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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: We said we would come to it. They may relate to-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am glad.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I have been talking about it enough today.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: ISIF as opposed to ISIL.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am not sure if the Deputy has any connections with them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I do not agree. Much of the response from the organisations referred to by Deputy Ó Broin, such as Focus Ireland, the Simon Community and the Peter McVerry Trust, has been welcoming of what was introduced today. I am sure some people would have liked us to have gone further, but we are talking about something that has never happened before. It certainly has not happened in recent...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: We are dealing with that issue in the new strategy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Yes, share it with us.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I do not want members to feel like I am ignoring them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Amendments Nos. 137, 157, and 170 provide that, where a receiver is appointed to a rented dwelling, that receiver will take on the responsibilities of the landlord. We are examining this matter and there is a strong section on it in the rental strategy. It is more legally complex than I had believed. We wanted to transfer the responsibilities in terms of tenancy protections and so on that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: In order to be helpful, I should say that this is the receivership amendment and we are taking legal advice on section 31. We may need to table an amendment on Report Stage to delete section 31. I do not know whether that impacts on Deputy Cowen's interest in pressing the amendment, but we are checking legal issues before Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I ask the committee to note that I will be bringing a consequential amendment to section 39 on Report Stage. The section was an Opposition amendment inserted on Report Stage in the Seanad and the changes are in the nature of drafting only.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: This relates to the transfer of funds from the local government fund to the Exchequer. I intend to bring forward a Report Stage amendment to the section. The purpose of the amendment is primarily technical, to provide that the section will be commenced on the day after enactment and that the payment may be made in January 2017, should there be any unforeseen delay in the enactment for any...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Message to Dáil (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I thank all the staff. It is not normal for us to be here at 11.15 p.m. I also thank Opposition parties and their spokespeople for working with us on a very busy schedule this week. For many reasons, it is very important that this legislation is passed before the end of the year. We flagged it a number of months ago but it is still taking a lot of time this week. I thank the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (14 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: The acquisition through public funding of properties for social housing use, by either approved housing bodies or by local authorities, must be on the basis that the houses are suitable for social housing use and suitable also across a range of other considerations including value for money, design, planning and other compliances. As the housing authority for its area, it is a matter in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (14 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Any possible alteration of the Borough District of Sligo would fall to be considered in the context of review of local electoral areas, as the districts are constituted of electoral areas. In this regard, the configuration of local electoral areas is among the specific issues to be considered in the context of a report to be submitted to Government and the Oireachtas by mid-2017 on potential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (14 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on the occupiers of rateable property in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015 . The Local Government Act 1946 provides that where a property is unoccupied on the date of the making of the rate, the owner becomes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (14 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: In 2014, my Department, in conjunction with local authority planning departments, carried out a national survey of all lands zoned for residential development in statutory local authority development plans and local area plans across Ireland. This exercise, the Residential Land Availability Survey 2014, which is available on my Department’s website at the following link: , determined...