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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The assessment of households for social housing support, and the allocation of such support, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations. My Department does not hold day to day information on the number of applications made to each local authority, the numbers allocated housing support and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Some 13,000 households are currently being supported by the HAP scheme across the 19 local authority areas where the scheme is operational, including eligible homeless households under the Homeless HAP Pilot scheme managed by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) for all four local authorities in the Dublin region. A summary of the household classes supported by the HAP scheme at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribe maximum net income limits for each housing authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band were based on an assessment of income needed to provide for a household's basic needs plus a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. If Deputies have any queries on specific issues in relation to water services, they may be aware that Irish Water has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from public representatives. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department has not as yet received a formal proposal for the construction of social houses at the location referred to in the details supplied. The development of such a proposal, including issues around the housing provision, access, services, etc will, in the first instance, be a matter for Fingal County Council to advance. I understand from enquires made with the Council that it is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Illegal Dumping (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department has received legal advice on this complex case. Having considered the advice received, my Department has sought further clarification from the State’s legal services on certain matters. My Department is currently awaiting the further clarification requested.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The purpose of the Mortgage Allowance Scheme is to assist householders who are tenants of local authority houses or dwellings provided by approved voluntary housing bodies to become owner-occupiers of other dwellings, thereby surrendering their house to the local authority or approved housing body. Thescheme is administered by the relevant local authority.Under the Social Housing Current...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department provides current funding to housing authorities towards the cost of providing accommodation and related services for homeless persons under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. The funding amounts provided to homeless services by other State agencies are a matter for the relevant Ministers. Under ‘Section 10’ funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Expenditure (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Local Government Act 2001, as amended by the Local Government Reform Act 2014, provides the legislative basis for the local authority budget process. It is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process, having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources. The elected members of a local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 600 to 603, inclusive, together. To support the implementation of Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing andHomelessness, I have secured €5.35 billion in exchequer investment to deliver 47,000 social housing units through build, refurbishment, acquisitions and leasing, over the period 2016 to 2021. This €5.35bn investment comprises some...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Property Tax (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: In accordance with the Government’s decisions in relation to local retention of Local Property Tax (LPT), my Department notified Dublin City Council of revised LPT allocations of €53,728,544 and €50,661,430 for 2015 and 2016, respectively. These allocations take into account the passing of resolutions by the elected members to reduce the basic rate of LPT by 15% in each...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Lease Agreements (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: In general, premises and sites occupied by my Department are rented or leased by the Office of Public Works, rather than directly by my Department. Details relating to premises and sites currently rented directly by Met Éireann are set out in the table. Location 2013 2014 2015 2016 YTD Landlord Dublin Airport €119,885.02 €64,673.32 €64,678.26...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Since the publication of the Social Housing Strategyin November 2014, and indeed prior to its publication, my Department has been engaged with local authorities, with a view to ensuring their capacity and preparedness for delivery of social housing targets to 2020. This engagement continues on an ongoing basis to ensure that local authorities are resourced to deliver on the targets contained...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: To date one new project has been approved to proceed under the single-stage approval process for social housing construction schemes with a budget of less than €2m and up to 15 housing units. A number of other proposals, that may be advanced using this approach, are currently being discussed between local authorities and my Department, as part of the informal consultation that happens...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Action 5.1 of the Government’s Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness – Rebuilding Irelandundertakes to develop a National Vacant Housing Re-Use Strategy by 2017. To this end, the Housing Agency is currently establishing a working group that will inform the Strategy, and the group will include senior representatives from my Department, from local authorities and from approved...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: In publishing Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Government has set out a practical and readily implementable set of actions to create a functioning and sustainable housing system. The Plan is available at the website www.rebuildingireland.ie.The Plan is divided into five pillars, with each targeting a specific area of the housing system for attention. Pillar 4...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Gross motor tax receipts for 2015 for pre-2008 private vehicles were €673.3m and the receipts for post-2008 vehicles were €248.2m. There were 1,170,226 vehicles taxed on the basis of engine capacity (i.e. the basis of charging for pre-2008 cars) at 31 December 2015 and 814,904 taxed on the basis of CO2emissions.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Constituency Boundaries (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The most recent review of local electoral areas was carried out from November 2012 to May 2013 by a Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee established under the Local Government Act 1991. The recommendations of that committee were implemented through 30 Statutory Instruments made in January 2014. Unlike the position for Dáil and European Parliament constituencies, there is no...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Electoral Commission Establishment (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Immediately following the publication of the preliminary results of Census 2016 by the Central Statistics Office on 14 July 2016, and in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 1997, I made an Order establishing a Constituency Commission to review Dáil and European Parliament constituencies. The function of the Constituency Commission is to make a report on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Each Chief Executive of a local authority is responsible for staffing and organisation arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible. My Department works closely with all local authorities and all have been invited to submit staffing sanction requests to facilitate the delivery of housing services. Each staffing sanction...