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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: To date one new project has been approved to proceed under the single-stage approval process for social housing construction schemes with a budget of less than €2m and up to 15 housing units. A number of other proposals, that may be advanced using this approach, are currently being discussed between local authorities and my Department, as part of the informal consultation that happens...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (16 Sep 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 is currently establishing a working group that will inform the Strategy, and the group will include senior representatives from my Department, from local authorities and from approved...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: In publishing Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Government has set out a practical and readily implementable set of actions to create a functioning and sustainable housing system. The Plan is available at the website www.rebuildingireland.ie.The Plan is divided into five pillars, with each targeting a specific area of the housing system for attention. Pillar 4...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Gross motor tax receipts for 2015 for pre-2008 private vehicles were €673.3m and the receipts for post-2008 vehicles were €248.2m. There were 1,170,226 vehicles taxed on the basis of engine capacity (i.e. the basis of charging for pre-2008 cars) at 31 December 2015 and 814,904 taxed on the basis of CO2emissions.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Constituency Boundaries (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The most recent review of local electoral areas was carried out from November 2012 to May 2013 by a Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee established under the Local Government Act 1991. The recommendations of that committee were implemented through 30 Statutory Instruments made in January 2014. Unlike the position for Dáil and European Parliament constituencies, there is no...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Electoral Commission Establishment (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Immediately following the publication of the preliminary results of Census 2016 by the Central Statistics Office on 14 July 2016, and in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 1997, I made an Order establishing a Constituency Commission to review Dáil and European Parliament constituencies. The function of the Constituency Commission is to make a report on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Each Chief Executive of a local authority is responsible for staffing and organisation arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible. My Department works closely with all local authorities and all have been invited to submit staffing sanction requests to facilitate the delivery of housing services. Each staffing sanction...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Information regarding the annual Estimates of public expenditure, including the amounts allocated to Housing programmes on an annual basis, is available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at the following link: . The table sets out the outturn figures for housing expenditure, broken down by capital and current, for the period 2013 to 2015. In relation to 2016,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department has no role in the internal operations of any private organisations and, therefore, does not have a role in relation to staff or employment matters, which are for the Board of the company, as the employer, to manage. In relation to the details supplied, my Department has been engaged in discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and with the Attorney...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The advancement of the social housing construction project at The Park, Killarney, County Kerry, which is to deliver a total of 20 new homes, is a matter in the first instance for Kerry County Council. Funding approval-in-principle was given by my Department for the project in May 2015 and pre-tender designs were also approved by my Department in April 2016. I look forward to Kerry County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Licence Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: An application to carry out a bathymetry survey and localised site investigation work was received from the named company in March 2016. The principal objective of the proposed works is to identify a feasible and safe route for a cable system design, deployment, survivability and subsequent maintenance of a sub-sea fibre optic cable. The application is currently at consultation phase and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: If domestic water charges were abolished, Irish Water and the Group Water sector would require additional funding to substitute for the loss of revenue from domestic customers. The estimated additional revenue requirement in 2017 would be €240.5m. The redeployment of the Water Conservation Grant as subvention to Irish Water would provide savings of €110m to offset these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Section 144 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended,provides for the determination of fees payable to the An Bord Pleanála (the Board). The Board may set its own fees, subject to the approval of the Minister, except where fee changes are in line with the Consumer Price Index. The Board must give notice of any new fees that apply. Section 144 also empowers the Board to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Act 2013 came into effect on 1 July 2013. The primary purpose of the Act is to replace the system whereby a vehicle was declared off the road retrospectively with a system under which the vehicle must be declared off the road in advance. The system of making retrospective declarations had become a means of evasion of motor tax estimated to have cost some...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Irish Water (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. Irish Water is responsible for water services infrastructure including water supply pipes or sewers extending from a waterworks or waste water works to the curtilage of a private property. Under sections 43 and 54 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: Information on the funding spent by each local authority under the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 is available on my Department’s website at the following link : . Information on the funding allocated to each local authority by my Department under the se Grants for those years is set out in the table. My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Freedom of Information Legislation (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services is covered by the Freedom of Information Acts.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department has been working closely with Dublin City Council regarding outstanding amounts, payable on a range of projects from the Ballymun Regeneration programme. I anticipate that agreement on this matter will be reached within the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Postal Codes (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: The majority of correspondence conducted by my Department is through electronic media and there is limited direct communication with households via An Post. My Department is not generally responsible for the provision of services to the public directly; our agencies and the local authorities administer services and schemes of this nature on our behalf. In the area of Franchise, for example,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Standards (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am committed to developing a real and meaningful strategy for the rental sector to enable it to develop to its full potential. Addressing poor accommodation standards in the sector is an integral part of this process. Minimum standards for rental accommodation are prescribed in the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2008, as amended by the Housing (Standards for Rented...