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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (27 Jun 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. This year’s programme includes a retrofitting measure aimed specifically at improving the energy efficiency of older apartments and houses by reducing heat loss...

Seanad: Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Senators for their consideration of the Bill and their contributions on Second Stage. I thank them for taking us through the Final Stages. As I explained previously, the Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013 is a technical Bill making minor changes to section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 so that we can effectively implement a new and more harmonised system of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Spatial Strategy (26 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 183 to 187, inclusive, together. The 2002 National Spatial Strategy (NSS) is Ireland's first national strategic spatial planning framework. It provides the spatial vision and principles to achieve a better balance of social, economic and physical development and population growth between regions through the co-ordinated development of nine gateway cities and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (26 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: On 5 June, I announced a new €50 million three-year energy efficiency investment programme for local authority homes. This is a key part of the Government’s additional €150 million capital investment in the economy over 2013-2014. This programme will target the 25,000 least energy efficient local authority homes. This will result in warmer homes and lower energy bills for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Statistics (25 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy and those data are available on my Department's website Data on the number of social housing units that were constructed, dating back to 1994, are included in this range. In 1993 1,200 social housing units were constructed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (25 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: This project has funding approval from my Department under the Capital Advance Leasing Facility since September 2012. It is a matter for the AHB to secure the remaining finance . Dublin City Council, the Housing Agency and my Department are continuing to liaise with the relevant Body in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009, introduced a new approach to the sale of social housing whereby social housing tenants, including tenants of approved housing bodies, could acquire new local authority houses and existing apartments under the Incremental Purchase Scheme (IPS). The details of this scheme are available on my Department's website www.environ.ie . There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Local authorities are only permitted to sell social housing stock in specific circumstances such as where there is no longer a demand for the property and it cannot be let.  All such sales, except through a tenant purchase scheme, must be approved by my Department.  Monies generated by the sale of housing stock form part of local authority internal capital receipts. Local...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: What is Deputy Mattie McGrath trying to imply?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is outrageous. He is trying to blacken him.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Nine months.

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Members for their support, particularly Senator Byrne who spoke on behalf of Fianna Fáil, and Senator Barrett. It is clear that there is very strong support in this House as in the other House for the legislation. There remains a substantial threat from terrorist activity, particularly from dissident republican paramilitary groups which warrant the continuance in force of...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is a bit of an exaggeration.

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: There is much more to it than that.

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The House will be aware that the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was passed in the wake of the murder of 29 people by the Real IRA in Omagh on 15 August that year. It was a necessary response to that atrocity and the loss of 29 innocent lives. That bombing and those murders also represented a direct attack on the fragile peace process and the State as a major sponsor of it....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Data in respect of enforcement action taken by local authorities, generally, are available on my Department's website. However, the specific information sought is not available to my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The requirement to reduce public expenditure to sustainable levels is impacting on capital programmes all across the public service, including my Department’s housing capital programme. The level of capital funding available has declined significantly in recent years along the lines highlighted in the Medium Term Exchequer Framework for Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The enforcement of the conditions attached to a planning permission is a matter for the relevant planning authority and I have no role in that regard. Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, I am specifically precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Board of the ECB announced decisions to reduce the main refinancing rate by 0.25% in July 2012 and again in May 2013. The Housing Finance Agency's rates are not predicated on base rates afforded by the ECB, as its funding is sourced through the EU/IMF programme of financial support and dictated by EURIBOR. Independently of the ECB rate cuts, the Agency has reduced the rate it charges to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (19 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Over the course of 2011 and 2012 my Department focussed almost exclusively on refurbishing vacant properties with the objective of bringing as many as possible of these back into productive use. Over that period some 4,7 00 units were improved at a cost of over €52 million. Some 2,659 units were refurbished in 2011 and a further 2,115 in 2012. Given the concentration on vacant...