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- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: A person should have the right to purchase his or her house after a period of time and sell it to someone who wants to be an owner-occupier. However, houses that were built by the taxpayer should not be sold and within a couple of years be in the hands of a private landlord. Then the taxpayer is paying a rent supplement to the tenant in that house. The public purse is being hit twice. I...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: Any new housing policy should have that. I am in favour of rent allowance and tenant purchase, as is the party I represent. I highlight the huge demand in Monasterevin, Portarlington, Mountmellick and Portlaoise. There is a demand across the constituency, as there is in south Kildare. I am sure the Deputy beside me will highlight the issue in north Kildare. However, there is pent-up...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: The Minister knows what I am talking about. Given the performance over the past year, I can see it developing further across the housing sector. I am highlighting it with the Minister and two Ministers of State present. I want them to hear what I am saying because there are serious issues in this regard. While it is public money going into them, the local authority does not have a huge...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: It is down to the Deputies in the constituency.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: To which county does the Minister refer?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: I want to ask the Minister about RAS. He said it was very successful. My experience is that landlords are exiting as quickly as they can. The HAP scheme is based on the same principle, namely, that the local authority leases the house. However, the house is leased below the market rent and over a long period. How will that work in counties where landlords are ditching the schemes as quick...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: I heard the Minister.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: They were advertised.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: I will keep this as brief as possible. There were 32 recommendations in the report of the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas, CEDRA, which falls within the remit of the Minister's Department. The Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, has a particular role in this area. There is a concern that Pat Spillane and the committee went away, put together a good report, came back...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: The Minister will have to go further north. It is inside the pale. A senior official from EUROSTAT was quoted as saying that the €130 million water conservation grant, which we all know is not a water conservation grant but that is for another day, will be counted as a direct subsidy to Irish Water.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: The Minister mentioned the grant, which was up to €6,000 per household. The group sewerage scheme figure was trebled from approximately €2,100 to in excess of €6,000. Does the Minister have the figures for sewerage and water schemes?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: What was collected in 2014?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: The difference is €51 million. If €440 million went to the local government fund, where did the €51 million go?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: It is smaller this year.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: We have had a democratic revolution since. That was then and this is now.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: I want to ask about the €552 million. There is a gap between what goes back from the LPT and what comes in. The figure for this year will be €458 million.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: What about the €1.307 billion figure?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: I have it here.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: That is all right. It is Irish Water that is getting it.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Brian Stanley: According to the Estimate, local government fund income will exceed expenditure by €77.3 million. What will happen to this money?