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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Negative Equity Mortgages Numbers (27 Sep 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 and 119 together. Under the Shared Ownership scheme the rent charged on the local authority’s equity in a shared ownership transaction is to cover the funding costs to the Housing Finance Agency which are based on borrowings at the prevailing interest rates. Any difference between the rent and prevailing interest rate is reflected in the capital...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (27 Sep 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Interest rates charged to local authority borrowers are determined by the Board of the Housing Finance Agency (HFA). In determining these rates, the Board of the Agency gives careful consideration to the fluctuating relationship between the rates at which it can borrow and its lending rates. The HFA is required to operate on a break-even basis and continues to provide extremely good value to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (27 Sep 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Registration of Title (27 Sep 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is continuing to engage with the Chief State Solicitor’s Office to clarify the position in relation to ownership of the lands in question. It will not be possible to provide advice to the Council on the next steps in the matter until this process is satisfactorily concluded.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (27 Sep 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are no upward-only rent review clauses for social housing tenants of local authorities. In so far as the question relates to commercial leases then it is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (27 Sep 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133 and 134 together. It is a matter for the housing authority to communicate with both applicants for social housing support and current tenants, and I would expect such communication and access to information to be provided using all reasonable means to facilitate an efficient and effective service.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Applications (27 Sep 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no plans to re-introduce the additional discount tenant purchase scheme. It is intended to introduce legislation to underpin a new scheme for the sale of existing local authority houses to tenants on incremental purchase principles. The new scheme will be a discount scheme based on household income, and it will mean that tenants will have the option of buying the house they currently...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Applications (27 Sep 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 — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Shared Ownership scheme the rent charged on the local authority’s equity in a shared ownership transaction is to cover the funding costs to the Housing Finance Agency which are based on borrowings at the prevailing interest rates. Any difference between the rent and prevailing interest rate is reflected in the capital outstanding on the property, i.e. if the rent charged in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In terms of the delivery of social housing, the Government’s housing policy statement, published in June 2011, clearly identifies that the priority for Government will be to meet the most acute needs of households applying for social housing support. The Government is committed to responding more quickly and on a larger scale to social housing support needs through a variety of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 365 and 366 together. Following discussions between my Department and Bray Town Council, approval issued in July 2012 for a range of improvement and retrofitting works to houses in Oldcourt Estate. It was agreed that improvements works to the value of €1,000,000 would be undertaken by Bray Town Council and funded out of Internal Capital Receipts. It...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not hold information on the number of households on local authorities’ waiting lists. This figure continuously fluctuates as households are allocated housing and new households apply for housing support. Detailed information on the latest statutory assessment of housing need, carried out in March 2011 and including a breakdown by housing authority, is available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Historically, there has been considerable difficulty in quantifying the numbers of persons homeless at any given time and this is in part a consequence of the volatility within this cohort of housing need. For that reason annualised data sets for the period 1992 to 2007 inclusive are not available. However, the Housing Agency’s Housing Needs Assessment 2008 and 2011 reports break...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department currently supports an ambitious programme of regeneration in Limerick with projects that seek to deliver social, economic and physical regeneration with a strong community involvement in the process. Regeneration seeks to rebuild damaged communities by improving not just the physical environment in which people live but also by investing in the social and economic life of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 375 to 377, inclusive, together. Under the Public Safety Initiative for Unfinished Housing Developments my Department has made allocations totalling some €3.338 million to 21 local authorities from the funding made available to address immediate public safety issues. The types of works that have been approved to date include the fencing off of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government announced the standing down of all affordable housing schemes – including affordable housing delivered under Part V – in the housing policy statement published in July 2011. This did not affect Part V agreements for the delivery of social or affordable housing already entered into nor has the law relating to the operation of Part V changed since that time....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Application (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 389 and 390 together. The specific information sought in relation to the amount or value of bonds is not available in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 395 and 396 together. In accordance with the provisions of the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998, responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes, designed to meet the accommodation needs of Travellers, rests with...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Light Pollution (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: There is no environmental legislation pending or in force, at either EU or national level, on light pollution. However, steps have been taken at a national level to help alleviate the effects of light pollution. Irish regulations on environmental impact assessment (of projects which are likely to have significant effects on the environment) require an environmental impact statement to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (2 Oct 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Housing Development Surveys 2010 and 2011 are available on my Department’s website, My Department is currently carrying out the National Housing Development Survey 2012, in conjunction with the local authority sector. It is intended that the findings of this Survey will be made available later in the year .