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Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's involvement with voluntary and co-operative housing schemes relates primarily to the provision of funds for individual projects. The detailed administration of the schemes, and the certification that projects comply with the terms and conditions of the funding schemes, are the responsibility of the relevant local authority. Monaghan County Council recently submitted revised...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In line with overall national policy which promotes a reduction in energy use, the enhancement of energy efficiency standards remains a priority within my Department's overall strategy for the improvement of local authority housing. My Department does not operate a grant scheme in this regard for individual local authority tenants but under the Department's Social Housing Investment...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The current tenant purchase scheme, known as the 1995 Tenant Purchase Scheme, is provided for in section 90 of the Housing Act, 1966. The details of the scheme are set out in the legislation and in the associated regulations. Housing authorities have adopted Purchase Schemes to implement the scheme in their areas. The criteria for a tenant purchasing a home under the tenant purchase scheme...

Written Answers — Local Authority Services: Local Authority Services (8 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 11 (5) of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 authorises a local authority that has served a notice on an owner or occupier of a site, and the terms of the notice have not been complied with, to enter the site and carry out such steps as they consider reasonable and necessary to give effect to the terms of the notice and to recover the expense incurred from the person on whom the notice was...

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (8 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Wicklow County Council has raised certain issues with my Department in regard to the scope of the order, including in regard to the inclusion of private dwellings, working farms and a golf course. These matters are now the subject of consultation with the Council.

Written Answers — Co-operative Sector: Co-operative Sector (8 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's involvement with the co-operative sector relates to the provision of funding under the Capital Assistance Scheme to certain Approved Housing Bodies, registered as co-operatives, for the provision of housing for low income families and persons with specific categories of housing need. My Department also contributes towards the administrative costs of the National Association...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (9 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is open to any person or household to apply to a housing authority for an assessment of their housing need. It is a matter solely for the housing authority concerned to determine whether an applicant for social housing support is eligible for and in need of that support. Regulation 22 of Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 provides that an applicant household for long-term social...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (9 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under section 126 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010, it is a statutory objective of An Bord Pleanála to determine appeals and certain other matters within 18 weeks. The statutory objective period was achieved in 81% of all cases in 2011, a significant increase on the figure of 63% achieved for 2010.

Written Answers — Rental Accommodation Scheme: Rental Accommodation Scheme (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 429 of 31st January 2012 which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department published Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Telecommunications Antennae and Support Structures in 1996. The guidelines are intended to facilitate planning authorities, An Bord Pleanála, the licensed providers of mobile telecommunications services and the public by providing guidance on dealing with these developments within the planning system. The guidelines set out a...

Written Answers — Property Management Companies: Property Management Companies (14 Feb 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. Section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 requires that where a development for which permission is granted...

Written Answers — Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, statutory responsibility for the provision of Traveller accommodation rests with the relevant housing authority, in this case Fingal County Council. In February 2011, following regular discussions and meetings with Fingal County Council, my Department issued approval in principle to the Council for the development of a...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 421 to 423, inclusive, together. Data on local authority housing stock are available on my Department's website, www.environ.ie and the most recent data published in this regard relate to 2010. As the data relate to units both owned and managed by local authorities they also encompass Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) and long term leasing units. At the end of...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin action to address homelessness at a local or regional level. Section 10 funding provided by my Department in this context relates to the recoupment of 90% of approved expenditure by housing authorities on accommodation for homeless persons, with the...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no function in relation to the matter raised. Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 - 2010, I am specifically precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned.

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 180 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 applies to estates which have been granted planning permission and include the construction of two or more houses (which as defined in the Act includes apartments) and the provision of new roads, open spaces, car parks, sewers, watermains or drains. In relation to estates which have been completed to the satisfaction of the planning...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the Government's Comprehensive Review of Expenditure and the 2012 estimates process, difficult decisions have had to be taken in relation to prioritising funding for core services in all programme areas. The provisional funding estimate to support my Department's mainstreamed drugs projects under the Housing programme budget 2012 was €100,000. Two of 5 drugs projects...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has since 2008 collected data on rent arrears, calculated by the total monetary amounts and not by individual persons or households, owing to local authorities. The data are supplied in a tabular format below. However my Department does not collect data on notices to quit related to those rent arrears. Data in respect of 2011 are not yet available. Local Authorities Rent...

Written Answers — Household Charge: Household Charge (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 provides the legislative basis for the household charge and that Act also amended the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009 which provides the legislative basis for the charge on non-principal private residences. The 2011 Act has ceased the exemption from payment of the non-principal private residences charge in respect of properties in the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's involvement with the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability relates primarily to the recoupment of a proportion of local authority expenditure on the payment of individual grants. The grant schemes, introduced in November 2007, are funded by 80% recoupment available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the resources...