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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department’s role with regard to Travellers relates primarily to accommodation issues. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Statistics (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing and planning statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy and those data are avail able on my Department’s website, Data on the number of local authority and voluntary and co-operative units delivered are included as part of that range. Data from 2012 are still being finalised and will be released in due...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, the management and maintenance of the local authority housing stock, including the carrying out of routine and planned maintenance programmes to properties and estates, is the responsibility of the relevant housing authority. Housing and estate maintenance programmes are funded directly by local authorities from their own resources, including from...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Seventh Annual Report on Service Indicators, published by the Local Government Management Services Board in August 2012, which details service indicators in local authorities in 2010, provides a range of information in relation to the social housing stock in each local authority. Specific information is provided with regard to vacant housing units and on the average number of weeks taken...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dublin City Development Plan (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Specific responsibility for the planning and delivery of the North and South Fringe development rests, respectively, with Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council. Dublin City Council adopted its Dublin City Development Plan 2011-2017 and Fingal County Council adopted its Fingal Development Plan 2011-2017 both of which set out statutory objectives for the development of the North and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 434 and 437 together. A wide range of property-based tax relief schemes was introduced up to the mid 2000’s including town renewal and living over the shop schemes. While many important developments were encouraged by these schemes, independent reviews concluded that the tax costs of the initiatives were high relative to the outputs achieved. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not hold information on the number of households on local authorities’ waiting lists. This figure continually 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: Local Authority Development Schemes (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: As Minister of State 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 these schemes is a reserved function of the locally elected members of each planning authority. It is a matter for the members to determine the level of contribution and the types of development to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (12 Mar 2013)

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. These schemes, introduced in November 2007, are funded by 80% recoupments available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the resources of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (12 Mar 2013)

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. These schemes, introduced in November 2007, are funded by 80% recoupments available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (12 Mar 2013)

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. These schemes, introduced in November 2007, are funded by 80% recoupments available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department continues to work closely with Monaghan County Council on the delivery of its ambitious remedial works project at the Mullaghmatt Estate. Funding of over €10 million has been approved for remedial works on this estate to date, including €1.5 million approved in respect of Phase 3 of the project which is due to commence mid-year. I recently allocated...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Development Levies (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The role of the Minister in regard to development contributions is to provide the necessary statutory and policy framework within which individual development contribution schemes are adopted by each local authority. The adoption of these schemes is a reserved function of the locally elected members of each planning authority. It is a matter for the members to determine the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The facility for any member of the public to participate in the planning process by making an observation or a submission on a planning application is a fundamental and long-standing feature of the planning system in this country. In the Planning and Development Act 2000 increased rights were given to third parties in that planning authorities are statutorily obliged to acknowledge...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 148 together. Housing authorities have a range of statutory housing powers to assist them in tackling anti-social behaviour in their housing stock. These powers include the power to refuse to allocate, or to refuse to sell, a dwelling to a person engaged in anti-social behaviour and the power to seek a court order excluding a person engaged in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the tenant-landlord relationship in the private rented residential sector. The Act sets out the obligations of tenants and landlords in the sector and the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) is the independent statutory body charged with the administration of the Act and the enforcement of those obligations. Section 128 of the Act...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Management Company Issues (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 144 and 145 together. My Department has no function in relation to the operation of property management companies. The Multi Unit Developments Act 2011, which falls 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: Local Authority Services (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 150 and 151 together. The information sought is not available in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The review of Part V of the Planning and Development Acts announced in the context of the standing down of affordable housing schemes as part of the Government’s housing policy statement will include an examination of the operational aspects of the shared ownership scheme. That review is currently advanced and I expect the consultants’ report that informs the review will be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The 1995 tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses closed for new applications on 31 December 2012. I intend to advance the necessary legislative proposals as soon as possible to replace that scheme with a new incremental purchase scheme , involving discounts for tenants linked to household income and a discount-related charge on the property that will dwindle away over a...