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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (2 Feb 2016)

Barry Cowen: 520. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount collected from motor tax, by local authority, in each year since 2012. [4119/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (2 Feb 2016)

Barry Cowen: 521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of vacant social housing units returned to productive use, and the funding provided, by local authority, in 2014 and in 2015. [4141/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (2 Feb 2016)

Barry Cowen: 524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the 13,000 social housing units provided in 2015 under the housing assistance payment scheme, the rental accommodation scheme and the social inclusion and community activation programme, by scheme and by local authority, in tabular form. [4235/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (2 Feb 2016)

Barry Cowen: 525. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how many of the current-funded social housing units were transferred from the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme and the National Asset Management Agency to local authorities and private developers. [4236/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (2 Feb 2016)

Barry Cowen: 526. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the targets for current-funded social housing units in 2016 will be met, given that many of the units provided under the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme have come from the National Asset Management Agency, whose suitable social housing stock has mostly been transferred to local authorities for use...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (2 Feb 2016)

Barry Cowen: 554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units provided including those funded under the rental accommodation scheme, the sustainable Cultural Heritage through Engagement of Local Communities Project, the Housing Assistance Payment Scheme capital funded units, units transferred from the National Asset Management Agency, units...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (2 Feb 2016)

Barry Cowen: 527. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if officials of his Department or if an authority under its aegis, have expressed concerns to him that reliance on current-funded units rather than capital-funded units to meet the 2015 to 2017 targets for social housing output will restrict the supply of housing at the lower end of the private rental market; if he has...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Flood Relief Schemes Data (2 Feb 2016)

Barry Cowen: 548. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amounts submitted to his Department as estimates for flood damage from the recent floods, by local authority. [4419/16]

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Barry Cowen: It is a well-known fact that the outgoing Government failed miserably in its efforts to deal with housing. It allowed a crisis to develop into what is now undoubtedly an emergency. On assuming office, there were 90,000 applicants on housing lists throughout the country. On the basis of further information, not from the Government but from information requests and questions to local...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Barry Cowen: I will check the record. The Government and Taoiseach now claim, as usual, that the social housing strategy is working, something which could not be further from the truth. Fewer than 274 homes have been built since 2015, 90% of which were provided by social housing agencies and 28 by local authorities. The Government claimed during the course of the election that 30,000 keys were handed...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: It is the Whip system.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: Hear, hear.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 450. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive a hospital appointment. [5520/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 451. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive a hospital appointment. [5521/16]

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: I welcome the initiative taken by the Ceann Comhairle in putting this committee in place. It is an example of how this new and dispersed Dáil can have the desired effect. The recommendations of the Dáil reform committee outlined by the Ceann Comhairle also augur well for this committee. I welcome the fact that it has a closed timeframe, which will allow it to make meaningful...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: -----a matter of fact that has been provided to me under FOI and I will make that information available to the Minister-----

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: -----so that he can check it with his officials. If it is the case, we need an explanation as to why. Improvements must made to the way in which this issue and the issue of voids are addressed. There has to be more discretion given to local authorities in dealing with these issues, rather than the current delays, for example in the case of the €30,000 cap provision, and which...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: I acknowledge that there is a road one could go down in the short term in relation to different forms of construction that are barred by local authorities and the Department. We must look at other methods of construction to deliver housing at a faster pace.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 504. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly including when the person will receive an appointment [6775/16]