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

Paudie Coffey: The published Bill provides that sections 19 to 22 and section 139 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 will not be applied to approved housing body tenancies. Approved housing bodies generally use a differential rent scheme as applied by local authorities to determine the rents of their dwellings. Under this system the amount of rent to be paid by a tenant is based on the income of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Neither I nor my Department have been consulted by Fingleton White, Fingal County Council or Dublin City Council regarding the construction of a 16 km aviation fuel pipeline from Dublin Port to Dublin Airport. I understand that Fingal County Council and Dublin City Council decided to grant planning permission for this development within their own administrative areas (on 7 July and 15 October...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I recently announced my intention to establish an expert group to investigate the problems that have emerged in the concrete blockwork of certain dwellings in Donegal and Mayo in order to assist the parties directly involved in reaching a satisfactory resolution to their difficulties. While building defects are, in the first instance, matters for resolution between the relevant contracting...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Management Companies (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: My Department advised planning authorities by way of Circular letter PD 1/ 2008 of 26 February 2008 that they should not include the establishment of a management company as a condition of planning permissions for the development of traditional residential housing estates (that is estates of houses with individual private gardens), except in the most exceptional circumstances, for example, to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller accommodation programmes are a matter for individual housing authorities. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller accommodation programmes, designed to meet these needs, rests with individual housing authorities, in this case Donegal County Council. My Department’s role is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Construction Industry Register Ireland (1 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 592 and 593 together. The Building Control Regulations 1997 to 2015 require the owner of a proposed building to sign a statutory form assigning a competent builder to undertake the works. The regulations do not require that the builder so assigned be registered with Construction Industry Register Ireland (CIRI). CIRI is a voluntary register of builders,...

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

Paudie Coffey: Seanad amendment No. 49 is a technical amendment which clarifies that when terminating a Part 4 tenancy, a landlord must comply with both Parts 4 and 5 of the Act. The 2004 Act specifies the grounds on which a landlord may terminate a tenancy. A landlord may not serve a notice of termination on a tenant, except in very clearly defined circumstances such as a failure by the tenant to comply...

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

Paudie Coffey: I agree with Deputy Coppinger that it is more difficult to evict on the basis of rent increases. That is due to the protections in place and the recourse tenants have to the PRTB and the courts, if necessary. They have protective rights in legislation. I will deal first with amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 51 which places additional requirements on landlords who are selling...

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

Paudie Coffey: This legislation is being introduced to provide more certainty until the supply of social and private housing increases. It is to intervene in a market that is totally dysfunctional and one in which we do not have enough houses to meet the demand. That is recognised. The social housing programme and Construction 2020 are ambitious programmes that will reap the benefits once construction...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy should have known when he was in office.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: We all know that.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Martin is playing games.

Topical Issue Debate: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (2 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am happy to respond to Deputy Breen's issue which is important for the people in Carrigaholt and County Clare. Clare County Council carried out a feasibility study on the proposed Carrigaholt group sewerage scheme with a view to ascertaining the viability of the scheme and it reported the estimated cost of the scheme to be €1.233 million. The Department of Environment, Community...

Topical Issue Debate: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (2 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I welcome the fact that the Deputy recognises the opportunity that may present through the work of the working group. This group will deliberate tomorrow when it meets to discuss the principles governing the new rural water multi-annual funding framework for 2016-18. Following those deliberations the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, will announce...

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

Paudie Coffey: This group of amendments includes a number of measures to enable the PRTB to deal effectively with tenants who do not comply with their obligations, including the obligation to pay rent. The published Bill provides for a new procedure to deal with tenants who do not comply with their statutory obligation to pay rent pending the determination of their dispute. These amendments insert a new...

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

Paudie Coffey: These are technical amendments.

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I acknowledge that housing is a considerable challenge for this country but, as the Minister, Deputy Kelly, made clear last night - I agree with him in this regard - the Sinn Féin Bill before the House is fundamentally flawed in both its detail and focus in respect of homelessness prevention and would create a legal obligation and an unquantified risk to the State that would give rise to...

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I have heard much rhetoric from those opposite. It is easy for Deputies to rail against the Government and for them to say that we must produce more social housing. That is obvious. We are all very much in agreement on that matter. We are also agreed that the long-term solution to homelessness is to increase the supply of homes. However, I have not heard any new or tangible solutions to...

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Completions are already ramping up around the country and more than 200 projects have been approved and are under way in various local authorities areas. Only this week I, along with Deputies Halligan and Conway, visited a Government-supported scheme in my city that is being completed by the Respond housing agency that has delivered 57 new units. That is also having a knock-on effect in...