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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Increasing the supply of private and social housing and rebuilding the capacity of the construction sector to deliver that infrastructure are key priorities for this Government. The overall strategic objective of the Government's housing strategy is to enable all households access good quality housing appropriate to household circumstances and in their particular community of choice. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Order Offences (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Section 199(2)(a) of the Local Government Act 2001 provides that a local authority may make a bye-law where in its opinion it is desirable in the interests of the common good of the local community that any activity or other matter should be regulated or controlled by bye-law, or that any nuisance should be controlled or suppressed by bye-law. The making of such bye laws is a matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: The administration of homeless services is organised on a regional basis. Under these regional arrangements Kildare County Council is the lead-authority for the Mid-East Region which also includes counties Meath and Wicklow. Similarly, the four Dublin local authorities take a regional approach to issues of homelessness, via the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, with Dublin City Council as...

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

Alan Kelly: Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for staffing and organisation arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible. My Department works closely with all local authorities and all have been invited to submit staffing sanction requests to facilitate the delivery of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: In December 2013, my Department published proposed “draft” revisions to the noise, setbacks 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 distance of 500 metres between a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rights of Way Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Section 14 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides for a process for the inclusion by planning authorities of public rights of way in development plans. The process provides for the referral to the Circuit Court, by the landowner affected, of a proposal to include a right of way and where the court is satisfied that no right of way exists, the planning authority may not include it...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Contamination (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under the European Union (Drinking Water) Regulations 2014, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas library, suppliers of drinking water are required to ensure that the water supplied complies with the chemical and microbiological parameters set out in the Regulations. Details of monitoring requirements along with the procedures to be followed and the roles of water suppliers, the EPA...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: The implementation of the EU Water Framework Ground Directive s requires the extensive monitoring of groundwater quality and the inclusion of programmes of measures in each river basin management plan to ensure continuing improvement in the quality of groundwater. The European Communities Environmental Objectives (Groundwater) Regulations 2010, as amended, give legal effect to measures for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Responsibility for the administration of my Department's Rural Water Programme, under which funding is provided for group schemes, has been devolved to local authorities since 1997. The selection, prioritisation and approval of individual group scheme proposals for advancement and funding under the programme, within the overall priorities set by my Department and subject to the block grant...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under my Department's Social Housing Capital Investment Programme, funding is provided to housing authorities to increase their supply of social housing stock through the construction and acquisition of houses and apartments. In 2014 Kildare County Council was approved to advance construction projects at Kilcock for 20 units and at Athy, for the replacement of 10 derelict units. Under my...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: In November 2014 the Government approved the Social Housing Strategy 2020which sets out a strategic framework for meeting the State's social housing needs to the end of the decade. The Strategy includes a commitment to commence work on a financial vehicle, to be known as the Strategic Housing Fund, to raise funding for the social housing sector. The financial vehicle will be established to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: On 28 May 2015, I announced total funding of €50.5 million for the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability. I have increased the level of funding available for the grant schemes by some 10% for 2015. Allocations in 2015 were based primarily on the level of grant activity in local authorities in 2014, with no local authority receiving less than...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: On 28 May 2015, I announced details of the capital allocations for the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. I have increased the level of funding available for the grant schemes by some 10% overall for 2015 and no local authority received less than their 2014 allocation. €1,788,778 is available to Kerry County Council for these grant...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (16 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 747 and 748 together. The Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012, (the 2012 Act), which became law in July 2012, significantly enhanced the openness and transparency of political funding in Ireland. These were issues that were central to the recommendations made in the Moriarty Tribunal Report which was published in March 2011. The Tribunal...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: While I have no plans to introduce direct grant assistance for proprietors of vacant units as proposed by the Deputy, my Department does provide funding support to housing authorities for the construction and acquisition of houses and apartments. As the housing authorities for their areas, local authorities are responsible for the detailed planning of social housing provision based on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply (16 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: From 2001, national water pricing policy required local authorities to recover the costs of providing water services from all non-domestic users of these services, including schools. This policy provided for charges based on actual metered consumption and is consistent with the requirements of the Water Framework Directive. The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides for the transfer of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: For each year between 2013 and 2020, Ireland has an ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction target under the 2009 EU Effort-Sharing Decision (406/2009/EC). An assessment of Ireland’s progress towards achieving its emissions reduction targets under the Effort-Sharing Decision is set out in Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emission Projections 2014 – 2035, published by the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: In the absence of the specific identity of the companies and executives with whom the Deputy is concerned, I am not in a position to establish if any meetings took place.  I can however confirm that no meetings were held with the person whose details the Deputy supplied.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Control of Dogs (16 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is an offence under the Control of Dogs Acts 1986 to 2010, prosecutable by the local authority in whose area the offence was committed, for the owner or any other person in charge of a dog not to accompany the dog and keep it under effectual control when in any place other than the premises of the owner, the premises of the person in control of the dog, or other premises with the consent...