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Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Issues (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: There is €50 million for RAS in 2013 and there will be a similar figure for 2014. There is also a social leasing scheme, but the Minister has not given the figure for that. There is the RAS and the social leasing scheme, a long-term leasing scheme being undertaken by local authorities, which the Department encourages. I am seeking the figures for that scheme as well for 2013 and...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Issues (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: It is mentioned in the parliamentary question.

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. There has been progress on the unfinished estates on which people live. If the money allocated is used in the same way as the €5 million already used, it will go a long way to sorting out some of the bad cases. The no hope ghost estates are part of the legacy of the economic illiteracy in the State for many years. They blight the landscape and...

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: I have to be.

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: Portlaoise.

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: On the site on the Dublin Road that I mentioned there are cables in the trenches with water. It will have to be levelled. It will be difficult to return some of these sites to agricultural use. The Minister has mentioned some where there is no developer or funder and no one is responsible. There is a huge need for local authority housing and there will be a need for sites, but land will...

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: It would hep to pay back some of the €10 million the taxpayer is putting in.

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: 6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing units in ghost estates that are to be demolished; the location of same; the criteria for same; and cost of these demolitions. [51819/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: 2. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made in the past 12 months on phase 2 and phase 3 of the Mountmellick sewage scheme; and the progress in having those houses in the town that are using septic tanks connected to the mains network. [51817/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: Shall I read the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: Do the same rules apply as previously?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: Therefore, the Minister is first.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. The reason I raise the issue is the takeover by Uisce Éireann of services from 1 January 2014. I note that it is putting in place a capital investment plan for 2014. I hope the project can be included, given that there are 80 houses with septic tanks in various parts of the town. There are others in the Garoon, Mount Manor, Pond Lane, Debicot and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: I understand the application for the wastewater discharge licence has been with the EPA for the past four or five months. I understand it is one of the necessary pieces of the jigsaw to be put in place. At this point there should not be any further delay. My information is that the council has supplied all of the necessary information and that the project is ready to proceed. The design...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Transmission Network (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Government will, in the interest of environmental best practice and planning, consider doing an analysis of the long term costs and benefits of high voltage cables going underground for the North-South interconnector and the Leinster couth east interconnector. [52068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (4 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff employed by the Road Safety Authority in each of the past five years. [52122/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (4 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total budget of the Road Safety Authority in each of the past five years. [52123/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (4 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to change the situation relating to NCT certificates where a person purchases a car that has a lapsed NCT certificate, for example, six months, and they renew it but must back date it, but if it was lapsed a full two years then they would get a full two years renewal. [52124/13]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: I will table an amendment on Report Stage.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: I would not have agreed with many of the things the previous Minister, Mr. John Gormley, did but he brought in a cap of €4,700 per member of city and county councils, which was welcome. What the Minister is doing here makes a lot of sense. If we are to be honest about it, given the difficulties many councillors had trying to pay their own expenses and bills, many of them had to rely...