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Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I do not agree.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

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Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I do not agree that the 15% variation in property tax will always vary upwards. In the Deputy's local authority area 80% could be retained. Given the valuation of houses on the east coast there will be considerable scope in that area generally to vary the tax. Many local authority members will not agree with the Deputy. In fact, the entire Sinn Féin membership said yesterday it would...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Order for Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now".

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Eighth Annual Report of the Local Government Management Agency, published this year, which details service indicators in local authorities in 2011, shows the average time taken, from the date of vacating of a unit to the date when all necessary repairs are carried out, to re-let a unit in each authority. The figures show that some 4,356 dwellings were vacant, accounting for 3.33% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Minimum standards in rented accommodation have been raised significantly in recent years under the Action Programme on Standards which was introduced on foot of a commitment in the Towards 2016 social partnership agreement. All landlords now have a legal obligation to ensure that their rented properties comply with minimum standards for rental accommodation prescribed in the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Status (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department remains committed to working with local government and other community development and enterprise stakeholders to ensure that a recovering economy will result in an even distribution of opportunity. In this regard there is a need to target, in an integrated way, urbanareas which face particular problems resulting from both the economic downturn and investments in the past which...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question Nos. 567 and 568 of 11 June 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government's housing policy statement, published in June 2011, clearly identifies that the priority for Government will be to meet the most acute needs of households applying for social housing support. I am determined to ensure that the social housing programme optimises the delivery of social housing and the return for the resources invested. To achieve this, it is essential that we...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently supporting pyrite remediation works at a number of locations in the Dublin City and Fingal areas. Local authorities are responsible for addressing pyrite issues relating to their properties and submit proposals to my Department where remediation works are required, including works relating to pyrite heave. I understand that properties owned by Dublin City Council...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The stubbornly high number of rough sleepers recently reported for Dublin reflects the significant challenge facing the Government, the voluntary sector and other agencies in tackling homelessness. My Department's role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Neither I nor my Department have met with the Department of Social Protection in this regard and no such meeting has been proposed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Application (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, housing authorities are responsible for determining the rents of their dwellings, subject to complying with broad principles laid down by my Department, notably that the rent payable should be related to income and that low-income households should pay a lower proportion of income in rent. Within these parameters, it is a matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Until the transfer of responsibility for long-term rent supplement recipients to local authorities takes place the setting of rent limits under the rent supplement scheme remains the responsibility of the Department of Social Protection. The details of the proposed Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme are currently being developed by my Department in conjunction with the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Spatial Strategy (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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 towns and nine hub towns together with complementary policies to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: In submitting proposals for funding under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme (SHIP), it is a matter for each local authority to determine the nature, location and relative priority of individual projects, including projects for meeting housing need in rural areas. It is normal practice for many local authorities to submit proposals for single instance houses in rural...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Expenditure (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 573 of 11 June. I have already confirmed that funding for the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) is provided by a transfer of monies from the Department of Social Protection’s Vote to the Vote of my Department on an Exchequer neutral basis to meet the costs of persons transferring from the Supplementary Welfare Allowance Rent Supplement Scheme to the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government’s housing policy statement, published in June 2011, clearly identifies that the priority for Government will be to meet the most acute needs of households applying for social housing support. I am determined to ensure that the social housing programme optimises the delivery of social housing and the return for the resources invested. To achieve this, it is essential...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government's housing policy statement, published in June 2011, clearly identifies that the priority for Government will be to meet the most acute needs of households applying for social housing support. I am determined to ensure that the social housing programme optimises the delivery of social housing and the return for the resources invested. To achieve this, it is essential that we...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 61 and 67 together. To the end of Quarter 1 2013, the transition of 263 properties from the NAMA portfolio has been completed, with contracts signed in respect of a further 76 properties. All but 24 of the 263 completed units are being made available for people deemed by the local authorities to be in need of housing. These 24 units were part of a project...