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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: MacCabe Durney Barnes Consultants were appointed in February 2014 to carry out an independent planning review on the performance of planning functions having regard to specific planning issues in respect of six 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 2000, as...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: British citizens resident in the State may vote at Dáil, European Parliament and local elections if they are entered in the register of electors for a constituency in the State in which they ordinarily reside. Only Irish citizens are entitled to vote at referendums. The marital status of any person does not have any bearing on these entitlements. To be entered in the register of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department is in regular communication with the European Commission regarding the implementation of the range of EU Directives for which I am responsible as Minister. The Commission and my Department meet on an annual basis in this regard and the next such meeting is scheduled for 17 November in Dublin. In October 2012, Ireland was notified of a pilot EU infringement regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: Targets and provisional funding allocations for social housing delivery under my Department’s main capital and current programmes were issued to all local authorities in April this year. These targets were issued in the context of the Social Housing Strategy 2020, which provides a comprehensive response to the need for social housing and targets the provision of over 110,000 social...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: Information on Exchequer funding provided by my Department to each local authority for these schemes 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’. Details of the 2015 allocations are available on my Department’s website at the following...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Exemptions (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) are the basis of taxation for Category A or Category M vehicles only (i.e. passenger vehicles) for vehicles registered since 2008. This has been the position since the introduction of the CO2system. Private vehicles in other categories are taxed on the basis of engine capacity.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: I am conscious that a serious problem exists in relation to waste tyres in Ireland and I am in the process of overhauling the existing regulatory regime to deal with this issue. This will see the establishment of a new sustainable waste management system for tyres and waste tyres which will stop the leakage of waste tyres and ensure that they are disposed of in a proper environmental manner....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under the Social Housing Allocation Regulations 2011 made under section 22 of the Housing Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2009, housing authorities are required to make an allocation scheme setting out the manner in which housing authorities allocate dwellings to households on their waiting list and to households who have been approved for transfers, and must also set out how housing authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Grants (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas library, brought into operation a grants scheme to assist with the cost of remediation of septic tanks and domestic waste water treatment systems which are deemed, following inspection under the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Inspection Plan and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: Galway County Council met recently with my Department to discuss options in relation to social housing matters in Tuam. Further consideration of these matters is now underway and my Department will be keen to work with the local authority in advancing the delivery of new units and improvement of existing units in line with the funding available to the local authority under the Social Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: 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 ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: Funding of €40,585.33 was jointly allocated to the developments in question under the Public Safety Initiative for Unfinished Housing Developments.The final payment was made in December 2011. Limerick City and County Council did not submit an application to my Department for funding from the Special Resolution Fund for Unfinished Housing Developments in respect of the developments in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant Eligibility (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: The legislative basis for the Water Conservation Grant is set out in Section 5 of the Water Services Act 2014 and statutory regulations under the section, inter alia, provide for the general administrative procedures for the scheme. Persons who registered with Irish Water, as required under Section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015, are eligible to receive the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Court Judgments (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: The implications of the Court of Appeal ruling in the case of the Director of Public Prosecutions v. Perennial Freight Limited are currently being considered by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information requested is not available in my Department. By virtue of section 19 of the Housing Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2009, which was commenced in 2011, tenants transferring from Rent Supplement to the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) are formally deemed to be in receipt of social housing support and as a consequence of having their needs met, cannot remain on the general housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Protection Agency Investigations (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: The recently report Air Quality in Ireland 2014 – Key indicators of Ambient Air Quality, published by the EPA, outlines that no levels above the EU limit value were recorded at any of the ambient air monitoring sites in Ireland in 2014 and that in general, Irish air quality continues to be of good quality relative to other EU countries and relative to the EU limit values. The national...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: In discussions prior to the adoption of the 2007 Tyre Regulations, it was made clear that this was the last opportunity for the tyre industry to embrace environmental compliance and take responsibility for the waste it produces. If the required improvement did not happen, it was made clear to the tyre industry that the system would be reviewed and replaced with a full Producer Responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: The most recent data from the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) for Q2 2015 show that on an annual basis, nationally, rents were 7.1% higher than in Q2 2014. Rents for houses were 6.4% higher, while apartment rents were 7.6% higher than in the same quarter of 2014. These annual rates of increase were driven mainly by the Dublin market. Overall, in the 12 months to the end of Q2...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: Electoral law provides for advance polling on islands where a returning officer considers that, due to weather conditions or transport difficulties, it would be impracticable either to take the poll on the polling day appointed by the Minister or, if the poll was taken on that day, to deliver the ballot boxes to the count centre in time for the commencement of the count. In the period...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (3 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: Following the Court of Appeal ruling on the taxation of articulated vehicles, such vehicles now fall to be taxed at the haulage tractor rate. The annual rate is €333. Given that there is a single rate for this tax class, there is no requirement to have the vehicles in question reweighed. The necessary technical adjustments to the National Vehicle and Driver File have now been put in...