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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The provision of social housing services is a matter for each local authority as the housing authority for its area. Local authorities must identify their area’s social housing need and respond as required. This includes delegated sanction from my Department to acquire suitable properties for social housing, where they represent value for money, meet the social housing need in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Properties (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department does not pay ground rent on the buildings it occupies. This would normally be a matter for the Office of Public Works, or, in the case of certain property occupied by Met Éireann, the Dublin Airport Authority and other Airport Authorities, where appropriate. The information requested in respect of State Agencies is not collected by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Application Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 579 to 585, inclusive, together. The statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments 2013 identified 89,872 households assessed by housing authorities as being eligible and in need of some form of social housing support as at 7 May 2013. The 2013 results provide details on the number of qualified households on the waiting lists of each individual authority...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The matters raised by the Deputy are currently before the Courts and, as a consequence, are sub judice. In the circumstances, it would be inappropriate for me to comment at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage Protection Policies (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I assume the Deputy is referring to her letter to me, dated 4 November 2015, in follow up to her Parliamentary Question No. 1028, dated 3 November 2015. A response to the letter has now issued. The local authority mortgage protection insurance (MPI) scheme is overseen by the Mortgage Protection Committee, which is a sub-committee of the County and City Management Association (CCMA) and is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: MacCabe Durney Barnes Consultants were appointed in February 2014 to carry out an independent planning review on the performance of planning functions having regard to specific planning issues in respect of six planning authorities (Carlow, Cork, Galway and Meath County Councils and Cork and Dublin City Councils) in accordance with section 255 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department received the initial proposal regarding this development from Dublin City Council in April last, when all local authorities submitted new proposals in relation to my Department’s Capital Assistance Scheme. My Department is in correspondence with Dublin City Council regarding the project and is currently awaiting a report from the Council regarding access routes to the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Improvement Scheme Administration (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Act 2006 provided for the establishment of Business Improvement Districts within the functional areas of local authorities. A Business Improvement District (BID) scheme is an organisational and financing mechanism with a legal basis, through which businesses can, on a self-help basis, develop and implement initiatives in defined areas...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Administration (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The terms and conditions of the Capital Assistance Scheme do not support the provision of residential care or nursing home type accommodation. Accordingly, the provision of accommodation in centres deemed as designated centres by the Health Information and Quality Authority, or where residents cannot hold an individual tenancy agreement, had not qualified for funding under the Scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Applications (15 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under the Approved Housing Body (AHB) Mortgage to Rent scheme properties are offered to AHBs, which have expressed an interest in the scheme, by the Housing Agency. Financial details of the case are provided to enable the organisation make an informed choice as to the feasibility of the transaction. If an AHB cannot progress the case the Housing Agency is informed to enable it to seek an...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) funding and financial decisions are a matter for NAMA in accordance with its statutory independent commercial mandate. However, I welcome the announcement by NAMA that, within the context of that mandate, it expects to be in a position to fund the construction of up to 20,000 new residential units, predominantly located in Dublin and the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Negotiations (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: COP21 is the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is currently taking place in Paris until 11 December 2015. 196 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are currently in Paris in an effort to negotiate a new legally binding global agreement on climate change. The Paris agreement should provide an enabling platform for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 203 to 205, inclusive, together. The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) continues to play an important role in the delivery of social housing. To the end of September 2015, a total of 1,600 NAMA residential properties had been delivered for social housing use, comprising 1,241 completed properties and a further 359 that have been contracted and where...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) funding and financial decisions are a matter for NAMA in accordance with its statutory independent commercial mandate. However, I welcome the announcement by NAMA that, within the context of that mandate, it expects to be in a position to fund the construction of up to 20,000 new residential units, predominantly located in Dublin and the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: Gross motor tax receipts (including payments made online at ) in County Louth were €27,827,768 in 2014. Gross receipts to 30 November 2015 were €25,257,942.Income from Motor Tax currently accrues to the Local Government Fund (LGF). Other funding sources that contribute to the LGF are Local Property Tax (LPT)and a payment from the Exchequer. Historically the LGF provided local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I assume that the Question refers to income-related loans that were advanced by individual local authorities to individual borrowersbetween 1982 and May 1986, the associated funds for which were advanced to local authorities by the Housing Finance Agency (HFA).A total of €403m was advanced by local authorities under the income-related loan scheme and 15,571 mortgages were made...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The importance of the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station, at local and indeed global levels, is recognised by all stakeholders involved in the collection and use of climate and air pollution data. The Station is owned and operated by the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). It provides unique data on atmospheric change including data on the build-up of greenhouse gases in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Rehiring (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: There have been no applications made by former staff of my Department to be re-instated following retirement on grounds of ill-health since 2004.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. My Department has no involvement in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department is working closely with the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) to ensure that all opportunities to identify and secure housing units for social housing use are maximised. To the end of September 2015, a total of 1,600 NAMA residential properties had been delivered for social housing use, comprising 1,241 completed properties and a further 359 that have been contracted and...