Results 3,701-3,720 of 20,793 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I already said that.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: The Deputy will be glad to know that Dublin is a priority. We have a specific task force relating to Dublin and another task force relating to the rest of the country. I chair an oversight group. We have a specific group that delivers on that and we meet with it every week. The chief executive officer of South Dublin County Council is the chairperson of it. We have issues relating to...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I agree with the Deputy. A total of 2,300 units were returned to use in 2014 and 1,000 units are targeted for 2015 so there has been a lot of progress. There are issues that relate specifically to the city centre that I have seen myself. We have spoken with Dublin City Council about them. In 2014, Dublin City Council returned 467 units to service. Fingal County Council brought 165 units...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: One gets pretty annoyed when one is driving by and sees local authority stock that has been boarded up for a number of years, particularly when one cannot understand why that is the case. The target in 2015 is to get another 1,000 of these void units back into operation.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: On the Deputy's suggestion about people moving from Kildare, Meath or Wicklow back to Dublin, that can be further facilitated with the planned passport in the proposed planning legislation. The proposal is for people to have a housing passport allowing them to move between local authority areas more easily. That will be helpful in that regard.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: The Deputy has raised this previously.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I will look into that.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I can show him myself.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I will begin by complimenting the Deputy's local authority as it overshot its allocation on voids. Percentage wise, it was probably one of the most successful in the country.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I know that. There are a couple beside the Deputy who did not do too badly. From a void point of view, the returned units were substantially more than what it was allocated. That must be acknowledged. For statistical purposes, I can state that 43 units were brought back into play.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: That was in Laois. In Offaly, the figure was 35 and it was given 31. Laois beat Offaly in that sense. We will see how it gets on in another year's time. I refer to the Deputy's comments on social housing. He referred to it before and it is a valid point. We are considering a new tenant purchase scheme and all of the issues around that. Maybe as part of that we could examine this...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I have made similar statements.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I am glad the Deputy heard me. From our analysis of the market, we have found that issues exist in certain areas, so we need to look at the mix of housing. On the other hand, the system works quite well in other parts of the country.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: We all must deal with difficult situations.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: I ask the Deputy to clarify her remarks. Is she suggesting that homelessness is under-reported in terms of the collection of statistical information?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: Is the Deputy talking about people who do not have their own housing unit?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: By whom?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: The Deputy has raised a number of issues. In response to her suggestion that local authorities adopt a strategic approach and the fact that certain local authorities have longer waiting lists, I said the same earlier about a number of local authorities, such as those in Dublin and Cork and the commuting counties around Dublin. We have specific issues in Galway, Waterford and Limerick as...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: It was necessary to do this and it is being done. If Deputy Catherine Murphy has any specific issues she should raise them with me directly and I will address them myself. I take on board her point concerning the mix of houses. When I referred earlier to singles or singles plus children, I did not mean that one-bedroom houses would be built. I was just reflecting on the current...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Alan Kelly: They are not going across yet. That applies when the tenancy has finished.