Results 1,441-1,460 of 4,700 for speaker:Noel Ahern
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: Need is one thing and want another.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: Many of those people are having their needs met.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: Their needs are being met. Many are in the finest rented accommodation recently built.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: That might be. It is the role of the State to subsidiseââ
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: ââand help people to find housing they cannot provide from their own resources.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: This year alone, we are to spend â¬1.5 billion to provide social housing. We expect approximately 6,600 local authority starts and up to 2,000 starts in the voluntary sector. Resources have increased in each of the last few years and by 9% this year. The undertaking in Towards 2016 is that over the next three years, 27,000 new social housing units will be started. A great deal of work is...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: The most recent assessment of social housing needs was undertaken by local authorities in March 2005. The results of the assessment indicated that 1,492 households were in need of housing in the three County Louth local authority areas. More comprehensive data from the 2005 assessment was published in the 2005 annual bulletin of housing statistics, a copy of which can be made available or...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: We have a plan as demonstrated by the new policy we announced some time ago. There are also individual action plans and strategies in the local authorities, for which the Department provides resources. The experts are the people on the ground at local authority level. It is good to hear the Deputy's comments on the county manager. Where officials and councillors really wish to drive these...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (4 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: The Doolin sewerage scheme, which is being advanced as a grouped project with schemes for Ballyvaughan and Corofin, is approved for funding in the Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2005 â 2007. The estimated cost of the schemes is â¬17.5 million, the vast bulk of which the Department will be funding. Doolin is one of more than 20 schemes being put in place to provide...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (4 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: I would refer the Deputy to my answer to his previous question of 20 March 2007. The Group referred to by the Deputy made an application to my Department under the Programme of Grants for Locally-Based Community and Voluntary Organisations. Notification of the decision on this application has issued recently to the Group, outlining the reason for the decision and providing contact details...
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (4 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: Relevant legislation prohibiting the unauthorised placing of temporary dwellings on land and coming within the ambit of my Department is contained in the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1948 and the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 as amended by Section 32 of the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 and Section 21 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002....
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: On behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, I will update the House on the proposed new primary school for Scoil Bhride in Kill, County Kildare. Last November, the Department announced details of 72 primary schools and eight post-primary schools that were given the go-ahead to proceed with major works such as new school building projects, extensions or refurbishments. The proposed...
- Turbary Rights. (4 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: I am answering on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Roche. Carn Park and Crosswood Bog were designated as special areas of conservation in December 2002. SACs are the prime wildlife conservation areas in the country. They are important on both a European and national level, and must be protected for future generations. Both these bogs comprise raised bog, which is a rare habitat in the EU...
- Turbary Rights. (4 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: The Deputy already made reference to my upbringing and I apologise.
- Turbary Rights. (4 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: I appreciate the impact the cessation of turf cutting at the end of 2008 will have on turbary right owners in these and other SAC designated bogs. In view of that impact the previous Minister agreed in 1999 that domestic turf cutting could be permitted on less sensitive areas of bogs designated as SACs for a period of up to ten years. This was to allow cutters the opportunity to make...
- Irish Language. (4 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: I understand Deputy Deenihan's desire to raise an issue of particular interest to the people of the town and of the Corcha Dhuibhne Gaeltacht. The Minister's placenames order of December 2004, issued under the Official Languages Act 2003 and covering in excess of 2,300 placenames, had the effect of changing the placename of Dingle to An Daingean. Under the 2003 Act, there are three contexts...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (3 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: The provision of socially-monitored alarms to older people is managed by local community and voluntary groups, with the support of my Department under the Scheme of Community Support for Older People. My Department provides a grant to community groups of up to â¬300 per individual per alarm in respect of the costs for the once-off installation of such alarms. I understand that this amount...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (3 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: The processing of the approximately 1,300 applications received by my Department under the 2006 Programme of Grants for Locally-Based Community and Voluntary Organisations is nearing completion and I have already to date announced two tranches of funding under this Programme. The group referred to by the Deputy is not amongst those so far processed, however, I will be announcing further...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (3 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: The group concerned applied for assistance from the Dormant Accounts Fund under the measure in support of Jointly Funded Flagship Projects. This measure is intended to provide funding for innovative initiatives addressing disadvantage and applicants must have secured matching funding from private, philanthropic or community sources. Applications received under this category are currently...
- Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (3 Apr 2007)
Noel Ahern: The administration of the Disabled Persons Grant scheme is delegated to local authorities within the framework laid down in statutory regulations; as far as is practicable, this is designed to give an appropriate degree of flexibility at local level. In the light of substantially increased demand for grant assistance, the majority of local authorities have reviewed their schemes in recent...