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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area are available from the results of the summaries of social housing assessments (formerly housing needs assessments) undertaken in 2011, 2013 and 2016. The most recent statutory summary of social housing assessments, carried out in 2016, details the number of households on all local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (14 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: My Department has a wide and diverse business agenda, including providing necessary housing supports and fostering communities in partnership with local government and other local development bodies. In order to deliver on this broad agenda, my Department allocates significant resources to a wide range of organisations, including local authorities. The total funding provided by my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (14 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: 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 authority are responsible for all reserved functions of the authority, which include adopting the annual budget and authorising borrowing, and are democratically...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: I was happy to give-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: -----the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, at least a minute and a half of my time because he was making-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: He was making so much sense.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: So much sense, in fact, that we have for the first time got a bit of life out of the motion from the Opposition to which we are responding.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: In truth, if the Sinn Féin Members were successful in their efforts to bring down the Government, there would be no party more surprised than their own this evening. They have no intention of trying to bring about an election. This is simply yet another negative stunt that comes from a party that offers nothing constructive.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: The reality is that our job in government is to deliver for people who rely on the Government to solve problems throughout this country, whether in health care, housing or education.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: We put a Government together following a very complex result a year ago in a general election after which, in typical Sinn Féin fashion because its Members stick to themselves and refuse to work with others to try to put solutions in place, they did nothing to try to put some stability and certainty in place for people who rely on this institution to provide governance in Ireland....

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: Mattie, with all due respect, you would have hopped into government quite comfortably if you had been given the job you were asking for.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: What we will focus on------

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: -----is solving significant problems that need solutions that can put a just solution in place for people like Maurice McCabe. The Tánaiste and the Taoiseach are determined to do that this week. Instead of actually finalising the terms of reference for a tribunal of inquiry that we want to put in place without any further delay, we are in here talking about a nonsensical motion of...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: My job in this Government is to deal with one of those big problems-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: -----in the area of housing. That is exactly what we will continue to do.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: We have already committed €5.5 billion to social housing. We have already in the pipeline nearly 8,500 social houses under way.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: Our focus will be to continue with the work rather than the games that Sinn Féin continues to play in this House.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Superannuation Schemes (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: In 2008, retained fire-fighters were given the option of joining the Local Government Superannuation Scheme (LGSS) and receive a pension and retirement lump sum based on their pensionable remuneration and length of service.  Retained fire-fighters who opted not to join the scheme receive, on retirement, a gratuity of 1/8th of the annual retainer multiplied by the number of years of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: Funding availability under the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) for 2016 was €86m. Despite there being a substantial pipeline of project approvals in place under the Scheme, progress in 2016 was slower than expected and the final funding drawdown for the year was €37m. CAS applications in 2016 were received up to the end of the year and all are being considered for funding. It...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services (15 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: As advised in the reply to Question No. 264 of 7 February 2017, the information requested in respect of the national library book-stock tender managed by the Local Government Management Agency is a matter for that body. Arrangements have been put in place by bodies under the aegis of the Department to facilitate the provision of information by those bodies directly to members of the...