Written answers

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

 
  • Mortgage Data
    347. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households in mortgage arrears with commercial lending institutions that have been moved from mortgages to a...
  • Wind Energy Guidelines
    348. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will publish the revision of the 2006 Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government wind...
  • Water Charges
    349. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the financial relief he will provide to persons on group water schemes now that water charges have been abolished for...
  • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
    351. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the meaningful supports he will introduce for employment in the voluntary community social enterprise area, in particular...
  • Departmental Funding
    352. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered implementing the proposals contained within the Let's Commission for Communities document. [10327/16]
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    353. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department has taken over the past five years to ensure an adequate supply of social housing is available...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    354. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the provisions in place to meet the needs of the Traveller families who were evicted from the sports car park in Dundalk...
  • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
    355. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide funding for the provision of a traffic warden at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Electromagnetic Fields Studies
    357. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that electric and magnetic fields can adversely impact physical health; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Housing Provision
    359. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the relief measures available for first-time house purchasers. [10821/16]
  • Motor Tax
    360. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to amend the taxation rates of private motor vehicles and base them on certified emissions values by national car test...
  • Planning Issues
    361. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if new apartment minimum sizes, specified in a publication by his Department entitled 'Sustainable Urban Housing: Design...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
    362. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to amend existing eligibility requirements concerning income which is considered assessable for the purposes of the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    364. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units to be built in 2016, by county and city borough; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Emergency Accommodation Data
    365. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the emergency accommodation beds available for persons experiencing homelessness, by local authority, in tabular form; and...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
    366. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will make a decision on an application (details supplied) forwarded by Galway County Council for funding for a...
  • Waste Management
    367. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the nature of discussions that have taken place between his Department and groups representing persons with special needs...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
    368. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of a sewerage scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9464/16]
  • Urban Renewal Schemes
    369. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated for the regeneration of the Cranmore project in County Sligo; when the project will be...
  • Pyrite Issues
    370. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated for the regeneration of the Cranmore Project in County Sligo; when the project will be...
  • Rural Development Policy
    373. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned at the extent of derelict or semi-derelict gaps in the street scape of cities, towns and villages, with...
  • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
    374. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will allocate resources to Meath County Council to enable it to process non-medical priority applications under...
  • Private Rented Accommodation
    375. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of difficulties landlords have had in availing of house insurance if they are to take part in local...
  • Fire Safety Regulations
    377. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of his report into the fire at Millfield Manor in Newbridge, County Kildare as a case study; when he will...
  • Urban Renewal Schemes
    378. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will include Castleisland in County Kerry under the town centre renewal scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    379. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the position of tenants in housing association properties is now disimproved by the application of the Residential...
  • Student Accommodation
    380. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 4 May 2016, the outcome of his meeting with the students' union in the...
  • Urban Renewal Schemes
    381. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 20 April 2016, the number of housing units that have been constructed as part...
  • Leader Programmes
    383. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date of commencement of the new Leader programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9672/16]
  • Local Authority Services
    384. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to increase the number of county councillors in local authorities which have less than 20 councillors; if it is...
  • Climate Change Policy
    386. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he can ensure adequate economic growth while at the same time meeting carbon emission requirements; and if he will make...
  • Seanad Elections
    387. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he can enact the seventh amendment to the Constitution and extend the voting franchise for the university panels of...
  • Water Services
    388. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Commission for Energy Regulation will unveil the new pricing strategy for water supply connections for...
  • Motor Tax Rates
    389. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue lost due to the introduction of the new and welcome higher goods vehicle taxation bands; and if he will make a...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    392. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the proposed sewage treatment plant in Omeath which is to begin in 2017 and to confirm that it will go ahead...
  • Irish Water Expenditure
    393. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of Irish Water’s new ten-year office lease, including why cheaper rental locations in, and outside,...
  • Irish Water Staff
    394. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the retirement plan of the former managing director of Irish Water, including the specific sum this person...
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    396. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 21 April 2016, if he records the level of Exchequer funding allocated to...
  • An Bord Pleanála Review
    398. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if is he satisfied with the outcome of the review into An Bord Pleanála that was commissioned in August 2015 and...
  • Seirbhísí Uisce
    400. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government an bhfuil sé i gceist aige cúnamh breise a chur ar fáil do ghrúpscéimeanna uisce agus do dhaoine...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
    401. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide funds in 2016 for new sewerage distribution and treatment plants in towns and villages that do not have these...
  • Local Government Fund
    405. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the entitlements of County Limerick Teachtaí Dála in respect of Limerick City and County Council given the...
  • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
    406. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will promote the right to housing as part of the economic, social and cultural rights approach to the long-term...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    407. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report to Dáil Éireann on the number of persons who will be housed by local authority and by area in 2016 in...
  • Commercial Rates
    408. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to examine the issue of outstanding commercial rates due to Louth County Council with a view to introducing a scheme or an...
  • Irish Water Data
    409. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of reimbursing persons who have paid their domestic water charges to Uisce Éireann, net of the amount paid...
  • Water Charges
    410. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will suspend domestic water charges and if he will do so retrospective to the formation of this Government or to...
  • National Spatial Strategy
    411. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department has allocated to Sligo County Council since 2002 towards implementing Gateway City status under...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    412. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding requested and provided for Traveller accommodation facilities and the drawdown, by local authority, for each...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    413. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which approved housing bodies had a role in determining the suitability of properties the National Asset...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
    414. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether parents with joint custody and a social housing eligibility is entitled to be placed on the housing...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    415. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have been refused entry onto the Meath social housing waiting list over the past five years, in...
  • Foreshore Issues
    416. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the legal advice referred to in Parliamentary Question No. 860 of 13 January 2016 in regard to a...
  • Building Regulations
    417. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the contact name and address of the person on the mica expert panel to whom correspondence can be sent; and if he will...
  • Legislative Measures
    418. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the provisions in legislation that permit board members of Irish Water to purchase shares in a personal capacity and the...
  • Household Charge Administration
    419. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to investigate and allow a household charge waiver for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Reviews
    420. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the Carlow boundary review committee including when he will receive its report; and if he will make a...
  • Local Authority Finances
    421. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide the most recent financial statement in respect of the local authority protection insurance scheme which is...
  • Fire Safety Regulations
    423. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of serious health and safety defects found in homes in Ceol na Mara in Kill, County Waterford, if the homes...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    424. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of reports of waste water and sewage openly flowing onto the beach at Doldrum Bay in Howth, County Dublin,...
  • Motor Tax Yield
    425. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue he raises from motor taxation; how much of this revenue goes to Irish Water; and if he will make a statement...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants
    426. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the key features of the grant scheme for the replacement of lead pipes and fillings within the boundaries of a household...
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility
    427. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to confirm the maximum value of a house under which it will be eligible under the mortgage-to-rent scheme. [9819/16]
  • Credit Union Lending
    430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his position on the proposal by the Irish League of Credit Unions to provide loan finance for the provision of social...

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