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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: If I did not ask the local authorities to provide 20% of this funding, I would have less money to go around. This is a way of trying to ensure we have as much money as possible for a limited fund and we want the money to go to those who most need it. The upper limit for the disabled person's grant is €30,000 while the threshold for the elderly person's grant has been reduced from...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Local authorities need to address that issue in terms of how they manage the funding they receive. As far as we are concerned, we make the allocation as fair as we can. Local authorities make different decisions about how they spend that money.

Topical Issue Debate: Foreshore Licence Applications (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Pearse Doherty for raising the matter. I know of his interest in it. He referred to a number of parliamentary questions on it. Proposals for activity and development on the foreshore vary greatly in terms of their nature, scale and complexity, and the time required to determine applications varies accordingly. There is a long and complicated history to this. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreshore Licence Applications (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Officials from my Department intend to meet representatives of the offices of the Chief State Solicitor and the Attorney General in the near future. I will check that the issue is followed up as quickly as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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 authorities. My Department’s role is to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I announced details of capital allocations totalling € 38.4 million to local authorities under the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability on 16 January. I have increased the level of funding available for the grant schemes by 12% in 2014. Every local authority will receive increased funding for grants compared to the initial allocation in 2013. Dublin City...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department, the Housing Agency and NAMA continue to work together with housing authorities and approved housing bodies towards identifying suitable NAMA housing units and bringing them into social housing use. It continues to be my Department's objective to maximise the delivery of social housing using all of the resources available. By the end of December 2013, of the 4,374 units...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Portfolio (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department, the Housing Agency and NAMA continue to work together with housing authorities and approved housing bodies towards identifying suitable NAMA housing units and bringing them into social housing use. It continues to be my Department's objective to maximise the delivery of social housing using all of the resources available. To that end, I have contacted each housing authority...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: In 2013 my Department provided funding of over €6 million to Kildare County Council in respect of their social housing investment programmes which included €3.64 million for the purchase of properties to meet housing need. This year, in addition to the funding levels set out in the Abridged Estimates 2014 in respect of my Department’s social housing investment...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Budget 2014 contains a special provision, in the form of a targeted €10 m Special Resolution Fund (SRF), to further assist in addressing the legacy of unfinished housing developments. The Local Government (Household Charge) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 prescribe such developments, 58 of which are located in Co. Kildare. The SRF has been proposed to encourage the resolution of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (22 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 500 of 15 January, 2014 which sets out the position on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (23 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the Dublin City Council area NAMA has identified 628 units as being potentially suitable for social housing. Of these, 247 units were available for consideration and confirmed as suitable by Dublin City Council. At 31 December 2013, the number of these units completed or contracted was 115. My Department, the Housing Agency and NAMA continue to work together with housing authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment Issues (23 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Where an application for a development by a local authority was accompanied by an environmental impact statement and the development has been approved by An Bord Pleanála under section 175 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, it is not possible to reopen the environmental impact assessment in relation to that development. The question of the upgrading of adjoining roads is a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Advice has been sought by my Department from the Attorney General’s Office in regard to potential amendments to section 261A of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (further regulation of quarries). I expect that this advice will be provided shortly, and I will give further consideration to the position in light of the advice received.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (23 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Land Aggregation Scheme (LAGS) was introduced in 2010 as part of revised arrangements for the funding of land for social housing purposes. An estimated total loan value of €162m was approved for inclusion in the Scheme in respect of 73 sites in nineteen local authority areas. The figure of €162m includes €111m in respect of loans which were fully redeemed by local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (23 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 500 of 15 January, 2014 which sets out the position on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Application Numbers (23 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Details of the Exchequer allocations to local authorities in respect the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability for 2014 are set out in the following table. The schemes are funded by 80% recoupments available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the resources of the local authority.  - 2014 Local Authority Exchequer Allocation Carlow...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (23 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: In 2013 my Department provided funding of over €6 million to Kildare County Council in respect of their social housing investment programmes which included €3.64 million for the purchase of properties to meet housing need. This year, in addition to the funding levels set out in the Abridged Estimates 2014 in respect of my Department’s social housing investment...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The requirements in relation to the plans, drawings and maps required to accompany an application for permission under section 34 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 are set out in Articles 22 and 23 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001. Detailed structural specifications for the proposed development are not required to be submitted as part of the planning application....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Coastal Protection (28 Jan 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Coastal protection works above the high water line are considered to be “development” for the purposes of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and therefore generally require planning permission. In the event that the works are to be carried out by a local authority, they will not require planning permission, but will require the approval of the elected members of the local...