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Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I visited the programme earlier this year and I felt that it was going well. It is working, residents are moving out to allow for demolition and they are staying within their own communities, etc. I felt that there was a positive response in Cork to it. We will be allocating further funding next year and the year after to ensure that we continue with the programme. I have an element of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government’s housing policy statement, published in June 2011, sets out a vision for the future of the housing sector based on choice, fairness, equity across tenures and delivering quality outcomes for the resources invested. Consistent with the Government’s commitment to equity across tenures, I will not incentivise one form of tenure over another but rather will seek to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Two types of house purchase loan are available from local authorities: standard annuity loans targeted at lower income first time buyers and those under the Home Choice Loan scheme which are available to qualifying middle income first time buyers affected by the “credit crunch”. The terms and conditions governing the operation, including eligibility terms, of annuity mortgages...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The ongoing programme of social housing reform for which I am responsible includes reviewing the implementation of the Social Housing (Allocation) Regulations 2011. These regulations set out the matters that housing authorities must deal with in their allocation schemes. My intention is to put a greater emphasis on "time on the list" as a criterion for allocating local authority housing,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009, introduced a new approach to the sale of social housing whereby social housing tenants, including tenants of approved housing bodies, could acquire new local authority houses and existing apartments under the Incremental Purchase Scheme (IPS). The details of this scheme are available on my Department’s website www.environ.ie. There is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: While the Government has made significant progress in this area by reducing the number of unfinished housing developments by 37% since 2010, the issues faced by the residents of the Gleann Riada development are a particularly severe example of the problems caused by unfinished housing developments across the country. An explosion occurred within a private house in this development in March...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In March 2012 the Government approved in principle a joint proposal by the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government and the Minister for Social Protection to transfer responsibility for recipients of rent supplement with an established long-term housing need from the Department of Social Protection (DSP) to local (housing) authorities. The new service would be provided using a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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.I am determined to ensure that the social housing programme is framed in a manner which optimises the delivery of social housing and the return for the resources invested. To achieve...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: On foot of the recommendations of the Keane Report on mortgage arrears the Government launched a mortgage to rent scheme on a pilot basis in February 2012. This scheme was extended nationally in June 2012, targeting those low income families whose mortgage situation is unsustainable and where there is little or no prospect of a significant change in circumstances in the foreseeable future....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are no proposals with my Department for a regeneration project at the location in question.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Services (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 180 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 applies to estates which have been granted planning permission and includes the construction of two or more houses (which as defined in the Act includes apartments) and the provision of new roads, open spaces, car parks, sewers, watermains or drains. In relation to estates which have been completed to the satisfaction of the planning...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Proposals are being prepared in my Department for legislation to underpin a new scheme for the sale of existing local authority houses to tenants. The scheme will be based on the incremental purchase model, involving discounts for tenants based on household income and a discount-related charge on the property that will dwindle away over a period unless the house is resold or the tenant...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no function in relation to the matter raised. Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010, I am specifically precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL) was established by Dublin City Council in 1997, under the Companies' Acts, following a Government decision that year to demolish the flat blocks and replace them with standard housing as part of the social and economic regeneration of the area as a whole. BRL’s principal objects are, inter alia, to prepare plans for the redevelopment and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 applies to every residential dwelling that is the subject of a tenancy and that does not fall within any of the exemption categories set out in Section 3 of the Act. Section 134 of the Act places a legal obligation on the landlords of such dwellings to apply to the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) to register the tenancies and such application is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In August 2012, my Department approved funding totalling €91,753.40 to cover the cost of addressing immediate public safety concerns in respect of this development. It is now clear that, building on existing analysis, a comprehensive assessment and plan is required, and is being evolved by the local authority, to determine the cause or causes of the difficulties with this development...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Exchequer allocations for 2012 totalling some €54.2 million were notified to local authorities in February 2012 in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability. Of this, €1,657,892 was allocated to Fingal County Council and to date €1,387,654 has been recouped to the Council. Following a request for additional funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Statistics (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy and these data are available on my Department's website . While my Department collates data on the completion of different housing types - single house, scheme house and apartment - we do not gather data on the construction method used.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 401, 413 and 414 together. Local authorities have long been the lenders of last resort servicing the housing loans needs of less affluent members of society. In the present economic circumstances it is to be anticipated that the ability of some borrowers to service housing loans may become restricted and that a number of loans may fall into arrears. Section...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 179 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, and the associated Part 8 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, set out the legal requirements in relation to local authority own development which does not require environmental impact assessment. Where a planning authority proposes to carry out development in accordance with Part 8 the Manager of the planning authority must...

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