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

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not collect the information sought in the question. As Minister, my role is to provide the necessary statutory and policy framework within which individual development contribution schemes are adopted by each local authority. The adoption of individual development contribution schemes is a reserved function of the locally elected members of each planning authority. It is a...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 485 and 486 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 437 of 20 November 2012.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (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. A household may be determined to be in need of social housing support where, in accordance with the 2011 social housing assessment regulations, a housing authority considers that the household’s current accommodation is...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 488 and 491 together. 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. It also recognises the approved housing body sector as a key partner in the delivery of social housing solutions for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Legislative Programme (28 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Heads of a Housing Bill are currently being developed in my Department with a view to seeking Government approval to the drafting of the Bill as soon as possible. I have no plans to provide in the Bill for major changes to the new standard procedure for assessing applicants for social housing that came into force in April 2011 under section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions)...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (28 Nov 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: Traveller Accommodation (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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 identified housing need, rests with individual housing authorities. The detailed information requested in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Exemptions (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the process of preparing the National Housing Development Survey 2011, launched 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 — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have this week made regulations extending the final date for completion of sales under the 2011 Fixed-term Tenant Purchase Scheme for Long-standing Tenants from 31 December 2012 to 30 June 2013. This will facilitate the completion of sales in respect of which purchase applications were made by 31 December 2011 but the amending regulations do not permit any further purchase applications to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 466 of 13 November 2012, which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Services Regulation (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has no function in relation to the operation of property management companies and is not aware of any central database or a register of estates that are under the management of such companies . The Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011, under the remit of my colleague the Minister for Justice and Equality, regulates the management and operation of such companies.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Drug Treatment Programmes (29 Nov 2012)

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

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Following the publication of the Fitzgerald Report on addressing issues of social exclusion in Moyross and other disadvantaged areas of Limerick City the Government agreed to support a regeneration programme for key areas of Limerick City, including Moyross, Southill, Ballinacurra Weston and Kings Island/St. Mary’s Park. The Limerick Regeneration Agencies (Northside and Southside) were...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The €1 million fund has been used by the Office of Regeneration to support a broad range of social interventions within the regeneration areas, which heretofore had not been included for funding by the former Regeneration Agencies. The Office of Regeneration established an Assessment Committee, comprising of suitably skilled personnel, to assess applications against a pre-determined...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: This year my Department is providing €27.5 million to support ongoing regeneration in Limerick. Projected levels of activity in 2013 will be subject to the financial provisions for housing, which will be determined in the context of the 2013 Estimates process. Some €4 million of the overall 2012 capital allocation is being set aside for the purposes of supporting social...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Paragraph (1) of Regulation 22 of the Social Housing Assessment Regulations, 2011 provides that a household with alternative accommodation that would meet its housing need is ineligible for social housing support. Paragraph (2) of the Regulation effectively ensures that paragraph (1) does not operate to exclude from eligibility for social housing support an applicant who owns accommodation...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Asset Management Agency (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Since December 2011, NAMA has identified more than 3,800 properties as being potentially available for social housing. The local authorities and the Housing Agency are working systematically with NAMA to determine if there is a social housing demand for properties identified as potentially suitable for social housing, including the need for accommodation for those who are homeless. Where a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Asset Management Agency (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Stanley. First, all Members share a determination to ensure that as many of these unoccupied units as possible will become occupied and will become homes for people. However, I make the point, of which the Deputy probably already is aware, that not all the unfinished houses are in NAMA. Indeed, only a relatively small proportion of them actually are in NAMA. It is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Asset Management Agency (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are engaging regularly with NAMA and we push the agency all the time to ensure we get the best possible outcomes. We will put the various suggestions to NAMA. If we did not have a leasing system, there would be many more people on housing waiting lists. It is the most cost-effective way to house people in the current economic climate and we must use it. There are ongoing issues and we...

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The redevelopment of Knocknaheeney Block D, which comprised the comprehensive refurbishment of some 80 dwellings, the provision of new infill units, sheltered housing and the provision of community facilities, was completed over the past two years with substantial financial support from my Department. In light of the experience at Knocknaheeney Block D and the fact that over ten years had...