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Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment a1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “acknowledges that the economic downturn and contraction in construction activity since 2008 has created significant difficulties for many communities and individuals across Ireland; recognises the high priority which the Government has assigned to housing and...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputies opposite have accused me of interrupting. There was an unprecedented boom, and I quote a member of the Opposition, but there was very little housing construction during those years when large sums of money flowed around the country and when the housing estates referred to were being built in places where there was no demand for housing. That was because of totally inadequate...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is still unacceptable but it is down significantly. Since this Government came into office it has done its best to address the problems that developed at a time when the money was flowing through the country and terrible decisions were made. We have to clean up that mess with very little money. It is all very well to say we should be spending money and constructing houses and so on but...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Anybody who has been on a waiting list for nine or ten years was on it during the time when there was a great deal of money in the country and it was not being spent on building social housing. I completely reject what Deputy Halligan has said. His remarks have been extremely personal. He accused people of not caring and has suggested somehow or other that we do not know what is going on....

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: It sounded very personal. For the past three years we have done our best with very constrained finances available to us to address the serious problems that exist. That is why the housing policy statement published shortly after the Government came into office in 2011 highlighted that meeting social housing need within the available resources for the future will necessitate smarter and...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have been listening.

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: On a point of information, I have heard everything that has been said.

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have spoken here on housing when there was nobody sitting opposite.

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Has the Deputy nothing constructive to say?

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes, whenever we can get the money.

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: That was the previous Government.

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: We have a great deal of information.

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: A variety of people.

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Why did somebody not think of that several years ago?

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I only interrupted one Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012 is currently before the Oireachtas and will amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to provide for the inclusion of the Approved Housing Body (AHB) sector within the remit of the Residential Tenancies Act. The extension of the Residential Tenancies Act to AHB tenancies will provide greater security of tenure for AHB tenants, extend the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: While action to deal with anti-social behaviour is primarily a matter for An Garda Síochána, local authority tenants who are subject to on-going harassment and intimidation from neighbours should contact the housing authority concerned in confidence, as the body responsible for estate management. Housing authorities have the power to seek a court order excluding a person engaged in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 450 and 451 together. A local authority is required to carry out any development for which it has obtained approval from An Bord Pleanála under section 175 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in accordance with the terms of that approval. Local authorities are fully expected to comply with this provision. Section 255 of the Planning and Development...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Application Numbers (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The results of the most recent statutory summary of social housing assessments, which was carried out in 2013, detail the number of households on all local authority waiting lists as at 7 May 2013. The results include details on the length of time spent by qualified households on waiting lists by each local authority and are available on my Department’s website at:. The 2013 figures...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (30 Apr 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: In March 2014 I announced the approval of some 56 social housing construction projects with an overall value of €68 million under the Local Authority housing construction programme for 2014-2015. This new construction programme will deliver 449 new units of accommodation for people on the housing waiting list. In the case of Dublin City Council, some €7.9 million is being...