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- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am concluding.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am concluding.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am concluding.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Politics is failing the people of the country again. Utopian populism is winning again. It is Groundhog Day. We will regret it, just as we did in 1977.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: My Department has met with groups who represent persons with special needs and have been in contact with the HSE and the waste management industry to discuss the issue and to try to find a workable and fair solution to this important matter. Notwithstanding the complexity of the issues involved, I am satisfied that a number of possible solutions are being explored as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 97, 99 and 102 together. The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is being rolled out across the country on a phased basis and is currently operational in 19 local authority areas. 7 local authorities were included in the first phase of roll out for the statutory scheme in late 2014, with a further 11 authorities being added in 2015, and the scheme being...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: The number of households that transferred from Rent Supplement to the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) in 2015 was 1,836, representing almost 92% of the target delivery of 2,000 new RAS transfers. Further information in relation to social housing output in 2015 is available on my Department’s website at: .
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 100 and 101 together. 100 and 101 together. My Department does not fund any homeless service directly but provides funding to housing authorities towards operational costs under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Portfolio (27 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) does not own or manage properties. NAMA’s role in relation to properties is that of a secured lender. Properties securing NAMA’s loans continue to be managed by their legal owners, or in the case of enforcement, on their behalf by duly appointed insolvency practitioners. While my Department is working closely with NAMA to ensure that...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 140 and 148 together. I and my colleague, Minister Paudie Coffey, met with the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) on 1 December 2015 to discuss a submission setting out a proposed means by which funding could be provided to Approved Housing Bodies, by credit unions, for the development of social housing. My Department has since had two further meetings...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I assume that the Question refers to general purpose grants from the Local Government Fund. Up to 2014, general purpose grants (GPG) were a contribution, from my Department, towards meeting the cost to local authorities of providing a reasonable level of services to their customers. The general purpose grant allocations to local authorities in 2014 were in respect of the local authority area...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: In April last year, I announced over €1.5 billion in funding allocations in respect of social housing to be provided by all local authorities via a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes. Those allocations and associated targets for each local authority, including Limerick, are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Following this...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: The Government announced in 2011 the standing down of all affordable housing schemes, including the Shared Ownership Scheme, given the changes in the property and lending markets. There are no plans at this time to develop a new shared ownership scheme.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: In April last year, I announced over €1.5 billion in funding allocations in respect of social housing to be provided by all local authorities via a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes. Those allocations and associated targets for each local authority, including Limerick, are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Following this...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Applications (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: The assessment of applications for social housing support, and the management of the lists of qualified households, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations. The prescribed application form for such support requires applicants to provide certain information on their current and previous...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I will go through the statement in full, if that is okay, Chairman, because there is so much in it and I might emphasise some points as I go along. I might also come back to some issues later on if that is okay. First, I thank the committee for the invitation to address it and for inviting me and my officials to today's proceedings. Second, as the Chairman is aware, because there was some...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: The Chairman would never do that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I have no issue with a future Minister for housing. It may well be a good idea and I am open to it. I am being totally frank and honest. If we want a Minister for housing who will drive all of this and be the tsar at the top of it, he or she would need to have control of the levers or be the person answerable for all the levers at the very least. In recent years the former Minister of...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am in a new-found space for the next week.