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Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: What about what Sinn Féin is doing in Northern Ireland?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the terms of the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, grants are available to assist households to have necessary repairs, adaptations or improvement works carried out in order to meet the accommodation needs of an older person or a person with a disability. The suite of grants include three separate grant measures; the Mobility Aids Grant...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The project concerned no longer operates as a mainstreamed drugs project under my Department's housing programme. However, I understand that Dublin City Council has provided funding of €30,000 to support the Project in question during 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Ownership (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 561 and 562 together. The Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 and 2009 apply to every dwelling that is the subject of a tenancy. The definition of “dwelling” in section 4(1) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 excludes a structure that is not permanently attached to the ground and a vessel and a vehicle (whether mobile or not). In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 563, 590 and 591 together. The Wind Energy Development Guidelines, which were published by my Department on 29 June 2006, provide advice to planning authorities on catering for wind energy through the development plan process. The guidelines are also intended to ensure a consistency of approach throughout the country in the identification of suitable...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 567 and 568 together. In August 2000, the nister for the Marine and Natural Resources granted foreshore licences to ‘The Kish Consortium’ to assess the suitability of a site on the Kish and Bray Banks for the construction of an offshore electricity generating station. The licences were valid from 2 April 2001 for 4 years and allowed the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Funding for the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) is provided by a transfer of monies from the Department of Social Protection’s Vote to the Vote of my Department. Monies are provided on an Exchequer neutral basis to meet the costs of persons transferring from the Supplementary Welfare Allowance Rent Supplement Scheme to the RAS, including an amount for the administration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government’s National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016 sets out the broad framework for the delivery of housing supports for people with disabilities. The Strategy aims to support people with various disabilities to live more independently in their own homes rather than having to move into residential care , including by providing person centred community...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 576 and 577 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Capital allocations to local authorities under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme are made on a county-at-large basis. On 1 March 2013, I announced a capital allocation to Wicklow County Council of €4,105,762. A breakdown of allocation across six principal measures is set out in the following table: Measure Allocation Social Housing Construction and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is provided to local authorities for the construction or acquisition of dwellings to meet social housing need. On 8 November 2012, my Department recouped €380,725 to Wicklow County Council in respect of the acquisition of two properties at the location in question.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 all housing authorities are required to make an allocation scheme (in place of a scheme of letting priorities) for social housing. The making and amendment of such an allocation scheme is a reserved function of the elected members of each housing authority. The social housing allocation regulations 2011, which came into...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 595 and 605 together. While the 1995 tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses closed for new applications on 31 December 2012, two incremental purchase schemes remain in operation, one for newly-built local authority houses and the other for local authority apartments. It is intended to advance the necessary legislative proposals as soon...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take questions Nos. 596 and 630 together. Each housing authority is responsible, under section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, for the management and maintenance of its housing stock. It would be inappropriate for me to comment on management issue s relating to particular dwellings as I have no statutory function in individual cases. Housing authorities have a range of statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My replies to parliamentary questions Nos. 167 of 29 May 2013 and 183 of 30 May 2013 clearly set out the position in relation to the appeal of planning permissions granted by planning authorities and the role of An Bord Pleanála in ensuring that decisions on appeal respect the principles of proper planning and sustainable development. It may not be legally or constitutionally feasible...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Derelict Sites Act 1990, local authorities are required to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not become or continue to be a derelict site. To this end they have been given substantial powers under the Act in relation to any such sites, including powers to require specified...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Collection (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The position in this matter is as outlined in the response to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 30 May 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Retail Planning and accompanying Retail Design Manual which I published on 1 May 2012 are aimed at: - ensuring that the planning system plays a key role in supporting competitiveness in the retail sector; - advancing choice for the consumer while promoting and supporting the vitality and viability of city and town centres; and, - contributing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (11 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The making and amending of rent schemes is the responsibility of local authorities, subject to broad principles laid down by my Department. It is a matter for local authorities, when assessing individual households, to consider whether rents payable are in accordance with the authority’s rent scheme. Therefore, decisions on whether or not to disregard either a proportion of income...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2013)

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 optimises the delivery of social housing and the return for the resources invested. To achieve this, it is essential that we...