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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I know what the Deputy means.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is just outside Nenagh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I am inside it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I am not in Offaly; I am in Tipperary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: No, I am in Tipperary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: No, I am in Tipperary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Ballinskelligs to Dingle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I hope there will not be any more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: There was a great overlap. There are no right or wrong answers to some of the questions asked. It is matter of coming to a consensus on many of the issues raised, drilling down to gather as much information as possible and making decisions on that basis. There is no such thing as best practice; there is just practice and there are circumstances. One can take the Kilmeaden cheese approach...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (11 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132, 133 and 143 together. Eligible voters not included in the register of electors can apply to their local authority for inclusion in the supplement to the register up until 15 days (not including Sundays, Good Friday or Public Holidays ) before polling day, if they wish to be included in the supplement that will apply at the forthcoming referendums....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Exemptions (11 Mar 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 Irish Water can collect charges from its customers 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)...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (11 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department works closely with all local authorities and all have been invited to submit staffing sanction requests to facilitate the delivery of the Government's Housing Strategy. Each staffing sanction request is examined on a case by case basis having due regard to the continued delivery of key services in the context of staffing and budgetary constraints. To date, my Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Legislative Programme (11 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The data requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of legislative amendments tabled is not collated in my Department. Information relating to all legislation enacted by the Oireachtas, including legislation sponsored by my Department, is available in the Legislative Observatory section of the website of the Houses of the Oireachtas at or on the Irish Statutebook website at .

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment (11 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: I have no responsibility in regard to this matter which falls within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (11 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020, published in November 2014, includes a commitment to introduce the new tenant purchase scheme by the second quarter of 2015. Full details of the new scheme will be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (11 Mar 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: Domestic Violence Policy (11 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Where an individual who has left their home due to domestic violence is considered to be homeless by a housing authority, under Section 2 of the 1988 Housing Act, the housing authority may arrange for them to be placed in temporary emergency accommodation without having to be entered on the waiting list. Where a social housing assessment is an appropriate longer-term response to a case of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (11 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The treatment and management of waste material is subject to a registration and permitting system by local authorities or licensing by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as appropriate, and governed by the Waste Management (Facility Permit & Registration) Regulations 2007 or the Waste Management (Licensing) Regulations 2004, as appropriate. Environmental standards in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (12 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The overall package of measures on Irish Water financing announced by Government last November is designed to make water charges more affordable for customers. The charges structure was revised with a view to making it simpler and fairer, providing more clarity and certainty to households. The overall cost for those who register with Irish Water, net of the €100 water conservation...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (12 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: 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 noise limit of 40 decibels for future wind energy developments, - A mandatory minimum setback of 500 metres between a...