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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 390 to 393, inclusive, together. My Department has put in place a wide range of programmes that are available to all local authorities to generate increased social housing supply, to address specific special needs and to improve the standards and condition of the social housing stock. In relation to the Deputy’s queries, the development and advancement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas Library, brought into operation a grants scheme to assist with the cost of remediation of septic tanks and domestic waste water treatment systems which are deemed, following inspection under the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Inspection Plan, to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Legislative Measures (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 amended section 3 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 so that dwellings let by approved housing bodies (AHBs) to social housing tenants now come within the remit of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. This means that the same rights and obligations that are afforded to landlords and tenants in the private rented sector are now afforded to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: The development of the Strategy for the Rental Sectorpublished in December 2016 allowed for further consideration of the development of an affordable rental scheme, in consultation with local authorities and stakeholders. As set out in the Strategy, the commitment to introduce affordable rental is to be progressed through kick-starting supply in rent pressure zones. Lands held by local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Legislative Measures (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: Section 41 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 provides for the repeal of section 42 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and therefore abolishes the right of a landlord, during the first 6 months of a further Part 4 tenancy, to terminate that tenancy for no stated ground. This provision came into effect on 17 January 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Inspections (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: Sheltered housing to meet the needs of persons with specific categories of housing need, including the elderly, is provided by approved housing bodies and local authorities with funding support under my Department. In the case of the approved housing bodies, funding is provided under my Department’s Capital Assistance Scheme and the housing is managed by the approved housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: Cork County Council are in the process of engaging external advice to undertake an initial feasibility study in conjunction with my Department to ascertain the suitability or otherwise of this property for acquisition for social housing purposes. The matter will be considered further in light of the outcome of the feasibility study.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 introduced a new measure, the vacant site levy, with a view to incentivising the development of vacant or under-utilised sites in urban areas. Under the Act, planning authorities are required to establish a register of vacant sites in their areas, beginning on 1 January 2017, and to issue annual notices to owners of vacant sites by 1 June 2018 in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Legal Cases (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: Neither the State, nor I as Minister, is a party to any current Court case involving a judicial review relating to peat extraction and planning legislation. I am not, therefore, in a position to indicate the present status of any specific such case.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tribunals of Inquiry Data (28 Feb 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments (otherwise known as the Mahon Tribunal), concluded its public hearings on 29 October 2008 and its deliberations in 2012. The Final Report was published on 22 March 2012, with Volume V (Chapter 19 - The Carrickmines Module) of the Final Report published on 31 July 2013. Copies of both documents are available to download at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: Under the Foreshore Act 1933 (as amended) a person who has submitted an environmental impact statement in accordance with a requirement of or under section 13A of this Act shall, as soon as may be, send a copy of the relevant application and environmental impact statement to certain specified prescribed bodies including the National Tourism Development Authority (Fáilte Ireland)....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) has been developed to assist private property owners and local authorities or Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to harness the accommodation potential that exists in certain vacant properties across Ireland. The scheme is targeted at owners of vacant properties who cannot afford or access the funding needed to bring their properties up to the required...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: My Department’s new Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2016-2018 was developed through a working group of key stakeholders involving local authorities, the Water Services Transition Office, Irish Water, the National Federation of Group Water Schemes as well as my Department. The programme provides for the funding of demonstration Group Sewerage Schemes, through Measure 4(d), where...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together. I will be writing to the Deputy shortly regarding details of the role, operation and membership of the MLVC. For all applications, the application form and supporting documentation, together with all the submissions received from both the prescribed bodies and the public and the applicant’s responses to these submissions, as well...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: As I indicated previously in my response to parliamentary question No 198 on 8 November 2016, in 2006 the then Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources was responsible for the regulation of the foreshore under the 1933 Foreshore Act. The application for the original 10 year lease was processed by that Department and I had no role in this decision. Following a search of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: Pillar 5 of the Government's Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness is specifically focused on Utilising Existing Housing Stock, with a key objective of ensuring that the existing vacant housing stock throughout the country and across all forms of tenure, in both the public and private sectors, is used to the optimum degree possible. In this regard, Action 5.1 of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Deposits (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the landlord-tenant relationship in the private rented residential sector and sets out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Act to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants.` ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 195 and 196 together. Detailed and complete data on the total number of households removed from all housing authority lists as part of the process for the Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA) 2016, and the reasons for such removal, is not yet available. Once compiled, the data will be published on my Department’s website, . However, provisional...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: Section 58(3) of the Housing Act 1966 provides that subject to such Regulations as may be made by the Minister under the section, a housing authority may charge such rent or other payment, as they may determine from time to time, in respect of a dwelling of which they are the owner. The making and amending of rent schemes is accordingly the responsibility of housing authorities as an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Fire Stations Provision (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Coveney: The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs, the provision of fire station premises, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Service Act, 1981. My Department supports the fire authorities through setting general policy, providing a central training...