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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (26 Feb 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 on rent arrears owing to local authorities are included within this range. However, these data are not broken down by the number of households or by the length of time in arrears....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Employee Code of Conduct (26 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Code of Conduct for employees of local authorities was published in June 2004 under Part 15 of the Local Government Act 2001. It is an integral part of the ethical framework for the local government service. The Code includes disclosure requirements concerning employment outside the local government sector and addresses situations concerning a conflict of personal and public interest....

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 449 , 450 and 453 together. The 2002 National Spatial Strategy (NSS) is Ireland’s first national strategic spatial planning framework providing the spatial vision and principles to achieve a better balance of social, economic and physical development and population growth between regions. It serve s as a strategic context for spatial planning in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Light Pollution (26 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No.180 of 20 February 2013 which outlines the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: A review of the implementation of the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 has been initiated under the overall programme for social housing reform and this process is on-going. It is intended that revised regulations and guidance will issue to housing authorities once the process is complete. In this context consideration will be given to what wider discretion might be given to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 464 and 465 together. The property in question was acquired by Dublin City Council in 2007 with a purchase price of €6.7 million. The cost of the acquisition was subsequently recouped to Dublin City Council under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme. When the property was purchased the City Council’s intention was to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (26 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department supports a broad range of measures aimed at improving the standard and quality of the social housing stock, including the regeneration of large estates and flat complexes in urban areas, estate-wide remedial works and the retrofitting of older houses and apartments. Over the period 2008 – 2012, some €953 million was recouped to local authorities in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Seventh Annual Report on Service Indicators, published by the Local Government Management Services Board in August 2012, which details service indicators in local authorities in 2010, provides a range of information in relation to the social housing stock in each local authority. Specific information is provided with regard to vacant housing units and on the average number of weeks taken...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (26 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The 1995 tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses close d for new applications on 31 December 2012. I intend to replace that scheme with a new scheme based on the incremental purchase model, involving discounts for tenants linked to household income and a discount-related charge on the property that will dwindle away over a period unless the house is resold or the purchaser...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The making, amending and varying of a development plan or local area plan is a reserved function of the elected members of the planning authority for its functional area, in this case Galway County Council who made both the Galway County Development Plan 2009-2015 and the Barna Local Area Plan 2007-2017. In addition Ministerial Guidelines (which are available on my Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (21 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The circular letter in question was issued under section 28 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2012 to update certain sections of the Telecommunications Antennae and Support Structures Guidelines (1996). Section 28 provides that Planning authorities and An Bord Pleanála must have regard to such guidelines in the performance of their functions and must demonstrate how they have...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Statistics (21 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not hold information on the number of households on local authorities’ waiting lists. This figure continuously fluctuates as households are allocated housing and new households apply for housing support. Detailed information on the latest statutory assessment of housing need carried out in March 2011, including a breakdown by housing authority, is available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (21 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 6 of the Housing (scellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992 enables housing authorities, inter alia , to provide assistance to approved housing bodies in respect of the provision of housing. Approved Housing Bodies have been supported through two capital funding schemes, the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) and the Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme (CLSS). Under CAS funding of up to 100% of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Application Numbers (21 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department’s involvement with the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability relates primarily to the recoupment of a proportion of local authority expenditure on the payment of individual grants. These schemes, introduced in November 2007, are funded by 80% recoupments available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (21 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Planning Review Report I published, on 12 June 2012, contained 12 actions which entail legislative change and consolidation, revised guidelines and improved management systems in planning authorities. I committed to having the Report assessed by an independent planning expert and, following my approval, Mr. Hendrik van der Kamp was appointed on 18 October 2012 to undertake an independent...

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy McDonald is not the only one who visits houses.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy has a selective memory of what we have and have not done.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: This has been a very useful debate and I thank Sinn Féin for raising these issues. However, the Government is dealing with the consequences of the previous Government's policies and belief system which were pro-cyclical, reckless lending and very poor regulation. Unfortunately the consequences have been very painful for many of our people. We are trying to deal sensitively with those...

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: We have introduced solutions, including the Personal Insolvency Act and we are continuing to keep the pressure on the banks.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: That area is very much at the top of the Government's agenda. We have fundamentally redirected policy in this area, for which I am responsible, in developing a sustainable housing policy, which, first and foremost, recognises the mistakes that were made in the past. Our housing policy statement published in June 2011 emphasises choice, equity across housing tenures and delivering quality...