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Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2014)

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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (10 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under section 3 of the Foreshore Act 1933, a licence is required to harvest seaweed from State owned foreshore.  A number of foreshore licences have been granted for the harvesting of seaweed and a further 10 applications are currently under assessment by my Department. The applications currently before my Department vary considerably and are made by both individual and commercial...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Application Numbers (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 393, 413 to 418, inclusive, and 431 together. There are currently two mortgage-to-rent schemes in operation through my Department. A scheme exists whereby a local authority (L A ) can acquire ownership of properties with unsustainable local authority mortgages thus enabling the household to remain in their home as a social housing tenant (LA-...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Foreshore Act 1933 defines foreshore as the bed and shore, below the line of high water of ordinary or medium tides, of the sea and of every tidal river and tidal estuary and of every channel, creek and bay of the sea or of any such river or estuary and the outer limit of the foreshore is to be determined in accordance with section 1A of the Foreshore Act. The State Property Act 1954...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are 2 consented offshore windfarm developments off the East Coast, both located off the coast of County Wicklow at the Arklow Bank and the Codling Bank, respectively. The foreshore lease for the Arklow offshore windfarm was granted in 2002 for the development of a 520 MW windfarm. To date, only 7 turbines with a combined generating capacity totalling 25.2 MW have been installed.The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Rental Costs and Controls (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 398 and 410 together. The private rented sector is an increasingly important element of the housing market , with the proportion of households in the sector almost doubling in the period 2006-2011. Approximately 1 in 5 households are now renting their home in the private sector. Against this background, the growing evidence of increasing rents,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Land Acquisition (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no function in relation to the matter raised in the Question.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Turbary Rights (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under planning legislation all development requires planning permission unless specifically exempted. Class 17 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, provides that peat extraction in a new or extended area of less than 10 hectares, or peat extraction in a new or extended area of 10 hectares or more, where the drainage of the bogland commenced...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 423 and 437 together. My Department, the Housing Agency and NAMA continue to work together with housing authorities and approved housing bodies in identifying suitable NAMA housing units and bringing them into social housing use. By the end of March 2014, 4,653 units have been identified by NAMA as being potentially suitable for social housing and of these...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department’s Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) provides funding to approved housing bodies of up to 100% of the approved costs of accommodation for people with specific categories of housing need, including people with a disability. My Department’s involvement with the CAS relates primarily to the provision of funds for individual projects. The detailed administration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 427 and 436 together. My Department understands that ‘top up’ payments under the rent supplement scheme fall into two specific categories – those that are specifically approved by the Department of Social Protection, where a person has additional income above the rate of supplementary welfare allowance which would allow additional rent...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 428 and 429 together. My Department publishes a wide range of housing statistics, including data, broken down by local authority, relating to housing units delivered, and amounts paid to local authorities in lieu of land transfers, under Part V of th e Planning and Development Acts. The statistics concerned are available on my Department’s website at:

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 sets out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants in the private rented residential sector. The Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Act to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants in the sector. The PRTB replaces the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Budget 2014 contains a special provision, in the form of a targeted €10m Special Resolution Fund (SRF), to assist further in addressing the legacy of unfinished housing developments. The SRF has been proposed to encourage the resolution of the remaining tranche of unfinished developments identified in the National Housing Development Survey 2013 and, particularly, those developments...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 377 of 1 April, 2014. My Department is giving consideration to the detailed issues to be addressed with regard to the establishment of the Office of the Planning Regulator, including those raised in the Question, in the preparation of the forthcoming General Scheme of a new Planning and Development Bill. It is intended that the General Scheme of the new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 438 and 439 together. The report on the 2011 Housing Needs Assessment, contains details on waiting list numbers for each local authority which were recorded from 1993 to 2011 under the tri-annual social housing needs assessment carried out under Section 9 of the Housing Act 1988. The report is available on my Department’s website at . The latest...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department publishes a wide range of housing statistics, including data on the number of social housing units provided broken down by area and year . The statistics concerned are available on my Department’s website at . I expect the final output across all social housing programmes for 2014 to be in the region of 5,000 new housing units as set out in the following table. ...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Policy (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Report of the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (CEDRA) was launched yesterday by An Taoiseach , Enda Kenny, in the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park , Co Mayo, and is available on my Department’s website, and the website of the Commission, . I am committed to working together with my colleagues in Government and other...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Since 1st January 2007 local authorities have delegated sanction to fund expenditure on improvement works to the local authority housing stock out of Internal Capital Receipts (ICR’s). The ICR-funded work programme is carried out on a county-at-large basis and is subject to annual approval by my Department. It is a matter for the local authority to determine the nature and location of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (15 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation for homeless persons and related services rests with housing authorities. The purposes for which...