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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I accept that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: We all know that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: That is brain control.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I will deal with some recommendations at the end of this session.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I will start by responding to the last speaker's questions as they are freshest in my mind. I would never want to fight with Deputy Brophy either. I stand over what I said. I was very conditional in what I said. I did not say it was everyone. I respect that everyone has a choice to make in every individual situation. This is not confined to local authorities. It might be more prevalent...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: There has been much commentary about rapid builds. We have plans for 500 of these. A lot of learning was accrued from the first set of them but they are excellent houses and the fastest ever built. To be frank, one pays for time. Another tender is out at the moment and I believe it will create other economies and learnings that will ensure that there are even more savings. I understand...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Deputy Wallace has the document in front of him. He should read it.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: They are not waiting on money. Let us be honest because this is a myth.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Look at Wexford. Wexford has €25.5 million. I will not be doing it but if I was there and some other local authority did not spend its money, I would be happy to move even more to Wexford.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I want to finish off as I do not want to leave out my party colleague, Deputy Brendan Ryan. If I did so, I would be in awful trouble. Also - not because he is my party colleague - he did make some good points. At the end of all of this, there is an issue the committee should bear in mind. Earlier, I spoke about the various pieces of the jigsaw and the range of components. It is...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: First, as a country we need to set output targets for total housing, both social and private. I strongly recommend that it be done as part of the recommendations from the committee. We need to consider in a constructive way how land is being managed or made available for social housing. Effectively, we need an asset management system nationwide relating to housing and how houses are...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Of course.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 140 and 148 together. I and my colleague, Minister Paudie Coffey, met with the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) on 1 December 2015 to discuss a submission setting out a proposed means by which funding could be provided to Approved Housing Bodies, by credit unions, for the development of social housing. My Department has since had two further meetings...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I assume that the Question refers to general purpose grants from the Local Government Fund. Up to 2014, general purpose grants (GPG) were a contribution, from my Department, towards meeting the cost to local authorities of providing a reasonable level of services to their customers. The general purpose grant allocations to local authorities in 2014 were in respect of the local authority area...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: In April last year, I announced over €1.5 billion in funding allocations in respect of social housing to be provided by all local authorities via a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes. Those allocations and associated targets for each local authority, including Limerick, are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Following this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Government announced in 2011 the standing down of all affordable housing schemes, including the Shared Ownership Scheme, given the changes in the property and lending markets. There are no plans at this time to develop a new shared ownership scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: In April last year, I announced over €1.5 billion in funding allocations in respect of social housing to be provided by all local authorities via a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes. Those allocations and associated targets for each local authority, including Limerick, are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Following this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Applications (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: The assessment of applications for social housing support, and the management of the lists of qualified households, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations. The prescribed application form for such support requires applicants to provide certain information on their current and previous...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.