Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All internal discussions within the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government leading up to the introduction of and during the implementation of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2015 (SI 582 of 2015) to include all correspondence with local authorities regarding this legislation.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​A record of all meetings held between departmental staff and external bodies, organisations, or individuals with regard to the new guidelines for apartment size produced by the department in December 2015, to include; minutes, preparatory materials/notes, internal/external correspondence which were prepared or gathered for, or relate to these meetings; submissions, made to the Department by external bodies, relating to the guidelines; draft versions of internal department research which supported the formulation of the guidelines; internal correspondence relating to research which supported the formulation of the guidelines.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Correspondence and documents about the Modular Homes project from 01/10/2015 to 12/01/2016.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Full annualised budget plans & Supplementary estimates if any of Met Eireann effective for period 01/01/09 to 31/12/2015.​

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copies of all correspondence to and from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the Belmullet based Irish Association of Supported Employment for the period 01/01/2013 to 27/11/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copies of all correspondence received by the Minister or his office from Lelia Doolan and/or Solas Picture Palance Teoranta, Galway in 2013 and 2014 in relation to the inclusion of Galway City in the Valuation Bill for the purposes of enabling the local authority to charge commercial rates in respect of vacant premises.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records relating to matters arising subsequent to the Independent Planning Review - record of communications to/from MacCabe Durney Barnes or Carlow LA.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records regarding the sale of Moy Glas Glade, Lucan, Co Dublin for social housing purposes to Respond housing Association.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence between Minister Kelly and all parties relating to the establishment of a boundary commission to consider the area of Athlone for the purposes of Local Government, for the period 01/10/2015 to 29/12/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copies of all communications between the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government's office, or any other officials with property developers, local authorities, or any other interested party during work to prepare the "Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments" document.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

A list of requests for meetings, and meetings that took place, between the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and both the Construction Federation of Ireland and Threshold during the period 01/1/2014 to 18/12/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All records relating to the levy of €200 per annum on car parking facilities for employees in urban areas as announced in Budget 2009 by the Minister for finance.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

A list of all contracts awarded by the Department to outside companies for any type of service or consultancy.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

For the period 01/01/2015 to 31/10/2015: The hourly data on temperature; The hourly data on wind speed and direction; Direct Solar Radiation; Diffused Solar Radiation; Global Solar Radiation; Infra-red Radiation; Net Radiation Balance; Turbidity.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the extension of the negotiated agreement on tackling gum pollution to 2015 - 2017 for the period of 01/01/2014 to 02/12/2015, to include correspondence with chewing gum companies, their representatives, the food and drink industry Ireland, other industry lobby groups, local councils, interested parties and the Gum Litter Taskforce and a copy of all internal reports / memos / briefings that informed the decision to extend the negotiated agreement for a further two years.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All correspondence to and from Minister Kelly from landlords or property investors regarding rents and any potential controls between 01/09/2015 and 12/11/2015. ​

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

A statement of the deficit or surplus that each member of staff had at the end of the most recent flexi-period (06/11/2015), and the same information for each member of staff one year earlier.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The amount of material recycled each year by the Irish Public. The amount of material deemed not fit to be recycled. On what grounds is material deemed unfit to be recycled. The amount of recycling material that comes from bin collection. The amount of unfit material that comes from bin collection.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of the marked electoral registers from the Referendums held on 22/05/2015 as used in the attached list from the constituencies of Dublin Central and Dublin West respectively, and the supplemental register as used in each polling station as well.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​List of grants applicable to community organisations and community/ local projects only.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence between the Department of Environment and the Department of Finance - including those by Ministers Kelly and Noonan - in relation to the issue of rent control or rent certainty since May 2015. All documents submitted by the Department of Environment to the Department of Finance as part of its Budget 2016 submission.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence between Minister Kelly and Minister Noonan re rent certainty, rent control and measures on stabilising rents and boosting supply from 01/01/2015 to 12/11/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All records between Department of Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Finance re proposals for changes to Residential Rental Market from 01/03/2015 to 13/11/2015. Copy of all reps re ​proposals for changes to Residential Rental Market from 01/03/2015 to 13/11/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Correspondence between Minister Kelly & Minister Burton with regard to Rent Supplements.​

