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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I accept that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: We all know that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: That is brain control.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I will deal with some recommendations at the end of this session.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I will start by responding to the last speaker's questions as they are freshest in my mind. I would never want to fight with Deputy Brophy either. I stand over what I said. I was very conditional in what I said. I did not say it was everyone. I respect that everyone has a choice to make in every individual situation. This is not confined to local authorities. It might be more prevalent...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: There has been much commentary about rapid builds. We have plans for 500 of these. A lot of learning was accrued from the first set of them but they are excellent houses and the fastest ever built. To be frank, one pays for time. Another tender is out at the moment and I believe it will create other economies and learnings that will ensure that there are even more savings. I understand...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Deputy Wallace has the document in front of him. He should read it.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: They are not waiting on money. Let us be honest because this is a myth.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Look at Wexford. Wexford has €25.5 million. I will not be doing it but if I was there and some other local authority did not spend its money, I would be happy to move even more to Wexford.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I want to finish off as I do not want to leave out my party colleague, Deputy Brendan Ryan. If I did so, I would be in awful trouble. Also - not because he is my party colleague - he did make some good points. At the end of all of this, there is an issue the committee should bear in mind. Earlier, I spoke about the various pieces of the jigsaw and the range of components. It is...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: First, as a country we need to set output targets for total housing, both social and private. I strongly recommend that it be done as part of the recommendations from the committee. We need to consider in a constructive way how land is being managed or made available for social housing. Effectively, we need an asset management system nationwide relating to housing and how houses are...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Of course.
- Climate Change: Statements (4 May 2016)
Alan Kelly: It is great to see such a large crowd here today. I feel like calling a quorum, but I will not. This is probably the most important issue facing us in the world and not one single representative is inside the Chamber. I am sure the Acting Chairman will agree it is incredible and he may wish to speak to people about it. I find it deeply ironic that this House is debating climate change...
- Climate Change: Statements (4 May 2016)
Alan Kelly: I also ask those who call themselves of the left to examine their climate change credentials when it comes to their water policy. While many things have been said about water in this House, the fact remains that the greatest energy user in the Irish public sector is our water treatment system. It consumes 490 GW hours of energy each year, which is a lot for those who do not know. I am...
- Climate Change: Statements (4 May 2016)
Alan Kelly: Fair play to Deputy Daly.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (4 May 2016)
Alan Kelly: Funding support from my Department has been made available to all local authorities, including Sligo County Council, to support their continued work to return vacant social housing units to productive use. This funding support was confirmed to Sligo County Council at a recent meeting between the Council and my Department. As stated in my reply to Parliamentary Question 452 of 20 April 2016,...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Data (4 May 2016)
Alan Kelly: I refer to the reply to Question No. 794 of 14 April 2016. The tabular information provided in that reply which gave total spending in the years by local authority, has been updated to present the data on an annualised basis by local authority. Water Services Investment Programme* Water Services Investment Programme* Rural Water Programme Local Authority Wastewater € Water...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (4 May 2016)
Alan Kelly: Funding support from my Department has been made available to all local authorities, including Kerry County Council, to support their continued work under the programme to return vacant social housing units to productive use. This funding support was confirmed to Kerry County Council at a recent meeting with my Department. Alongside that funding programme, my Department has also recently...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Services (4 May 2016)
Alan Kelly: I refer to the reply to Question No. 459 of 20 April 2016. My Department issued Circular letter FPS3/2016 on 22 April 2016 advising each local authority of the indicative level of funding proposed to be made available to them through the new National Taking In Charge Initiative (NTICI). The €10m being made available in 2016 is distributed across the following three measures: -...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (4 May 2016)
Alan Kelly: The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015, enacted on 4 December 2015, introduced a number of measures to address rent stability and housing supply. In relation to rent stability, the Act provides, inter alia, that the minimum period between rent reviews for tenancies is being increased from 12 to 24 months and this new provision will apply for a 4 year period. In addition, the minimum...