Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence between the Department and EU Commission on water charges and the abolition of same from 01/01/2016 to 15/07/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence to/from Minister Simon Coveney and the Managing Director of Irish Water between 06/05/2016 and 04/07/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Briefing material for the Minister (Coveney) on the introduction of pay by weight bin charges, to include all records relating to the decision to delay introduction of compulsory pay by weight charges and the decision to announce a cap on bin charges between 01/05/2016 and 29/06/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Records relating to breakdown of expenditure of the Control of Dogs Acts statistics for the period 01/01/2013 to 31/12/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of "Housing Division: resource requirements and organisational arrangements" report.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All reports, contingency plans and risk assessments relating to the Brexit referendum compiled by the Department.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Details of internal briefing documents relating to EU referendum, 01/01/2016 to 27/06/2016, and of costs associated with travel to the UK in the same period in relation to the same matter.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Correspondence between the Department and the Valuations Office regarding representations for reductions in Global Valuations in 2015 and 2016, and any concerns regarding the associated downward rates revaluations and the effect of this on LA budgets.​

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All records produced by the Department 01/05/2015 to 27/06/2015 in relation to potential effects of the UK leaving the European Union.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence relating to complaints made to the EPA, the Department and other relevant bodies regarding the pollution of the River Shannon by Masonite Ireland Ltd.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence concerning proposals by US presidential candidate Donald Trump to build a seawall along the Clare coast to protect his golf course in Doonbeg.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Reports and recommendations of the interdepartmental working group established under 'A Resource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland', to include correspondence relating to introduction of household waste collection waiver and other support schemes for specific households from 01/01/2012 to 21/06/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of the Minister's Diary for the period 01/09/2015 to 31/12/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence regarding all general matters where the Minister or Minister's office would be in touch with Tipperary County Council for official reasons from 01/01/2015 to 17/06/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of Minister Coveney's diary from the date came to office to 20/06/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of the Minister's Diary between 01/05/2016 and 21/06/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Details of the procedures used by Ireland for its participation in proceedings before the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence relating to the application for additional funding by Tipperary County Council for grants for the refurbishment of homes of the elderly or those with disabilities for use in 2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence between the Department and Irish Water between 01/03/2016 and 04/05/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All documentation and files related to the decision that a 13% allowance will not be payable to newly appointed Meteorologists not engaged in shift work.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Documentation and files relating to text of Office notice of competition for promotion to Senior Meteorological Office in Met Eireann.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of letter between Minister Coveney and EU Commissioner Karmenu Vella on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, Article 9.​

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All records for the period 06/10/2015 to 06/10/2016 relating to: the number of homeless families and individuals housed in hotels, the names and locations of each of the hotels, the number of homeless individuals housed in each hotel; the monies paid to each hotel for housing homeless people; the monies paid to each hotel in the Dublin region; the monies paid to the Regency Hotel and correspondence between the Department and the Regency Hotel re housing homeless people.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All correspondence between the Department and the Department of Finance and the Private Residential Tenancies Board between 01/01/16 and 08/06/2016 regarding the rental sector. Correspondence relating to any internal reports/analysis carried out by the Department into the impact of recent government measures on the rental sector between 01/01/16 and 08/06/2016 .

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence between the Department and the Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment in relation to wind turbines and set back distance and the review of the energy guidelines between 01/03/2016 and 21/06/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of the briefing received by the Minister in preparing the S.31 Draft Direction pertaining to Variation 1, Westmeath County Development Plan 2014-2020.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records relating to the collection and payment of Irish Water Bills.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copies of all representations from the Association of Local Government (AILG) concerning increases in allowances and the provision of pensions for Local Councillors, during period 01/01/2014 to 30/05/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Details and breakdown of each family unit currently in emergency accommodation.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence between the Department and/or the Ministers and the Commission for Energy Regulation on the issue of water charges between 01/01/2016 and 08/06/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​A copy of the EU Commission letter of formal notice to Ireland sent in September 2013 re an infringement notification in relation to perceived failures to fulfil obligations under Articles 3, 4, 5, 10 and 12 of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC).

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of the technical report on the structural integrity of homes in Donegal.​

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All briefing material provided to the Department in relation to domestic water charges in the preparation of the River Basin Management Plan 2010 - 2015. Correspondence from the European Commission to the Department in relation to domestic water charges in the preparation of the River Basin Management Plan 2010 -2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Any correspondence between the Department and lobby groups, associations, as well as correspondence within the department, relating to bedsits.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records of all correspondence between Irish Water, the Department and the EU Commission in relation to domestic water charges between 01/04/2011 and 31/05/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Records of all correspondence relating to article 9 and 9.4 of the Water Framework Directive dated between 01/04/2011 and 31/05/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of directive / circular circa 1999/2000 to Local Authorities for better local government.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of contracts between the Department and the Local Authorities regarding the provision of temporary and permanent accommodation to re- settlement programme participants.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​The amount of money spent by Local Authorities on media advertising from 01/03/2011 to 29/02/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of records in relation to monetary benefits paid to Blue Box/Northwest Electronics.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence sent or received by the Minister or Junior Minister to/from 'Greg Kavanagh', or 'Colm Byrne', or the company New Generation Homes, in the period 01/01/2015 to 10/05/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copies of any records relating to how the allocations of grants for improvement to homes of older people and people with a disability were calculated for 2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copies of all invoices and receipts relating to any travel undertaken by an officeholder, Minister, or Minister of State for St Patrick's Day 2016, to include all invoices and receipts relating to a spouse or partner of the officeholder, Minister, or Minister of State and a copy of the itinerary of the trip. Records relating to the repayment of expenses to an officeholder, Minister, or Minister of State to cover the period 01/01/2014 to 12/05/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Ministerial diary for Paudie Coffey, and copy of the actual subsistence and mileage claims submitted by Mr Coffey and/or his personal drivers for the period 01/01/2016 to the date he ceased office.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copies of correspondence in relation to Greenstar/KTK Landfill Ltd, relating to the Landfill Directive and or Waste Licences.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All records associated with a meeting between Minister Alan Kelly and representatives of the Association of Irish Local Government(AILG) in the course of his attendance at the Annual Conference of the Association of Irish Local Government in Inchydoney, Co Cork, to include correspondence and replies arising from this meeting.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Details of Planning Legislation and/or Planning Guidelines in respect of a new dwelling adjacent to or in the proximity of an existing bungalow.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Correspondence between the Housing Policy Unit of the Department and Owen Keegan, Dublin City Council, between 22/10/2015 and 22/04/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of any report, recommendations, submissions relating to the location of the offices of the Local Authorities Water and Communities Office.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Any record or communication, concerning the Department, the former Minister Alan Kelly and/or Junior Ministers and Irish Water/Ervia and the lease signed by them on29/02/2016 for Irish Water’s headquarters at Colville House, Dublin 2.