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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (13 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 84 and 86 together. The Nitrates Directive and Ireland's National Nitrates Action Programme are given legal effect by the consolidated European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2014, as amended. The objective of the Regulations is to protect ground and surface waters, including drinking water sources, primarily...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Domestic Violence Policy (13 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Responsibility for the development and provision of services to support victims of domestic abuse rests with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the delivery of such services is managed through the Child and Family Agency, Tusla. A housing authority may provide short-term emergency housing to persons who are forced to leave their homes because of domestic violence, without having...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I wish to share time with Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, and Deputy Michael D'Arcy. I am please to have an opportunity to contribute on the budget and to clarify a number of issues. A series of comments have been made by a number of Opposition spokespeople both yesterday and today on the housing measures and it is good to have an opportunity to respond to them. This has been a balanced...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this Bill and providing us with another opportunity to discuss what I believe everyone who has contributed to this debate would accept must be an absolute priority for the Government and all parties in the Oireachtas. As Senators will be aware, the Government has tabled a proposed amendment to the motion, as I did in the Dáil when this issue...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I have a copy. The Senator can have it. I might go off-script at times; I have a reputation for doing that. As I said, there are acute pressures in the rental market and I outlined some of those. Those stresses are borne out by the latest data from the Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB. The PRTB index for the second quarter of this year shows that private rents rose by almost 10%...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Government has committed €1.2 billion in funding for housing to my Department under Budget 2017, to allow for continued implementation of Rebuilding Ireland: An Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness, under which 47,000 new social homes will be delivered by 2021.  Future targets and funding will be allocated to all local authorities beyond 2017 based on the results of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (12 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Action 5.1 of the Government’s Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness – Rebuilding Irelandundertakes to develop a National Vacant Housing Re-Use Strategy by 2017. To this end, the Housing Agency, which has lead responsibility for co-ordinating the development of the Strategy, has established a working group to inform the Strategy, with senior representatives from my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenancy Protection Scheme (12 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: As provided for in Rebuilding Ireland: An Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Threshold tenancy protection service, which currently operates in the Dublin region, the mid-East, Cork and Galway, will be extended on a national basis by the end of this year. Also, a national awareness campaign will be rolled out in early-2017 targeted at families and individuals worried about, or at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (12 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The numbers of private vehicles (excluding vintage vehicles) taxed at 30 September 2016 and which were first licensed prior to July 2008 are set out as follows. Year of first licensing No. of vehicles taxed at 30 September 2016 2008 57,883 2007 174,926 2006 164,584 2005 152,734 2004 125,723 2003 101,303 2002 83,077 2001 61,156 2000 60,218 1999 and earlier...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Legal Cases (12 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department sought further clarification on aspects of this complex case from the State’s legal services in June 2016. While no formal reminders have issued the case has been raised during scheduled meetings between officials. The clarifications sought have not yet been received.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: There are.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: Sure, we are doing that.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: We need to do both.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I think the Deputy is wrong.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I will answer if I can.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: I do not think I am not allowed to answer.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Central Bank has agreed to it. The Deputy should not be misleading the House.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Central Bank has agreed to the measure.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: That is why the budget-----

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: We are.