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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: It shows the type of individual the Deputy is.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Ballinskelligs.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: I was very impressed.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: There is also a Labour Party presence.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: State Properties (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 591 and 618 together. On 20 May 2014, the Implementation Plan on the State's Response to Homelessnesswas published in which the Government's approach to delivery on its objective of ending involuntary long-term homelessness by the end of 2016 was outlined. A copy of this plan is available on my Department's website at, . Bringing vacant local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: Capped annual water charges are set at €160 for single adult households and €260 for all other households, including those households comprising persons with medical conditions requiring higher water usage. All eligible households will receive a water conservation grant of €100 per year. In effect, this means that the net cost to single adult households will be no more...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Quality (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 593 to 595, inclusive, together. The Nitrates Directive and Ireland's third National Nitrates Action Programme are given legal effect by the European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2014, as amended. The objective of the Regulations is to protect ground and surface waters, including drinking water sources, primarily...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 596 and 597 together. Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs) have been established in all local authority areas for the purposes of achieving a more strategic, joined-up approach to local and community development locally. As provided for under the Local Government Act Reform 2014, LCDCs have the responsibility for developing, coordinating...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: Mayo North East LEADER Partnership has informed my Departmentthat a claim f or payment has been received from the promoter of the project in question. I understand that there may be some issues in relation to the eligibility of the project which will be reviewed when the project file is submitted to my Department shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: Capital funding for public water and wastewater schemes was provided under my Department's Water Services Investment Programmes (WSIP), copies of which are in the Oireachtas library. Details of capital expenditure recouped to North and South Tipperary from 2004 to 2013 in respect of water services is outlined in the table below . Table: WSIP expenditure recouped for years 2004 – 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: The implementation of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a key Government priority and a major pillar of the Social Housing Strategy 2020, which I published on the 26 November last. The HAP scheme will bring all social housing supports provided by the State under the aegis of local authorities. The schemewill r emov e a barrier to employment by allowing recipients to remain in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Management Advisory Committee of my Department meet with the Minister and Ministers of State at regular intervals and the dates and attendance of such meetings in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 are set out in the tables below. Meetings between Ministers and individual members of the Management Advisory Committee take place on a regular basis as the business of the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: The number of Management Advisory Committee meetings held in my Department and those who attended for each of the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to end November 2014 is set out in the table below. Management Advisory Committee Meetings - Date of Meeting Attendees 1 10-Jan-11 Secretary General Geraldine Tallon, Assistant Secretaries Mary Moylan, Des Dowling, Mark Griffin, John McCarthy,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended, provides the legislative basis for the Non-Principal Private Residence Charge. The NPPR Charge, which has since been discontinued, applied in the years 2009 to 2013 to any residential property in which the owner did not reside as their normal place of residence. It is a matter for an owner, whether resident in Ireland or elsewhere, to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Travel (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: At this point in time, neither I nor any of the Ministers of State at my Department have any official foreign trips planned between now and the end of 2015, other than normal meetings of EU Environment Ministers.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Government continues to advance a range of measures that support volunteering and active citizenship. My Department funds a network of 21 Volunteer Centres. It also provides funding to Volunteer Ireland, the national volunteer development agency. The focus of Volunteer Ireland is to create an enabling environment for volunteering, to develop an ethos of volunteerism across all...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Applications (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: I understand that Mayo North East LEADER Partnership (MNELP)has received a claim for payment in relation to the project concerned and I expect this claim will be submitted by MNELP to my Department shortly for a review.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: I assume that the Question refers to the LEADER element of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (RDP). On foot of a legal challenge by another EU Member State , the European Court of Justice prohibited the publication of beneficiary detail. Because of this judgment Ireland has only published details of payments to the Local Action Groups that administer the Programme. In January 2014,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: My Department's Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP) is the largest social inclusion intervention of its kind in the State. The current Programme officially ended at the end of 2013 having operated for four years with funding of €281 million over that period.  It is being implemented on a transitional basis for 2014 with a budget of €47 million pending the roll...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (16 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Water Services Act 2013 provided for the establishment of Irish Water as an independent subsidiary within the Bord Gáis Éireann Group (now Ervia) and assigned the necessary powers to allow Irish Water to undertake the metering programme. In common with meters for other utility services, the meters will be the property of Irish Water which will also be responsible for meter...