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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons (20 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988, my Department recoups local authorities, at the rate of 90%, in respect of approved current expenditure on the provision of accommodation and related expenses for homeless persons. Monaghan County Council submitted a Section 10 funding application to my Department in respect of the Cuan Mhuire Service. Additional information has been...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Instead of issuing an enforcement notice (or subsequent to issuing an enforcement notice, in the event that the notice is not complied with) a planning authority, where an unauthorised development is being, or is about to be, undertaken, can also apply to the Circuit or High Court for an injunction preventing it. Significantly, any other person may also seek an injunction against an...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (20 Nov 2012)

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 and related services for homeless persons rests with the housing authorities and the implementation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board (20 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), an independent statutory body established on 1 September 2004 under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. The PRTB's annual reports and accounts are available on its website, , and the most recently published report and accounts relate to 2010. The annual reports include statistics on dispute...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (20 Nov 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: Capital Assistance Scheme Funding (20 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The property in question was acquired by an Approved Housing Body with funding provided by my Department under the Capital Assistance Scheme. In July 2012 I announced the allocation of €100 million in capital funding for the provision of over 800 new social and voluntary housing units over the period 2012 to 2014. This property is included in the list of approved projects. My...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Funding (20 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: This project was submitted to my Department for funding approval by Kerry County Council in response to a call for proposals for new voluntary housing projects which issued to local authorities on 7 June 2012. Voluntary housing projects to the value of €34.5 million were approved under the call, including one project in County Kerry costing an estimated €1.017 million. Having...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Programme (20 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: This year I allocated some €8.643 million to Kerry County Council in respect of the various measures supported under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme (SHIP). In addition, I allocated €2.606 million in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability. I recently allocated a further €420,000 to the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It was very carefully counted.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Such figures are precisely the ones that would be used.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Organisations such as Simon Ireland provide the Central Statistics Office with figures.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am not covering up.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It was signed by individual Deputies at a time when we were not in government.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Was he speaking on the Government side?

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is not slipping down the agenda.

Personal Explanation by Minister of State (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I sought permission from the Ceann Comhairle's office to correct the record relating to information I gave on 8 November in responding to a Topical Issue matter rasied by Deputy Ryan regarding coastal erosion at Portrane, County Dublin. In my reply I referred to a foreshore application in hand in my Department. However, this application was related to the Burrow Beach, Baldoyle, County...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Order for Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

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

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The past five years have been turbulent and traumatic in the housing market which has fed into and driven much of the current economic crisis. An obsession with residential property as an investment class rather than as a place of shelter, a home, was driven by the failed pro-cyclical policies of the past decade. Homeownership, a noble...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is not possible to give a specific breakdown by county of the number of units tenanted at any given time under the Rental Accommodation Scheme. Numbers in RAS constantly vary as contracts end, tenants move on to other properties, landlords withdraw from the scheme, new tenancies are allocated or vacancies in contracted units are filled. Figures in relation to RAS units are generally...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Leases (15 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 697 of 6 November 2012 which detailed the total number of units leased to end October 2012. 3,458 units have become operational under the leasing scheme to date. Of these 1,845 are unsold affordable units managed by approved housing bodies on behalf of housing authorities. A breakdown of the other 1,613 units by local authority is set out in the table....