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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Coastal Erosion (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Foreshore Act 1933 defines foreshore as the bed and shore, below the line of high water of ordinary or medium tides, of the sea and of every tidal river and tidal estuary and of every channel, creek and bay of the sea or of any such river or estuary and the outer limit of the foreshore is to be determined in accordance with section 1A of the Foreshore Act. The State Property Act 1954...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 371 and 372 together. On 18 July 2013, the Government approved the introduction of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). Approval was also given for the provision of funding to the local authorities to cover the cost of accommodating HAP recipients, and it was agreed that the Department of Social Protection (DSP) would provide for the implementation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Rental Accommodation Scheme is a targeted scheme to cater for the accommodation needs of persons in receipt of rent supplement, normally for more than 18 months, and who are assessed as having a long-term housing need. In that context the primary objective of RAS is to accommodate rent supplement recipients where it is deemed that they now have a long-term housing need. The 18 month...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Statistics are not available to my Department in relation to the number of anti-social behaviour officers employed by housing authorities and my Department does not provide funding to authorities in respect of such staff. Housing authorities furnished to my Department the 2012 statistics set out in the following table that correspond to the information relating to anti-social behaviour...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation for homeless persons rests with the housing authorities and the purposes for which housing authorities may incur expenditure in addressing homelessness are prescribed in Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. While it is clear that a proportion of funding must be used to provide sufficient bed capacity to accommodate those...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Work is currently under way in my Department on preparing the capital allocations under the various housing measures which comprise the Social Housing Investment Programme for 2014. I intend to announce details of these allocations as soon as possible. As part of this process, I am reviewing the existing levels of contractual commitments on approved housing projects and the potential to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 394 to 396, inclusive, together. The Government’s 2011 Housing Policy Statement announced the standing down of all affordable housing schemes, including the shared ownership scheme, in the context of a full review of Part V of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2013. Details regarding the review are available on my Department’s website . ...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Funding (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: On foot of the recommendations of the Keane Report on mortgage arrears, the Government launched a Mortgage to Rent scheme on a pilot basis in February 2012. This scheme was extended nationally in June 2012, targeting those low income families whose mortgage situation is unsustainable and where there is little or no prospect of a significant change in circumstances in the foreseeable future....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tree Remediation (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no plans to develop legislation or guidelines for local authorities in this regard at present. Planning legislation places no specific restrictions on the height of trees. Complaints relating to matters such as trees or shrubs overhanging a property are normally addressed, where necessary, under civil law between the parties concerned. I understand that Section 70 of the Roads Act,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (11 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is provided to housing authorities in respect of a range of measures which include the construction and acquisition of houses and apartments by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies, the regeneration of large social housing estates and flat complexes, estate wide remedial works, energy efficiency and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (6 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Work is currently underway in my Department on preparing the capital allocations under the various housing measures which comprise the Social Housing Investment Programme for 2014. I intend to announce details of these allocations as soon as possible. As part of this process, I am reviewing the existing levels of contractual commitments on approved housing projects and the potential to...

Seanad: Homelessness Strategy: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I would like to thank the Senators - particularly the Labour Party Senators - who gave us the opportunity to discuss homelessness in the Seanad. In the course of my contribution, I will address some of the specific issues raised, but will also address some of them at the end. While I acknowledge that everybody spoke constructively, I must take the opportunity to respond to Senator Ó...

Seanad: Homelessness Strategy: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is the context in which we are operating. Since I became Minister of State, I have had a reduced capital budget due to a deal made with the troika following the collapse of the economy. Senator Ó Domhnaill seems to have forgotten all about the past. I am not going to say anything more negative than that, and I respect the fact that the other Fianna Fáil Senators spoke in a...

Seanad: Homelessness Strategy: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: We have not received that application yet.

Seanad: Homelessness Strategy: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can explain to the Senator some of the causes of the current problem.

Seanad: Homelessness Strategy: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Does the Senator know why there was so little capital investment in recent years? We are dealing with the consequence of actions by the previous Government.

Seanad: Homelessness Strategy: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is the Senator aware that a scheme was announced in the budget providing funding specifically for this purpose?

Seanad: Homelessness Strategy: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Who brought in the bank guarantee?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I understand that the buildings referred to will be demolished in due course to facilitate the redevelopment of the town centre. The establishment of Main Street in Ballymun, with significant public sector investment, is one of the major achievements of the regeneration project with a variety of commercial, retail and community facilities. The planning permission for the redevelopment of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Feb 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Eighth Annual Report on Service Indicators, published by the Local Government Management Services Board in April 2013, which details service indicators in local authorities in 2011, provides a range of information in relation to the social housing stock including the total number of dwellings in each local authority area. Copies of the report are available from the Local Government...