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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: My Department does not fund any homeless service directly but provides funding to housing authorities towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Under Section 10 funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of such services from their own resources. Furthermore, housing authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (21 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Traditionally, data on the number of homeless households were not quantified nationally on an ongoing basis. Some data on homelessness are available through Housing Needs Assessmentreports; these reports, which were generally carried out every three years, analysed categories of housing need, including in respect of homelessness, but only where an application had been made to a housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133 to 138, inclusive, together. The oversight and management of housing waiting lists, including the allocation and transfer of tenancies, is a matter for the relevant housing authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations. My Department does not collate the detailed data sought on an ongoing basis....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (21 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 140 together. The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including the carrying out of pre-letting repairs and returning vacant units to productive use, is a matter for each local authority, is carried out under their ongoing maintenance programmes and is not ordinarily directly funded by my Department. My Department does provide...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Care Provision (21 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: My Department is providing €2.3 million through the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) to Monaghan County Council for the construction by Castleblayney Care Housing Association of 18 units of accommodation at Drumilliard, Castleblayney, County Monaghan, to cater for persons with disabilities. I understand that this project is largely complete and 10 of the 18 units have tenants allocated...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (21 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 and 144 together. The charges applied by waste management companies are a matter between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 420 and 443 together. The new incremental tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses came into operation on 1 January 2016 in accordance with the provisions of the Housing Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2014 and the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015. The scheme will apply to all local authority houses, other than...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Social Housing Strategy 2020is a target-driven plan of action to increase the supply of social housing by 110,000 additional units in the period to 2020, with 35,000 new units to be delivered by local authorities and approved housing bodies and 75,000 households to be supported mainly through the Housing Assistance Payment Scheme. The Strategy has been supported by two successive...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Bituminous Fuel Ban (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 423, 424 and 427 together. The ban on the marketing, sale and distribution of bituminous fuel (or ‘smoky coal ban’ as it is commonly known) was first introduced in Dublin in 1990 in response to severe episodes of winter smog that resulted from the wide spread use of smoky coal for residential heating. The ban proved very effective in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Funding has been made available to all local authorities, including Sligo County Council, towards the programme for adaptations and extensions to the social housing stock to meet the needs of local authority tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. The detailed administration of the programme, including the advancement of priority cases, is the responsibility of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Noise Pollution (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Airports can be a significant source of environmental noise, both from aircraft take-offs and landings, and ground running operations, where aircraft engines are tested as part of their maintenance regime. Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has responsibility for management of Dublin Airport, including flight tracking and noise monitoring, and Fingal County Council is the Noise Action Planning...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mayoral Election (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Local Government Reform Act 2014 provided for a wide-ranging programme of reform to local government structures, functions and governance, including a process for the holding of a plebiscite on the possible introduction of an office of directly elected mayor for a Dublin metropolitan authority. This procedure was based on achievement of political consensus across the four Dublin local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Control of Horses (26 Apr 2016)

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 authority for which he or she is responsible. My Department works closely with all local authorities and will continue to do so, in relation to overall staffing requirements. All staffing requests are...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: My Department does not fund any homeless services directly, but provides funding to housing authorities towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Under section 10 funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of such services from their own resources. Furthermore, housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I understand from enquiries made with Kerry County Council that cavity wall insulation works have, in fact, been carried out on the houses in question, and that further inspections will be undertaken to identify any additional works required. The works on these houses arose from the ambitious programme of insulation retrofitting on the least energy efficient social houses, under which my...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Motor tax receipts for each licensing authority from January 2011 to the end of March 2016 are set out in the following tables. 2016 ( to 31 March) Licensing Authority MTO receipts (€) Online receipts (€) Total (€) Carlow 1,950,222 2,296,026 4,246,248 Cavan 1,660,303 2,833,301 4,493,604 Clare 2,891,977 4,919,090 7,811,067 Cork 9,468,326 25,504,984 34,973,310...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Tax Yield (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Local Property Tax (LPT) is collected and administered by the Revenue Commissioners and is remitted to the Central Fund. The Revenue Commissioners publish LPT inform ation including details of LPT collected in all local authority areas on their website at the following link: . I am advised by the Minister for Finance that the amount of LPT received by the Exchequer in 2013 was €318...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Co-operative Housing Ireland (formerly NABCO) is among the 212 Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) who have signed up on a voluntary basis for regulation by the interim Regulation Office at the Housing Agency and it therefore comes under the remit of that office. It is a matter for the interim Regulator to focus on individual AHBs and it would not be appropriate for me to comment on individual...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Domestic Violence Policy (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 437 to 439, inclusive, together. Responsibility for the development and provision of services to support victims of domestic violence rests with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the delivery of such services is managed through the Child and Family Agency, Tusla. In addition, Cosc, the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Legislative Measures (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: The law relating to alternative titles to Cathaoirleach within the local government system is set out in section 32 of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended by section 37 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014). There are no proposals for amending legislation to provide for use of the title “Mayor” on the general basis referred to in the Question.