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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Hedge and Tree Height Restrictions (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 378 and 404 together. There is no legislation in Ireland regulating the height of trees and hedges. My Department understands that there is no right in Irish law to receive light in a garden and that, while there is a civil remedy of nuisance available in respect of the branches or roots of a neighbour's trees encroaching on one's property, there is no civil...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licences Applications (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: This matter continues to be the subject of court proceedings. However, efforts are underway to agree a settlement and the case was recently adjourned to facilitate consideration of the possible terms.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Applications (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The primary purpose of social housing support is to ensure that persons and families who do not have sufficient resources to provide accommodation themselves are provided with adequate housing for their needs. The inclusion of a household by a housing authority on its list of qualified households is a matter for the housing authority concerned under the provisions of the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are an estimated 25,000 older local authority dwellings with low levels of energy performance due mainly to heat loss through the fabric of the building. On 5 June I announced details of a €50 million energy retrofitting measure for these 25,000 local authority homes under the Government’s additional €150 million capital investment in the economy over 2013-2014. I...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Local authorities are responsible for the management and maintenance of their housing stock and for the preparation and implementation of planned maintenance programmes and pre-letting repairs to vacant houses. Responsive repairs to tenanted properties in Dublin City, including the replacement of broken windows and doors, are a matter for Dublin City Council. This year my Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Standards (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 395 and 396 together. Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme (SHIP), funding is provided to local authorities for a range of measures to improve the quality and standard of the social housing stock, including the regeneration of disadvantaged estates and flat complexes, estate-wide remedial works, the energy retrofitting of older...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Minimum standards for rental accommodation are prescribed in the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2008, and the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 made under section 18 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992. These standards represent a significant improvement on those previously in place since 1993 and the revisions took account...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is provided to local authorities for a range of measures to improve the quality and standard of the social housing stock, including the regeneration of disadvantaged estates and flat complexes, estate-wide remedial works, the energy retrofitting of older properties and the provision of extensions and adaptations to meet...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No . 931 of 18 September which sets out the position with regard to the funding of pre-letting repairs to local authority houses.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the process of preparing the National Housing Development Survey 2011, local authorities provided details of all unfinished housing developments in their areas. The list of developments in which households are eligible for the waiver in 2012 is set out under the Local Government (Household Charge) (Amendment) Regulations 2013. Unfinished housing developments were divided into...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: In March 2012, the Government approved in principle the transfer of responsibility for recipients of rent supplement with an established housing need from the Department of Social Protection (DSP) to local authorities using a new Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). On 18 July 2013, the Government approved the introduction of HAP. Approval was also given for the provision of funding to the local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Derelict Sites Act 1990, local authorities are required to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not become or continue to be a derelict site. To this end, they have been given substantial powers under the Act in relation to any such sites, including powers to require specified...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 35 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, provides that a planning authority may refuse permission to an applicant where it is satisfied that the applicant is not in compliance with a previous permission, or has carried out a substantial unauthorised development, and it consequently forms the opinion that there is a real and substantial risk that the development the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (18 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department currently supports an ambitious programme of regeneration which seeks to address the causes of disadvantage in communities and large social housing estates through holistic programmes of physical, social and economic regeneration. This year, my Department is providing funding of over €6 2 million to Dublin City Council in respect of their 2013 social housing programme....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Services (18 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 180 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 applies to estates which have been granted planning permission and includes the construction of two or more houses (which as defined in the Act includes apartments) and the provision of new roads, open spaces, car parks, sewers, watermains or drains. In relation to estates which have been completed to the satisfaction of the planning...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the programme for social housing reform I am keeping the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 under review. I expect as part of this process to issue revised Regulations and further guidance to housing authorities on this area. These will be informed by , amongst other things, areas highlighted for revision as a result of the summary of assessments 2013, the results of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (18 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 846, 930, 952 and 966 together. While the 1995 tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses closed for new applications on 31 December 2012, two incremental purchase schemes remain in operation, one for newly-built local authority houses and the other for local authority apartments. Work is proceeding on the preparation of the General Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (18 Sep 2013)

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 those data are available on my Department's website Data relating to annual housing rents arrears are included in this range.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities (18 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: In June 2013 my Department invited each City and County Council to submit proposals under the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) for the purchase of built properties which would facilitate people with a disability to live independently within communities. Approvals were based on the priority afforded to the proposals by the Council . I subsequently announced a funding programme of over...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Height Restrictions (18 Sep 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: There is no legislation in Ireland regulating the height of trees and hedges. My Department understands that there is no right in Irish law to receive light in a garden and that, while there is a civil remedy of nuisance available in respect of the branches or roots of a neighbour’s tree encroaching on one’s property, there is no civil law remedy in respect of the loss of light...