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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL) and Dublin City Council are continuing to explore all options to further the economic objectives of the Ballymun Masterplan including the redevelopment of the privately owned Ballymun Shopping Centre and the adjoining lands owned by the Council. Planning permission for the redevelopment of the centre and the adjoining lands was granted in September...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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 homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation for homeless persons rests with the housing authorities . T he purposes for which housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 360 and 361 together. Under section 41 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, the duration of a planning permission (referred to as “the appropriate period”) is the period specified in the permission, or 5 years, whichever is longer. Section 42 provides that an application to extend the duration of the appropriate period must be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Funding (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: An outline proposal for securing the property referred to was included in the Regeneration Work Programme for 2013 as put forward by Sligo Borough Council. My Department requested that the Borough Council submit a detailed project appraisal for the proposed works. The matter will be further considered when this is received.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Grant Applications (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: On 22 February 2013 I announced capital allocations to local authorities under the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability amounting to €42.750 million. In allocating the available funding across all 34 city and county councils I did so in as transparent and as fair a way as possible. In framing the 2013 allocations, my Department wrote to each local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Decisions by An Bord Pleanala are binding and the validity of a decision taken by the Board may only be questioned by making an application for judicial review under Order 84 of the Rules of the Superior Courts. Any such application for judicial review does not involve the courts adjudicating on the merits of a proposed development from the perspectives of the proper planning and sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Employment Rights Issues (20 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Rural Resettlement Ireland Limited is a housing body approved under Section 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 for the purpose of the provision of housing relief. While my Department has provided financial support to Rural Resettlement Ireland and other not-for-profit organisations which provide advice, research, training and other supports ( including representative...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Mar 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 www.environ.ie. The 2011 assessment of housing need, available on the website, provide s an analysis of housing need broken down by county, city, borough and town councils but data are not...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The review of Part V of the Planning and Development Acts announced in the context of the standing down of affordable housing schemes as part of the Government’s housing policy statement will include an examination of the operational aspects of the shared ownership scheme. That review is currently advanced and I expect the consultants’ report that informs the review will be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The 1995 tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses closed for new applications on 31 December 2012. I intend to advance the necessary legislative proposals as soon as possible to replace that scheme with a new incremental purchase scheme , involving discounts for tenants linked to household income and a discount-related charge on the property that will dwindle away over a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I recently allocated some €19 million in respect of 25 remedial works projects which are currently on-going across 16 local authorities. All of the available funding has been committed at this stage. New projects will be considered in the context of the level of commitments and the funding available in 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: One of the conditions applying to the availability of local authority mortgages is that the applicant be a first time buyer. However, Section 92B of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 defines first time buyers as including a spouse to a marriage the subject of a decree of judicial separation, a deed of separation, a decree of divorce or a decree of nullity in the case of the first...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (14 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently considering possible mechanisms to address the matter of ongoing development planning by planning authorities that are proposed to be amalgamated or abolished. In the meantime, planning authorities must continue to meet their statutory obligations in regard to development planning until the matter is addressed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Development Levies (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The role of the Minister in regard to development contributions is to provide the necessary statutory and policy framework within which individual development contribution schemes are adopted by each local authority. The adoption of these schemes is a reserved function of the locally elected members of each planning authority. It is a matter for the members to determine the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The facility for any member of the public to participate in the planning process by making an observation or a submission on a planning application is a fundamental and long-standing feature of the planning system in this country. In the Planning and Development Act 2000 increased rights were given to third parties in that planning authorities are statutorily obliged to acknowledge...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 148 together. Housing authorities have a range of statutory housing powers to assist them in tackling anti-social behaviour in their housing stock. These powers include the power to refuse to allocate, or to refuse to sell, a dwelling to a person engaged in anti-social behaviour and the power to seek a court order excluding a person engaged in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the tenant-landlord relationship in the private rented residential sector. The Act sets out the obligations of tenants and landlords in the sector and the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) is the independent statutory body charged with the administration of the Act and the enforcement of those obligations. Section 128 of the Act...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Management Company Issues (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 144 and 145 together. My Department has no function in relation to the operation of property management companies. The Multi Unit Developments Act 2011, which falls under the remit of my colleague the Minister for Justice and Equality, regulates the management and operation of such companies.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Services (13 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 150 and 151 together. The information sought is not available in my Department.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (12 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is because we must acquire them.