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Question· writtenPQ 492asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
498 Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of consultancy reports commissioned by his Department between 1997 and January 2011; the cost of commissioning each report; if he will provide information on the implementation of recommendations set out in each report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 491asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
497 Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of quangos, agencies and authorities that were established by his Department in each of the years from 1997 to January 2011; the number of staff employed by his Department in 1997; the number of staff employed by his Department in January 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 490asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
495 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has, in view of the change of name of the Departments, procured a new logo, new signage or any other branding such as stationery; and if so, the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 489asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
494 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will include domestic violence as one of the factors used to assess a person as homeless under the Housing Act, in view of the fact that the current situation disadvantages victims of domestic violence who are forced to flee their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 488asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
493 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will amend the Housing Act to specifically name domestic violence as anti-social behaviour in order that local authorities can exclude and evict perpetrators when they present a risk to their immediate family; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 487asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
492 Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding discussions on the funding for the processing of Annex 1 (food products) under Annex 3 with the Department of Agriculture and the European Commission relating to Article 28 of Commission Regulation (EC) 1698/2005; when he expects such negotiations to be completed and decisions made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 486asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
491 Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications for funding under the Leader programme for the production of food-related products; the funding sought by each of these applications; the number of same that have been assessed and approved by the relevant development agency but have been unable to access funding due to a change in the source of funding for these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 485asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
490 Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that State boards have at least 40% of each gender, as provided for in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 484asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
489 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of computer servers that are owned or leased by his Department and each State agency under the aegis of his Department; and the capacity of each server.
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Question· writtenPQ 483asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
488 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the RAPID funding which was previously allocated to County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 482asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
487 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to address the issue of anti-social behaviour in public or social housing, including the introduction of a probationary tenancy period for new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 481asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
486 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be provided to Cavan County Council towards improvement works to unfinished housing estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 480asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
485 Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria for funding under the existing CLÁR programme for rural water schemes as operated by his Department over the past number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 479asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
484 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the studies that have been undertaken into the introduction of water meters; if major urban areas and the remainder of the country were studied separately; if these examinations established the cost effectiveness of water metering; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 478asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
483 Deputy Shane Ross asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the sum of any public funds and their purpose which have been awarded by his Department either directly or indirectly to the Irish Business and Employers Confederation in the past decade.
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Question· writtenPQ 477asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
482 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to alter the position whereby a landlord who enters into a licence agreement directly with a tenant is not required to register with the Private Residential Tenancies Board or to comply with the standards for rented accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 476asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
481 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to Dublin City Council’s derelict sites scheme, which allows the council compulsorily to purchase derelict properties which remain vacant for a substantial period; if his further attention has been brought to other jurisdictions which have such a scheme; and if he has looked at its operation there to see the benefits local authorities here would get from such a scheme.
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Question· writtenPQ 475asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
480 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to Dublin City Council’s derelict sites scheme, which allows the council compulsorily to purchase derelict properties which remain vacant for a substantial period; his views on extending such a scheme State-wide, without the need to CPO the site at market value, as local authorities cannot afford that, but for a nominal sum — for example, a sum equivalent to a peppercorn rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 474asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
479 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applicants on each of the local authority housing lists.
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Question· writtenPQ 473asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
478 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital housing grant application for housing made by each of the voluntary housing associations to his Department for each of the past four years; the value of each application; the location of the proposed schemes; the number of units to be built; the result of such application; if still pending a decision, the reason for same; and when a decision will be made.
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Question· writtenPQ 472asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
477 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital housing grant application for senior citizen housing projects that Dublin City Council has made to his Department for each of the past four years; the value of each application; the location of the proposed schemes; the number of units to be built and refurbished; the result of such application; if still pending a decision, the reason for same; and when a decision will be made.
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Question· writtenPQ 471asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
476 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether it would be possible to grant Dublin City Council moneys that are required to refurbish or bring to a habitable standard the many substandard flats they have in flat complexes earmarked for regeneration that have been put on hold; and if not, if consideration will be given to same, as the conditions in some complexes are affecting the health of many tenants.
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Question· writtenPQ 470asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
475 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on allowing Dublin City Council to alter the differential rent scheme to charge tenants who live in severely substandard accommodation in flat complexes belonging to the council that have been earmarked for regeneration but for which regeneration has been put on hold a discounted rent until such time as these complexes are regenerated or the accommodation brought up to an acceptable standard; and if not, if consideration will be given to same in view of the fact that the conditions in some complexes are seriously affecting the health of many tenants.
