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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I read it out a moment ago. It was €491 million in 2014 and is to be €440 million in 2015.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: We are putting in €458 million to the fund this year instead of €440 million, so we are putting in €18 million as a top-up of the €440 million. The difference is between €491 million in 2014 to €458 million this year. The Deputy asked about motor tax and funding arising from that. Motor tax has always been paid to the Central Fund. There have been...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The only swap is that instead of the funding going to 34 local authorities to provide water services, it is going to Irish Water. The Deputy subsequently referred to EUROSTAT and the water conservation grant. EUROSTAT has not delivered on this at all. If the Deputy has some commentary from EUROSTAT on this, I would like to see it. It is an independent body and it will give its...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The local property tax yield is €440 million. There are gross motor tax receipts of €1.167 billion, with a payment from the Exchequer of €233 million.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is all laid out. There is the Irish Water subvention of €399 million, the local authority rates payment of €59 million, as we spoke of previously and other miscellaneous and various schemes of €75 million. I can provide a copy of the statement to the Deputy.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is on page 16 of the briefing.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Deputy Catherine Murphy also asked about the local property tax. Absolutely all of it is used in local authorities. It is used, from an equalisation perspective, to ensure nobody is worse off.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I would say most of them saw increased funding. Any of them which are growing got more from the local property tax. It is a not a fund that we can fully control either. The idea is to ensure we have created a system with a floor based on fairness. That is what we did. It has been broadly accepted. The Deputy had a similar question to that of Deputy Stanley and we have outlined those...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: We can come back on that. The ESB will not be given extra resources to administer the grant and it will have to absorb that cost in its allocation. The water conservation grant will be done through a regulation. The Leader programme has been very successful and has made a great contribution throughout the country with regard to volume of schemes. Deputies opposite would agree with that...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I apologise for overlooking that issue. The funding correlates precisely to the previous formula. To give an example, if €10,000 was development levies and €2,000 was water, the same ratio in respect of contributions will be adopted in the new system.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The €77 million in current expenditure and €77 million in capital expenditure cancel each other out.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department provides funding to local authorities for various social housing supports, including for adaptations and extensions to the social housing stock to meet the needs of local authority tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding provided by my Department meets 90% of the cost of the works, with each local authority providing the remaining 10%. My...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Exemptions (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: A refund of motor tax may be granted by the licensing authority where the vehicle has been taxed, provided the licensing authority are satisfied that the vehicle is not being used due to certain limited circumstances. These include where the owner has ceased to use the vehicle because of illness, injury or other physical disability, where the vehicle is not being used because of service...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Motor tax is based on the construction and use of a vehicle. In order to qualify for the commercial rate of vehicle tax, a vehicle must be constructed or adapted for use as a goods vehicle and must be being used solely for the conveyance of goods in the course of trade or business.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Article 30(1)(g) of the Waste Management (Collection Permit) Regulations 2007, provides that the requirement to hold a waste collection permit shall not apply to “the collection and transport of animal by-products, other than catering waste”. In this regard, “manure” is a Category 2 animal by-product and is defined in Article 3(20) of the Animal By-products...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: On 14 January 2015, I signed an order under section 12 of the Water Services (No 2) Act 2013. This order provided for the transfer to Irish Water of all underground water services assets previously vested in any local authority. Further orders for the transfer of assets are currently being drawn up and I expect to shortly sign an order for the transfer of some 250 treatments plants from local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Budget 2014 contained a special provision in the form of a targeted €10m Special Resolution Fund (SRF) to assist in addressing the legacy of unfinished housing developments arising from the economic downturn. Cavan County Council did not apply for SRF funding in respect of Lisgrey Gardens, Bailieboro at that time. An application for SRF in respect of this development was received from...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. Data on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 546 and 547 together. On 4 December 2014, I hosted a special Summit on Homelessness to reaffirm the Government's commitment to end involuntary long-term homelessness by the end of 2016. A number of actions arising from the Summit were considered at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy and Public Service Reform on 8 December and were then...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Functions (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015 was published on 26 January 2015. The Bill is to be debated in the Houses of the Oireachtas in the coming weeks. Following the publication of the Bill, I established a Referendum Commission under section 2 of the Referendum Act 1998 on 27 January 2015. The role of the...