Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence between the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and local authorities in relation to funding for the Septic Tank Grant Scheme between 01/01/2012 and 25/06/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​The information submitted by Waterford City & County Council in respect of its applications under the Social Housing Construction Programme.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copies of records showing: the number of water bills issued to Irish Water customers to date with a breakdown per County Council area and a national total; the number of water bills paid to date with a breakdown per County Council area and a national total; Correspondence sent between officials in the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and the Minister/Minister of State in relation to Irish Water's programme costs from its inception to 15/06/2015 relating to: consultancy fees in the set up and subsequent running of Irish Water; other running costs relating to Irish Water​ since its inception.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copies of all objections to audit and subsequent audit decisions that have been dealt with between 01/10/2013 and 17/07/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence regarding prospective mortgage-to-lease/ mortgage- to-rent solutions to the mortgage arrears crisis, including all records of engagement with private sector properties about this matter, between 01/01/2015 and 09/07/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Records relating to a review of the boundaries between Drogheda, Co. Louth, and Co Meath.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Complete diaries of Ministers Phil Hogan, Alan Kelly and the Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government between 01/03/2011 and 01/07/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Report produced by the taskforce established in 2007 by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government that examined how the planning system might support the wider regulatory context around the location of adult entertainment venues.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence between Minister Alan Kelly and any of his cabinet colleagues between 01/07/2014 and 30/06/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All material held by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government relating to the cost of the Irish Water metering programme including all breakdowns of the estimated cost and final costs between 01/01/2013 and 10/06/2015, to include all correspondence between the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and Ervia/Irish Water, and any material relating to discussions between the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and Depts of Finance/Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the metering programme. All material held by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government relating to the cost benefit analysis of the metering programme conducted in April 2013.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copies of all correspondence between the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and Mark Kenneally relating to the appointment of individuals to the board of all State bodies between 01/02/2011 and 12/06/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The report of the task force which examined the planning and land use implications of the siting and location of adult entertainment venues.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of report compiled by task force set up in 2007 to examine the regulatory context around the siting and location of adult entertainment venues including lap dancing clubs and sex shops.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All records held by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government concerning the task force set up in 2007 to examine the regulatory context around the siting and location of adult entertainment venues which was chaired by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and any subsequent records referencing the issues dealt with by the task force.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​A list of all staff sanction requests from each local authority between 01/01/2015 and 22/06/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All submissions (including but not limited to policy documents, background information, briefing papers, etc.) made by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government, to The McMahon Working Group on the Protection Process.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence received by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government from unions concerning the consequences of reforms of sick leave in the Local Government Sector, to include all internal departmental correspondence and memos, and all correspondence between the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and the Department of Public Expenditure concerning sick leave reform in the Local Government Sector.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All material between 01/01/2013 and 12/6/2015 in relation to the appointment of regional contractors for the installation of Irish Water meters. All material in relation to the decision of Bord Gais/Irish Water to increase the cost of the Irish Water metering programme by placing greater risk on the regional contractors bidding for the Irish Water meter installation contracts. All records relating to meetings between Mr Denis O'Brien, or representatives on his behalf, and the previous Minister, Phil Hogan, between 01/01/2012 and 31/12/2013.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence between Minister Alan Kelly and the recently established advisory committee for climate change.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of the Review of Dromahair CAS Project. All records obtained by staff and officials assigned by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government to conduct the Review of Dromahair CAS Project from Leitrim County Council, the Sue Ryder Foundation and any other body/individual during the course of or in relation to their work of the review.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copies of all correspondence between the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and/or its working group on mortgage arrears and stakeholders including approved housing bodies, the Irish Council for Social Housing and the banking sector, and the Banking and Payment Federation of Ireland, between 01/06/2013 and 23/06/2015, on mechanisms to deal with mortgage arrears, particularly the on the mortgage-to-rent scheme.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of correspondence between the Department and NAMA relating to Planning No 1 Bill between 18/06/2014 and 18/06/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Correspondence between the Department and Ulster Bank between 01/06/2014 and 01/06/2015 on the subject of Planning No 1 Bill.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records relating to decisions on the standard of housing being adopted or to be adopted by local authorities across the country.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Copy of appointments diary of Minister Kelly and Minister Coffey for period 18/06/2014 to 18/06/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Details of steps taken by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government to implement the recommendations set out in the Mullarkey Report. Any documents relating to the establishment of risk management procedures in the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government arising from the recommendations of the Mularkey Report and the statutory basis upon which the information is being held. Copies of the most recent edition of any register of risks which exist within the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government as part of the Department's wider risk management framework.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of the report "Policy Options to Reduce Emissions from Smoky Coal and Other Residential Fuels", to include any correspondence between Bord na Mona and any other party, and the Department. Copy of the report "Housing division - Resource Requirements and Organisational Arrangements."

