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Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (2 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Tóibín for raising this matter. While different personal, financial and social reasons can contribute to a person becoming homeless, for those involved the effects on their personal life are similarly traumatic and disabling. Societally, the ramifications of homelessness are also equally as destructive and costly. For this reason, I am strongly focused on achieving...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (2 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I do recognise that it is a real problem. I am examining whether something can be done to address it in the next piece of legislation relevant to this area. The problem is that for a person to get onto a local authority housing list he or she must establish that he or she has a long term housing need. In many of the cases involved, a person's name may, at the point of registering as having...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (2 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 163 and 164 together. In Resolving Unfinished Housing Developments Annual Progress Report on Actions to Address Unfinished Housing Developments which was published in November 2013, and which is available on the website of the Housing Agency, , it is apparent that there is a cohort of, mainly unoccupied, housing developments that do not appear to have long...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: What was it in 2010?

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Fianna Fáil slashed it as well.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is because of the straitjacket in which your party left us.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: So are we, but-----

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: We did.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I could give the Deputy the explanation again. The grant increased last year compared with the previous year.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is not true.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----from local authorities.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will tell the Deputy why the money was missing for three years - he agreed to it.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: It was the Deputy's party that put the three years of constraints on us.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: We never blamed them for the bad weather.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish I had.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Does the Deputy want us to nationalise their debt as well, as was done with the banks?

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank all those who contributed to the debate which has been wide-ranging across the political spectrum. Deputy Derek Nolan described it as a perfect storm. We are in a position where we have the overhang of the collapse of the economy where the construction industry is not meeting the demand for public and private housing. Our capital budget was slashed and we could do nothing for about...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Expenditure (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department currently supports an ambitious programme of regeneration which seeks to address the causes of disadvantage in communities and large social housing estates and flat complexes through holistic programmes of physical, social and economic regeneration. In 2013, some €70 million was recouped in respect of regeneration programmes at Ballymun, Dublin City, Cork City, Limerick...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (3 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Approved housing bodies (AHBs) are organisations approved under section 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 to provide social housing support in conjunction with local authorities. These organisations can include co-operative housing bodies. Since the late 1980s, close to 25,000 units of accommodation have been provided under capital funding schemes underpinned by 20 and 30...