Potentially homeless Referrals 164 Other 5 - 349 This represents a reduction of 50 from 2015. Private Rented Accommodation The Council carried out 414 inspections on private rented accommodation during 2016 compared to 379 in 2015. Voluntary Housing Programme: Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) The Department invited applications under a ‘Special Call’ during 2014, 2015 and 2016 the following applicants were approved and are at various stages of completion: Approved Housing Body and location of units Status Budget € 12 Special Call 2014 - Cluid VHA – Friary Walk, Callan Completed 2016 and allocated 1,488,011 5 Special Call 2014 - Camphill Thomastown – Brooke On site 2016 1,327,088 6 Special Call 2015 - SOS. H.A. Ltd – Cashel Downs, Kilkenny House purchased works in progress 500,000 4 Special Call 2015 - Good Shepherd Centre – Purchases 4 completed and allocated 423,000 5 Special Call 2015 - Focus Ireland – purchases 5 completed 2016 692,792 12 Special Call 2015 - Good Shepherd Centre – Wing 52 Project Church lane, Design and tender 1,200,000 16 Special Call 2015 - Camphill, Callan – Nimble Spaces Project at Prologue, Design and Planning 2,200,000 4 Special Call 2015 - Belmont Park HA Withdrawn by VB 6 Special Call 2015 - Good Shepherd Centre – construction project Preliminary Site and planning stage 666,000
Sustainable Energy Programmes Water Services Since 2014, Irish Water has been the Water Services Authority for all public water and waste water schemes. Kilkenny County Council continues to be the Water Services Authority for the Rural/Group Water Sector. the twelve year Service Level Agreement between Irish Water and Kilkenny County Council, the Council undertakes the day to day delivery of the public water and waste water services on behalf of Irish Water. Irish Water funds and macro manages the service delivery, while the Council provides the staff and micro manages the service delivery. The Service Level Agreement covers; public water and waste water treatment, public water and waste water networks, Project management of water and waste water capital projects. The Council retained responsibility, on a transitional agency basis, for non domestic water billing and revenue collection in 2016. Irish Water expects to take full responsibility for this function, in Q1 of 2017. Council staff involved in the delivery of water services, continue to be direct employees of the Council. Irish Water has assumed direct responsibility for communications, public relations, reporting to the EPA, procurement and payments of suppliers, as well as overall funding of the sector. Operations and Maintenance: Kilkenny County Council manages 23 public drinking water supplies and 35 public waste water treatment schemes on behalf of Irish Water. In 2016, 9.7 billion litres of water (26.5 million litres/day) was supplied through Kilkenny’s public water supply network to approximately 65,000 customers. 2015 is latest year for which the EPA has published its Drinking Water Quality Report. The 2016 report will be published later in 2017. In 2015, for the fifth year in a row, Kilkenny’s Public Water Schemes achieved 100% microbiological compliance (National average 99.9%). 99.8 % compliance was achieved for chemical parameters (National Average 99.4%). In line with recent the level of environmental compliance achieved at Kilkenny’s waste water treatment plants has continued to improve. This overall trend is illustrated by the improvement in results recorded in the EPA’s Annual Urban Waste Water Reports.