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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I recently allocated some €19 million in respect of 25 remedial works projects which are currently on-going across 16 local authorities. All of the available funding has been committed at this stage. New projects will be considered in the context of the level of commitments and the funding available in 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: One of the conditions applying to the availability of local authority mortgages is that the applicant be a first time buyer. However, Section 92B of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 defines first time buyers as including a spouse to a marriage the subject of a decree of judicial separation, a deed of separation, a decree of divorce or a decree of nullity in the case of the first...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently considering possible mechanisms to address the matter of ongoing development planning by planning authorities that are proposed to be amalgamated or abolished. In the meantime, planning authorities must continue to meet their statutory obligations in regard to development planning until the matter is addressed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 353, 357, 358 and 373 together. As part of the work of the National Coordination Committee on Unfinished Housing Developments, which I chair, my Department conducted national surveys of unfinished developments in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The National Housing Development Survey 2012 revealed that 1,203 developments which had previously been included in the 2011...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL) and Dublin City Council are continuing to explore all options to further the economic objectives of the Ballymun Masterplan including the redevelopment of the privately owned Ballymun Shopping Centre and the adjoining lands owned by the Council. Planning permission for the redevelopment of the centre and the adjoining lands was granted in September...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation for homeless persons rests with the housing authorities . T he purposes for which housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 360 and 361 together. Under section 41 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, the duration of a planning permission (referred to as “the appropriate period”) is the period specified in the permission, or 5 years, whichever is longer. Section 42 provides that an application to extend the duration of the appropriate period must be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Funding (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: An outline proposal for securing the property referred to was included in the Regeneration Work Programme for 2013 as put forward by Sligo Borough Council. My Department requested that the Borough Council submit a detailed project appraisal for the proposed works. The matter will be further considered when this is received.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Grant Applications (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: On 22 February 2013 I announced capital allocations to local authorities under the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability amounting to €42.750 million. In allocating the available funding across all 34 city and county councils I did so in as transparent and as fair a way as possible. In framing the 2013 allocations, my Department wrote to each local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Decisions by An Bord Pleanala are binding and the validity of a decision taken by the Board may only be questioned by making an application for judicial review under Order 84 of the Rules of the Superior Courts. Any such application for judicial review does not involve the courts adjudicating on the merits of a proposed development from the perspectives of the proper planning and sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Employment Rights Issues (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Rural Resettlement Ireland Limited is a housing body approved under Section 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 for the purpose of the provision of housing relief. While my Department has provided financial support to Rural Resettlement Ireland and other not-for-profit organisations which provide advice, research, training and other supports ( including representative...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 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 available on my Department’s website www.environ.ie. The 2011 assessment of housing need, available on the website, provide s an analysis of housing need broken down by county, city, borough and town councils but data are not...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Our councillors did not do anything wrong.

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will do that.

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am happy to have the opportunity to summarise the position of the Government on the motion tabled by Deputy Finian McGrath and the Technical Group. I have listened with interest to Members on both sides of the House, as did my colleague the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, earlier this morning and last night. Indeed, the commitment of the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 163 and 172 together. The list of unfinished housing estates to be prescribed for purposes of a waiver from the local property tax has been compiled by local authorities utilising the categorisation in place in respect of the household charge, updated by reference to the National Housing Survey 2012. My Department has collated the data from local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The management and maintenance of properties owned by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) and decisions in relation to adaptations required to meets the needs of individual tenants are, in the first instance, matters for the housing body concerned. The AHB, as the de facto owner of the property, must consent to any adaptations carried out by a tenant. Where feasible, AHBs will endeavour to meet...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Repossessions (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Where repossession occurs it is only as a last resort, and my Department is aware that it generally involves those households in arrears who refuse to engage with the local authority lender. In the wake of the Dunne Judgment, where carrying out repossessions, local authorities have invoked the provisions of Section 11(5) of the Housing (scellaneous Provisions) Act 1992, which provides for a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Regulations (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: A Review of Effectiveness of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Ireland published by the EPA on 14 December, 2012, on behalf of the SEA statutory environmental authorities including my Department, found that SEA has proven to be a vital tool for environmental protection. In addition, an Action Plan 2012-2016 was also published which was drawn up by the SEA statutory environmental...