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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department, as part of a wider overhaul of the taking in charge process, is seeking to determine the number of residential developments with developer provided stand-alone wastewater treatment plants and/or water treatment systems that are not connected to public water and waste water networks. Many of the developments in question have not yet been taken in charge by the relevant local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Social Housing Strategy 2020targets the provision of over 110,000 social housing units, through the delivery of 35,000 new social housing units and meeting the housing needs of some 75,000 households through the Housing Assistance Payment and Rental Accommodation Scheme. Social housing targets have been set for each local authority out to 2017 and are available on my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Section 94 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, provides that each planning authority shall include a housing strategy in its development plan. The housing strategy shall include an estimate of the amount of social and affordable housing provision required. A housing strategy shall provide that as a general policy a specified percentage, not being more than 20 per cent, of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Members (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: A range of financial supports are in place to assist councillors in their work. These include an annual representational payment of €16,565, annual expenses allowances, a mobile phone allowance, and allowances for Chairs. The representational payment is recognition of the work that councillors volunteer to undertake when they stand for election and subsequently serve their...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Postal Voting (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: 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 - whole-time members of the Defence Forces; members of An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 640 to 642, inclusive, together. In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller accommodation programmes in their areas. My Department’s role is to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environment Fund (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: The proceeds of the environmental levy on the supply of plastic bags, collected by the Revenue Commissioners, and the environmental levy on the landfilling of waste, collected by local authorities, are both paid into the Environment Fund. The Environment Fund was established by the Waste Management (Amendment) Act 2001 and came into effect from 17 July 2001, to be managed and controlled by...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources. The elected members of a local authority have direct responsibility in law for all reserved functions of the authority, which includes adopting the annual budget, and are democratically...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is a matter for each local authority, including Sligo County Council, to determine its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources. The elected members of a local authority have direct responsibility in law for all reserved functions of the authority, which include adopting the annual budget...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (30 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 646 and 647 together. My Department continues to work closely with NAMA, the Housing Agency, local authorities and approved housing bodies in relation to the delivery of social housing from the NAMA portfolio. Information in relation to the delivery of NAMA sourced units, including a full breakdown by county, of units delivered on quarterly basis, is available...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Financial Resolution (1 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: I move:THAT provision be made in the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 to amend section 1 of, and the First Schedule to, the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952 to provide in secondary legislation for the physical characteristics, uses to which a vehicle may be put, and the supporting documentation required in determining eligibility for motor tax at a particular rate...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 177, Standing Order 131 is modified to permit an instruction to the Committee to which the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 may be recommitted in respect of certain amendments, for which it has power to make provision in the Bill in relation to:(a) amendments to the Water Services Acts 2007 to 2014 to provide for a number of matters...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: I am bringing forward important changes to the Waste Management Act to reform comprehensively our system of household waste collection. Government waste policy is articulated in A Resource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland. This sets out a number of commitments in relation to reforming the regulation of household waste collection in Ireland, including requiring improved...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: I ask the Opposition to spare a thought for the 11,300 people in County Roscommon who this week are no longer on boil-water notices, thanks to the work of Irish Water. Having safe drinking water is the least our citizens deserve. They certainly deserve it having been put in that place for decades. In tandem with these amendments, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Fitzgerald,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (1 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department does not hold the information requested. The procurement of products or services by a local authority is a matter for the authority concerned. Procurement legislation and associated guidance are a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Guidelines by the Office of Government Procurement under the aegis of the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (1 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible. My Department works closely with Dublin City Council in relation to the Council’s overall staffing requirements. The Council’s staffing requests...