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Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The majority of households who purchased under the various affordable housing schemes would have done so using loan finance from a private lending institution. These are essentially private homeowners and my Department has not therefore collected data in respect of the performance of such mortgages. My Department has recently commenced the collation of data from local authorities on the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Schemes: Local Authority Schemes (11 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The following loans have been redeemed and recouped for sites in Kerry and Sligo under the Land Aggregation Scheme: Local Authority Site Date Recouped Amount Recouped Sligo County Council Tubbercurry December 2010 €34,062 Sligo County Council Ballintogher 'B' December 2010 €274,344 Sligo County Council Lisnalurg August 2011 €4,828,276 Tralee Town Council Ballyard November 2010...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Decisions on the eligibility of specific persons for social housing support and the allocation of that support are a matter solely for the housing authority concerned. Regulation 22 of Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 provides that an applicant household for long-term social housing support is ineligible for such support if a household member owns alternative accommodation that it...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The 2,000 figure relates to the actual number of properties identified by NAMA as being available for social housing. Some of these units may, however, prove to be unsuitable for social housing for a variety of reasons. Where this arises I would expect alternative units to be provided so that by year end the target of 2,000 NAMA properties has been reached and, if possible, exceeded. The...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: A new tenant purchase scheme for local authority houses under the provisions of section 90 of the Housing Act, 1966, the 2011 Tenant Purchase Scheme, was introduced in February 2011 to allow local authority tenants to avail of a discount of up to 45% on the market price of a house they are eligible to purchase under the scheme. This scheme applied only to tenants of 10 years standing or...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (11 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The adoption of development contribution schemes is a reserved function of the elected members of local authorities. My Department provides a policy guidance framework for development contributions which is designed to draw the attention of local authorities to their obligations under the legislation, while also recognising that the adoption of development contribution schemes remains a...

Ballymun Regeneration Programme (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Lyons for raising this issue. As he stated, both he and I have a strong interest in regeneration. I begin by reiterating my own commitment and that of my Department and the Government to seeing the regeneration of Ballymun successfully completed. Ballymun regeneration is by far the largest regeneration project ever undertaken in this country, with a capital investment of more...

Ballymun Regeneration Programme (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I would very much like to take the Deputy up on the invitation to see the work being done in Ballymun. It is important that the project is appropriately completed so that the lives of people in the community are greatly improved. Despite the many challenges of my Department, and across Government, in terms of funding I can assure the Deputy that funding for completion of this project has...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), an independent statutory body established under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. The PRTB publishes statistics, which include anti-social behaviour disputes, in its Annual Reports available on the website www.prtb.ie.

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Board members of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), who are entitled to fees, are in receipt of such fees for meetings, inspections and training sessions on an attendance basis only. Details of attendance and remuneration are published in the PRTB's Annual Reports available on the website www.prtb.ie.

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the tenant-landlord relationship in the private rented residential sector. The Act sets out the obligations of tenants and landlords in the sector and the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) is the independent statutory body charged with the administration of the Act and the enforcement of those obligations, as necessary. While action to...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Article 24 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) requires an outline application, in addition to the requirements of article 22(2), to be accompanied only by such plans and particulars as are necessary to enable the planning authority to make a decision in relation to the siting, layout or other proposals for development in respect of which a decision is sought....

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 180 and 188 together. The procedures for the appointment by the Minister of ordinary members of An Bord Pleanála are set out in sections 104–106 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000–2010. Nominating bodies that are specified in the associated Planning and Development Regulations are requested to nominate persons. The persons appointed by the...

Written Answers — Housing Management Companies: Housing Management Companies (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has no function in relation to the operation of property management companies. The Multi Unit Developments Act 2011 which falls under the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, regulates the management and operation of such companies.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In April 2009 a proposal by Clúid Housing Association to provide eleven voluntary housing units at Ardagh was submitted for funding under my Department's Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme (CLSS). Due to the high level of commitments at that time it was not possible to approve the proposal. A decision was subsequently made in 2010 to discontinue the CLSS. Approved housing bodies may put forward...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: As outlined in the reply to Question 221 of 15 December 2011, the Board of the Housing Finance Agency decided at its meeting on 9 December 2011 to pass on in full the rate cut of 0.25%, announced the previous day by the European Central Bank, to those local authority borrowers with variable interest rate mortgages. As a result of this latest decrease local authority borrowers will enjoy a...

Written Answers — Mortgage Interest Rates: Mortgage Interest Rates (17 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1I refer to the reply to Question No. 191 of 12 January 2012, which sets put the position in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Local Authority Mortgages: Local Authority Mortgages (17 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1My Department issued comprehensive guidance to local authorities on the treatment of mortgage arrears, including local authority mortgages for shared ownership transactions, in March 2010. That guidance was closely based on the Central Bank's first statutory Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears to ensure that cases of local authority mortgage arrears are handled in a manner that is...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (17 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1I have no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), which is an independent statutory body established under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. Therefore, it would be inappropriate for me to comment on, or to interfere in, the specifics of any individual case. Due to the large number of incomplete registration applications submitted to the PRTB...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (17 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1Funding approval was given by my Department to Cluid Housing Association on 17 August 2011 to purchase 34 units at Beacon South Quarter, Sandyford under the Social Housing Leasing Initiative. Negotiations on the sale and the leasing contracts have been ongoing but have not yet completed. In that context no funding from my Department has been provided to date in respect of this project.