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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Library Services (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 277 and 278 together. The report Managing the Delivery of Effective Library Servicescontains detailed arrangements for the planning and implementation of new structures in order to establish stronger, more effective and efficient public libraries and deliver better library services to local communities and citizens, in line with Government policy on public...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fuel Laundering (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 279 and 288 to 293, inclusive, together. Enforcement in relation to illegal diesel laundering activities is primarily a matter for the Revenue Commissioners from the point of view of avoiding loss of revenue to the Exchequer. My Department assists local authorities in carrying out their role as competent authorities under waste legislation, which is to take...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 282 and 283 together. My Department issued revised guidelines to local authorities for dealing with mortgage arrears within the local authority sector in June 2014. Dealing with Mortgage Arrears – A Guide for Local Authoritiesis available on my Department’s website by clicking on the following link: . On foot of the recommendations of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Government, in the context of decisions taken on the financing of Irish Water, announced on 6 May 2014 its intention to adjust the subvention of the Group Water sector so that it is aligned with the approach for households on public water supplies. This is to ensure households in the Group Water sector receive equivalent support, while allowing for any transitional issues, to sustain...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The National Rural Water Services Committee, which has a role in advising me in relation to policy and investment in rural water services, is set up under Section 75 of the Water Services Act 2007. While I have not met the Committee, my Department is currently considering, in the context of the 2015 Rural Water Programme, a recommendation from it relating to new group water schemes. I will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I met the Chairperson and officers of the National Federation of Group Water Schemes on 20 January 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Expenditure (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: Responsibility for the administration of my Department’s Rural Water Programme has been devolved to local authorities since 1997. The selection, prioritisation and approval of individual scheme proposals for advancement and funding under the programme , within the overall priorities set by my Department and subject to the block grant allocations provided, is therefore a matter for the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Legal Cases Data (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The information requested is being compiled by my Department and will be sent to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: Details of funding provided by my Department in respect of Stardust Memorial Park are set out in the reply to Question No.167 of 11 March, 1993. £100,000 was allocated by my Department to Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) from National Lottery funding in 1992, part financing the initial construction cost of the Park. No details can be found from the available records of any...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department and the agencies under my remit have no staff working out of the Government Buildings referred to in the Question.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Litter Pollution (4 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Litter Pollution Acts 1997 to 2009 provide the statutory framework to combat littering and include provisions relating to dog fouling.  Under the Acts, the primary management and enforcement response to littering (including dog fouling) is a matter for local authorities.It is a matter for each local authority to determine the most appropriate course of action to tackle litter...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (4 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: To promote sustainable use of water and to enhance water conservation in households, the Department of Social Protection will administer, on behalf of my Department, a €100 water conservation grant for households (principal private dwellings) that complete a valid response to Irish Water’s customer registration process. This requirement to respond to the Irish Water...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (4 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The provision of social housing services is a matter for each local authority as the housing authority for its area. Each authority has responsibility for identifying their area’s social housing need and responding as required, including planning and undertaking new social housing developments to meet this need. My Department is currently engaging with all local authorities in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Development Contributions (4 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The charging of development contributions is intended to allow local authorities to recoup some of the costs to public funds of servicing land for private development. Without such contributions, this servicing would not proceed or the full cost would have to be borne by the taxpayer. Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, income from development levies must be ring-fenced...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (4 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: My Department allocates funding to local authorities towards the cost of adaptations and extensions to social housing to meet needs of tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding from my Department meets 90% of costs, with each local authority providing the remaining 10%. In 2014, funding of €373,599 was provided to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (3 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 552, 555, 560 and 586 together. With effect from 1 January 2014, Irish Water is responsible for public water services. The Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 provides that Irish Water shall collect charges from its customers in receipt of water services provided by it. As set out in the Water Services Act 2014, which was enacted on 28 December 2014, water...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (3 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The expected level of bills to be issued to domestic customers in 2015 and 2016, being €271m and €274m respectively, was set out in November 2014 by my Department in the document entitled “Fact Sheet 1: Financing Irish Water”. This document is available on my Department’s website at In November 2014 I announced a package of measures to ensure that domestic...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (3 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 554 and 557 together. My Department is currently working with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the European Commission to finalise the text of the Rural Development Programme with a view to commencing the LEADER Local Development Strategy selection process in the coming weeks. The selection process will be open and transparent and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (3 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The Social Housing Strategy 2020targets the provision of over 35,000 new social housing units over the lifetime of the Strategy. I expect that 7 ,400 of these will be delivered in 2015 through the following methods : 3,000 through leasing, 2,000 through the Rental Accommodation Scheme, returning 1,000 vacant properties back to productive use , and 1,400 units through direct build or...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Political Funding (3 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: The relevant legislation dealing with political donations accounts is the Electoral Act 1997. Section 23B(1) of this Act provides that an accounting unit of a political party which receives, in any particular year, a monetary donation the value of which exceeds €100 shall open and maintain an account in an institution in the State and shall lodge that donation and any further monetary...