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Written Answers — Local Authority Services: Local Authority Services (30 Jun 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...and advertisement structures. The licensing system ensures that the local authority can exercise control over the placing of structures on roads to prevent traffic hazards arising. The licence fee for a directional fingerpost sign is currently €630, except in the case of signs for tourist accommodation, for which the fee is €50. I now intend to remove this limitation to tourist...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (21 Jun 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...to Question No. 223 of 31 May 2011 which outlines the position in relation to financial support provided to An Taisce. The Planning and Development Regulations 2001 prescribe the current planning fees. Any proposed changes to planning fees, including those payable to planning authorities in relation to the making of objections in respect of planning applications, would require the prior...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (18 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...system enables a local authority to exercise control over the placing of structures on roads to prevent traffic hazards arising. The Planning and Development Regulations 2001 prescribe the level of fees to be charged in respect of structures and appliances licensed under Section 254 of the 2000 Act. Schedule 12 of the Regulations prescribes a fee of €630 for an advertisement structure...

Community Development (10 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...in September 2010. A core requirement of the programme is that each service provider generates a significant level of its financial needs from non-public revenue sources such as by charging fees for services delivered, trading or fund-raising. Service providers in contract with the programme must be not-for-profit, social enterprise or community business in nature. The approximately 445...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (3 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...3 of the Building Control Act 2007 is carried out by the Royal Institution of Architects of Ireland in its capacity as the designated registration body. All costs are met from funds arising from fees charged for the purposes of registration and no direct costs to the Exchequer arise from the operation of the register. My Department does not maintain details of payments to individual...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (20 Apr 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...or purchased at the offices of the planning authority and that a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the authority in writing, on payment of the prescribed fee, within the 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the planning authority of the application. The applicant must erect the site notice no sooner than 2 weeks before making the application...

Fuel Poverty: Motion (13 Oct 2010)

Willie Penrose: ...available to customers who are struggling to meet their commitments. Utility companies must be facilitative of and responsive to customers who find themselves in trouble. How can the reconnection fee have been set by the regulator at €200? These people cannot be expected to meet that payment when they could not afford to pay their regular utility bills. I support Deputy McManus's call...

Land and Land Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases)(Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Willie Penrose: ...the Minister will be familiar, came into effect in August 1978 and applied to existing tenancies. Under this legislation a tenant with a large interest in a property was allowed to acquire the fee simple, although the landlord was entitled to some small compensation. On a strictly literal reading, this might be construed as an interference in the landlord's right to cover the fee simple,...

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (4 Feb 2010)

Willie Penrose: ...are included. It is critically important to the trade union movement that the legislation would give an entitlement and a way for workers to recover money when they have been unlawfully charged fees by the agency or employer. What is the position the terms of registered employment agreements and employment regulation orders that we discussed at length recently? Will these agreements and...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (17 Dec 2009)

Willie Penrose: Question 317: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if it is the position, that the ESB is charging people €8,000 of a fee in order for such person to apply for a grid, when they are considering putting in place a wind farm, or for the purposes of seeking and securing initial information in relation to the operation of same; the reason this charge has been...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Nov 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...Health Service Executive area in the service user groups regarding mental health, learning disabilities and acquired brain injury; the locations of same; the cost for each area, including weekly fees, travel and accommodation for staff and relatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39409/09]

Government Charges on Businesses: Motion (20 Oct 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...examining on an ongoing basis the bureaucracy and regulation to which businesses throughout the country have been obliged to submit. This includes the cost of various licences, registrations and fees that have to be paid, either at local or national government levels, to Government agencies or whoever. It is not just a question of the amounts but the multiplicity of charges businesses...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Mar 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...87: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way, in respect of the announcement of 3 February 2009, it is intended to effect the 8% reduction in professional fees in relation to services provided to or funded by his Department; the amount expected to be saved in his Department's budget as a result of this process; and if he will make a statement on the...

Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Feb 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...respect of being asked to pay up and cover the costs. Many customers, including State and semi-State organisation, gave a commitment in respect of this matter but then flatly refused to allow the fees to be passed on to them. The HSE was one of the customers mentioned in this regard. If State and semi-State bodies must, in conjunction with the unions, given consideration to this matter....

Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (25 Nov 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...rural Ireland, and the Minister can imagine the heartache and turmoil those unfortunate people will suffer in the next few months. These are people with commitments to mortgages, car loans, school fees and other household expenditures. Is there any concept on the Government side of the magnitude of what is happening in the real economy, which is not sheltered in any shape or form? In the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (18 Nov 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...Question No. 157 of 18 May 2004, the reason the correspondence between the solicitor's office involved which has been ongoing and of considerable detail, has not resulted in the solicitor's fees being discharged in respect of professional services rendered in respect of the estate of a person (details supplied), and which details have been furnished to the Office of the Chief State...

Written Answers — Private Security Authority: Private Security Authority (7 Oct 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...and Law Reform the reason, in the context of the application of a licence from the Private Security Authority pursuant to the Private Security Services Act 2004, whereby the administration fee for the licence is in the order of €1,000 and is renewable every two years, and which consists of a turnover of a fee of €1,250 where turnover is less than €625,000; if his attention has been...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...has literacy or numeracy problems, yet spending on adult education is low compared to other EU countries, where the problem is less severe. Third level institutions are still obliged to charge fees to mature students embarking on third level education unless they qualify for VTOS grants for which the income threshold is low. If cutbacks must be made to the national development plan, the...

Dáil Sittings: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Willie Penrose: ..., such as oil — some inflation is domestically generated — but increases in charges for Government services, for example, have resulted from Government decisions. Recent increases in doctors' fees, dental charges and health insurance costs have hit people on lower incomes hardest. The same can be said about increases in food costs, such as the 17% increase in the price of bread and...

Written Answers — Off-Licence Fees: Off-Licence Fees (24 Apr 2008)

Willie Penrose: Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on increasing the off-licence fee in respect of beer, wine and spirits from the current level of €300; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15596/08]