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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under the Social Housing Strategy202015,400 additional units of social housing are targeted nationally under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) to 2017. Under SHCEP, previously referred to as the Social Housing Leasing Initiative, 11,400 units are targeted with 3,000 of these for delivery in 2015. The number of additional...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department provides funding to local authorities for various social housing supports, including for adaptations and extensions to the social housing stock to meet needs of local authority tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding provided by my Department meets 90% of the cost of such works, with each local authority providing the remaining 10%. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I recently announced delivery targets under the Social Housing Strategy 2020 for all local authorities which took into account proposals submitted by the local authorities themselves for the delivery of units for the period 2015-17. These targets were accompanied by provisional funding allocations to local authorities totalling €1.5 billion out to 2017 and, accordingly, funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Applications (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The assessment of applications for social housing support is the responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2 009 and associated regulations. The prescribed application form for such support requires applicants to provide certain information on their current and previous accommodation, including whether they received a notice...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The report on the 2011 Housing Needs Assessment, available on my Department’s website at: , contains details on waiting list numbers for each local authority which were recorded on social housing needs assessments carried out at 3 year intervals from 1993 to 2011 under Section 9 of the Housing Act 1988. The latest social housing needs assessment was carried out as at 7 May 2013 in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Shared Ownership Scheme, first introduced in 1991 and amended in January 2003, was designed to facilitate access to home ownership to those who were unable to buy a home outright with a conventional mortgage. The Scheme offered an option to purchase up to half of a property with a standard annuity mortgage, with the balance to be rented from the local authority. The initiative worked well...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182 and 187 together. In Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares inventories of greenhouse gas emissions, which are compilations of historical greenhouse gas emissions from sources such as transport, power generation, industry and agriculture. The most recent year for which provisional data are available is 2013 which can be accessed on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under section 90(12)(a) of the Housing Act 1966, a person who bought a house from a local authority under a tenant purchase scheme must obtain the authority’s consent to re-sell the house within a specified period after tenant purchase (20 years in the case of the 1995 Tenant Purchase Scheme). The enactment empowers the housing authority to refuse to consent to the resale of the house...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Air and Water Pollution (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Air quality monitoring in Ireland is carried out to meet the requirements of EU Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe, also known as the CAFE Directive. The Directive requires that certain minimum levels of monitoring are conducted for the purpose of assessment and management of air quality. The EPA has responsibility for the monitoring of air quality in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Road Signage (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information requested is not available inmy Department. Responsibility for matters relating to roads rests with my colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 408 and 410 together. The regulation of each dog breeding establishment is a matter for the local authority in whose functional area the establishment is located. The local authority must maintain for public inspection a register of dog breeding establishments in its functional area, which must include the name and address of the applicant seeking entry onto...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 409 and 420 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 670 of 21 April 2015, which sets out the position on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The 2015 allocations in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability are currently under consideration in my Department and will issue shortly to all local authorities, including Meath County Council. Exchequer funding of over €37 million was provided by my Department for these grants last year and combined with an additional 20% contribution...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Postal Voting (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 412 and 413 together. In order to be able to vote at elections and referendums, a person's name must be entered in the register of electors for a constituency in the State in which the person ordinarily resides. Postal voting is provided for in electoral law in respect of certain categories of person who are entered in the register of electors -...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Social housing targets and provisional funding allocations for the period 2015-2017 for all local authorities were announced on 1 April 2015. The targets involved are challenging but the provisional funding allocations provide the resources to support their achievement. On 16 April my Department wrote to each local authority confirming these targets in detail for the years 2015, 2016 and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Vehicle Registration (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: An administrative arrangement has been in place since 1987 to facilitate motor dealers by enabling them to temporarily tax a vehicle in their ownership pending resale without their particulars being entered on the registration document as an additional owner. Since the introduction of a trade licence system for distributors/dealers/garages in 1992, which allows holders of a trade plate to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Planning authorities may, when adopting the Development Plan for their areas, adopt policies to curtail an excessive concentration of takeaways in particular areas. Under planning legislation, the change of use of any premises to a takeaway or fast food outlet would require planning permission. In deciding whether or not to grant permission for a development, the relevant planning authority...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Payments (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Recoupment made to local authorities under the Rental Accommodation Scheme in 2014 amounted to €133,512,889. Annual expenditure on the scheme covers not only the contracted rents due to private landlords but also payments that are made to Voluntary Housing Bodies, administration costs, deposits on newly acquired accommodation and payments made in respect of additional units...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 418 and 419 together. The most recent Summary of Social Housing Assessments, carried out as at 7 May 2013, found that there were 2,810 households on the waiting lists of the Limerick local authorities at this date. The full results of the 2013 Summary are available at the following link:. The 2013 figures are the most up-to-date figures available on waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Inspections (28 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 425 to 431, inclusive, together. As of 27 April 2015, 11,195 domestic wastewater treatment systems in county Westmeath have been registered. This represents 92% of the estimated total number of domestic wastewater systems in the county based on Census 2011 data. The registration fees payable by owners of the domestic waste water treatment systems were...