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Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Yes.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am sorry to hear that.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am conscious that there are a number of amendments to be discussed and I wish to respond as comprehensively as possible. I wish to clarify the Part V obligations for Deputy Wallace, and where that stands with regard to the planning and conditions. The Part V agreements must now be in place before developers can turn a sod on a proposed development site. The Part V negotiation process...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am simply clarifying the position.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I wish to speak to amendments Nos. 34 to 43, inclusive, which propose to amend sections 33 and 34, which in turn amend section 96 of the principal Act. I do not propose to accept amendment No. 34, which would have the effect of deleting section 33 and replacing it with a provision that would delete section 96 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 on the power of local authorities to enter...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: To respond to Deputy Coonan, the Bill provides that any developments of up to nine houses are exempt from Part V. If small sheltered housing developments were developed by private developers with up to nine housing units, they would be exempt. If approved housing bodies, which are usually involved in this throughout the country, are building these units they too are exempt if they are...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: It would do away with all of the units.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Under Section 126 of the Planning and Development Act 2000-2014, An Bord Pleanála has a statutory objective to determine appeals within 18 weeks. Where the Board does not consider it possible or appropriate to reach a decision within 18 weeks (e.g. because of delays arising from the holding of an oral hearing), it will inform the parties of the reasons for this, and will indicate when it...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: My Department publishes a wide range of planning statistics, including data on the planning applications and decisions made by planning authorities. The most recent statistics are broken down by planning authority and are available on my Department’s website at: www.environ.ie/en/Publications/StatisticsandRegularPublicati ons/PlanningStatistics/FileDownLoad,41081,en.pdf While this data...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Insofar as the Planning and Development Act 2000 is concerned, there is no definition of architectural conservation, but “architectural conservation area” has the meaning assigned to it by Section 81(1) of the act, that is, a place, area, group of structures or townscape, taking account of building lines and heights, which is of special architectural, historical, archaeological,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: My Department, with the assistance of the Housing Agency, the Housing Finance Agency and the Local Authority Housing Loans Management Group, has been examining the operation of the Shared Ownership Scheme for existing borrowers. The issues arising with Shared Ownership Schemes require careful consideration and expert financial data analysis. Arising from the findings of the review to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The definition of shop, under Article 5 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, is based on the "retail sale of goods" and the nature of those goods is not referred to in planning legislation. By and large changing from one type of shop to another is exempted development unless the change has additional land-use impact, such as a change which involves now selling hot food for...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: It is not agreed.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Now.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Press the button, Dessie. He likes pressing buttons.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines, similar to the schemes currently operating for local authority apartments and certain new local authority houses. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020 includes a commitment to make the Regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The review of the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 following the first twelve months of their operation is now well advanced. The impact of the regulations on the cost of single dwellings (including self builds) forms an important element of this review. Some 170 submissions were received during the public consultation process which concluded on 15 May 2015. A report prepared...

Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations Compliance (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. At the outset, I wish to acknowledge the extremely distressing and difficult situations that certain homeowners in Donegal are facing on account of damage to the structural integrity of their homes. I also add that I firmly believe that the parties responsible for poor workmanship and-or the supply of defective materials should face up to...

Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations Compliance (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: As I said, I am extremely aware of the difficult and distressing circumstances in which the homeowners and families in question find themselves. I have visited their homes and spoken to them. I reiterate, however, that building defects are generally matters for resolution between the relevant contracting partners, namely, the homeowner, the builder and the materials provider and-or their...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Efficiency (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: General responsibility for the promotion of energyefficiency rests with the Minister for Communications, Energyand Natural Resources, who has published Ireland’s National Energy Efficiency Action Plan 2014which is available at the following weblink – . The plan details the broad range of measures in place or being planned by a range of departments and agencies with a view to...