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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 30:In page 31, after line 12 to insert the following:“ Paragraph 3(d) of the Schedule Insert “1A,” after “paragraph 1,”. ”.This is a technical drafting amendment, the purpose of which is to insert a reference to paragraph 1A of the table to section 30 into paragraph 3(d) of the Schedule to the 2004 Act. This is consequential on...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank all Members who have participated in the debates on this Bill. While there are not many Deputies present, we had lively debates on Second and Committee Stage. This is important legislation and, as I indicated, I will table substantial amendments regarding deposit protection on Committee Stage in the Seanad.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 4.In page 8, line 42, to delete “and” and substitute the following: "(f) section 120 shall not apply in respect of a dwelling the subject of a tenancy referred to in section 3(4), and".Amendments Nos. 4, 5 and 9 are technical amendments which arise out provisions inserted on Committee Stage relating to approved housing body tenancies. Amendments Nos. 4 and...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 5:In page 8, line 43, to delete "(f) section 139" and substitute "(g) section 139".

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 9:In page 15, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:14.--Section 144 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (5) by--(a) substituting "shall apply as if subsection (2) or (2A)" for "shall apply as if subsection (2)", and (b) substituting "or 137A(6)" for "(fee of double the ordinary amount to be paid on late application))".".

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 10:In page 17, to delete lines 27 to 35 and substitute the following: " "(a) the rent payable under the tenancy concerned shall continue to be payable --(i) to the landlord by the tenant or, as the case may be, each multiple tenant, or (ii) where the dwelling concerned is the subject of a sub-tenancy, to the head-tenant by the sub-tenant or, as the case may be, each...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 445, 446 and 474 together. 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). My Department and the Department of Social Protection have been...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Application Numbers (18 Jul 2013)

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: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, local authorities are allocated funding each year in respect of a range of measures to improve the standard and overall quality of their social housing stock, including funding for extensions and adaptations to meet the needs of older people and people with a disability. Details of the funding provided to local authorities in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not fund any service directly but recoups expenditure to housing authorities, under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988, in respect of the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services. The National Implementation Plan for the Homeless Strategy provided for the development of a more devolved allocation-based system for the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: An exemption from the local property tax applies to developments listed in the schedule to the Finance (Local Property Tax) Regulations 2013. The list of unfinished housing developments eligible for the exemption was compiled by local authorities utilising the categorisation employed for the purposes of the National Housing Survey 2012. The Survey was carried out over the course of summer...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I issued Planning and Development (Planning Enforcement) Policy Directive 2013 to all planning authorities under section 29 of the Planning and Development Act, as amended, in May 2013. Section 29 specifies that the Minister may, from time to time, issue policy directives to planning authorities regarding any of their functions under this Act. It also specifies that planning authorities shall...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (18 Jul 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) Regulations 2012. An exemption from the local property tax applies to developments...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (18 Jul 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: Legislative Programme (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Proposals for a new Housing Bill currently being developed in my Department include a revised procedure to replace section 62 of the Housing Act, 1966, which will enable housing authorities to recover possession of their dwellings from households in serious breach of their tenancy agreements, including engaging in anti-social behaviour. I hope to be in a position to submit the General Scheme...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The Provision of Schools and the Planning System - A Code of Practice was jointly published, in August 2008, by my Department and the Department of Education and Skills. The Code of Practice sets out co-ordinated actions to be taken in relation to forecasting future demand for school places by the Department of Education and Skills and planning for the provision of school sites within the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: An exemption from the local property tax applies to developments listed in the schedule to the Finance (Local Property Tax) Regulations 2013. The list of unfinished housing developments eligible for the exemption was compiled by local authorities utilising the categorisation employed for the purposes of the National Housing Survey 2012. This Survey was carried out over the course of summer...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 475 and 476 together. One of the key informants of social housing supply policy is the level of demand for social housing support nationally and individually at local authority level. Sections of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 dealing with social housing support, and related Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, contain national...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have been keeping the funding of the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability under active review, and expect to contact all local authorities in regard to their allocation by the end of this month.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (18 Jul 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department , in conjunction with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, is currently undertaking a review of aspects of the Wind Energy Guidelines 2006. The indicative timetable for the publication of the draft guidelines is Quarter 4 2013. The draft guidelines will then – like all other new or revised guidelines – go out for extensive public...