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence including that from the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive in connection with the publication and distribution of the book, 'Justice for my Son' by Vera Duffy.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All correspondence in relation to rent certainty between Ministers, Advisers and Civil Servants in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Ministers, Advisers and Civil Servants in the Department of Finance to include all records associated with this correspondence such as notes, briefing material etc. All minutes of meetings in relation to rent certainty between Ministers, Advisers and Civil Servants in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Ministers, Advisers and Civil Servants in the Department of Finance to include all records relating to these meetings such as notes & briefing documents.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records held by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to proposals to reform the housing rental market, including rent certainty. Copies of any correspondence from the Department of the Environment to the Department of Finance or other Government departments, in relation to this issue. Records to cover the period 01/01/2015 to 28/10/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All correspondence between Alan Kelly and Michael Noonan as well as between their officials over the issue of 'rent certainty' or rent control measures, in general, as well as the issue of rents in general, for the period 01/03/2015 to 02/11/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All briefing provided to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the possible introduction of rent controls, rent certainty or rent stabilisation measures in the private rental market, from January 2015 to 29/10/2015. All correspondence in relation to meetings between the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Finance from January 2015 to 29/10/2015 in relation to the possible introduction of rent controls, rent certainty or rent stabilisation measures in the private rental market.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence regarding rent certainty between the Rental Market and AHB Regulation Unit of the Department and the Department of Finance for the period between 01/09/2015 and the 28/10/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Correspondence sent to and from Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government regarding rent certainty and other such associated measures from 01/08/2015 to 30/10/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copies of all records held by/within the power of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government relating to or forming the basis of, the various cost estimates given by or on behalf of the Flood/Mahon Tribunal including those addressing the likely final estimate of the costs to be borne by the state arising from that tribunal. The archiving of documents by the tribunal.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Details of payments to City & County Managers to include annual breakdown bonuses, expenses or supplementary payments for the period 01/01/2015 to 16/11/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All correspondence between the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to PRTB’s future function or role in any potential deposit retention scheme and the agency’s capacity to operate such a scheme between dates 10/03/2011 and 19/11/2015. All internal correspondence within the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the PRTB’s future function or role in any potential deposit retention scheme and the agency’s capacity to operate such a scheme; between 10/03/2011 and 19/11/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All correspondence between the Minister and any other Department/individual in relation to plans for, or discussions around, the topic of ‘rent certainty’ for the period 01/01/2014 to 28/10/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records in relation to location of fast food outlets in the vicinity of schools.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All email correspondence by Minister Alan Kelly with the terms 'rent control', 'rent certainty', 'budget', 'rent freeze' or 'rent hikes', to be provided for the period between 01/09/2015 and the 28/10/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Records relating to the establishment of the ELV Environmental Services Limited (ELVES), the systems, procedures and technology that may be required for a national ELV service, any specifications, requests for tenders, drafts thereof of proposals for same.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Details of grants/ awards for 2015 and 2016, to include grants available to local community, education, residents, tidy towns, businesses, sporting, cultural and arts groups.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copies of all correspondence between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and any other Government Department in relation to the 2014 Scheme to Support National Organisations.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Correspondence between Met Eireann and the UK Met Office on the subject of naming storms for the period 01/01/2015 to 12/11/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The marked electoral registers from the Referendums held on 22/05/2015 as used in the attached list of 28 polling stations from the constituency of Dublin South East and Dublin South Central respectively and the supplemental register as used in each polling station as well.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​The latest figures or data available which indicates how much the Department is paying to house homeless families in hotels?

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Details of any meetings the Minister or Junior Ministers have had with members of the Dail or Seanad to discuss the terms and conditions of employment of City and County Councillors from October 2014 to November 2015, including the following topics:1. Representational Payment2. Allowances3. PRSI4. Pension entitlements5. Workload6. Travel and subsistence7. Names of people attending any of these meetings. Details of any communications (Letters or emails) the Minister has had with individual City and County Councillors or their representative bodies (AILG and LAMA) concerning their terms and conditions of employment including the following topics:1. Representational Payment2. Allowances3. PRSI4. Pension entitlements5. Workload6. Travel and subsistence7. Names of people attending any of these meetings.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Submissions made by the RIAI to the Minister in accordance with s.62 (3) of the Act on foot of which the Minister approved the fees specified in S. 62 (1) The dates on which the RIAI most recently made such submissions and on which the Minister most recently approved the said fees. Any correspondence in the past three years between the Department and the RIAI on the cost to the RIAI of maintaining the register of architects under the Act.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The number of and grade of each official from the Department who attended the Association of Irish Local Government Conference 12th to 14th March 2015 in the Nuremore Hotel, Co Monaghan. The total expenses paid to each of those officials – the request is not seeking that the expenses payable be identified by name. Clarifications of what costs the officials had to pay from these payments. The duration of the attendance that is counted as normal working hours and the number of ‘overtime’ hours awarded to each official for their attendance.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence with Ervia and Irish Water between 01/09/2015 and 09/11/2015 in relation to a potential rebrand of Irish Water. Correspondence between the Minister and the Department of the Taoiseach with respect to the same.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records held by the National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee in relation to delivery of traveller-specific accommodation by local authorities. Records relating to concerns about a lack of delivery among local authorities, or other relevant agencies. Progress reports produced on delivery, and concerns, if noted, re same. Records relating to safety issues forwarded to the committee.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records held by the Building Regulations and Advisory Body in relation to the recent decision by Minister Alan Kelly and Minister Paudie Coffey to amend the building regulations as set out in Statutory Instrument Number 9 of 2014, later amended. Copies of any internal correspondence in relation to proposed changes, in particular in relation to the cost (under the ‘old’ system) of having a building certified. Records or correspondence from the Building Regulations Advisory Body (BRAB) to the ministers or civil servants concerned. Records should cover the period January 1/2015 to the date of decision to amend SI No 9 of 2014.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of all correspondence received and prepared by the independent committee, established in June 2015, looking into the local government boundary of Athlone.