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- 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.
- 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: 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...
- Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: Is the Deputy referring to a siesta or siècle?
- Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy exaggerates.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: Every single party welcomed the Bill on Second Stage.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy needs to get his local councillors to change that.
- 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...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I will be as simple and straightforward as I can be in response. HAP tenants will be given the opportunity to be on a list for a council house.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: They will be able to be on a list to access a council house.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: In order to ensure that happens, I will use my statutory powers from the 2009 Act to direct housing authorities to allow for HAP households to be on a transfer list.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: I would like to continue.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: It is a transfer list - I am being absolutely honest about that - but it will reflect the specific priority or previous position that the household had on the main waiting list within the authority area where it is resident. The household should be placed on a transfer list on no less favourable terms. I am not trying to alter people's rights.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Jan O'Sullivan: If a person is in receipt of the HAP, he or she is under the local authority remit and receiving a social housing support as opposed to a social protection payment under the Department of Social Protection. A person receiving a social housing support comes within the housing system. I am determined to ensure these people will not lose their place or the number of years built on the list....