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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 15:In page 26, line 15, to delete “under this section” and substitute “referred to in subsection (2)”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 16:In page 26, lines 19 and 20, to delete “, or as the case may be the sub-tenant,”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 17:In page 26, lines 32 and 33, to delete “or the sub-tenant”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 18:In page 26, lines 44 and 45, to delete “or sub-tenant”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 19:In page 27, to delete lines 4 to 10 and substitute the following:“(8) Where the dwelling the subject of a tenancy is one out of which a subtenancy has been created, the landlord shall, when referring the complaint to the Board under subsection (2), notify the sub-tenant accordingly.”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 20:In page 27, to delete line 31 and substitute the following:“115(3). (14) Part 2 of the Schedule has effect for the purpose of the referral of a complaint referred to in subsection (2) in the case of a sub-tenancy.”.”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 21:In page 27, line 40, to delete “or a sub-tenant”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 22:In page 29, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:58.--Section 123 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (8):“(9) For the avoidance of doubt, the reference in subsection (1) to the determination of an adjudicator under section 97 includes a determination under section 76A of a complaint referred to in section...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 23:In page 29, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:60.--The Schedule to the Principal Act is amended--(a) by substituting the following for “SCHEDULE”:“SCHEDULE PART 1”,and (b) by inserting the following after paragraph 8:“PART 2 REFERRAL OF COMPLAINT UNDER SECTION 76A IN CASE OF SUB-TENANCY 1. Where the dwelling the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 29:In page 31, between lines 8 and 9 to insert the following:“Section 32(1) Substitute “Part 1 of the Schedule” for “The Schedule”. Section 75(2) Substitute “Part 1 of the Schedule” for “the Schedule”.”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 30:In page 31, after line 12 to insert the following:“ Paragraph 3(d) of the Schedule Insert “1A,” after “paragraph 1,”. ”.This is a technical drafting amendment, the purpose of which is to insert a reference to paragraph 1A of the table to section 30 into paragraph 3(d) of the Schedule to the 2004 Act. This is consequential on...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank all Members who have participated in the debates on this Bill. While there are not many Deputies present, we had lively debates on Second and Committee Stage. This is important legislation and, as I indicated, I will table substantial amendments regarding deposit protection on Committee Stage in the Seanad.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 445, 446 and 474 together. In March 2012, the Government approved in principle the transfer of responsibility for recipients of rent supplement with an established housing need from the Department of Social Protection (DSP) to local authorities using a new Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). My Department and the Department of Social Protection have been...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Application Numbers (18 Jul 2013)

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: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, local authorities are allocated funding each year in respect of a range of measures to improve the standard and overall quality of their social housing stock, including funding for extensions and adaptations to meet the needs of older people and people with a disability. Details of the funding provided to local authorities in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not fund any service directly but recoups expenditure to housing authorities, under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988, in respect of the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services. The National Implementation Plan for the Homeless Strategy provided for the development of a more devolved allocation-based system for the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (18 Jul 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: Planning Issues (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I issued Planning and Development (Planning Enforcement) Policy Directive 2013 to all planning authorities under section 29 of the Planning and Development Act, as amended, in May 2013. Section 29 specifies that the Minister may, from time to time, issue policy directives to planning authorities regarding any of their functions under this Act. It also specifies that planning authorities shall...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the process of preparing the National Housing Development Survey 2011, local authorities provided details of all unfinished housing developments in their areas. The list of developments in which households are eligible for the waiver in 2012 is set out under the Local Government (Household Charge) Regulations 2012. An exemption from the local property tax applies to developments...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 180 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 applies to estates which have been granted planning permission and includes the construction of two or more houses (which as defined in the Act includes apartments) and the provision of new roads, open spaces, car parks, sewers, watermains or drains. In relation to estates which have been completed to the satisfaction of the planning...