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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Protection Agency Expenditure (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: As provided for in the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992, the EPA is independent in its operations, and accordingly, I have no role in this matter. However, I am advised by the Agency that Section 50B of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended by the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 and the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, may apply to judicial...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: A Residential Tenancy Agreement under the Rental Accommodation scheme (RAS) involves a three way contractual relationship between landlord, tenant and the housing authority. Under the agreement, in return for a guarantee that the housing authority will pay an agreed monthly rent to a landlord under the scheme, the landlord agrees to fulfil certain terms and conditions. These terms and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (24 Feb 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 levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority. Under rates legislation the person liable for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information requested is not available in my Department. The assessment of households for social housing support is a matter for individual housing authorities under the provisions of the Housing (Miscellaneous) Provisions Act 2009, the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 and having regard to the particular circumstances of each case. I am precluded from becoming involved in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: A new water charging regime was announced by the Government on 19 November 2014. The capped annual charges will be €160 for single adult households and €260 for all other households until the end of 2018. All households will know what their capped bills will be until the end of 2018, which is particularly important for larger households or those with high usage due to medical...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: As indicated in response to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 17 February 2015, my Department plans to advertise the opportunity for eligible voters to apply for inclusion in the supplement to the register of electors following the making of the Polling Day Order for the forthcoming referendums. This advertising will be done through the main national newspapers and the Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (24 Feb 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). Section 22(5) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: Traditionally it has been difficult to quantify the number of homeless persons on an ongoing basis; this is in part a consequence of the volatility within this cohort of housing need. Prior to 2014 national data on homelessness was available through Housing Needs Assessmentreports, which were generally carried out every three years, or through the CSO’s special Census report, Homeless...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (24 Feb 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: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: It is a matter for each housing authority, as part of its housing management functions, to determine the conditions in relation to succession to local authority tenancies in its area. I understand that the conditions vary from one authority to another, but any prospective successor would typically have to have resided in the property for a specified period, prior to the death of the family...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: Motor tax is payable on an annual, half-yearly or quarterly basis. The rates applicable for the half-yearly and quarterly options are 55.5% and 28.25% of the annual charge, respectively. These relativities have remained generally consistent since the 1960s. The differential takes account of the extra workload for staffing in motor tax offices and the National Vehicle and Driver File Unit of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The practice of a household receiving social housing support from one housing authority that wishes to transfer to another housing authority area, is currently operated on an informal basis by agreement between housing authorities. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020 includes a commitment to examine the possibility of introducing a “housing passport”. This...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I understand that the Question relates to a form of condition which is sometimes attached to a planning permission - also known as a “sterilisationagreement” - under section 47 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, between a planning authority and a person with a legal interest in land for the purpose of restricting or regulating the further development or use of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Quality (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides that Irish Water can collect charges from each customer in receipt of water services provided by it. The Act also provides that responsibility for the independent economic regulation of the water sector is assigned to the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) and the CER has been given statutory responsibility for protecting the interests of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors Administration (24 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The requirements on local authorities, as registration authorities, in relation to the publication and provision of copies of the electoral register are set out in rules 13, 14 and 25 of the Second Schedule to the Electoral Act 1992, as amended. Under rule 25, where any document is required to be published in accordance with the Second Schedule to the Electoral Act 1992, the document may be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: While it is not entirely clear, I assume that the Deputy is referring to the matter raised in Question No. 430 of 9 December 2014. As I stated in the reply to that Question, from enquiries made of Limerick County Council, it is understood that a number of pre-planning meetings took place with the person concerned before he lodged his first planning application for proposed development...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Feb 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 report...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Statistics (19 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of housing policy. Due to the significantly reduced mortgage activity since 2009, concerns about the quality of the data and the availability of statistics referred to in the question from other sources, a decision was taken to cease my Department's publication of the statistics...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (19 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department allocates funding to local authorities towards the cost of adaptations and extensions to social housing to meet the needs of tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. All aspects of the administration of this funding locally are matter s for each local authority and my Department is not involved with the selection or prioritisation of individual projects.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (19 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 197 to 199, inclusive, together. A total of €3.78 million, as set out in the following table, has been provided by my Department to An Taisce over the past five years. DECLG Funding to An Taisce Source 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Total € € € € € € DECLG Vote 0 0 0 0 275,492 275,492 Environment Fund...