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Question· writtenPQ 469asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
473 Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be a permanent funding stream for a law centre (details supplied) in Dublin 17; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 468asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
472 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be any more tranches of money available under the Resolving Ireland’s Unfinished Housing Developments programme to address the public safety issues associated with unfinished estates; if so, when this money will be allocated and the local authorities that will receive same; the mechanism that will be used to claw back this money from the developers concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 467asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
471 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has had any response from developers to his request that they act without delay to address the problems of unfinished so-called ghost estates; if he is disappointed at the response; his views on any other measures to force developers to fulfil all of their responsibilities in terms of any estates that they may have left unfinished; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 466asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
470 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the final report on the Mahon tribunal will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 465asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
469 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of homeless persons in Dublin in 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 464asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
468 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons on the homeless list, the housing list, the transfer list, and the priority housing list for area B and the other housing areas of Dublin city; the way these figures compare with similar statistics for 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 463asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
467 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has been sent a copy of the Hayes Higgins Partnership report by Dublin City Council, which was commissioned to examine the serious defects and fire safety issues at an area (details supplied) in Dublin 13; if he will publish the report; his views on the report; the steps that will be taken to resolve all outstanding issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 462asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
466 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on strengthening the powers of the Private Residential Tenancies Board to address the ongoing problem of rogue landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 461asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
465 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of cases that have been taken by the Private Residential Tenancies Board against landlords for breaches of regulations in 2009, 2010, and to date in 2011; the number and the percentage of these cases in which breaches were found to have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 460asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
464 Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the fixmystreet website will be set up as provided in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 459asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
463 Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide information regarding the EU LIFE programme and the possibility of funding for community-based educational initiatives that have the objective of raising environmental awareness; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 458asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
462 Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there is any funding available from him or the EU under the water framework directive for community-based environmental educational initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 457asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
461 Deputy Michael McCarthy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when phase two of the Innishannon regional water scheme in west Cork will be initiated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 456asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
460 Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the 2006 preliminary census results underestimated the population recorded in the official 2006 census by almost 5,000 persons, and that if the preliminary census results for 2011 underestimate the official census results by 8,731 persons or more, his proposal to amend his Electoral (Amendment) Bill for a lower limit of 153 TDs, in place of his original proposed lower limit of 152, will lead to an unconstitutional provision in the Bill, thereby potentially rendering the terms of reference of the constituency commission unconstitutional and placing in jeopardy the validity of the commission’s final report; if he is genuinely taking the unprecedented population increases that have occurred here into account in this Bill, he will not only raise the lower limit in the Bill but also the higher limit of 160; his views on the fact that Ireland currently has an optimum ratio of Members of a Lower House of Parliament to the country’s population according to the cube root law of assembly sizes; and if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that there are many European countries with a higher proportion of Members of a Lower House of Parliament to the population of those countries, and that there are over 1.2 million more persons living in the country than there were living in the country when the numbers of TDs were set by the Oireachtas at 166.
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Question· writtenPQ 455asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
459 Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the implementation timeline for the planned new law for a low-sulfur standard for coal which he announced on 9 June 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 454asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
496 Deputy Michael McCarthy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the legislative position with regard to landlords and outstanding rates owed to them by previous tenants; if new tenants are obliged to pay such fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 453asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
458 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on property used for commercial purposes on a temporary or infrequent basis such as country markets, pop-up shops or other temporary units that open up for various occasions such as Christmas and Easter; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 452asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
457 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the grant approved to Laois County Council in 2011 under the housing adaption grant scheme, the mobility aid grant scheme, the housing aid for older people grant scheme, and for house purchase loans for works in lieu of local authority housing, social housing, rural dwellings, and Traveller accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 451asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
456 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if, under the terms of the rain-water harvesting scheme, planning permission is required in situations in which the construction is overground and when it involves excavations in constructing an underground tank; and his views on whether this issue will remove the incentive for many farmers to proceed with this scheme.
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Question· writtenPQ 450asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
455 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the impact of his policies on conditions that attach to grants of planning permission by planning authorities where such conditions refer to planting of native species; where the definition of native species can be obtained so that planning conditions can be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 449asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
454 Deputy Paudie Coffey asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of national lottery funding his Department received in 2009 and 2010; and if he will provide a list of the money that was spent in tabular form.
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Question· writtenPQ 448asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
453 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the numbers and locations of buildings his Department leases that are in upward-only rent contracts; the amount of rent for 2008, 2009, 2010 and the expected rent for 2011.
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Question· writtenPQ 447asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
452 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the numbers and locations of his Department’s buildings that are currently in upward-only rent review contracts; the cost of rents for 2008, 2009, 2010 and the expected rents for 2011.
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Question· writtenPQ 446asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
474 Deputy Ciara Conway asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a situation being faced by existing participants in the shared ownership scheme whereby the local authority’s share of the property and the freehold remains and always will remain at purchase price while the owner’s share in the property may have plummeted; his views on mechanisms to ensure that local authorities will incur a drop in the value of its share corresponding with overall drop in the total value of the property; the implications for participants in this scheme who are trying to sell their homes if local authorities do not incur such a drop on their stake in the property; the way this situation will be addressed in the interests of fairness for all parties; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 445asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
451 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to address the anomalies in the shared ownership loans as presented by local authorities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 443asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
449 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to claw back part of the €850 million worth of carbon credits that have been gifted to the cement industry at a cost to the taxpayer this year.
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Question· writtenPQ 442asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 July 2011
448 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure all local authorities, Dublin City Council in particular, have ended the practice of renting bedsits to mainly older single tenants, and the moneys that have been made available to councils to replace or alter these bedsits with at least one-bedroomed flats that meet the Irish and EU standards that the private rented market has to comply with; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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