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copy of all records in relation to James Kavanagh/Canine Ireland (Canine Rescue Carlow), to include all notes, correspondence, documents/notes regarding any or all animals on the premises, notes of any veterinary inspections vaccinations, etc.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records relating to the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010, detailing the number of inspections carried out by authorised officers; the dates, locations and results of these inspections; the number of S21 Closure Orders that issued; the number of S22 prosecutions that were brought between 01/01/2012 and 08/06/2015. Records detailing a raid on a puppy farm in Myshall, Co Carlow in April 2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The total number of puppy farms in Ireland by location. Details of puppy farm inspections since the introduction of the Dog breeding Establishment Act 2010, broken down by year, to include the name and location of farms inspected, the number of seizures, details of number of arrests and number of prosecutions. All documentation relating to raids between 01/01/2010 and 08/06/2015. The amount of money spent on tackling puppy farms. All correspondence on animal cruelty in puppy farms between 01/01/2010 and 08/06/2015, and the number of reports in relation to conditions in puppy farm received in the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records relating to the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence in relation to the county by county allocation of LEADER funding under the 2014-2020 Rural Development Plan.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​The amount of money paid under fuel card schemes annually, by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government between 01/01/2011 and 08/06/2015, broken down by year.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Funding payments made by Donegal Local Development Company Limited to community & voluntary groups in Ballybofey & Stranlolar between 01/01/2000 and 23/04/2015, to include all payments from programmes such as the Local & Community Development Programme, LEADER, National Rural Development Programme, Rural Development Programme and the Dormant Accounts Fund, by the registered name of each beneficiary; the amount of funding paid in respect to each group and the year in which each payment was made.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Total expenditure by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government in 2014, cross referenced by suppliers for: tea, coffee, sandwiches, biscuits, pastries, cakes.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

A copy of the business case prepared by Limerick Council on the delivery of the Housing Assistance Payment by local authorities, which was carried out under the direction of the Housing Assistance Payment Project Board. All minutes of the meetings of the Housing Assistance Payment Project Board from 01/01/2014 to 05/05/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government's, total spend on taxis in each year from 01/01/2010 to 02/06/2015, to include details of the highest taxi bill in each year. The Department’s total spend on overseas travel in each year from 01/01/2010 to 02/06/2015, plus a breakdown of the costs involved.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Preliminary Findings Report in relation to alleged planning malpractice at Cork, Carlow, Galway, Meath, Dublin and Galway which was written by

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

All correspondence or communications between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and local authorities, the Local Government Management Agency, the City and County Managers Association and any other parties on the decision to exempt Irish Water from commercial rates, and any analysis or briefing document on the impact of the decision to exempt Irish Water from commercial rates.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Statements for credit cards paid for and used by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, its staff and Ministers, for transactions between 1/1/2015 and 29/5/2015; A record of amounts spent on travel and accommodation for the Minister, Ministers of State and their private secretaries between 1/1/2015 and 29/5/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Copies of all correspondence between the Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly and John Tierney MD Irish Water, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter, Frances Fitzgerald on the subject of water protestors/ protests between 01/01/2014 and 28/05/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All correspondence between the Department and the Irish Wind Energy Association on the issue of wind turbines for period 01/01/2015 to 28/05/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All official Department memos/directives issued to local authorities on matters relating to Irish Water between 01/01/2015 and 27/05/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All Correspondence issued by Minister Alan Kelly or the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to Roscommon County Council between 01/01/2015 and 25/05/2015 in relation to the setting of targets for the delievery of social/local authority housing under the Social Housing Stragtegy and Correspondence regarding the approval for construction of social housing units.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All records in your attendance/flex-time recording systems showing, in respect of every employee, the surplus or deficit carried over by each person at the end of each four-week period from 11/05/2014 to 10/05/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​All memos/directives issued to local authorities in relation to Finance/Spending/Budgets between 01/01/2015 and 27/05/2015.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Correspondence between the Department and any members of the officer board of LAMA between 01/01/2013 and 20/05/2015 that refer to the organisation's funding or to the organisation's accounts; to the criteria for claiming expenses for councillors for LAMA-related activities; any audits carried out by the Department.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Correspondence between the Department and the EPA in relation to setting up the laboratory in Backweston to carry out Cryptosporidium analysis on water.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Records in relation to the setting up of Irish Water and correspondence with Irish Water to date regarding setting the company up, ensuring it is meeting it's targets.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

​Records from 1/1/2014 to 19/5/2015 relating to an analysis / assessment of the electoral register in terms of its accuracy and work carried out by local authorities in checking the register.