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

Alan Kelly: Under my Department’s Social Housing Capital Investment Programme, funding is provided to housing authorities to increase their supply of social housing stock through the construction and acquisition of houses and apartments. Details of the funding provided to local authorities from 2004 to 2014 are readily available in my Department and are outlined in the tables below. Details of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Act 2001. The Commissioner for Valuation has sole responsibility for all valuation matters. The levying and collection of rates are matters for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Following the collapse of the Public Private Partnership arrangements for the delivery of a number of regeneration projects in the Dublin city area, Dublin City Council established a taskforce to examine alternative options for projects originally included under the PPP process. My Department is continuing to work with the City Council to advance proposals to regenerate the various areas...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 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 and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. My...

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

Alan Kelly: As part of a robust monitoring and reporting framework, local authorities report to my Department on a regular basis on outputs and expenditure under the various housing programmes. The expenditure details under each housing subhead, as set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services, are provided by my Department to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In the context of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1088 and 1090 to 1094, inclusive, together. 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 temporary accommodation and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department works closely with all local authorities and all have been invited to submit staffing sanction requests to facilitate the delivery of the Government's Social Housing Strategy. Each staffing sanction request is examined on a case by case basis having due regard to the continued delivery of key services in the context of staffing and budgetary constraints. To date in 2015, my...

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

Alan Kelly: Under the Litter Pollution Acts 1997 to 2009, the primary responsibility for management and enforcement responses to litter pollution, including the defacement of structures by writing or other marks, lies with local authorities. The Acts provide significant powers to local authorities to deal with the defacement of structures by writing or other marks. The role of my Department is to...

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

Alan Kelly: Informed by a recent review of the provisions of Part V of the Planning and Development Acts, which included a public consultation process, proposed legislative changes have been set out in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015which was published on 5 June 2015 and is available on my Department's website at: . The Bill provides that, in future, the focus of Part V will be on the...

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

Alan Kelly: Under my Department's Social Housing Capital Investment Programme, funding is provided to housing authorities to increase their supply of social housing stock through the construction and acquisition of houses and apartments. Details of the funding provided to Westmeath County Council in this regard from 2004 to 2011 are contained in the table. WESTMEATH COUNTY COUNCIL Year Total ...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Air Pollution (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department has not undertaken Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) on the vapours released from aircraft. However, my Department has previously been informed by Met Éireann that vapour trails are formed through the emission of exhaust gases from jet engines of aircraft in the upper troposphere and that the main component of these gases is water vapour.  Ambient air temperature...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Telecommunications Infrastructure (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department published Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Telecommunications Antennae and Support Structures in 1996. The guidelines are intended to facilitate planning authorities, An Bord Pleanála, the licensed providers of mobile telecommunications services and the public by providing guidance on dealing with these developments within the planning system. The guidelines set out...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: On 28 May 2015, I announced funding of €40.4 million for the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability. I have increased the level of funding available for the grant schemes by some 10% for 2015. Allocations in 2015 were based primarily on the level of grant activity in local authorities in 2014, with no local authority getting less than their...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Sector Pensions Levy (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under the Local Authority Members (Gratuity) Regulations 2002, as amended by the Local Authority Members (Gratuity) (Amendment) Regulations 2006, a former local authority member is entitled to a retirement gratuity of 4/20ths of the Representational Payment for each year of service, up to a maximum of 20 years' service. The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Insurance Payments (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department has no direct function regarding issues relating to PRSI and/or social welfare entitlements, both of which fall within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection.

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

Alan Kelly: My Department gathers quarterly data on staff numbers in local authorities. The data gathered does not provide detail in respect of numbers employed in the building control section within each local authority, and accordingly, the information requested is not available in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commissions of Investigation (9 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1106 to 1108, inclusive, together. My Department has not established any Commissions of Investigation, under the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, since the Act came into effect.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Staff (28 May 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 166 to 168, inclusive, together. In 2008, retained fire-fighters were given the option of joining the Local Government Superannuation Scheme (LGSS) and receive a pension and retirement lump sum based on their pensionable remuneration and length of service. Retained fire-fighters who opted not to join the scheme receive, on retirement, a gratuity of 1/8th...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 May 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170 and 176 together. In December 2013, my Department published proposed “draft” revisions to the noise, setbacks 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (28 May 2015)

Alan Kelly: Only voters included in the register of electors as presidential electors may vote in referendums. A person is entitled to be registered as a presidential elector in a constituency if they have reached the age of 18 years and were a citizen of Ireland and ordinarily resident in that constituency on the qualifying date for the register.