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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit (27 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 140 and 141 together. My Department collates a wide range of housing statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy and this information, including details of the funding provided to local authorities for inspections of rental accommodation carried out, is published on my Department’s website . Data on local authorities’...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (27 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: In response to a request from my Department in 2012 for proposals for the construction of new social housing units to meet urgent housing need, Limerick City Council submitted a proposal for the demolition of a number of vacant housing units at Sycamore Drive and Elm Place, Rathbane and the construction of 9 replacement units on the cleared site. On 25 November, my Department approved a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 2 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides that “ “agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land), the training of horses and the rearing of bloodstock,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Details of the numbers of Tree Preservation Orders in force by area for the 2007-2012 period are available on the planning statistics section of my Department’s website at . It is a function of the relevant planning authority to make tree preservation orders, where deemed necessary, under section 205 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 451 and 452 together. The Abridged Estimate for my Department, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in Expenditure Report 2014, provides some €28.6 million in respect of the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. The Estimates provision will be supplemented by the recently announced €10 million...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 456 and 471 together. I am chairing the National Co-ordination Committee (NCC) on Unfinished Housing Developments to oversee implementation of the Report of the Advisory Group on Unfinished Housing Developments, together with the Government's response to the recommendations. The Committee includes representatives from the Irish Banking Federation, local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The decision as to whether to grant planning permission in any particular case is a matter for the relevant planning authority, in the first instance, and for An Bord Pleanála in the event of an appeal. I have no function in relation to the matter. In making decisions on planning applications, planning authorities and the Board must consider the proper planning and sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: In line with the recommendation contained in the Final Report of the Mahon Tribunal, the Government approved proposals for the preparation of a new Planning and Development Bill at its meeting on 7 May 2013 to establish a new Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR). The primary function of the OPR, which will be established with an independent corporate identity, will be to carry out...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Portfolio (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I cannot comment on individual units of housing that are under negotiation to be acquired for use as social housing. However , in Kilkenny to the end of September 2013 167 units have been identified by NAMA as being potentially suitable for social housing and of these 96 have been confirmed as being suitable. My Department, the Housing Agency and NAMA continue to work together with housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Status (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: With the imminent wind-down of Ballymun Regeneration Ltd, it is a matter for Dublin City Council, in conjunction with relevant stakeholders, to advance the proposed development of the main town centre in Ballymun. Planning permission for the redevelopment of the privately owned Ballymun Shopping Centre and the adjoining lands owned by the City Council was granted in September 2009. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department remains committed to the provision of funding for social regeneration initiatives in Ballymun in 2014 and beyond. Funding for next year will be considered in the context of the 2014 Ballymun Regeneration Work Programme to be agreed between my Department and Dublin City Council in early 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Part 9 of the Local Government Act 2001 provides that the functions of local authorities include providing grants, loans guarantees or other financial aid to promote the interests of the local community, including economic interests.  As the adoption of the budget is a reserved function, setting money aside from within the local authority’s budget for a grant scheme would also be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 653 of 5 November 2013 which sets out the position on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992 enables housing authorities, inter alia, to provide assistance to approved housing bodies in respect of the provision of housing. Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) consist mainly of voluntary or co-operative organizations registered under the Companies Acts, societies registered under the Industrial & Provident Societies Acts...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not fund any service directly but provides funding to housing authorities towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Housing authorities provide additional funding from their own resources. The Section 10 funding provided by my Department to housing authorities on a regional basis for the years...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is a matter for each housing authority to determine the eligibility of individual households for social housing support, in accordance with section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 made thereunder. Regulation 22(1) of the 2011 Regulations provides that a household with alternative accommodation that would meet its...

Local Government (Town Centres) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are proposals from the Government on alcohol pricing.

Local Government (Town Centres) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wonder what created it.

Local Government (Town Centres) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy is showing his Fianna Fáil colours.

Local Government (Town Centres) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: We have had a good debate and I thank Deputy Cowen for facilitating that. The context in which all of us are speaking is the economic collapse. The doughnut effect, whereby much is happening at the edges of towns and cities and not much in the centre, coupled with the economic collapse, has meant that the life has been sucked out of many of our town and city centres. People have less...