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- Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy exaggerates.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I responded to the Deputy on the previous occasion. I reiterate the 15% deduction is the total deduction and includes any social welfare overpayments. I clarified this previously. Deputy Boyd Barrett gave a very good illustration of why deduction at source is a good idea. Last week he presented a case where a man was not paying rent but the rest of his family thought he was. The family...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: There is nothing about any list in the Bill.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: No. I have already stated that people will be eligible for a transfer.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: There is nothing about lists in legislation.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I am fully awake.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: No. It is not a change.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: The same issues apply to rent allowance.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: We are doing it.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (19 Jun 2014)
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 these data are available on my Department’s website at .In July 2014, my Department will commence collating figures for the number of social housing starts for the first six months of the year as informed by local authorities. These data will be...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the landlord-tenant relationship in the private rented residential sector and sets out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants relating to, inter alia,security of tenure and the termination of tenancies. The Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Act to operate a national...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: While in general a household must be in receipt of rent supplement for 18 months or more to qualify for the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS), the 18 month threshold is a ‘rule of thumb’ to try to distinguish between persons who are seeking a short term income support and those who have a long term housing need. Housing authorities do, on occasion, accept households on to RAS...
- Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Order for Report Stage (24 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I did not say that at all.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I explained on Committee Stage that these amendments duplicate a power already provided through the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 to housing authorities and the Minister. Section 22 of that Act provides that a housing authority can determine the order of priority in which it makes allocations to individual households in accordance with its allocation scheme. Subsection (5)...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: Yes.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: People will retain their priority and will be placed on a transfer list. The reason they will be on the transfer list is because they will be in receipt of social housing support through the local authority system.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I have just read it out but I can give it to the Deputy in writing if she so wishes.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I will provide for it by way of regulation.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: If they are still on rent supplement-----