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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: In November 2014 I announced a package of measures to ensure that domestic water charges are certain, affordable and clear. If a customer does not pay their water charges, late payment provisions shall automatically apply, unless the customer enters into a payment plan. In the case of a One Adult Household (capped at €160), €30 will be added to any bill where outstanding...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (23 Apr 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. The purposes...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Apr 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 in six selected 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 amended.  I expect to receive the final...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provided for the transfer of responsibility for the provision of public water services from the local authorities to Irish Water. The Act provides that Irish Water shall charge each customer for the provision of services provided by it in accordance with a water charges plan to be approved by the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER). A new water...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Eligibility (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under the terms of the Rental Accommodation Scheme, where the dwelling that the household is living in becomes unavailable, through no fault of the household, the relevant local authority is responsible for sourcing alternative accommodation. In such cases it is a matter for local authorities, in cooperation with tenants, to source alternative accommodation as quickly as possible. In seeking...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department provides funding to local authorities for various social housing supports, including for adaptations and extensions to the social housing stock to meet needs of local authority tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding provided by my Department meets 90% of the cost of such works, with each local authority providing the remaining 10%. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Library Services Provision (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under Section 78 of the Local Government Act 2001, the provision of premises and facilities for the public library service is a reserved function of each local authority in its capacity as a library authority.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Fund (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I assume that the Question refers to general purpose grants from the Local Government Fund. General purpose grants we re my Department’s contribution towards meeting the cost to local authorities of providing a reasonable level of services to their customers. The table below details the general purpose grant payments from the Local Government Fund to all local authorities in each...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171, 172 and 189 together. Based on the results of the statutory social housing needs assessments carried out in 2008, 2011 and 2013, details on the numbers on social housing waiting lists in Waterford during the period concerned, including the number who were categorised as having a housing need due to their current accommodation being overcrowded, are as...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statistics, including data on local authority housing completions and acquisitions for individual years, broken down by county. Statistics in relation to County Waterford up to and including 2014 are available at the following link: . The Social Housing Strategy 2020targets the delivery of over 35,000 new social housing units over...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under the Social Housing Strategy202015,400 additional units of social housing are targeted nationally under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) and the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) to 2017. Under SHCEP, previously referred to as the Social Housing Leasing Initiative, 11,400 units are targeted with 3,000 of these for delivery in 2015. The number of additional...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department provides funding to local authorities for various social housing supports, including for adaptations and extensions to the social housing stock to meet needs of local authority tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding provided by my Department meets 90% of the cost of such works, with each local authority providing the remaining 10%. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I recently announced delivery targets under the Social Housing Strategy 2020 for all local authorities which took into account proposals submitted by the local authorities themselves for the delivery of units for the period 2015-17. These targets were accompanied by provisional funding allocations to local authorities totalling €1.5 billion out to 2017 and, accordingly, funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Applications (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The assessment of applications for social housing support is the responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2 009 and associated regulations. The prescribed application form for such support requires applicants to provide certain information on their current and previous accommodation, including whether they received a notice...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The report on the 2011 Housing Needs Assessment, available on my Department’s website at: , contains details on waiting list numbers for each local authority which were recorded on social housing needs assessments carried out at 3 year intervals from 1993 to 2011 under Section 9 of the Housing Act 1988. The latest social housing needs assessment was carried out as at 7 May 2013 in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Shared Ownership Scheme, first introduced in 1991 and amended in January 2003, was designed to facilitate access to home ownership to those who were unable to buy a home outright with a conventional mortgage. The Scheme offered an option to purchase up to half of a property with a standard annuity mortgage, with the balance to be rented from the local authority. The initiative worked well...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182 and 187 together. In Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares inventories of greenhouse gas emissions, which are compilations of historical greenhouse gas emissions from sources such as transport, power generation, industry and agriculture. The most recent year for which provisional data are available is 2013 which can be accessed on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Under section 90(12)(a) of the Housing Act 1966, a person who bought a house from a local authority under a tenant purchase scheme must obtain the authority’s consent to re-sell the house within a specified period after tenant purchase (20 years in the case of the 1995 Tenant Purchase Scheme). The enactment empowers the housing authority to refuse to consent to the resale of the house...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Air and Water Pollution (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: Air quality monitoring in Ireland is carried out to meet the requirements of EU Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe, also known as the CAFE Directive. The Directive requires that certain minimum levels of monitoring are conducted for the purpose of assessment and management of air quality. The EPA has responsibility for the monitoring of air quality in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Road Signage (23 Apr 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information requested is not available inmy Department. Responsibility for matters relating to roads rests with my colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport.