Results 841-860 of 4,700 for speaker:Noel Ahern

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (22 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: My Department has notified Cork County Council that €1,879,426 has been approved under the voluntary housing capital assistance scheme in respect of this project.

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (22 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: The number of houses completed or acquired by local authorities was 3,207 in 2000, 5,022 in 2001, 5,074 in 2002 and 4,972 in 2003. Detailed information is available in the annual housing statistics bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. Information on the numbers of local authority housing units completed or acquired in 2004 is being finalised and will be...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (22 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: The available information on the number of units completed in each local authority area under voluntary housing schemes is published in the Department's quarterly and annual housing statistics bulletins, copies of which, including that for September 2004, are available in the Oireachtas Library. Figures for the rest of 2004 are being compiled and will be published in due course.

Written Answers — Prisoner Releases: Prisoner Releases (22 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: The interdepartmental team on homelessness, chaired by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, promotes and oversees the implementation of the Government's homeless strategies, which have identified adult offenders as a specific group at risk of homelessness. While prisoners leaving custody have access to the full range of accommodation available to persons seeking...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (22 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 673 and 674 together. As an integral part of their housing management functions, local authorities are responsible for the administration of their differential rents schemes. They have full discretion in doing so, in accordance with the devolved powers given to them in circular HRT 6/86 as restated and updated by circular HRT 3/2002. From time to time,...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (22 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: In January, queries were raised at an information seminar for local authority housing personnel on the arrangements for the upcoming housing needs assessment about persons applying for local authority housing who are tenants of houses provided by voluntary housing associations. In response to such queries, the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government indicated that such...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (22 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: The information sought is not available in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (23 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has overall responsibility for co-ordinating the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008. The strategy contains 100 individual actions to be implemented by a range of Departments and agencies and since it was launched in May 2001, considerable progress has been made in implementing the various actions. In this regard, the Deputy should...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (23 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: The drug prevalence survey conducted by the National Advisory Committee on Drugs, which published in October 2003, estimated the prevalence of drug use on a national basis. Although estimates were also produced in April 2004 for health board regions, estimates for the local drugs task force, LDTF, areas were not possible due to the small size of the samples in those areas. The Deputy should...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (24 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: Decisions on the disbursement of funds from dormant accounts moneys are currently a matter for the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board, an independent body established under the Dormant Accounts Acts. The Deputy will be aware that allocations made by the board from the fund must be in accordance with its disbursement plan which was approved by me in September 2003. Under the plan, the...

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (24 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: My Department provides capital funding under the voluntary housing capital assistance scheme to approved housing bodies who provide sheltered housing accommodation under the scheme. Responsibility for normal management and maintenance of accommodation provided under the scheme is a matter for the relevant approved housing body and the costs incurred by the body in this regard are met from the...

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (24 Mar 2005)

Noel Ahern: The shared ownership scheme offers home ownership in a number of steps to purchasers who cannot afford full ownership in the traditional way. Initially, ownership is shared between the purchaser who buys at least 40% of the value of the house and the local authority from whom the purchaser rents the remaining share. In July of this year I increased the maximum loan that can be advanced for a...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (12 Apr 2005)

Noel Ahern: Decisions on the disbursement of funds from dormant accounts monies are currently a matter for the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board, an independent body established under the Dormant Accounts Acts. The board has engaged Area Development Management Limited, ADM, to administer the initial round of funding on its behalf, which involves the disbursement of up to €60 million from the...

Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (12 Apr 2005)

Noel Ahern: The scheme of community support for older people encourages and assists local support for older people by means of a community-based grant scheme to improve the security of its older members. Funding under the scheme can be provided for window locks, door locks and door chains designed to strengthen points of entry to the dwelling; for smoke alarms; for security lighting; and for the once-off...

Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (12 Apr 2005)

Noel Ahern: The scheme of community support for older people encourages and assists local support for older people by means of a community-based grant scheme to improve the security of its older members. The scheme is administered by community and voluntary organisations throughout the country on an annual basis with support provided by my Department. This allows my Department to assess the amount of...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Apr 2005)

Noel Ahern: The group in question is being funded by my Department under the scheme of training and supports, which was established under the White Paper, Supporting Voluntary Activity. Funding of €35,000 annually is available over a period of three years from 2003 to 2006. In addition, under the 2004 programme of grants for locally based community and voluntary organisations the group was awarded...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Apr 2005)

Noel Ahern: Funding of €400,000 was allocated under round II of the YPFSF towards the refurbishment of the Brú Youth Centre in Dublin 12. This funding will be drawn down by Dublin City Council, which is overseeing the development of the centre, as soon as the divestiture of the building from the church has been finalised.

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Apr 2005)

Noel Ahern: Information on the number of houses completed and capital expenditure by the three authorities in County Louth for each of the years 2000 to 2004 under the local authority housing construction and acquisition programme is set out in the following tables. Local Authority Housing Completions or Acquisitions Local Authority 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Louth County Council 19 38 54...

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (12 Apr 2005)

Noel Ahern: The provision of appropriate heating systems is eligible for funding under both the disabled persons and essential repairs grant schemes. Decisions on the type and extent of work which may be grant aided in individual cases are matters for the local authorities, which are responsible for the administration of the schemes. Under the terms of the special housing aid for the elderly scheme,...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Apr 2005)

Noel Ahern: According to information supplied by the local authority to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, six housing units have been provided in west Cork on foot of Part V agreements with developers to the end of 2004.