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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 24: In page 48, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:“(3) In providing housing assistance to a qualified household in accordance with subsection (1), a housing authority shall ensure that, in respect of the financial year concerned, the aggregate of the authority’s payments of such assistance does not exceed the moneys made available to the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under this section the local authority will not have a legal obligation but there will be an administrative provision for the payment of the rent. The Private Residential Tenancies Board is the arbiter between the landlord and the tenant.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I think it is purely a legal provision because of the legal obligations. The local authority is paying the rent on behalf of the tenant but the relationship is between the landlord and the tenant.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will try to clarify it better on Report Stage.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: We wanted to give some time so that people would not be held up in getting a property because they had to wait for the local authority to inspect it. We need to prescribe the length of time and we will try to keep it as short as possible.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy, may I clarify that issue on Report Stage in view of the time constraints?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 26: In page 56, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“Review of certain decisions 46.(1) Other than in respect of decisions on a review under this section, the Minister may prescribe one or more than one class of decision made by a housing authority under this Part (in this section referred to as a “prescribed decision”) to which this...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Ombudsman's office is available in these circumstances also.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 27: In page 57, to delete lines 6 to 20 and substitute the following:“ “(5A) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), a household in receipt of social housing support shall cease to be eligible for such support where⁠—(i) in the preceding 3 years, the household or a household member was in arrears of rent, rent contributions, charges, fees or any other...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 28: In page 57, line 36, to delete "subsection."," and substitute the following:"subsection.(c) In this subsection 'specified form of social housing support' means social housing support of a kind referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (d) of section 19(2).",".The amendment to section 46(2)(f) is necessary to insert a definition of "specified form of social housing support"...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 29: In page 58, to delete lines 3 to 6 and substitute the following:“ “(2) (a) In this section references to rent include a rent contribution payable by a tenant under a Chapter 4 tenancy agreement. (b) In this section, other than subsection (6)(h), references to rent include a rent contribution payable under section 42 of the Housing (Miscellaneous...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: No. It is purely to provide for transitional arrangements in respect of the proposed new rent schemes that will gradually be put in place. There will be a three-year period - up to 2017 - during which those schemes must be introduced. The change in respect of HAP recipients will happen immediately. Regardless of the local authority areas in which they reside, in future, one-person...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The purpose of the amendment is to make provision for a transitional period during which the new rent schemes will be gradually introduced. In some instances, people are paying below what is going to be the standard for particular types of household while, in others, they are paying above that amount.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are governance structures in place which detail how the housing assistance payment project is to be managed, including in the context of development, implementation and monitoring. Detailed business processes within which the roll-out of the scheme must operate have been developed. It is intended to review the pilot phase by the end of 2014. Said review will involve consideration of...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: We would never exclude the Deputy from anything.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: We will be addressing that at a later stage but-----

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are working with the County and City Management Agency with regard to the business case and I presume issues of staffing will arise in that context. We will learn from the roll-out this year in terms of those operational issues. We will come back to the Deputy on that.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: It depends on where there is an adequate number of staff in various places but I will revert to the committee and we can discuss it at year end when we have a better picture.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 31: In page 59, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “Definition (Part 5) 49. In this Part “Act of 2005” means the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005.”.These are four linked amendments with amendment No. 48 being the substantive amendment. That amendment inserts a new section 50 into the Bill making a range of amendments to the...