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Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (8 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: No funding restrictions have been placed on local authorities for the purposes of providing loan finance for house purchase or home improvement. Allocations totalling over €51m issued to local authorities for House Purchase and House Improvement lending in April 2011, an increase of almost €20m (or 61%) on the 2010 allocation of almost €31m. These allocations represent borrowings...

Written Answers — Residential Property Sales: Residential Property Sales (8 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 145 and 148 together. The information sought is not collected by my Department. I have no function in respect of the sale of private residential property or the sale of property by the National Asset Management Agency.

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (8 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the tenant-landlord relationship in the private rented residential sector and the Act provides that landlords in the sector must apply to register the tenancy of a dwelling with the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), an independent statutory body established under the Act. The PRTB publishes a range of statistics, including tenancy...

Written Answers — Voluntary Housing Sector: Voluntary Housing Sector (8 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government's Housing Policy Statement, published in June 2011, identifies approved housing bodies (AHBs) as key partners in the delivery of social housing. This recognises both the constrained funding levels available for local authority construction programmes and the capacity and track-record of the voluntary and cooperative housing sector. AHBs are uniquely placed to help drive the...

Written Answers — House Purchase Schemes: House Purchase Schemes (8 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the terms of the Incremental Purchase scheme introduced in June 2010, new houses provided by approved voluntary and co-operative housing bodies and designated under the scheme may be purchased by their tenants. As regards the sale to tenants of existing houses provided by approved bodies, my Department is currently examining, in consultation with the relevant bodies, the future funding...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 341 and 342 together. I am having the submission in question examined in my Department, and will not comment until this examination has been undertaken.

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Sections 34(4)(g) and 180(2)(b) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provide respectively that a planning authority may attach conditions to a planning permission requiring the giving of adequate security for the satisfactory completion of a proposed development and, if a development is not subsequently completed satisfactorily, may apply a security, given under section 34, for the...

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In December 2011 NAMA identified over 2,000 properties as being potentially available for social housing, including 57 units in Galway City. From this list of 2,000 properties a number of projects have been identified as being suitable for social housing, and these are being advanced for inclusion in the leasing scheme. These projects are at different stages of development and I expect...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The new arrangements for the quorum for An Bord Pleanála were introduced through Section 41(b) of the Planning and Development Act, 2010 which came into operation on the 23 March 2011. Details of all cases decided by the Board since then can be obtained on the Board's website, www.pleanala.ie. The information sought in the question is not available within my Department.

Written Answers — National Children's Hospital: National Children's Hospital (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: An Bord Pleanála is an independent body, with statutory functions provided for under the Planning and Development Act 2000. As Minister, I am precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned, and it is not, therefore, appropriate for me to comment on a decision made by the Board. Details of all decisions...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2011, all development, unless specifically exempted under the Acts or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Any development that is carried out without planning permission or that does not comply with the terms of a planning permission, is unauthorised development, and may be subject to enforcement action by a planning authority....

Written Answers — Housing Finance Agency: Housing Finance Agency (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: All Housing Finance Agency activity including lending to individual local authorities is available in the Agency's Annual Reports which are available on www.hfa.ie.

Written Answers — Housing Finance Agency: Housing Finance Agency (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme (CLSS), funding of up to 100% of the approved cost of projects was provided by the Housing Finance Agency, through the local authorities, to Approved Housing Bodies for the provision of accommodation for low-income families and persons with specific categories of housing need. Following the decision in 2009 to terminate the CLSS, no new projects will...

Written Answers — Housing Finance Agency: Housing Finance Agency (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Details of non-voted expenditure, including the level of non-mortgage loan finance, were published in the Revised Estimates Volume on 23 February 2012.

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The current tenant purchase scheme, provided for in Section 90 of the Housing Act 1966, and known as the 1995 Tenant Purchase Scheme, remains in place. It remains the intention that this scheme will be wound down during 2012 to be replaced by a new scheme based on the incremental purchase model. This change will require amending legislation. Separate provisions are in place under Part 3 of...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the process of preparing the National Housing Development Survey 2011, published by my Department in October 2011, local authorities provided details of all unfinished housing developments in their areas. Unfinished housing developments were divided into four categories as follows: Category one, where the development is still being actively completed by the developer, or where no...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 462 of 31 January 2012, which outlines the position in this matter. However, the relevance of the difference between projected mortgage repayments and current rental payments for a prospective purchaser is limited. It takes no account, for example, of the fact that while rent levels can be adjusted to reflect changing household income, mortgage repayments...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Public Safety Initiative was introduced by my Department in order to address health and safety issues on unfinished housing developments and where the responsible party could not be contacted in the short term, allocated funds to local authorities in order to make the estates safe. The scheme invited applications from local authorities for individual estates giving details of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Association of Building Co-operatives (NABCo), the national representative body for approved co-operative housing bodies in Ireland, provides accommodation for low-income families and persons with specific categories of housing need. Under my Department's capital funding schemes for voluntary and co-operative housing, funding of up to 100% of the approved cost is available in...

Written Answers — Mortgage to Rent Scheme: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I assume the Deputy is referring to the Mortgage to Rent scheme. As part of the implementation of the recommendations in the Keane Report my Department has developed a mortgage to rent scheme on a pilot basis. This work has been assisted by Clúid Housing Association, a number of local authorities, the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency, AIB, and more recently, New Beginning and...