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Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: Persons in receipt of rent supplementation are eligible for the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. Some recipients of rent supplement have part-time work or participate in community employment schemes. These persons would be eligible to transfer to RAS if they are deemed to have a long-term housing need. Following transfer to RAS, persons may obtain full-time employment and remain within the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: This High Court case, to which my Department was not a party, related to the terms for the purchase by certain tenants of maisonettes from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The resulting judgment is being examined by my Department with a view to identifying any need to amend regulations or guidance to local authorities in consequence of the judgment. Pending completion of this...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: Mayo County Council submitted preliminary proposals in July 2005 to my Department for remedial works to a significant range of local authority houses in its functional area. Following the submission of further information, my Department was in a position to issue approval to the council in September 2005 to accept tenders for the refurbishment of rural houses in the Belmullet area. In order...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: My Department informed Kildare County Council in June 2005 of a site subsidy of €133,929 for the eight individual sites in the Celbridge scheme. There is no application with my Department from the council concerning a site subsidy for the scheme in Leixlip. The level of low cost site subsidy provided by my Department for a local authority under the low cost site scheme varies from location...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 655 and 684 together. A tabular statement gives details of the combined capital allocation for disabled persons and essential repairs grants notified to each local authority in 2004, the combined expenditure on the schemes in 2004 by each local authority and the combined capital allocations for both schemes notified to authorities in 2005. In 2004 the capital...

Written Answers — Housing Management Companies: Housing Management Companies (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: I refer the Deputy to the reply to Question No. 97 of 25 October 2005. As indicated, arrangements for managing and maintaining the communal elements of private apartment complexes are increasingly being addressed by management companies. These are constituted under the Companies Acts and are required to comply with the provisions of company law, which is the responsibility of the Minister for...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: Under the terms of the current tenant purchase scheme, the price of a dwelling is its market value in its existing state of repair and condition less discounts related to the length of tenancy. A sum of €3,809 is also deducted from the market value. Any increase in the market value of the dwelling due to improvements made by the tenant is disregarded in calculating the amount to be paid....

Written Answers — Women's Refuges: Women's Refuges (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 666 and 667 together. I assume that the question refers to assistance from my Department under the voluntary housing capital loan and subsidy scheme for a proposed project by Sonas Housing Association in Blanchardstown. An application for funding under this scheme has been received from Fingal County Council; clarification on a number of aspects has been...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: The intention of the Oireachtas, as set out in section 14 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002, is that housing authorities should be permitted to take account, in the determination of rents or other payments from tenants, of cost incurred by the housing authority in relation to insurance or to any management services provided for the dwelling. However, the degree of any impact...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: To date, agreement has been reached with two private lending institutions, the Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank and the Educational Building Society, on arrangements pertaining to the provision by them of mortgage finance for applicants who have been allocated an affordable housing unit for purchase. Based on this approach, discussions are ongoing with several other leading private lenders to...

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: Why does the Deputy not talk to his local authority?

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: The Deputy should not blame us.

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: The Deputy and his colleagues were members of local authorities and they did nothing.

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: There were no demands coming in to us.

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: What would Deputy Durkan do? If he could not succeed at Kildare County Council level, he will not succeed in government.

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: We have. Does the Deputy want us to increase the limits every month?

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: We changed it.

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: We cannot——

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: Should we give them away?

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Noel Ahern: What about maintenance?