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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy. Data on number of local authority houses built are included within this range, and are available on my Department’s website at , by clicking on the “LA housing output and commenced (1994 +)” tab under the “Social Housing Supports” heading.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Housing Agency estimates the future housing supply requirements for the period 2014 to 2018 at just under 80,000 dwellings across 272 urban settlements nationally, an average of 16,000 units per annum over the five years. It estimates that 47% of total supply over the period is required across the Dublin Region. The Agency notes that 57% of all households in the Dublin region over this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 232 and 233 together. 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. This year €171.825 million has been made available for the capital delivery of additional social...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Summary of Social Housing Assessments 2013 identified 89,872 households assessed by local housing authorities as being eligible and in need of some form of social housing support as at 7 May 2013, and these results are the most up-to-date figures available on the number of households qualified for support. The Social Housing Strategy 2020, published in November 2014, includes a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statisticsthat inform the preparation and evaluation of policy. Data on number of private house completions are included within this range, and are available on my Department’s website at , by clicking on the “Qrtly house completions by sector 1970 to date” tab under the “House Building” heading....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Data on homeless households in emergency accommodation is provided through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS). Monthly reports from lead housing authorities, which identify the number of people utilising State-funded emergency accommodation on a regional and county basis , are published on my Department's website as soon as the y are available. These reports are...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I understand that the question refers to accommodation arrangements that may be put in place by housing authorities to assist in cases of homelessness. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: While my Department publishes a wide range of housing statistics to inform policy , available at: , the information requested is not collected by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 241 and 242 together. An allocation of €130m for the grant scheme has been provided in my Department’s Estimate for 2015 which is intended to cover grant payments and all administration costs including staffing. The Department of Social Protection will administer the grant on behalf of my Department. The Department of Social Protection has...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: To promote sustainable use of water and to enhance water conservation in households, the Department of Social Protection will administer, on behalf of my Department, a €100 water conservation grant for households (principal private dwellings) that complete a valid response to Irish Water’s customer registration process. It is proposed that the grant will be paid in one...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I recently announced the provision of €20 million of funding to local authorities under the Energy Retrofitting Programme for the improvement of local authority houses to make them more energy efficient. Under the programme Dublin City Council have been allocated €1.3 million and it is a matter for the local authority to determine the works to be completed within this allocation.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: While the physical regeneration element of Ballymun is largely completed, my Department is providing continued support to social regeneration programmes. Last year, funding of €2 million was provided by my Department to Dublin City Council in respect of these programmes. My Department is currently actively engaging with Dublin City Council in respect of the required funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (18 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 243 to 245, inclusive, together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Correspondence (18 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: My office has received correspondence from the person concerned and an acknowledgement to this effect has issued. The matter is being examined in my Department and a reply will issue as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (18 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Policy decisions to replace town authorities with a new model of municipal governance were designed to strengthen local government within counties and to address widely acknowledged and long-standing weaknesses and anomalies in the previous system, including the problems of divided administration between town and county authorities, for example, in relation to matters such as planning, rating...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I refer to the reply to Question No. 556 of 6 May 2015. MacCabe Durney Barnes Consultants were appointed in February 2014 to carry out an independent planning review on the performance of planning functions in six selected planning authorities (Carlow, Cork, Galway and Meath County Councils and Cork and Dublin City Councils) in accordance with section 255 of the Planning and Development Act...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure (18 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Information on Exchequer funding provided by my Department to each local authority for the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability for the years 2010 to 2014 is available on my Department’s website at the following link: , by selecting ‘Social and Affordable Housing’, ‘Housing Adaptation Grants by Area 2008 to date’....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (18 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 261 and 262 together. I have made an additional €10.5 million available nationally for homeless accommodation and related services in 2015. This is an increase in funding of approximately 20% over the initial allocation in 2014, bringing the Exchequer contribution to €55.5 million. Housing authorities were recently informed of regional...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Monitoring Missions (23 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: While there is no formal or statutory provision in place for international representatives to observe proceedings at elections or referendums in Ireland, applications for observer status are considered on request by the Franchise Section of my Department, through which such applications are generally channelled. Every effort is made to facilitate such requests with the cooperation of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (23 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: There are no proposals to establish a gas appliances recycling system. It should however be noted that gas appliances which are dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly come under the scope of the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2014 which aim to reduce the amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment that ends up...