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Question· writtenPQ 553asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
553. Deputy James Bannon asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reforms he has achieved since this Government took office in 2011 and his future plans for political reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42352/15]
Question· writtenPQ 552asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
552. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allocate an additional €40 million over the coming years to enhance the Leader programme, given the high level of demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42891/15]
Question· writtenPQ 551asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
551. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why there is such a delay in an application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4 for a home care grant. [42787/15]
Question· writtenPQ 550asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
550. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding employment opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42631/15]
Question· writtenPQ 549asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
549. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of funding for a library to be constructed in Kinnegad in County Westmeath. [42561/15]
Question· writtenPQ 548asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
548. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of annual motor tax revenue spent on the administration and transaction costs involved in levying the tax. [42560/15]
Question· writtenPQ 547asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
547. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to exempt pensioners from the water charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42530/15]
Question· writtenPQ 546asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
546. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the taxation and valuation system of commercial properties via commercial rates is sufficiently transparent, given the significant variation in the efficiency and rate of collection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42362/15]
Question· writtenPQ 545asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
545. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the consultation his Department has undertaken with Fingleton White, with Dublin City Council and with Fingal County Council with regard to the necessity of building a 16 km aviation pipeline from Dublin Port to Dublin Airport. [42345/15]
Question· writtenPQ 544asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
544. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on any recent initiatives or studies his Department or its agencies have carried out in conjunction with the Department of Health on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation from mobile telephones and given a number of health issues raised by Oireachtas communications committee reports in the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Dáileanna Éireann; if he is continuing to monitor those health effects with the Department of Health in respect of the location of mobile telephone masts and the use of mobile telephones by children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42296/15]
Question· writtenPQ 366asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
366. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans for Christmas festivities for the 1,500-plus children living in hotel rooms and guesthouses; if he has directed officials to organise an event in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42586/15]
Question· writtenPQ 289asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
289. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when persons (details supplied) in County Cork will receive the next payment under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42840/15]
Question· writtenPQ 278asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
278. Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the reason for the delay in issuing payment under the agri-environment options scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be expedited due to the financial hardship this is causing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42668/15]
Question· writtenPQ 272asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
272. Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the number of on-site farm visits carried out in respect of the 400 farmers involved in the non-productive capital investment action associated with the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42591/15]
Question· writtenPQ 270asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
270. Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how he determines that amounts claimed by a participant in the agri-environment options scheme for non-productive capital costs associated with tree planting are in excess of verified costs when the management standard, as per the scheme's guidelines, give a figure of €62.70 per tree; if he will provide a breakdown of this figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42588/15]
Question· writtenPQ 269asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
269. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision on an application under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed, given a clerical error on the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42584/15]
Question· writtenPQ 268asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
268. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision on an application under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed, given a clerical error on the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42578/15]
Question· writtenPQ 260asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
260. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the number of farmers in hen harrier special protection areas; and the number of these who have entered the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme plus. [42518/15]
Question· writtenPQ 248asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
248. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a refusal of an application under the rural environment protection scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42353/15]
Question· writtenPQ 245asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2015
245. Deputy Noel Harrington asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments under the basic payment scheme, the areas of natural constraint scheme and the agri-environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42316/15]
Bill· HRH.R. 4149 (114th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 2015
Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise requirements concerning citizen suits. Litigation costs (including reasonable attorney and expert witness fees) must be awarded to the prevailing party, thus the bill removes a court's discretion to award the fees. A prevailing party is defined as the party that prevails on more than half of the claims at issue. The bill repeals the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny or restrict the use of any area as a disposal site for dredged or fill material when the discharge of such materials would have an unacceptable adverse effect on municipal water supplies, shellfish beds and fishery areas, wildlife, or recreational areas. Current law requires compensatory mitigation to replace the loss of aquatic resource functions in a watershed when a permit to discharge dredged or fill materials into navigable waters has unavoidable impacts on aquatic resources. This bill prohibits government entities from carrying out compensatory mitigation in excess of existing regulatory requirements.
