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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (6 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, statutory 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 individual housing authorities. My Department’s role is to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Housing Land Availability Survey is an annual survey undertaken by my Department which seeks information from local authorities to inform the publication of the amount of zoned residential land in their areas that is currently serviced. The published data from the 2011 survey, which is available on my Department’s website , indicates that there are currently 17,223 hectares of...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is ironic to hear Fianna Fáil speak about betrayals.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Take all the measures into account.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is exactly what we are doing.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is not true.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Fianna Fáil cut the social welfare rates by 8% in its last budget.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It was not quite like that.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Fianna Fáil lost the vote.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: We got it changed.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: We restored the minimum wage.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: We have taken €500 million from the rich.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are not the ones who put it on the people. We voted against the guarantee.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Kelleher has some neck after what he did to the country.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I heard somebody mention the 1977 general election.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (11 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: Local Authority Housing Rents (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 298 and 315 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 108 of 4 December 2012. The County and City Managers Association (CCMA), who are represented on the project Steering Group, provide ongoing advice in relation to the resources required by housing authorities to implement the new Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). This input will continue as the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am chairing the National Co-ordination Committee (NCC) on Unfinished Housing Developments to oversee implementation of the Report of the Advisory Group on Unfinished Housing Developments, together with the Government’s response to the recommendations. The Committee includes representatives from the Irish Banking Federation, local authorities, the Housing and Sustainable Communities...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently developing Heads for a new Housing Bill that will, among other things, provide for a revised procedure to replace section 62 of the Housing Act, 1966, thus enabling housing authorities to recover possession of their dwellings from households engaged in anti-social behaviour . I am also examining the scope for strengthening, in the Bill, the excluding order powers of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (11 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive), as amended by Directives 97/11/EC, 2003/35/EC and 2009/31/EC, has been transposed into Irish law primarily by means of the European Communities (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1989 to 1999, and they have also been...