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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy O'Dea would want to watch what he is saying because people remember.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can give Deputy O'Dea the figures for 2010, if the Deputy wants them.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It was never going to change fully on 1 January.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy O'Dea has some cheek to talk about matters changing. Look at the mess he left us with.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is a long time since 2004.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It would be nice if the Deputy had left us some resources.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: May I correct the Deputy? It was not promised on 1 January.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: He provokes me all the time.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy is trivialising the Bill.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is true.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It funds the work carried out by the body.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Drugs Project Funding (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The project concerned operated as a mainstreamed drugs project under my Department’s housing programme. Following significant reductions in the funding available to support the project in 2012 my Department, exceptionally, provided pro rata funding to support the project until end June 2012. Following a consultation process South Dublin County Council identified interim funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (22 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Programme for Government committed to reviewing the homeless strategy, The Way Home: A Strategy to Address Adult Homelessness in Ireland 2008-2013 and to implementing a housing led approach to homelessness. Work on the review is almost complete and I intend to issue a policy statement on homelessness shortly. That statement will take account of demands on existing housing and will...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am responding to the Deputy on behalf of my colleague, the Minister, Deputy Quinn. I will convey the suggestions made by the Deputy to the Minister. The Deputy will be aware of the context in which decisions on meeting the accommodation needs of schools must be considered over the coming years. Total enrolment is expected to grow by approximately 70,000 students between now and 2018....

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am familiar with the situation in Kilfinane. The Minister, Deputy Quinn, wants to do everything he possibly can in this area. As the Deputy knows, and as I said in my main response, the Department is not generally the contracting authority. There are legal restrictions in that regard. The Deputy has made some specific suggestions to be considered while we wait for progress to be made...

Topical Issue Debate: Tenant Purchase Scheme (27 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Kitt for raising this important issue, in which he has previously expressed an interest in the committee. I want to set out the Government's position. The 1995 tenant purchase scheme, as it is commonly known, has been a major success, enabling more than 32,000 local authority tenants to purchase their homes. However, take-up on the scheme has dwindled in recent years and...

Topical Issue Debate: Tenant Purchase Scheme (27 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I agree with the Deputy that we need to give as much public information as possible. We certainly sought to do that and I put out a press statement in this regard. I hope the Deputy's raising of the issue today will give further information. I would encourage all public representatives to inform their constituents that the scheme is coming to an end. If people are interested, they should...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government's housing policy statement, published in June 2011, announced the standing down of all affordable housing schemes, including the shared ownership scheme, in the context of a full review of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000. That review is now underway. I will shortly publish material on my Department’s website, in furtherance of the review, and this will...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Derelict Sites Act 1990 local authorities are required to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not become or continue to be a derelict site. To this end, they have been given substantial powers under the Act in relation to any such sites, including powers to require specified...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (27 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Decisions on the eligibility of specific persons for social housing support and the allocation of that support are a matter solely for the housing authority concerned. Section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 requires all housing authorities to make an allocation scheme. The making and amendment of such an allocation scheme for social housing is a reserved function of...