Written answers

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

 
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration
    838. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the mortgage rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Funding
    839. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding available through his Department for the maintenance of walking trails; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Water Quality
    840. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the chemicals to treat Ireland’s drinking water system; and if...
  • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Exemptions
    841. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the scope in legislation for persons to be exempt from the non Principal Private Residence Charge in the event that they...
  • Departmental Funding
    842. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reverse the cuts to the scheme to support national organisations and restore funding to all organisations who...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
    844. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis on which the income threshold for social housing is decided; his views that a person with net earnings in excess...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    845. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that it is realistic to set a target of constructing 18,000 new social-housing units before 2017, in view of...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    846. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the types of housing developments that are likely to be developed under the Government’s social housing initiative;...
  • Planning Issues
    847. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the removal of the buy-out clause from Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, in areas with a high...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
    848. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that the €3.8 billion earmarked for the development of 35,000 social housing units is adequate; and if he...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    849. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of units being made available by the National Asset Management Agency for use in social housing; if there is a...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Applications
    850. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that applicants for social housing should be entitled to choose whether they are accommodated in a city or...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    851. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that the construction of a large number of bedsits, as part of the Social Housing Strategy 2020, would be a...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Applications
    852. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if new Central Bank of Ireland regulations pertaining to first-time buyers will have an impact on demand for social...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    853. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans in relation to the tenure mix of new social housing developments, in order to avoid problems historically...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Eligibility
    857. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on rent-to-buy schemes as a means of relieving the social housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Local Authority Housing Provision
    858. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding that will be provided in 2015 and 2016 for housing in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    860. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the target of providing 5,000 new social housing units by the end of 2015 is currently on track; and if he will make a...
  • Unfinished Housing Developments
    861. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the purchase of ghost estates by the Government is a feasible option in delivering social housing; and if he will make...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    862. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of all sites purchased in Galway city and Dublin city for the purpose of providing social...
  • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
    863. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a new tenant purchase scheme will be introduced. [11137/15]
  • Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
    864. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 5 of March 2015, if he will confirm that persons in receipt of a housing...
  • Homeless Accommodation Provision
    865. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of moneys spent by each local authority on emergency homeless accommodation for families and persons, yearly...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
    866. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current and-or expected position regarding the Kilmacreddock/Ballygoran group sewerage scheme which was submitted for...
  • Leader Programmes Funding
    868. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the next round of LEADER funding and community development grants will to be announced; and made available. [11199/15]
  • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
    869. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will intervene in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Cork on humanitarian grounds; and if he will make...
  • Noise Pollution
    870. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the problem of seagulls creating serious noise pollution for Dublin city residents and in view of similar...
  • Local Authority Housing
    871. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on local authorities withholding housing grants and other such payments on the grounds that the household charge...
  • Housing Assistance Payments
    872. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who was awarded a housing assistance payment by Cork County Council,...
  • Irish Water Administration
    874. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons, under section 12 of the Water Services Act 2014, Uisce Éireann/Irish Water was excluded from having to...
  • Air Pollution
    875. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions taken following the publication of a report by the European Environmental Agency entitled, Revealing the Cost...
  • Climate Change Policy
    876. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if geo-engineering is taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11371/15]
  • Rural Recreation Promotion
    877. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the proposed green walkway for south Kerry; if consideration has been given to providing a...
  • Water Quality
    878. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to provide an allowance to householders in areas with hard water to assist with the additional costs associated...
  • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
    879. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the local authorities that availed of Departmental approval for the recruitment of architects in 2014 as part of the...
  • Housing Adaptation Grant
    880. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding to allow for the extension of a property (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [11446/15]
  • Private Residential Tenancies Board Enforcement
    881. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action the Private Residential Tenancies Board can take to recover money owed by tenants to landlords after the...
  • Retail Sector
    882. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the previous plans for Ballymun shopping centre in Dublin 9; and the rationale...
  • Household Charge Exemptions
    883. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a residential estate (details supplied), which is on the list of exempted estates for the local...
  • Foreshore Licence Applications
    885. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names and technical qualifications of individual technical experts who sat on the marine licence vetting committee...
  • Local Authority Staff Data
    887. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of administrative officers, excluding SEE and analogous but including...
  • Local Authority Finances
    888. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council has borrowings in excess of €23 million,...
  • Housing Estates
    889. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of estates which have applied to be taken in charge by Galway City Council and Galway County Council and are...
  • Severe Weather Events Response
    890. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the moneys allocated for storm damage repairs in 2015; the amount that has been allocated to County Galway; and if he will...
  • Drainage Schemes
    891. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities have the right to carry out drainage works and other safety measures on rivers where these works were...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
    892. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the purchase scheme for local authority apartments. [11727/15]
  • Foreshore Licence Conditions
    893. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the internal departmental authorisation process that resulted in applicants for an offshore wind licence for an...
  • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
    894. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the roll-out of the social inclusion and community activation programme (details supplied); and if...
  • Climate Change Policy
    895. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the Government's proposal for the formation of an expert advisory council on climate change, particularly on...
  • Leader Programmes Expenditure
    899. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria used in allocating funds under the Leader Programme 2007 to 2013; the amount initially allocated to each...
  • Freedom of Information Requests
    901. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of occasions since the start of 2014 the Secretary General of his Department has been involved in the clearing...
  • Water Charges Administration
    902. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if landlords have the right to increase tenants' deposits to cover water charges; if future legislation will prevent this...
  • Water Quality
    903. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the 2010 regulations issued by his Department on the protection of groundwater sources have been implemented on Cape...
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration
    907. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to restructure and recast the mortgage-to-rent scheme; if he will focus specifically upon increasing the...
  • Building Regulations
    908. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the proposed review of the building standards regulations Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014, SI 9 of...
  • Nuclear Plants
    909. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any agency of his Department has prepared a submission or is otherwise involved in consultation regarding the ongoing...
  • Local Authority Housing
    911. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure that children who are brought up in local authority housing have some kind of right to remain in their...
  • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
    913. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the rental accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Leader Programmes Funding
    914. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a development (details supplied) in County Westmeath received more than €13,400 in Leader funding...
  • Local Authority Housing
    915. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme which will allow local authorities to purchase private houses which have been put up for...
  • Rights of Way Registration
    916. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process for registration of a right of way on private lands; if a register of rights of way is kept and by whom; and...
  • Fire Stations Provision
    918. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that discussions have been ongoing for a number of years regarding the provision of a new fire station...
  • Water Supply Contamination
    921. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that all households with a water supply contaminated by trihalomethanes are exempted from water charges;...
  • Licence Applications
    922. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the assurances he will provide that incumbent companies may continue to operate while he is addressing the issue of...
  • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
    926. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department provided to Dublin City Council under the housing adaptation grants for older persons with a...

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