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Planning and Development (Urgent Social Housing Supply) Policy Directive 2015: Motion (26 Nov 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Policy Directive in draft:Planning and Development (Urgent Social Housing Supply) Policy Directive 2015,copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 29th October, 2015. On behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, I welcome the opportunity to discuss the...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management Regulations (26 Nov 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly. We have a serious problem with waste tyres in Ireland and elements within the tyre industry will not face up to that problem. They do not accept producer responsibility and they do not accept the polluter pays principle. Prior to the adoption of the current 2007 tyre...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management Regulations (26 Nov 2015)

Paudie Coffey: One thing on which we will agree is that there is a lot of misinformation but I have put on the record statistics published by my Department as far back as 2013. One of those is quite startling, which is that between 25% and 50% of tyres are unaccounted for. They are not being disposed off by licensed waste collectors or in landfills. They are unaccounted for, which means they have been...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (26 Nov 2015)

Paudie Coffey: My Department wrote to Rosscarbery Rowing Club on 10 April 2015 detailing, inter alia, the valuation options available to the club for a 35-year foreshore lease. These options included either an annual rent or a one-off buyout payment and the club was requested to confirm its preferred valuation option. A response is required from the club before the application can be further progressed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Amendments (26 Nov 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, all development, unless specifically exempted under the Acts or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Article 6 and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, set out certain classes of development which are exempt from planning permission requirements. Class 1 of Schedule 2 of the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Acting Chairman for the opportunity. I would be obliged if, in accordance with Standing Order 140, the Acting Chairman would direct the clerk to make the following minor drafting correction to the text of amendment No. 80: On page 33 of the principal list of amendments, there is a reference in the inserted subsection (8) to a paragraph (d). This reference should read "paragraph...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I presume it is procedural, a Cheann Comhairle, but anyway we must work-----

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: A Cheann Comhairle, I am working with the procedure that is of the House.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I appreciate that the number of amendments is substantial and that it takes substantial contributions. In return, I will try to give a comprehensive reply to each of the Opposition amendments that are proposed to Seanad amendment No. 47. The first element of amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 47, tabled by Deputy Dessie Ellis, proposes that a review of rent may not occur more...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I did.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am following procedure.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I wish to reply to some of the concerns Deputies have raised. I also wish to correct what Deputy Ruth Coppinger said. I did mention tenants as a very important element of the legislation. The reason the Government has introduced the Bill is to provide for a balanced approach and an integrated and appropriate set of changes to the sector designed to give rent certainty to the tenants...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Deputies will agree that in the current economic environment there is a dysfunctional property and rental market. That is readily evident, and pressure on rent will continue until housing supply is increased. That includes the supply of both social and private housing. A substantial increase in supply and investment is needed, with the Housing Agency identifying the need for at least...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: They welcomed it previously but it is important to mention it in this debate.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I do not agree with Deputy Daly's assertions against the PRTB. The figures speak for themselves and I have read them into the record. The board's adjudication times have improved in dispute resolution. The PRTB is an important agency in ensuring a fair and balanced dispute resolution process is in place. Another provision in the legislation permits the referral of disputes under the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The main purpose of this group of amendments is to clarify the relationship between local authorities and approved housing bodies where dwellings are let by local authorities to AHBs and subsequently let by them to a social housing tenant. These provisions were included in the published Bill, but amendments Nos. 3 to 6, inclusive, redraft those provisions to make it clear that for the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy mentioned this in her earlier contribution. With regard to the Opposition amendments to amendments Nos. 4 and 5, the purpose of amendment No. 4 is to provide for the tenancy relationship between an AHB and a tenant who qualifies for social housing support where the dwelling let by the AHB to the tenant is owned by a local authority. Amendment No. 4 provides that, in those...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputies for raising these issues. When Government is drafting legislation, it takes advice from the Office of the Attorney General on the wording. I recognise Deputy Coppinger's attempt is a genuine one to strengthen tenancy protection in terms of who is qualified for social housing support, which the Deputy's amendment phrases as "having" qualified for social housing support....

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Several queries were raised about the core functions of approved housing bodies. Their core purpose is, essentially, the provision of social housing. Any agreements entered into are written into their articles of association to ensure that this will remain their function, namely, to provide social housing. Deputy Barry Cowen asked if the Government is not engaging with approved housing...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: This Bill extends the protection rights of tenants of approved housing bodies. In fact, it strengthens the law for tenants in that if there are any disputes over, say, unpaid rent or whatever, that they have the access to the Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB, to deal with them. Previously, that was not as clear and that is why these provisions have been introduced in this...