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Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (3 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under article 19(1)(a) of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 the required site notice in relation to a planning application must be in the form set out at Form No. 1 of Schedule 3 to the Regulations or "a form substantially to the like effect". Where the site notice does not comply with article 19(1)(a), the application will be invalidated by the planning authority in accordance...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Local authorities were asked to submit suitable projects for funding approval under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme by 22 June, 2012. These are being examined at present. I will announce details of the projects to be included in the programme at an early date.

Written Answers — Housing Statistics: Housing Statistics (3 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department collates a large range of housing statistics. However data on nationwide mortgage repossessions derived from the main lending institutions are published by the Central Bank and can be found on that institution's website www.centralbank.ie. In 2010, my Department began collecting data specifically in relation to local authority loan repossessions. The data can be found in a...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (3 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with the provisions of the Housing Act, 1966, the provision, management and maintenance of dwellings, including the carrying out of planned maintenance programmes and pre-letting repairs, is the responsibility of the relevant housing authority. Housing maintenance works, including pre-letting repairs, are funded directly by local authorities from their own resources, including...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: To take account of the current housing market conditions, the Government's housing policy statement, published in June 2011, announced the standing down of all affordable housing schemes in the context of a full review of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000. That review is now underway and it is expected to conclude later in the year. Any future changes to legislation governing...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 180 together. The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009, provides for a new process of housing needs assessment for applicants for social housing support. Until these Regulations were made there had been different practices in housing authorities regarding the way in which applicants for social housing support had their income means-tested. The...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Following receipt of submissions in 2008 under the Remedial Works Scheme for a three-year programme of works to upgrade run-down local authority estates, it was decided not to approve the proposed works to the 44 unit estate at Killymooney Drive, largely due to the fact that the estate was constructed in 1988. All of the available funding under the remedial works measure is fully committed...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of housing policy. The full range of data compiled can be viewed on my Department's website, www.environ.ie, where data on Local Authority completions, broken down by county, are displayed. My Department does not hold information on the number of households on local authorities'...

Written Answers — Rental Accommodation Scheme: Rental Accommodation Scheme (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The budget provided for the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) in any given year is intended to support the costs of all existing rent supplement households transferred to the scheme in previous years and to fund the costs of rents of additional new transfers to the scheme (new supply) during a current year. In that context it is not possible at this time to project the amount of funding that...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In December 2011 NAMA identified over 2,000 properties as being potentially available for social housing, including 312 units in Cork County. From this list of some 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...

Written Answers — Housing Statistics: Housing Statistics (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The most recent figures on the number of vacant properties in County Dublin can be found in my Department's National Housing Development Survey 2011, which can be found at www.environ.ie. There were a total of 4,679 vacant properties in the Dublin area as at September 2011, a reduction from the 6,816 properties in 2010. The National Housing Development Survey 2012 is currently under way, and...

Seanad: Rent Supplements: Motion (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is being worked on.

Seanad: Rent Supplements: Motion (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: They must disclose that they are doing so.

Seanad: Rent Supplements: Motion (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: They must declare it.

Seanad: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Senator Cullinane for raising this very important issue. A specific matter in regard to the operation of the planning function in Waterford, involving one elected member, has been dealt with by the courts. I am not otherwise aware of any wider prima facie evidence that would merit the establishment of an investigation in respect of this planning authority. In any event, where there...

Seanad: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It went to court and there was a conviction. That shows that the system works.

Seanad: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: If there is any evidence, the Senator should bring it to the attention of the appropriate authorities.

Seanad: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is not brushing anything under the carpet.

Seanad: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It was a case where there was a conviction.

Seanad: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is not right to suggest impropriety without evidence.