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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...

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

Alan Kelly: The procedures for assessing the eligibility of households for social housing support were updated in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011. The Regulations prescribed a common application form to be used by all housing authorities. The information sought in the form reflects the eligibility and need criteria set down in...

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

Alan Kelly: In terms of the social housing need, the 2013 Summary of Social Housing Assessments identified some 89,872 households nationally as qualified as being in need of social housing supports these results are the most up-to-date and reliable figures currently available. The majority of this number, 46,584 (52%), were found to be dependent on rent supplement and were therefore already supported in...

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

Alan Kelly: My Department does not hold information on the allocation of social housing supports to individual households on the waiting lists of individual local authorities , whether by local authority housing or other accommodation provided by an authority. The allocation of such support is a matter for each authority in accordance with its allocation scheme made under the Housing (Miscellaneous...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Flood Prevention Measures (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: While my Department co-ordinates the national level response to several types of severe weather emergencies, including flooding, it has no role in relation to flood prevention or flood management. The development of flood prevention and protection measures is solely a matter for the Office of Public Works, which is the Lead Agency for flood risk management .I can advise the Deputy, however,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: In December 2013, my Department published proposed “draft” revisions to the noise, setback distance and shadow flicker aspects of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. These draft revisions proposed: - the setting of a more stringent day and night noise limit of 40 decibels for future wind energy developments, - a mandatory minimum setback distance of 500...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (10 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I allocated total funding for 2015 of €50.5m nationally for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. This represents a 10% increase on the funding available in 2014. The allocation to Kildare County Council for 2015 for the grants was €2,429,000. To date Kildare County Council has drawn down 77% of its allocation and has not sought additional...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together. The Social Housing Strategy 2020provides a comprehensive response to the need for social housing and targets the provision of over 110,000 social housing units to 2020, through the delivery of 35,000 new social housing units and meeting the housing needs of some 75,000 households through the Housing Assistance Payment and Rental...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The requirements at EU level with regard to the standards for urban waste water treatment are set out in Directive 91/271/EEC. For example secondary treatment was required by 31 December 2000 for all discharges from agglomerations of more than 15,000 population equivalents, and by 31 December 2005 for those agglomerations with population equivalents between 10,000 and 15,000. Secondary...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: 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 completion work is on-going. A further 486 properties are considered...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: Social housing targets out to 2017 for all local authorities issued in April 2015. This also included funding allocations with, nationally, over €1.5 billion to be invested in a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes by all local authorities. In the case of Donegal County Council, 507 is the target set for new social units under both Current and Capital-funded progammes...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: A shortage of supply is at the heart of the current challenges in the housing sector and the Government is addressing this on a number of fronts. The Government’s Construction 2020 Strategy, published last year, is aimed at addressing issues in the property and construction sectors and ensuring that any bottlenecks that might impede the sector in meeting the estimated residential...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Services (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: The provision and maintenance of public lighting is the responsibility of each individual local authority. Local authorities receive income from a variety of sources including grants from Central Government, Local Property Tax (LPT) proceeds, commercial rates and other locally-raised charges. It is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities , including...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Kelly: I refer to the reply to Question No 157 of 11 November 2015 which sets out the position in this matter.I am not aware of reports of land hoarding referred to by the Deputy and, furthermore, I have not at any time directed the Dublin local authorities not to rezone additional lands for housing. However, Minister of State Coffey and I jointly wrote to the Chief Executives of the four...