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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The amount spent on the construction of local authority housin g in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 is outlined in the following table. Year Amount 2011 €58.512m 2012 €51.707m 2013 €29.620m 2014 €24.623m To date in 2015, €11.33 million has been spent on direct Exchequer investment in the construction of local authority housing. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information requested is not available in my Department. The administration of the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) is a matter for each local authority.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The project in question was submitted to my Department as part of a prioritised list of proposals from Tipperary County Council, for funding under the Capital Assistance Scheme. In July 2015, I announced funding approval of over €150 million nationally under the Scheme, to deliver over 1,000 new social housing units. This included 27 new units across 6 projects that were prioritised by...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Legal Costs (8 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information requested in relation to my Department is being compiled and will be forwarded as soon as possible. The information sought regarding the agencies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for each agency.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together. The Social Housing Strategy 2020provides a comprehensive response to the need for social housing and targets the provision of over 110,000 social housing units to 2020, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The requirements at EU level with regard to the standards for urban waste water treatment are set out in Directive 91/271/EEC. For example secondary treatment was required by 31 December 2000 for all discharges from agglomerations of more than 15,000 population equivalents, and by 31 December 2005 for those agglomerations with population equivalents between 10,000 and 15,000. Secondary...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) continues to play an important role in the delivery of social housing. To the end of September 2015, a total of 1,600 NAMA residential properties had been delivered for social housing use, comprising 1,241 completed properties and a further 359 that have been contracted and where completion work is on-going. A further 486 properties are considered...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: Social housing targets out to 2017 for all local authorities issued in April 2015. This also included funding allocations with, nationally, over €1.5 billion to be invested in a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes by all local authorities. In the case of Donegal County Council, 507 is the target set for new social units under both Current and Capital-funded progammes...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: A shortage of supply is at the heart of the current challenges in the housing sector and the Government is addressing this on a number of fronts. The Government’s Construction 2020 Strategy, published last year, is aimed at addressing issues in the property and construction sectors and ensuring that any bottlenecks that might impede the sector in meeting the estimated residential...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Services (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The provision and maintenance of public lighting is the responsibility of each individual local authority. Local authorities receive income from a variety of sources including grants from Central Government, Local Property Tax (LPT) proceeds, commercial rates and other locally-raised charges. It is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities , including...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I refer to the reply to Question No 157 of 11 November 2015 which sets out the position in this matter.I am not aware of reports of land hoarding referred to by the Deputy and, furthermore, I have not at any time directed the Dublin local authorities not to rezone additional lands for housing. However, Minister of State Coffey and I jointly wrote to the Chief Executives of the four...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) funding and financial decisions are a matter for NAMA in accordance with its statutory independent commercial mandate. However, I welcome the announcement by NAMA that, within the context of that mandate, it expects to be in a position to fund the construction of up to 20,000 new residential units, predominantly located in Dublin and the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Negotiations (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: COP21 is the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is currently taking place in Paris until 11 December 2015. 196 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are currently in Paris in an effort to negotiate a new legally binding global agreement on climate change. The Paris agreement should provide an enabling platform for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 203 to 205, inclusive, together. The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) continues to play an important role in the delivery of social housing. To the end of September 2015, a total of 1,600 NAMA residential properties had been delivered for social housing use, comprising 1,241 completed properties and a further 359 that have been contracted and where...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) funding and financial decisions are a matter for NAMA in accordance with its statutory independent commercial mandate. However, I welcome the announcement by NAMA that, within the context of that mandate, it expects to be in a position to fund the construction of up to 20,000 new residential units, predominantly located in Dublin and the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: Gross motor tax receipts (including payments made online at ) in County Louth were €27,827,768 in 2014. Gross receipts to 30 November 2015 were €25,257,942.Income from Motor Tax currently accrues to the Local Government Fund (LGF). Other funding sources that contribute to the LGF are Local Property Tax (LPT)and a payment from the Exchequer. Historically the LGF provided local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I assume that the Question refers to income-related loans that were advanced by individual local authorities to individual borrowersbetween 1982 and May 1986, the associated funds for which were advanced to local authorities by the Housing Finance Agency (HFA).A total of €403m was advanced by local authorities under the income-related loan scheme and 15,571 mortgages were made...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The importance of the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station, at local and indeed global levels, is recognised by all stakeholders involved in the collection and use of climate and air pollution data. The Station is owned and operated by the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). It provides unique data on atmospheric change including data on the build-up of greenhouse gases in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Rehiring (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: There have been no applications made by former staff of my Department to be re-instated following retirement on grounds of ill-health since 2004.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: 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 responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. My Department has no involvement in...