DOE a Supply Star program to identify and promote practices, recognize companies, and products that use highly efficient supply chains that conserve energy, water, and other resources. Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue guidance for federal agencies to employ advanced tools for energy savings by using computer hardware, energy-efficiency software, and power management tools; (2) establish a rebate program for expenditures for the purchase and installation of a new constant speed electric motor control that reduces motor energy use by at least 5%, and (3) conduct a feasibility study for closing a minimum of 800 federal data centers by October 1, 2015. Authorizes the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), for any building project for which congressional approval has been received and the design completed but the construction of which has not begun, to use appropriated funds to update the building's design to meet energy efficiency and other standards for new federal buildings. Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (NECPA) to: (1) require federal agencies to create an implementation plan for achieving metering requirements under such Act, and (2) include as an "energy or water conservation measure" eligible for energy savings performance contracts a measure to support the use of electric vehicles or the fueling or charging infrastructure necessary for such vehicles. -
Bill· SS. 999 (112th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 2011
Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2011 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): (1) to convene a working group to study barriers to using specified treatments; (2) to develop model guidance to assist states in regulating and promoting such treatment options; and (3) when establishing affordability criteria for variance technology, to consider specified cost factors, to give extra weight to households below the poverty level and to communities that meet state affordability criteria, and to ensure that the criteria are not more costly, on a per-capita basis, to a small public water system than the per capita cost to a large water system of acquiring feasible technology. Requires the Administrator or a state, before initiating any enforcement action, to ensure that sufficient funds have been made available to assist each public water system that serves fewer than 10,000 individuals in meeting regulation requirements. Revises provisions allowing an exemption of a system from maximum containment level and treatment technique requirements to: (1) increase the population threshold; and (2) allow state determinations of a renewal period. Revises technical assistance provisions to require water systems serving fewer than 10,000 individuals to receive adequate technical assistance and training to meet requirements of final rules. Gives priority to systems not in compliance with specified rules concerning disinfectants and disinfection byproducts, arsenic and compliance and new source monitoring, or groundwater or any other final rule promulgated by the Administrator after this Act's enactment. Establishes pilot programs to: (1) explore new technologies or approaches to comply with a drinking water standard; and (2) research technology transfer issues and disinfection strategies relating to drinking water.
Record· Brief regering2011Z09998concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 16 May 2011
Voortgang programma Nationale Aanpak Milieu en Gezondheid
Bill· HRH.R. 1931 (112th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 2011
Groundwork USA Trust Act of 2011 - Establishes the Groundwork USA Trust Program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Groundwork USA national office, to award grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to: (1) facilitate the inventory of brownfield sites, site assessments, remediation of brownfield sites, community involvement, or site preparation; (2) reclaim vacant and derelict lands; (3) cleanup and care for neglected areas; (4) return brownfields to productive use; (5) integrate environmental education, food security, health and fitness, resource management, and job training; (6) encourage and support business, local government, nonprofit, and community cooperation in sustainable environmental care and enhancement; (7) acquire, rehabilitate, and improve real property and buildings; and (8) develop programs that encourage partnering with other environmental organizations.
Bill· HRH.R. 1920 (112th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 2011
Amends the Clean Air Act to redefine "renewable biomass" as: (1) materials (including trees, wood, brush, thinnings, and chips) or invasive species from certain National Forest System land and public lands, including slash and other materials, that would not otherwise be used for higher-value manufactured forest products and that are removed to reduce hazardous fuels, to reduce or contain disease or insect infestation, or to restore or maintain ecosystem health or that are removed from a federally approved vegetation management project, and that are harvested in accordance with applicable law and land management plans and specified requirements for old-growth forests; (2) any organic matter, including specified renewable plant material and waste material (including vegetative, animal, food, and yard waste), that is available on a renewable or recurring basis from non-federal land, land belonging to an Indian or Indian tribe that is held in trust by the United States or subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States, or any Indian reservation; and (3) residues or byproducts from wood, pulp, or paper product facilities.
Bill· HRH.R. 1907 (112th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 2011
Infrastructure Facilitation and Habitat Conservation Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to establish a program to provide loans and loan guarantees to enable state political subdivisions to acquire interests in real property pursuant to habitat conservation plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Requires the Secretary to: (1) submit loan applications for the Secretary of the Interior's review, which shall include a determination that the subdivision has adopted a complementary plan for sustainable infrastructure development that provides for the mitigation of environmental impacts; and (2) give preference to such subdivisions located in biologically rich regions in which rapid growth and development threaten successful implementation of approved habitat conservation plans.
Question· writtenPQ 122asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2011
123 Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if an exemption will be made for an agri-environment options scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 101asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2011
102 Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the current salary of the Dublin city manager; and the salary of the most senior housing manager in Dublin City Council.
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Question· writtenPQ 100asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2011
101 Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Dublin City Council is contacting a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 in relation to an error.
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Question· writtenPQ 99asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2011
100 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the number of women taking up senior management positions in local government; the number of women who occupied positions at manager or assistant county manager level in cities and counties prior to the inception of Better Local Government; the number of women subsequently appointed as directors of services and the number of female managers or directors of services currently in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 98asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2011
99 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of assistant city and county managers in place here prior to the inception of Better Local Government; the number of directors of services subsequently appointed; the number of directors of services currently in place in a full time or acting capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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