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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme funding is allocated each year to local authorities to support the provision of housing for older people and people with a disability under a range of measures, including the Local Authority Housing Construction and Acquisition Programme, the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) which focuses on providing accommodation for persons with...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 647 and 654 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. Work is proceeding on the preparation of the General Scheme of a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is provided to local authorities for a range of measures to improve the quality and standard of the social housing stock, including the regeneration of disadvantaged estates and flat complexes, estate-wide remedial works, the energy retrofitting of older properties and the provision of extensions and adaptations to meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Exemptions (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 provides the legislative basis for the household charge. Under the Act, an owner of a residential property on the liability date of 1 January 2012 is liable to pay the household charge, unless otherwise exempted or entitled to claim a waiver. Section 4(4)(b) and section 4(6) of the Act provide that a waiver from the charge applies in 2012 and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electricity Transmission Network (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 656 and 700 together. Neither I nor my Department have had discussions with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the Eirgrid proposals in question. I have no role in commenting on plans other than, under the Planning and Development Act 2000, the development plans and local area plans prepared by planning...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: While, as Minister, I am specifically precluded under the Planning and Development Acts, as amended, from involvement in any particular matter with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála may be concerned, I am aware of the comments of the Board Inspector in the report referred to. My Department is currently reviewing the Wind Energy Development Guidelines 2006 and while the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Flood Prevention Measures (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department understands from Kildare County Council that following the completion of significant works, undertaken by the Council, the matter is now largely resolved at catchment level.  Within the development other drainage works, which are the responsibility of the developer, remain to be completed.  The Council is continuing to work with the relevant parties to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Abridged Estimate for my Department, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in Expenditure Report 2014, includes some €28.6 million in respect of the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. This provision will be supplemented by the recently announced €10 million in additional funding for this measure, giving an overall provision...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (5 Nov 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Much of the information provided by a planning applicant on the planning application form and, where relevant, in response to a further information request will be checked by the planning authority in the course of its consideration of the application. The giving of false information by a developer could lead to a permission granted being deemed invalid by the courts.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department currently supports an ambitious approach to regeneration which seeks to address the causes of disadvantage in communities and large social housing estates through holistic programmes of physical, social and economic regeneration. This year, my Department is providing funding of over €31million in respect of regeneration projects in Dublin city, some €15 million of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is a matter for planning authorities to require applicants to provide sufficient data in order to assess planning applications and also to make decisions in relation to development contributions, and special contributions, where appropriate . Section 182B of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 (as amended) provides that An Bord Pleanála may attach a community benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is provided to local authorities for a range of measures to improve the quality and standard of the social housing stock . This year, my Department is providing funding of over €62 million to Dublin City Council in respect of their 2013 social housing programme. This includes €31m for regeneration...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: A range of reforms have been introduced in recent years in the provision and management of social housing, and some further initiatives are under way. Firstly, reforms have been introduced under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, notably in relation to the assessment of eligibility for social housing support, the allocation of local authority housing, the introduction of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government has provided an additional €10 million in Budget 2014 to assist the most problematic unfinished housing estates. Using this additional resource, I intend to develop a fund for the resolution of certain unfinished housing developments that have not been possible to resolve up to this point. The precise criteria under which the fund will be disbursed will be finalised...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (5 Nov 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 . Data on the number of local authority mortgage approvals are included in this range ; however these data are not broken down by local authority. The information requested is s et out in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Details of the funding provided to Westmeath County Council under the various measures included in my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme for the years 2011 and 2012 and the funding allocated in 2013 are set out in the following table: Measure 2011 Outturn 2012 Outturn 2013 Allocation Local Authority Housing 1,339,432 2,916,450 1,746,348 - - - -...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009, introduced a new approach to the sale of social housing whereby social housing tenants, including tenants of approved housing bodies, could acquire new local authority houses and existing apartments under the Incremental Purchase Scheme (IPS). The details of this scheme are avail able on my Department’s website, . There is no provision...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not fund any service directly but provides funding to housing authorities towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Housing authorities provide additional funding from their own resources. The Section 10 funding provided by my Department to housing authorities on a regional basis for the years...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (5 Nov 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 . Data on the numbers of unoccupied local authority houses are not included in this range. These data are, however, collected annually as part of the Local Government Management...