Results 5,821-5,840 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy is a complete disgrace.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: It is in the public interest.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Can we please have an honest debate on this?
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: What I have completed is related to seven issues in seven local authorities selected by the former Minister of the last Government, of which the Deputy was a member.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Waterford was not one of them. I could not complete a review of Waterford if it had not been started.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: That is untrue.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: That is not true. The Deputy is deliberately distorting what the reviews were about.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Why do we have a courts system? The courts have found out what happened in Waterford.
- Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I am chairing the national co-ordination committee on unfinished housing developments to oversee implementation of the report of the advisory group on unfinished housing developments, together with the Government's response to the recommendations. The committee includes representatives from the Irish Banking Federation, local authorities, the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency, NAMA...
- Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I have no disagreement with the Deputy on this issue. We have to continue to drive the process forward Thus far, 782 developers have given us site resolution plans and 136 of those have been completed, while others are in process. There are different kinds of works. Some are in NAMA, which will then have responsibility for the issue, while receivers are in charge of others and some...
- Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Apart from our meetings with NAMA officials on the issue of unfinished estates, we are also meeting them about the 2,000 properties. They have also identified a further 1,000 properties, so we will pursue that issue to ensure that we get the promised amount of properties.
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Housing Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2009 gives legislative recognition to rental accommodation availability agreements as a form of social housing support. Consequently, since 1 April 2011, RAS tenants are now considered to be in receipt of social housing support and should not generally remain on housing waiting lists for new applicants for social housing. In recognition that RAS...
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Housing Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2009 is the legislative basis for this. It was implemented in April last year.
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Yes. In the housing circular 28/211 of 4 May 2011, which dealt with the social housing allocation regulations, it was recommended that a special transfer pathway be provided from RAS to other forms of social housing. This was to be included within the allocation scheme that each authority had to adopt under section 22 of the 2009 Act, which replaced the old scheme of letting priorities....
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: It is part of the provision that is in place to address people's housing needs. If there is any doubt about how the local authorities interpret this, we can clarify it for them. Obviously, there is ongoing review of this entire area because we are trying to cope with the demand that exists given the state of the economy, so it is open to consideration. The issue of people having...
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with the provisions of the Housing Act 1966, the provision and management of social housing, including the carrying out of routine and planned maintenance programmes to properties and estates, is the responsibility of the relevant housing authority. Housing and estate maintenance programmes are funded directly by local authorities from their own resources, including from rental...
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I made the point in responding to the Topical Issues matter-----
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: -----that â¬145 million was allocated to local authorities this year in respect of measures aimed at improving the social housing stock. That takes in regeneration, which is â¬90 million, and â¬27 million for the remedial works scheme in 26 different local authorities. There is also the money for extensions and adaptions but as I am sure the Deputy is aware, there is a specific...
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: -----energy efficiency in voids, and it is specifically targeted at empty houses both last year and this year. I visited various local authorities around the country who asked me if they could use some of that money for occupied houses because tenants living beside empty houses can see the work being done on those yet cannot get their house done because they are in occupation. We are...
- Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: There is probably a particular difficulty in Dublin because it is such a large area and there is so much social housing need but we are always open to suggestions as to how we might best use the resources available to ensure that we can maintain the stock of housing in as good a condition as we possibly can. Obviously, different local authorities choose to do different things. The initial...