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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Stations Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of fire station premises, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Service Act 1981. My Department supports the fire authorities through setting general policy, providing a central training...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: On 5 February 2016, I announced total funding of €56.25 million for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. I have increased the level of funding available for the grants by some 10% in 2016. This funding will see over 8,000 homes receiving grant aid in 2016. Details of the allocations are available on my Department’s website at the following...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 539 and 540 together. My Department has developed two Mortgage to Rent schemes - one which is available to borrowers of private commercial lending institutions and a separate scheme for local authority borrowers. The Local Authority Mortgage to Rent (LAMTR) scheme has been developed specifically for local authority mortgage borrowers, as part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: A shortage of supply is at the heart of the current challenges in the housing sector. A number of important measures have been taken already aimed at improving housing viability and increasing supply, through the actions set out in Construction 2020 and the Social Housing Strategy 2020. The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, which commenced in September 2015, introduced a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenancy Protection Scheme (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 542 to 544, inclusive, together. The Department of Social Protection’s Interim Tenancy Sustainment Protocol currently operates in Cork and Dublin in conjunction with a local authority funded tenancy protection service; the local authority funded service is provided through the non-governmental organisation Threshold. Under these arrangements,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is already playing an important role in the delivery of social housing. To the end of December 2015, a total of 2,000 residential properties which are part of the security for loans that NAMA has acquired had been secured for social housing use . These comprise 1,426 completed properties and a further 574 that had been contracted and where...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: The most recent statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments was carried out as at 7 May 2013 which showed that there were a total of 4,112 households on the local authority waiting lists for Kerry County Council and the former town councils in the county. These results are available on my Department’s website at: . The 2013 figures are the most up-to-date figures available on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: Information on social housing units constructed and acquired in respect of all local authorities and approved housing bodies and funded by direct capital investment by my Department, is published on my Department’s website at the following link: . Data up to Quarter 3 of 2015 is currently published, including a breakdown across the different categories of delivery for all local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: Under section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and Regulation 22(1) of the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, a household is ineligible for social housing support if a member owns alternative accommodation, to the household’s current accommodation, that is suitable for the household to live in. Regulation 22(2) of the 2011 Regulations provides that this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: There are currently no vacancies within my Department for which candidates must display competence in the Irish language.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (3 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: Information in relation to the number of qualified households on the waiting lists of each individual local authority, including Longford County Council, is available on my Department’s website as part of the 2013 Summary of Social Housing Assessmentsat the following link: . Under the Social Housing Strategy 2020, I have set substantial targets and allocated matching funding resources...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (3 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: My Department, as part of a wider overhaul of the taking in charge process, has sought to determine the number of residential developments with developer-provided stand-alone wastewater treatment plants and/or water treatment systems which are not connected to public water or waste water networks. Many of the developments in question have not yet been taken in charge by the relevant local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (3 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Social Housing Strategy 2020sets out this Government’s vision and ambition to work in tandem with local government and other stakeholders to bring a real response to the delivery of new social housing. Under the Strategy, I have set substantial targets and allocated matching funding resources for the delivery of social housing by local authorities, including by South Dublin County...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Litter Pollution (3 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate the concerns of the wider community in relation to these matters. The Litter Pollution Acts, 1997 to 2009, provide the statutory framework to combat the litter problem. Under the Acts, the primary management and enforcement response to littering is, in the first instance, a matter for local authorities. It is a matter for each local authority to determine the most appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency (2 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Housing Finance Agency lends directly to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), rather than via local authorities, for housing purposes. The current rates that apply in respect of long-term lending by the Housing Finance Agency to AHBs are set out in the table below. Loan Type: Interest Rate: up to 30 year variable rate 2.84% EIB 25-year fixed rate 3.25% Other fixed rates for terms...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (2 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: Cork County Council collects motor tax on its own behalf and on behalf of Cork City Council and receipts are not calculated separately for the two local authority areas. Total gross receipts from motor tax in Cork in 2015 were €133,979,104. Details of motor tax receipts for January 2016 are not yet available.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (2 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 514 and 515 together. Pay-by-weight will come into effect for household waste only from 1 July 2016. It will not at that time be applied to commercial waste. However, it is planned to introduce legislation in the second half of 2016 to provide for the application of pay-by-weight to commercial waste. Consultations will be held with the waste industry,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (2 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: In July 2015, I announced funding approval of over €150 million under the Capital Assistance Scheme nationally, to deliver over 1,000 new units of accommodation by approved housing bodies. At that time I also announced additional approvals under the local authority construction programme valued at €30 million. The funding being provided to approved housing bodies under that...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: Following from the Social Housing Strategy 2020, which was approved by Government and published in November 2014, a wide variety of developers, investors, financiers, Approved Housing Bodies and others expressed an interest in being involved in the provision or financing of social housing across the country. In response, I established the Social Housing Investment Proposals Clearing House...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (2 Feb 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 519 and 528 together. The report Social Housing Output in 2015contains details on the progress made under each of the social housing programmes last year and is available on my Department’s website at: At 31 December 2015, a total of 6,165 house holds had been supported by the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) since its commencement in September 2014,...