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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: A new water charging regime was announced by the Government on 19 November 2014. The capped annual charges will be €160 for single adult households and €260 for all other households until the end of 2018. All households will know what their capped bills will be until the end of 2018, which is particularly important for larger households or those with high usage due to medical...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: As indicated in response to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 17 February 2015, my Department plans to advertise the opportunity for eligible voters to apply for inclusion in the supplement to the register of electors following the making of the Polling Day Order for the forthcoming referendums. This advertising will be done through the main national newspapers and the Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provided for the transfer of responsibility for the provision of public water services from the local authorities to Irish Water. The Act provides that Irish Water shall charge each customer for the provision of services provided by it in accordance with a water charges plan to be approved by the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER). Section 22(5) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: Traditionally it has been difficult to quantify the number of homeless persons on an ongoing basis; this is in part a consequence of the volatility within this cohort of housing need. Prior to 2014 national data on homelessness was available through Housing Needs Assessmentreports, which were generally carried out every three years, or through the CSO’s special Census report, Homeless...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (24 Feb 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. The purposes...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is a matter for each housing authority, as part of its housing management functions, to determine the conditions in relation to succession to local authority tenancies in its area. I understand that the conditions vary from one authority to another, but any prospective successor would typically have to have resided in the property for a specified period, prior to the death of the family...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: Motor tax is payable on an annual, half-yearly or quarterly basis. The rates applicable for the half-yearly and quarterly options are 55.5% and 28.25% of the annual charge, respectively. These relativities have remained generally consistent since the 1960s. The differential takes account of the extra workload for staffing in motor tax offices and the National Vehicle and Driver File Unit of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The practice of a household receiving social housing support from one housing authority that wishes to transfer to another housing authority area, is currently operated on an informal basis by agreement between housing authorities. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020 includes a commitment to examine the possibility of introducing a “housing passport”. This...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I understand that the Question relates to a form of condition which is sometimes attached to a planning permission - also known as a “sterilisationagreement” - under section 47 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, between a planning authority and a person with a legal interest in land for the purpose of restricting or regulating the further development or use of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Quality (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides that Irish Water can collect charges from each customer in receipt of water services provided by it. The Act also provides that responsibility for the independent economic regulation of the water sector is assigned to the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) and the CER has been given statutory responsibility for protecting the interests of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors Administration (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The requirements on local authorities, as registration authorities, in relation to the publication and provision of copies of the electoral register are set out in rules 13, 14 and 25 of the Second Schedule to the Electoral Act 1992, as amended. Under rule 25, where any document is required to be published in accordance with the Second Schedule to the Electoral Act 1992, the document may be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 171 together. I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 564, 565, 567, 576, 586 and 587 of 10 February 2015 which sets out the current position in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: With effect from 1 January 2014, Irish Water is responsible for public water services. The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides that responsibility for the independent economic regulation of the water sector is assigned to the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) and the CER has been given statutory responsibility for protecting the interests of customers. The approach taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: On foot of the recommendations of the Keane Report on mortgage arrears the Government launched the Approved Housing Body (AHB) Mortgage to Rent scheme , for properties secured with private mortgages, on a pilot basis in February 2012 and extended it nationally in June 2012. To be eligible for the AHB-mortgage-to-rent scheme a household must have had their mortgage position deemed...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 and 175 together. The Social Housing Strategy 2020published in November 2014 sets out clear, measureable actions and targets to increase the supply of social housing, reform delivery arrangements and meet the housing needs of all households on the housing list. The total targeted provision of over 110,000 social housing units , through the delivery of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: A Capital Appraisal for the regeneration of the Dominick Street flats complex was recently submitted to my Department by Dublin City Council in accordance with the requirements of the Capital Works Management Framework. This is now under consideration and my Department will be in contact with the City Council when this process is concluded.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I refer to the reply to Question No. 228 of 15 January, 2015. I expect to be in a position to announce, in the coming weeks, details of funding to be allocated, by way of block grant allocations, to local authorities under the 2015 Rural Water Programme.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Offices (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is a matter for each local authority, including Sligo County Council, 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 have direct responsibility in law for all reserved functions of the authority, which includes adopting the annual budget,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Status (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department has approved the sanction request for an additional executive planner as outlined in the question.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The European Union (Household Food Waste and Bio-Waste) Regulations 2013 build on the commercial food waste regulations introduced in 2009, and are being implemented on a phased basis, beginning with population centres greater than 25,000 people. These Regulations are designed to promote the segregation and recovery of household food waste, in line with the national policy and the Waste...