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Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: We have not told the people to do anything.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: We did not.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: No.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am not calling anybody a liar. Deputy MacSharry is.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Deputy MacSharry is looking for a meeting with me.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Is that the way Deputy MacSharry negotiates?

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: I would say Deputy MacSharry is someone who is easy to negotiate with. We are working through those issues, as we are obliged to do. Sligo County Council has an obligation to work through some very difficult financial matters at the moment. If I simply decide to grant significantly more money to Sligo to deal with difficult issues I had better take it from somebody else.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: I would have expected more from the Deputy, to be honest.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Yes, there is a straight answer. Today, the Cabinet approved the putting together of that legislation, which will be done as a priority. There is a series of measures, one of which is a fast-track planning process for large developments. There are also facilities around renewal of planning permissions in a fast-tracked manner. There are provisions around statutory time limits on Part 8...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Functions (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Met Éireann, Ireland’s National Meteorological Service, is a line division within my Department. It has been part of a Government Department since its foundation and has been a part of my Department since 2002.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: European Parliament Elections (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the European Union and goes on to outline the right of citizens of the Union to vote in elections to the European Parliament. I am not aware that there is any intention to change this Treaty provision in the context of the United Kingdom...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The processing of applications for social housing support is a matter for individual housing authorities and is carried out in accordance with the timescales and rules set down in current housing legislation. Regulation 12 of the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribes the timescales for the processing of applications by housing authorities and provides that, subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: In response to a request from Wicklow County Council , I recently approved Exchequer funding support for the continuation of a significant programme of upgrade works to the social housing units at Oldcourt Estate, Bray, County Wicklow. As is normally the case, works to private homes, including those at Oldcourt Estate, is a matter for the individual private owners involved.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Article 10(4) of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2015 provides that development consisting of the use of not more than 4 bedrooms in a house, where each bedroom is used for the accommodation of not more than 4 persons as overnight guest accommodation, shall be exempted from the requirement to obtain planning permission under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department monitors the impact of borrowing by local authorities on the General Government Balance (GGB) on an on-going basis. While there is a requirement for the overall borrowing of the local government sector to remain within the GGB parameters, should there be a requirement to borrow, my Department will consider any sanction request in the context of supporting priority...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Applications (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 327 and 328 together. There are currently two Mortgage to Rent (MTR) schemes funded by my Department. A scheme exists whereby a local authority (LA) can acquire ownership of properties with unsustainable local authority mortgages, thus enabling the household to remain in their home as a social housing tenant (LA-Mortgage-to-Rent). The second scheme provides...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: 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-time noise limit of 40 decibels for future wind energy developments, - a mandatory minimum setback distance of 500 metres between a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Legal Services (27 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: I have no role in the matter referred to in the Question. Procurement of legal services is a matter for the Chief Executive of each local authority in accordance with section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001.