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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 1091. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is obligatory to register a case of homelessness on his Department’s pathway accommodation and support system, once a local authority is aware of the status of the homelessness of the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22372/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 1092. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is confident that his Department has awarded sufficient funding to provide emergency accommodation to deal with the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22376/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 1093. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that the responsibility of the requirement of the provision of emergency accommodation to homeless persons rests within the Housing Act 1988; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22377/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 1094. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that the responsibility of the requirement of the provision of emergency accommodation to homeless persons rests within the Housing Act 1988, that this aspect of the Housing Act has not been amended since it failed to cater for the complications of the new and escalating homelessness crisis, mainly...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 1089. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to lift the embargo specifically in relation to local authority staff resourcing to assist areas where staffing to manage homelessness is critically lacking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22369/15]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 1:In page 4, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:“ “baseline” means the aggregate amount of—(a) net emissions of carbon dioxide for 1990, and (b) net emissions of each of the greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide for the year that is the baseline year for that gas;“baseline years” for greenhouse gases other than...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reconvene the homelessness forum, given the fact that ever more families are finding it impossible to source even emergency accommodation and the fact that Government policy is exacerbating this trend; if he is aware that the situation in County Kildare, County Meath and County Wicklow is rapidly deteriorating;...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We are moving away from the rent allowance model for private rented accommodation for people on the housing list, and the housing assistance payment, HAP, and long leasing are being used by the vast majority of people. The problem is that individuals must source the accommodation and it is very precarious in the absence of a change in the environment at local government level.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The short term is the real problem. The Minister is right about rising rents and said he is dealing with this every day but I am dealing with this every day as well and from what I can see, it is not working. There is a county boundary which delineates my area from the Dublin area. The tenancy protection environment in the Dublin area is very different from what we experience. I see...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I acknowledge resources are being provided but much of that is medium-term. If someone arrives at my office tomorrow morning, I cannot say to him or her there is no silver bullet. He or she will want a solution tomorrow if facing homelessness on Monday, and often that is the case. Not a day goes by that I do not have people in my office with these problems. This has been the case now for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to a letter sent from a multinational company to his Department in February 2012 regarding proposals to install water meters, as released to this Deputy under the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (details supplied), if he will indicate the context and assumptions under which the company made its key proposals;...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I tabled this question on foot of a letter I requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2014. I am seeking clarity on the assumptions behind the departmental position paper to which the letter refers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I accept that the company is making the assumptions to which I refer but its letter states:There should however be an exit/separation strategy in the event that the Water utility needed to be in a stand alone position at some time in the future. A key consideration for this approach is the method of providing funding during the start up phase and the impact of the eventual sale.Why would the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I take it that the assumption that there was ever any intention to sell the utility off is completely its own and had nothing to do with the political approach that was being taken.

Other Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 10. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there has been such an extreme delay in the issuing of updated planning guidelines governing wind farms; when he will be signing the new guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22318/15]

Other Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This is simply to find out why there is such delay in the updated planning guidelines on wind farms.

Other Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I was one of those who made a submission. The very fact there was this level of interest shows that people wanted ground rules before there was to be large and industrial-scale wind farms, for which there are already applications in place. Part of the reason people made submissions was to ensure there was a basis and yet major applications have gone in. One application, for example,...

Other Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Could the Minister give us an estimate of when he thinks the guidelines will be concluded and published?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the obligations that are set out in respect of a housing authority where there is a refusal to provide emergency accommodation for families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22316/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that has been released to local authorities from the announced housing allocation for 2015, in total and in each of the following categories - for construction, long-term lease, housing assistance payment, and rental accommodation scheme; the number of units that are expected to be available in each...