Bill· SS. 2335 (114th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 2015
Beach Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise and reauthorize through FY2020 a grant program for monitoring, and notifying the public of, any pathogens in coastal recreation waters bordering public beaches. The bill reauthorizes through FY2018 the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000. The bill establishes requirements with respect to: (1) using rapid testing methods to detect unsafe levels of pathogens or pathogen indicators in those waters, and (2) notifying governmental agencies when pathogens exceed water quality standards. Those methods must provide testing results within four hours of receiving a sample. Communication with governments must occur within two hours of the receipt of the results of water quality samples. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must assess state and local compliance with coastal recreation water quality monitoring and notification legal requirements and grant conditions. The bill limits federal support of grants to non-compliant state or local governments. The Government Accountability Office must review the EPA's compliance assessments and corrective actions. States with coastal recreation waters must adopt the most protective water quality criteria and standards practicable for pathogens. The EPA must: (1) update the national list of beaches that are used by the public regardless of the presence of a lifeguard within 12 months and biennially thereafter (currently, periodically); (2) study the long-term impact of climate change on pathogenic contamination of coastal recreation waters; and (3) study the impacts of excess nutrients on coastal recreation waters.
Question· Written questionUIN 18096answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to consult (a) parliamentarians and (b) the public on her Department's 25 year plan for a healthy natural economy.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 540 (114th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 2015
Declares that the House of Representatives shall: support the achievement of near zero greenhouse gas emissions nationally by January 1, 2050, through policies that shift the U.S. energy supply strategy from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy, increase energy efficiency, and implement zero waste practices to end dependence on fossil fuels and to promote climate security, jobs, universal access to clean energy, national economic competitiveness, and national security; establish a national goal of deriving 50% of electricity from renewable sources by January 1, 2030; establish policies and programs to modernize the national infrastructure, transition toward full employment with new green jobs, and build a sustainable economy, focusing on historically unemployed or underemployed communities; provide educational and job training programs, transitional financial assistance, and job opportunities for displaced fossil fuel industry workers; provide retraining and re-employment opportunities in green jobs for military veterans; provide increased funding for educational, training, and job assistance programs for rural residents and for increased emergency preparation and assistance to rural communities damaged by the adverse impacts of climate change; help the people of the United States to establish resiliency to withstand the significant impacts of climate change; establish policies that capture and store carbon currently in the atmosphere by protecting forests and improving land and agricultural practices; support trade policies that maintain American labor and environmental standards; support tax incentives that promote the growth of green jobs; ensure universal access to clean energy for moderate- and low-income families; create policies or programs that result in net positive environmental and economic benefits in impacted communities, which shall receive at least 25% of revenues committed to or generated by the implementation of carbon reducing programs; phase out subsidies for fossil fuels; establish a national goal of doubling efficiency of existing buildings from 2015 levels by January 1, 2030; and support a policy to work with international organizations and other nations to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to set a goal to achieve near zero greenhouse gas emissions by January 1, 2050, through replacing fossil fuels with 100% renewable energy, conservation, and energy efficiency.
Bill· HRH.R. 4136 (114th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 2015
Beach Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise and reauthorize through FY2020 a grant program for monitoring, and notifying the public of, any pathogens in coastal recreation waters bordering public beaches. The bill reauthorizes through FY2018 the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000. The bill establishes requirements with respect to: (1) using rapid testing methods to detect unsafe levels of pathogens or pathogen indicators in those waters, and (2) notifying governmental agencies when pathogens exceed water quality standards. Those methods must provide testing results within four hours of receiving a sample. Communication with governments must occur within two hours of the receipt of the results of water quality samples. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must assess state and local compliance with coastal recreation water quality monitoring and notification legal requirements and grant conditions. The bill limits federal support of grants to non-compliant state or local governments. The Government Accountability Office must review the EPA's compliance assessments and corrective actions. States with coastal recreation waters must adopt the most protective water quality criteria and standards practicable for pathogens. The EPA must: (1) update the national list of beaches that are used by the public regardless of the presence of a lifeguard within 12 months and biennially thereafter (currently, periodically); (2) study the long-term impact of climate change on pathogenic contamination of coastal recreation waters; and (3) study the impacts of excess nutrients on coastal recreation waters.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 539 (114th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 2015
Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8) to modernize energy infrastructure, build a 21st century energy and manufacturing workforce, bolster America's energy security and diplomacy, and promote energy efficiency and government accountability, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 23) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units"; and providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 24) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units".
