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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Repossessions (10 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Section 15 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014, provides for a mechanism whereby a housing authority may terminate a tenancy and take possession of a house where it is satisfied that the house had been abandoned by the tenant. Section 16 of the Act makes provisions for an application to court in respect of a tenancy terminated under section 15, by a person who was a tenant...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Estates (10 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Service indicators published annually by the Local Government Management Agency include details of private residential estates taken in charge by individual planning authorities, including Kildare County Council. My Department recently wrote to all planning authorities requesting details of housing estates not yet taken in chargein their respective functional areas in order to assist in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (10 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Since 2010, an annual national housing survey of unfinished housing developments has been conducted during the summer months to monitor progress. In that period, the number of unfinished housing developments has decreased by approximately two-thirds, from nearly 3,000 in 2010 to 992 in 2014. The detailed findings of the annual surveys, annual progress reports and other useful publications...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (10 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Question Nos.221 to 223, inclusive, together. 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...

1916 Quarter Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the House and Deputy Ó Cuív for being afforded the opportunity to speak on the 1916 Quarter Development Bill 2015. At the outset and while Deputy Browne is here, I must state that, as a Waterford man, I cannot concede that the Irish tricolour was first flown in Wexford. I think it is well known that Thomas Francis Meagher, the great American, Irish and Waterford patriot,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (15 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Section 20 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 provided that a review of rent may not take place more than once in any period of 12 months or in the first 12 months of the tenancy. The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015, which was enacted on 4 December 2015, amends Section 20 to provide that rent reviews can only take place every 24 months rather than every 12 months. This amendment...

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

Paudie Coffey: My Department has sought legal advice on how best to deal with the foreshore issues arising at the area in question. This advice, when received and considered, will assist my Department in identifying the appropriate next steps.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Senators spoke on wider issues around the Bill, and I would appreciate some latitude in making my response.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank Senator Crown for tabling the Bill and acknowledge the contribution he has made in general to this House. I regret to hear that he may not be standing for election, but that is everybody's personal decision. I would say, before I address section 1 in detail, that the Government will be opposing this Bill, and I will outline why. I appreciate that the Bill before us specifically...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Adams would know all about doing lotto numbers.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy’s strategy for the health service is all rhetoric.

Personal Explanation by Minister of State (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Yes, with your permission, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. During recent oral questions Deputy Barry Cowen asked about the number of staff in the Private Residential Tenancies Board that had been recruited to establish and administer the deposit protection scheme. At the time I inadvertently said five staff had been recruited. However, I want to correct the record to say the five additional staff...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 14, after “requirements” to insert “that, notwithstanding subsection (1), are required”.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Was the Deputy in it?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: What has this got to do with the amendment?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: What has that got to do with apartment standards?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I have a point of order.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I have a point of order.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am not sure what this has to do with apartment standards and the amendments to the Bill that we are speaking about.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Mathews supported it too.