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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: We are not undermining it.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I hope Deputy Dooley will be open to supporting charging in principle.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I refer to the reply to Question No. 278 of 18 October 2016 which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme for Older People and People with a Disability is delivered by local authorities with 80% funding from my Department, along with 20% from the local authorities’ own resources. It assists people with a disability in private houses to have necessary adaptations, repairs or improvement works carried out in order to make their accommodation more suitable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The precise information sought on funding allocated to Kerry County Council, Listowel Town Council, Tralee Town Council and Killarney Town Council for each of the years from 2004 to 2014 to groups and persons for community events and purposes is not fully clear. It is also the case that information related to community-related funding may not be routinely collated on the basis of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016 and allows eligible local authority tenants to buy their homes. The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015 governing the Scheme provides for a number of specified classes of houses to be excluded from sale. The provisions of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Conditions (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The lease granted for one additional year allows the Marine Institute to operate and utilise the test facility to the extent permitted under the original granted lease, only until such time as a new application to extend the scope and nature of the facility has been determined or March 2017, whichever is the earliest.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Conditions (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The current Foreshore Lease format is intended to provide a comprehensive set of protections and obligations with a view to providing a clear description of the Lessor/Lessee relationship being entered into. In order to enhance clarity for both parties, the current format lease has naturally become more detailed in the 10 year period between the execution of these two instruments.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Conditions (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: As the one year lease term extension did not require further works oralterations to the physical aspect of the site a further environmental impact assessment of the consented facility was not required.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department issued general guidance on the implementation of the vacant site levy to planning authorities by way of Circular Letter PL7/2016 on 1 July 2016, entitled Implementation of the Vacant Site Levy as provided for in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, which is available on my Department’s website at the following link: .

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Energy Schemes (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Local authorities are continuing with an ambitious programme of insulation retrofitting this year and further funding of some € 33 million for that purpose has been made available to end-2016.  This is additional to funding of some €85 million provided from 2013 to 2015 to improve energy efficiency and comfort levels in over 46,000 local authority homes. This Programme...

Seanad: Fire Safety in Traveller Accommodation: Statements (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am grateful for the invitation to come to the Upper House to contribute on such an important issue. I thank Senators for giving me the opportunity to hear statements and take questions.I understand I will have an opportunity to sum up at the end of the debate and to respond to some of the issues raised. On 21 September 2016, my Department published the Report on Programme to Review and...

Seanad: Fire Safety in Traveller Accommodation: Statements (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Can I give a minute away?

Seanad: Fire Safety in Traveller Accommodation: Statements (19 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Clearly, I will not have an opportunity to reply to all questions. As such, I want to pick up on one or two themes. I thank Senator Colette Kelleher for a very impassioned speech today. I have known Senator Kelleher for a long time and have rarely heard her speak as she did today. As such, I am certainly taking on board what she has said. I will also comment on Senator Mac Lochlainn's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (20 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 119 and 128 together. In December 2013, my Department published proposed draft revisions to the noise, setback distance and shadow flicker aspects of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. These draft revisions proposed: - the setting of a more stringent day- and night-time noise limit of 40 decibels for future wind energy developments, - a mandatory...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Archival Material (20 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The documentary materials that are required to be archived by the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments (more commonly known as the Mahon Tribunal) in compliance with sections 46 and 47 of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 and the National Archives Act 1986 are in the process of being placed in storage with the storage company procured and contracted...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships Cost (20 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Charlemont Street Public Private Partnership development is being primarily undertaken by Dublin City Council. My Department is not directly involved in the development of this project. In respect of the project, I have been advised by Dublin City Council that it is based on the Council providing development land, in return for which a developer is constructing 79 social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Deposits (20 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 , enacted on 4 December 2015 , provides, inter alia, for the establishment of a tenancy deposit protection scheme. The deposit protection scheme provisions of the Act will be commenced as soon as the necessary conditions are in place to support the establishment of the scheme, which will be a major project. The priority at present is the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (20 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 125 and 126 together. The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, enacted in July 2015, introduced a new measure, the vacant site levy, which is aimed at incentivising the development of vacant or under-utilised sites in urban areas. Under the Act, planning authorities are required to establish a register of vacant sites in their areas, beginning on 1 January...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (20 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2014, as amended, give legal effect in Ireland to the Nitrates Directive and to our Nitrates Action Programme (NAP). The Directive requires all member states to define set periods when the land application of fertiliser , including slurry, is not allowed and in Ireland the closed season commenced on 15...