Bill· Begroting2015Z22626adopted
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 30 November 2015
Wijziging van de begrotingsstaten van het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu (XII) voor het jaar 2015 (wijziging samenhangende met de Najaarsnota)
Record· debate2015-11-27published
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2015
31st Dáil
Record· Brief regering2015Z22925adopted
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 27 November 2015
Uitstel beantwoording vragen van de vaste commissie voor Infrastructuur en Milieu over de 3e Voortgangsrapportage ERTMS
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7228/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Walter Rauch, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend strengere Regeln für <i>(den Verkauf von)</i> Pflanzenschutzmittel im Haus- und Kleingartenbereich
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7226/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Walter Rauch, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend VW-Skandal in Österreich <i>(in Bezug auf erhöhte Emissionswerte)</i>
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7277/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Harald Jannach, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit betreffend Einstufung der Gefährlichkeit <i>(des)</i> Pflanzenschutzmittels Glyphosat
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7239/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Wendelin Mölzer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft betreffend die Teilnahme Österreichs an der Expo 2017 <i>(Weltausstellung in Astana, Kasachstan)</i>
Report· Ausschussbericht886 d.B.ausschussbericht
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Sammelbericht des Ausschusses für Petitionen und Bürgerinitiativen über die Petitionen Nr. 26, 39, 43 und 44, 46, 49, 51 und 52 sowie über die Bürgerinitiativen Nr. 61, 65 und 66, 70 bis 72 sowie 74 bis 76
Resolution· Selbständiger Entschließungsantrag1451/A(E)selbständiger entschließungsantrag
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Antrag der Abgeordneten Christoph Hagen, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend IG <i>(Immissionsschutzgesetz)</i> -Luft Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen auf Bundesstraßen - Verlagerung in Bundeskompetenz
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7272/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Plessl, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Wasserrahmenrichtlinie Bereich Grundwasser & ÖPUL <i>(Österreichisches Programm zur Förderung einer</i> <i>umweltgerechten, extensiven und den natürlichen Lebensraum</i> <i>schützenden Landwirtschaft)</i> 2015/20
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7275/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Erwin Angerer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Lärmbelästigung durch KW <i>(Kraftwerksgruppe)</i> Reißeck/Kreuzeck
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7262/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Walter Rauch, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend unübersichtliche Mittelveranschlagung in der UG <i>(Untergliederung)</i> 43-Umwelt des BVA <i>(Bundesvoranschlages)</i> 2016
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7247/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Gerald Loacker, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Beschäftigungsstand Älterer im Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage7227/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Walter Rauch, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend neue Fälle von Blauzungenkrankheit in Österreich
Resolution· Selbständiger Entschließungsantrag1453/A(E)selbständiger entschließungsantrag
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Antrag der Abgeordneten Ulrike Weigerstorfer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Berücksichtigung des Tierschutzes im Rahmen des Gemeinnnützigkeitsgesetzes 2015
Resolution· Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag605/UEAunselbständiger entschließungsantrag
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Josef A. Riemer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend volle steuerliche Absetzbarkeit von Spenden für Tierschutz
Resolution· Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag603/UEAunselbständiger entschließungsantrag
Austria · National Council · 26 November 2015
Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Werner Kogler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend dringend internationale Klimafinanzierung vor Klimakonferenz aufstocken
Question· Written questionUIN 17764answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of her Department's funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.
Question· Written questionUIN 17926answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what training her Department has provided to staff on the family test; what other steps she has taken to raise awareness of the family test among staff of her Department; and if she wi
Question· writtenPQ 219asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 November 2015
219. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the basis on which funding allocations were made in respect of the scheme to support national organisations; the selection criteria that were applied; when these criteria were not adhered to in some cases in the final allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42279/15]
Question· writtenPQ 218asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 November 2015
218. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of shared ownership arrangements with local authorities which are in arrears; if a process is in place for dealing with such arrears cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42268/15]
Question· writtenPQ 217asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 November 2015
217. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of shared ownership arrangements which are currently in place with local authorities, the total value of loans outstanding for this category of home ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42267/15]
Question· writtenPQ 216asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 November 2015
216. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of residential units here owned by local authorities and by voluntary housing partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42259/15]
Question· writtenPQ 215asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 November 2015
215. Deputy Noel Coonan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when an application submitted to his Department under the expressions of interest for recreation projects 2015 will be finalised for a group (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the status of the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42132/15]