Written answers

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

 
  • Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit
    439. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider including city and county councils, and voluntary housing bodies as part of the Private Residency...
  • Water Charges Introduction
    440. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if water charges will be imposed on persons who have sourced their own water supply; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Local Development Companies Administration
    441. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform the operation of LDCs; his reasons for this reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Construction Products Regulation
    443. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 8 April 2014, the industry sources his Department made contact with to assess...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
    445. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 379 of 22 October 2013, if he will provide an update on the matter. [18640/14]
  • Departmental Websites
    447. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that his Department’s website www.environ.ie and related microsites that is ruralireland.ie...
  • Anti-Social Behaviour
    449. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the remedies available to local authority tenants who are subject to ongoing harassment and...
  • Planning Issues
    450. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his policy on the duty of local authorities to enforce the terms and conditions of planning approvals granted by An Bord...
  • Motor Tax Collection
    452. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the tax arrangements that apply in respect of a 32 year old vintage tractor (details supplied) in County Longford; and if...
  • Local Authority Housing Application Numbers
    453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons or families currently on the social housing waiting lists in the four Dublin local authorities and...
  • Redundancy Payments
    454. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an enhanced redundancy package application will be paid to persons (details supplied) in County Mayo. [18776/14]
  • Local Authority Housing Provision
    455. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be provided to regenerate housing (details supplied) Dublin 17; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Local Authority Functions
    456. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the plans he proposes to take on foot of the report of the Working Group on Citizen Engagement with Local Government; when...
  • Election Management System
    457. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which blind persons may exercise their right to vote in an independent manner; and if he will make a statement...
  • Foreshore Licence Applications
    458. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Sligo has been waiting over seven months for their application to be...
  • Water Meters Installation
    459. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the installation of water meters by Irish Water, the reason meters are not being installed inside the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    464. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that a person who has received notification from a building society that their mortgage is...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    466. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action the Department can take in order to prevent an illegal Traveller encampment, details supplied, in County...
  • Leader Programmes Funding
    467. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of money available for projects under the Leader programme 2007-2013; the total spend to date on...
  • Emergency Accommodation Numbers
    473. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons and families experiencing homelessness who were housed in hotels and bed and breakfasts paid for by...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Data
    474. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons currently part of the rental accommodation scheme; and the annual cost of this scheme. [19139/14]
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    475. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that local authorities have commenced and completed building respectively since...
  • Planning Issues
    477. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take in respect of officials in Donegal County Council or others, involved in wrongdoing, in view of...
  • Flood Prevention Measures
    479. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water has assumed responsibility for the culverted Swan River in Dublin; and if not, if his Department or the...
  • Water Charges Administration
    480. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give consideration to the introduction of a small grant scheme for community-environmental group water...
  • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration
    481. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are many outstanding moneys to be paid by those owning holiday properties and penalties are accumulating on these...
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation
    483. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when residents may expect to be reimbursed by the Pyrite Resolution Board for the moneys paid for a building condition...
  • Building Regulations Qualifications
    484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 if 3 April 2014, if there is an interim scheme in place to allow candidates...
  • Building Regulations Application
    485. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the new Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and in particular the new requirements regarding...
  • Water Services Provision
    486. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with reference to the National Water Study Volume 1 (2000) where WS Atkins Ireland stated that there was poor record...
  • Housing Issues
    487. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give assurances that his Department will make funding available that Tuath Housing carry out the long overdue...
  • Commercial Rates Issues
    488. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to address the fact that the approach of local authorities to the issue of rates on vacant premises can vary...
  • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration
    490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has issued statutory guidance to local authorities as per section 73 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 which...
  • Community Development Projects
    491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of community groups-organisations currently in receipt of Department funding; if such...
  • Waste Management
    492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to waste management targets, if he is satisfied that progress is being achieved on the reduction of waste...
  • Foreshore Licence Applications
    497. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update of details of the plans, permissions and consents issued to develop the proposed Emerald...
  • Dublin Cemeteries Committee
    498. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform the Dublin Cemeteries Committee Act 1970. [19522/14]
  • Private Residential Tenancies Board
    499. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 398 of 15 April 2014, if he will provide details of the terms of reference for the...
  • Water Quality
    500. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions he will take in consultation with local authorities and Irish Water to redress one of the findings of the...
  • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
    501. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that boundary fencing provided by Sligo Borough Council and funded by his...
  • Road Safety
    502. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commit to ensuring that gaps in legislation regarding quad bikes will be addressed from the perspective of open...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
    503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has carried out a cost benefit analysis of the rental accommodation scheme and the long-term leasing...
  • Private Rented Accommodation Standards
    505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review the receivership regime to establish protections for tenants whose landlords go into receivership; and...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
    506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on all rental accommodation scheme and leasing tenancies across each local authority including the rents...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
    507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will grant funding in respect of a water network (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
  • Climate Change Policy
    508. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will explain the way the transition to a low-carbon economy by 2050 will be achieved without specific targets as...
  • Register of Electors
    509. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the legislation governing the inspection and making available of a marked copy of the electoral register used respectively...
  • Building Regulations Application
    511. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to new building regulations, the process in place to allow existing long term practitioners to be certified by...
  • Local Authority Finances
    513. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will grant permission to Kilrush Town Council to utilise its own resources, which have been saved in a capital fund...
  • Irish Water Remit
    514. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water has within its responsibility all waste water facilities and sewage treatment plants; and if he will make a...
  • Seaweed Harvesting Licences
    516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of seaweed harvesting licences issued to date; the fees charged for these licences; the duration of these...
  • Planning Issues
    517. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if quarries that commenced activities before the 1 October 1964 and were subsequently deemed by the appropriate local...
  • Flood Relief Schemes Funding
    518. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total funds allocated by his Department for storm and flood damage in the past six months; if he will provide in...
  • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
    519. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority mortgages currently in existence; the total value of local authority mortgages outstanding;...
  • Local Authority Housing
    523. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding funding in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...

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