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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no function in relation to the matter raised. Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010, 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: Regeneration Projects (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL) was established by Dublin City Council in 1997, under the Companies' Acts, following a Government decision that year to demolish the flat blocks and replace them with standard housing as part of the social and economic regeneration of the area as a whole. BRL’s principal objects are, inter alia, to prepare plans for the redevelopment and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 applies to every residential dwelling that is the subject of a tenancy and that does not fall within any of the exemption categories set out in Section 3 of the Act. Section 134 of the Act places a legal obligation on the landlords of such dwellings to apply to the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) to register the tenancies and such application is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In August 2012, my Department approved funding totalling €91,753.40 to cover the cost of addressing immediate public safety concerns in respect of this development. It is now clear that, building on existing analysis, a comprehensive assessment and plan is required, and is being evolved by the local authority, to determine the cause or causes of the difficulties with this development...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Exchequer allocations for 2012 totalling some €54.2 million were notified to local authorities in February 2012 in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability. Of this, €1,657,892 was allocated to Fingal County Council and to date €1,387,654 has been recouped to the Council. Following a request for additional funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Statistics (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy and these data are available on my Department's website . While my Department collates data on the completion of different housing types - single house, scheme house and apartment - we do not gather data on the construction method used.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 401, 413 and 414 together. Local authorities have long been the lenders of last resort servicing the housing loans needs of less affluent members of society. In the present economic circumstances it is to be anticipated that the ability of some borrowers to service housing loans may become restricted and that a number of loans may fall into arrears. Section...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 179 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, and the associated Part 8 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, set out the legal requirements in relation to local authority own development which does not require environmental impact assessment. Where a planning authority proposes to carry out development in accordance with Part 8 the Manager of the planning authority must...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The 2012 National Housing Development survey, which includes details of unfinished housing developments on a county by county basis broken down by category, can be accessed on my Department's web site . Queries regarding the taking in charge and provision of services in individual estates should be addressed directly to the relevant local authority.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 405 and 406 together. The Housing Acts 1966 to 2009 confer a range of powers on housing authorities relating to combating anti-social behaviour in their housing stock , including the making of an anti-social behaviour strategy under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. The exercise of these powers is a matter for the relevant authority. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Asset Management Agency (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 407 and 408 together. Since December 2011 NAMA have identified over 3,800 properties as being potentially available for social housing. The Local Authorities and the Housing Agency are working systematically with NAMA to determine if there is a social housing demand for properties identified as potentially suitable for social housing, including the need for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (4 Dec 2012)

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: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (4 Dec 2012)

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 the number of local authority housing loans and shared ownership loans issued are published online. Loan finance remains available from local authorities for low and middle income...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the replies to Questions Nos. 111 of 15 September 2011, 143 of 8 March 2012, 222 of 3 May 2012 and 454 of 23 October 2012. The position is unchanged: loan finance remains available from local authorities for low and middle income borrowers and no funding restrictions have been placed on local authorities for the purposes of providing loan finance for house purchase or home...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (4 Dec 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 431 to 433, inclusive, together. I am chairing the National Co-ordination Committee on Unfinished Housing Developments to oversee implementation of the Report of the Advisory Group on Unfinished Housing Developments, together with the Government’s response to the recommendations. Both documents were published on 9 June 2011 and are available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with the provisions of the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998, responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes, designed to meet identified housing need, rests with individual housing authorities. The detailed information requested in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Exemptions (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the process of preparing the National Housing Development Survey 2011, launched by my Department in October 2011, local authorities provided details of all unfinished housing developments in their areas. Unfinished housing developments were divided into four categories as follows: - Category one, where the development is still being actively completed by the developer, or where no...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have this week made regulations extending the final date for completion of sales under the 2011 Fixed-term Tenant Purchase Scheme for Long-standing Tenants from 31 December 2012 to 30 June 2013. This will facilitate the completion of sales in respect of which purchase applications were made by 31 December 2011 but the amending regulations do not permit any further purchase applications to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 466 of 13 November 2012, which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Services Regulation (29 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has no function in relation to the operation of property management companies and is not aware of any central database or a register of estates that are under the management of such companies . The Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011, under the remit of my colleague the Minister for Justice and Equality, regulates the management and operation of such companies.