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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Remit (28 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The main statutory provisions in this regard are set out in sections 147 to 150 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000. These create the overall framework and section 150 , in particular, provides for a Code of Conduct incorporating this framework. Declarations are recorded in accordance with these requirements. The Code of Conduct is available to be viewed on the Board's website (). It...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (28 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Provisions governing mortgage lending by local authorities are set out under the Housing (Local Authority Loans) Regulations 2009 and associated credit policy. To ensure effective targeting of resources, loan finance continues to be available to first time buyers only. No scheme currently exists which allows for the transfer of a loan to another property. An individual is however free to seek...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (28 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: There is no tenant purchase scheme currently open for applications under section 90 of the Housing Act 1966. Parts 3 and 4 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, which underpin incremental purchase schemes in operation for new local authority houses and local authority apartments, respectively, contain similar provisions applying to the resale of a dwelling during the period...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (28 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: In May 2000 my Department approved a proposal submitted by Dublin City Council for the acquisition, by Respond! Housing Association, of High Park Convent, Grace Park Road, Dublin 9, for the construction of accommodation for elderly and homeless persons. My Department subsequently approved funding under the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) in December 2001, for the refurbishment of the building...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (28 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am chairing the National Co-ordination Committee 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 Agency,...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Broughan for raising this issue. It is a critical issue for me as well as for Deputy Broughan and I strongly support the issue of construction whenever we have the funds to do it. I realise it is a particular problem in Dublin. This morning I met Dublin City Council assistant manager, Mr. Dick Brady, whom Deputy Broughan mentioned, and his officials regarding homelessness....

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The last matter referred to by the Deputy is a matter for Dublin City Council. Different councils do things different in ways, but I hear what Deputy Broughan is saying. engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin on the construction of houses. Deputy Broughan will be pleased to know that at the Labour Party parliamentary party meeting this morning we had a...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: It was the backbenchers and the frontbenchers, but unfortunately Deputy Broughan was not there.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister, Deputy Burton is carrying out a review of rent supplement. I am not here to answer for her. We intend to transfer that clientele to the local authorities in the near future. I recently launched a housing-led policy on homelessness. All the research shows that if we can get people into homes as soon as possible rather than hostels for long periods of time that is a much more...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (29 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: An exemption from the local property tax applies to developments listed in the schedule to the Finance (Local Property Tax) Regulations 2013. The list of unfinished housing developments eligible for the exemption was compiled by local authorities utilising the categorisation employed for the purposes of the National Housing Survey 2012. The Survey was carried out over the course of summer...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (29 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The revised post-2002 shared ownership scheme provides for a mechanism where by the rent al equity is treated as a capital loan and the interest rate charged is the standard local authority mortgage rate. This rental equity repayment is remitted against the local authority loan for that equity. In circumstances where the rental payments remitted exceed the interest due on the loan, the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended) provides that an applicant for permission and any person who made submissions or observations in writing in relation to the planning application to the planning authority in accordance with the permission regulations and on payment of the appropriate fee, may, at any time before the expiration of the period of four weeks beginning on the day...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (29 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 173 and 174 together. Under my Department’s Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) funding is provided to Approved Housing Bodies, through the local authorities, for the provision of accommodation for persons with specific categories of housing need, including older persons, persons with a disability or homeless persons. In June 2012 my Department invited...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (30 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The requirement to reduce public expenditure to sustainable levels is impacting on capital programmes all across the public service, including my Department’s housing capital programme. The level of capital funding available has declined significantly in recent years along the lines highlighted in the Medium Term Exchequer Framework for Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 167 of 29 May which set out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (30 May 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. This year I allocated local authorities the full amount of their contractual commitments which, in the case of Mayo County Council, amounted to €1,658,576 . The balance of the available funding was...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (30 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department understands that any such work would be carried out by Fingal County Council in accordance with Part 8 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 and my consent/approval is not therefore required.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am very pleased to be here to take Committee Stage of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012. Any healthy society with a well run economy needs a balanced housing sector in order to address the needs of various types of household and their different needs. Among the many reforms required is more equitable treatment of tenures. The legislation before the select...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, subsection (2), line 33, to delete "sections 10 and 43" and substitute "sections 10, 43 and 45".These are technical drafting amendments to provide for the amendment of the collective citations for the Housing Acts and the Residential Tenancies Act. They are a consequence of amendment No. 54 which amends the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 and...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 May 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, subsection (3), line 1, to delete "sections 10 and 43" and substitute "sections 10, 43 and 45".