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Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (7 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: Capital funding is available through my Department's Capital Assistance Scheme to approved voluntary housing bodies for the provision of accommodation to meet the needs of persons with specific categories of housing need such as older people, the homeless or persons with a physical, intellectual or mental health disability. The scheme is not intended to fund nursing home or similar...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (7 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: Part H of the Building Regulations (Drainage and Waste Water Disposal) sets out the requirements for the design and installation of wastewater systems. The relevant Technical Guidance Document (TGD) H provides guidance on how to comply with the requirements of Part H. The EPA's new Code of Practice on Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems serving Single Houses was published in October...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (7 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: Under the social housing investment programme, local authorities meet social housing needs from a variety of sources including the traditional construction and acquisition programmes, projects advanced by the voluntary and co-operative sector and through the leasing of accommodation from private landlords and property owners. In 2011, my Department allocated €5.7 million for Kildare...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: My Department's Guidelines to Planning Authorities on the Planning System and Flood Risk Management, which were published on 30 November 2009, are aimed at ensuring a more consistent, rigorous and systematic approach to flood risk assessment and management in the planning system. The Guidelines were issued under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) which requires...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: It remains open to the public to make detailed submissions on zoning for consideration by the planning authority in respect of draft development plans and draft variations to such plans under sections 12 and 13 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended), with similar provisions applying in the case of draft local area plans under section 20 of the Act. Notwithstanding these...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: I have no plans at present to introduce specific legislation to regulate the permitted heights of hedges and trees in privately owned gardens. Planning legislation does not place restrictions on the height of hedges or trees nor does it make any particular provision for recognition of a right to light or remedy from any other nuisance which may be caused by trees in an urban residential...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: On 16 June I launched the Government's new housing policy statement which will serve as a framework for a sequence of legislative and policy initiatives in the short to medium term. Based on a number of fundamental principles and goals that will form the foundation of a substantial reform programme, the new framework for housing policy responds to current and emerging conditions in the...

Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: I propose to take Questions Nos. 407, 431, 443 and 444 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 264 of 10 May 2011 in which I outlined the work that has been undertaken to improve the throughput of foreshore applications in my Department and to modernise the consent process involved. Work on the drafting of a General Scheme of a Bill to further improve the foreshore consent process is...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: My Department submitted to the Houses of the Oireachtas on 23 June draft Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011, which propose a number of amendments to the Planning and Development Regulations to address the findings of the European Court of Justice in Case C66-06, which relate to the implementation of the EIA Directive for certain categories of agriculture and...

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: Under my Department's National Regeneration Programme, funding is provided in respect of a range of measures to facilitate the physical, social and economic regeneration of certain disadvantaged urban communities. Regeneration programmes take a holistic and strategic approach to creating sustainable communities and address issues such as infrastructure deficit generally, accessibility, tenure...

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: My Department continues to work closely with Dublin City Council in progressing ambitious regeneration proposals for the two former PPP regeneration projects at O'Devaney Gardens and Dominick Street. The plans for these regeneration projects are currently going through the statutory planning process, following which the City Council will prepare detailed designs and implementation plans for...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the tenant-landlord relationship in the private rented residential sector. My Department conducted a review of the Act in 2009 with a specific emphasis on whether the Act best supports the PRTB's key functions and on whether legislative amendments would support either the achievement of additional operational efficiencies by the PRTB in the...

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: My Department continues to work closely with Dundalk Town Council in progressing a number of improvement works and regeneration projects across the town council area. My Department made the following allocations in respect of these projects this year: Cox's Demesne Regeneration - €500,000 Muirhevnamor Remedial and Energy Efficiency Works - €600,000 In the case of Cox's Demesne, the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: As part of the Housing Management Initiative, from 1 January 2007 local authorities were given delegated sanction for the delivery of their annual improvement works programmes subject to specific conditions and overall programme approval from my Department. Funding for these programmes was provided from the authority's own internal capital receipts from the sale of local authority dwellings....

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: Following recent discussions with Dublin City Council, a detailed submission was received by my Department in May 2011 with regard to the proposed project at Buttercup Park. This submission is currently under consideration by my Department with a view to early progression of the project as a remedial works scheme.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: As announced in June 2010 it remains the intention that the existing tenant purchase arrangements will be wound down in 2012 to be replaced by a new scheme for existing local authority housing. It is not possible at this stage to specify the terms of the new scheme but the intention is that it will be modelled on the incremental purchase scheme introduced in June 2010 for newly-built social...

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: The Sustainable Communities Fund (SCF) provides revenue funding to local authorities for initiatives focused on estate renewal and regeneration, as well as for initiatives that contribute to the development and support of sustainable communities. Funding for a 3-year period was approved for the projects in question under the first call for proposals under the SCF in 2007, and was recouped to...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: It is open to any person or household to apply to a housing authority for an assessment of their housing need. It is a matter solely for the housing authority concerned to determine whether an applicant for social housing support is eligible for and in need of that support in accordance with the provisions of section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, regulations made...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: Provision was made in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 to allow purchasers under the new Affordable Dwelling Purchase Arrangements to re-mortgage or top-up their mortgage without triggering the clawback. However, the Act does not provide this facility for purchasers under existing affordable housing or shared ownership arrangements. I have asked my Department to arrange to...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: Sections 124 and 126 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 make provision for the enforcement of determination orders made by the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB). Under section 124 of the Act the Board or a party mentioned in a determination order, if satisfied that another party has failed to comply with one or more terms of that order, may make an application to the Circuit Court...