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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 844 and 887 together. 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...

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

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 854, 861 and 883 together. The review of the 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: My Department is currently awaiting a response to a letter of 10 April 2015 from my Department to Rosscarbery Rowing Club. The application will be progressed as soon as a response is received.

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

Paudie Coffey: I am not aware of any legal provisions in relation to this issue, which may be a matter in relation to which legal advice should be sought. It is open to the residents of an estate to request the local authority to take in charge the roads and open spaces under section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000.

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

Paudie Coffey: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015, which is currently progressing through the Oireachtas, provides for a measure to encourage the development of vacant, underutilised sites in urban areas. The Bill will introduce a vacant site levy, aimed at incentivising the development of empty and underutilised sites in central urban areas for residential or regeneration development. Under the...

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

Paudie Coffey: The Derelict Sites Act 1990 provides that local authorities are required to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not become, or continue to be, a derelict site. To this end, local authorities have been given substantial powers under the Act in relation to any such sites, including powers...

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

Paudie Coffey: Increasing housing supply is at the heart of addressing the range of housing issues we face today, not least in relation to homelessness. It is in this context that Minister Kelly and I jointly wrote to the Chief Executives of each of the four Dublin local authorities on 10 June 2015 urging that the process for making development plans, underway in each authority at present, should focus...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am pleased to have the opportunity to introduce Second Stage of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015 to the Seanad. We have had considerable and lively debates in the Dáil on this Bill. The primary background to this Bill is the housing supply shortage situation, which is one of the most pressing and important challenges faced by, and priority of, the Government and by...

Seanad: Visit of German Delegation (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I would like to be associated with the welcome to the President and delegation. I hope they enjoy their time in Ireland. They are very welcome.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Rather than go through the remaining sections of the vacant site levy provisions individually - sections 6 to 26, inclusive, for example, are quite complex and detailed - I will, so that Senators can obtain a better understanding of how the proposed scheme will operate, instead give a summary of the provisions as follows. Beginning on 1 January 201, a planning authority shall establish and...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank all Senators for their valued contributions to the debate on Second Stage. Many of them were very interesting. While I may not agree with all of the comments, I listened to them and I know they were made in a genuine and constructive spirit. I acknowledge the experience of many Senators through the work they have done over many years on local authorities, to which Senator Walsh...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: -----and private housing over ten or 15 years. The previous Government left us in the lurch, but this Government is adamant about addressing the problem, and it will do so.

Child Care (Guardian Ad Litem) Bill 2015: First Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: No.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (15 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015, which is currently progressing through the Oireachtas, is primarily focussed on addressing housing supply-related issues with a view to facilitating increased activity in the housing construction sector, particularly in the Dublin area where demand currently outstrips supply. One of the main provisions of the Bill is the introduction of a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (15 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 293, 302 and 313 together. The review of the 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (15 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: While I fully appreciate and acknowledge the extremely difficult and distressing situations that householders have to deal with when faced with the consequences of poor workmanship or the use of defective materials, in general, building defects are matters for resolution between contracting parties, ie. the homeowner, the builder, the supplier and/or their respective insurers. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance (15 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock is a matter for each relevant local authority. My Department has not been involved in post-build issues in relation to the development referred to. The issues raised by the Deputy are a matter for the local authority and I understand that Wicklow County Council has been addressing issues in relation to the development concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tree Remediation (15 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Planning legislation places no specific restrictions on the height of trees, nor does it make any particular provision for remedy from any other nuisance which may be caused by trees in an urban residential area. However there is currently a civil remedy available concerning branches or roots of neighbouring trees encroaching on a person’s property. The previous Minister of State for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (15 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 2020includes a commitment to make the Regulations...