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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) continues to play an important role in the delivery of social housing. To the end of September 2015, a total of 1,600 NAMA residential properties had been delivered for social housing use, comprising 1,241 completed properties and a further 359 that have been contracted and where completion work is on-going. A further 486 properties are considered...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: Social housing targets out to 2017 for all local authorities issued in April 2015. This also included funding allocations with, nationally, over €1.5 billion to be invested in a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes by all local authorities. In the case of Donegal County Council, 507 is the target set for new social units under both Current and Capital-funded progammes...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: A shortage of supply is at the heart of the current challenges in the housing sector and the Government is addressing this on a number of fronts. The Government’s Construction 2020 Strategy, published last year, is aimed at addressing issues in the property and construction sectors and ensuring that any bottlenecks that might impede the sector in meeting the estimated residential...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Services (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The provision and maintenance of public lighting is the responsibility of each individual local authority. Local authorities receive income from a variety of sources including grants from Central Government, Local Property Tax (LPT) proceeds, commercial rates and other locally-raised charges. It is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities , including...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I refer to the reply to Question No 157 of 11 November 2015 which sets out the position in this matter.I am not aware of reports of land hoarding referred to by the Deputy and, furthermore, I have not at any time directed the Dublin local authorities not to rezone additional lands for housing. However, Minister of State Coffey and I jointly wrote to the Chief Executives of the four...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 548 and 549 together. As outlined in my reply to Question No. 11 of 5 November 2015, my Department is continuing to engage with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the future funding of group water schemes, including those in CLÁR funded areas. I hope to announce details of future funding arrangements for such schemes very shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: In accordance with the Public Service Reform Plan, a critical review on merging the Local Government Audit Service (LGAS) into the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (OCAG) was initiated in 2012 in the context of consideration of agency rationalisation generally. The work of the Group was overtaken by a Government decision in October of that year that the LGAS and the OCAG should...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: A proposed social housing project at Mountshannon House, Co Clare, was submitted to my Department as part of a prioritised list of proposals from Clare County Council, for funding under the Capital Assistance Scheme. In July 2015, I announced funding approval of over €150 million under the Scheme nationally, to deliver over 1,000 new social housing units. This included 31 new units...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I have no function in relation to the buildings referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information sought by the Deputy is not routinely compiled by my Department but will be forwarded to him as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Expenditure (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information sought by the Deputy is not routinely compiled by my Department but will be forwarded to him as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Relations Contracts Data (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department has not engaged any external public relations firms since I became Minister. In relation to my Department’s policy for the engagement of external expertise, this is generally only considered where the issues involved require expert skills or capabilities that are not readily available within my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information requested is set out in the following table. Year Commissioned Consultant/Author etc. Name/Description of Report/Review/Study Date or Expected Date of Publication Amount Spent Since March 2011 2011 ARUP Consulting Engineers Study in respect of provision of fire detection and alarms systems in dwellings. Not intended for publication. It is a technical report, to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Advisers Data (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: Since my appointment as Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in July 2014 I have appointed two Special Advisers in accordance with Section 11 of the Public Service Management Act 1997. Both were appointed to the Principal Officer (Standard) Scale. There is a temporary replacement in situfor one of those Advisers who is absent on unpaid long term sick leave. The total...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 562 and 596 together. Since December 2011, my Department and the Housing Agency have been engaged with the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) identifying properties that might potentially be suitable for social housing purposes. Of the total 6,574 units identified nationally, 4,048 are no longer available for social housing purposes for a variety of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 567 to 569, inclusive, together. My Department provides funding under the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. There are three separate grants available and local authorities receive an overall allocation, with the responsibility for the apportionment between the three grants being a matter for each authority. Information on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The averages for the all-in construction costs for a local authority house from 2011 up to 2013, which is currently the last full year for which this analysis is available, are set out in the following Table. Year Average Cost Nationally 2011 €162,305 2012 €162,500 2013 €167,375In general terms, the cost of delivering a social housing unit is dependent on a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department issued provisional approval for funding in relation to the acquisition and refurbishment of eleven housing units at Erindale Heights, Ballyshannon, on 15 June 2015. This approval grants 30% support under the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF) amounting to €292,155 to an approved housing body for the completion of this work. In addition, approval was also issued for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: An Clár Infheistíochta Caipitil (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: Is féidir liom a dheimhniú go bhfuil soláthar €8 milliún curtha ar fáil ag an Rialtas faoin gClár Bonneagair agus Infheistíochta Caipitil, 2016-2021 d’fhorbairt na cé ar Inis Oírr, Oileáin Árann. Tá sé mar chuspóir lárnach ag an Rialtas go leanfaidh pobail bhríomhara, inmharthana ag cur fúthu...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department provides funding under the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. There are three separate grants available and local authorities receive an overall allocation, with the responsibility for the apportionment between the three schemes being a matter for each authority. Information on the exchequer funding provided by my Department to each local...