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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are working on guidelines on all of these matters, especially the rents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I join the Minister in congratulating the Chairman and thank the committee for the opportunity to engage with it. I will concentrate particularly on the housing programme. The significant challenges faced in the housing area within the current budgetary climate are clear to all. Therefore, in allocating the resources likely to be available to me in 2013, I intend to continue to focus the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (13 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 436 and 436 together. I have no plans to extend the deadline for the tenant purchase scheme. Under the current arrangements, applicants may submit an application up to 31 December 2012 to purchase their home and housing authorities will have until 31 December 2013 to finalise sales under the scheme. It is my intention to replace the tenant purchase scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Alternative Energy Projects (13 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have not had any such meetings. However, my Department met with Element Power in February 2012 regarding consent required under the Foreshore Act 1933 for work associated with a proposed project.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (13 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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. The Committee includes representatives from the Irish Banking Federation, local authorities, the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (13 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, an appropriate assessment is required to be carried out by a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála, as the case may be, in an application for permission or substitute consent, in a case where it cannot be excluded, on the basis of objective information, that the development, individually or in combination with other plans or...

Topical Issue Debate: Coastal Erosion (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Ryan for raising this serious issue. I can assure him that the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and I wish to assist in whatever we can. I would first like to clarify the role of the Office of Public Works, Fingal County Council and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. I note the Deputy's reference to other...

Topical Issue Debate: Coastal Erosion (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy stated earlier that he is primarily addressing this issue to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I will convey his concerns to the Minister, Deputy Coveney. By way of clarification, I am responsible for foreshore licence applications. There is a specific application for a foreshore licence to construct a flood defence system at Burrow Beach in Portrane. On the...

Topical Issue Debate: Pigmeat Sector and Poultry Industry (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will convey that to the Minister. I have outlined some of the supports the Minister has provided, particularly on two issues, the poultry council and labelling. We all want to be aware that what we purchase and eat is Irish and is not labelled misleadingly. The Government wants to do everything it can to clarify this so I will pass on the Deputy's concerns to the Minister for...

Topical Issue Debate: Pigmeat Sector and Poultry Industry (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will back for the third issue, Mattie.

Topical Issue Debate: Pigmeat Sector and Poultry Industry (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Humphreys for raising this issue. I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney. I will convey to him the issues raised by the Deputy. The issue of labelling is of particular concern to her. The Minister is aware of the importance of the pigmeat and poultry sectors to the Irish economy. Together, these sectors...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Domestic Violence Refuges (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is responsible for providing funding for accommodation and related expenses for homeless persons which in some cases involves the provision of funding towards the operational costs of domestic violence refuges. Statutory responsibility for policy on developing and providing services aimed at tackling domestic violence rests with the Department of Health and is delivered...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information sought in the question is not available in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the process of preparing the National Housing Development Survey 2011, published 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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance (8 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: TheImprovement Works in Lieu (IWIL) scheme allows local authorities to improve or extend privately owned accommodation which is occupied or intended to be occupied by an applicant approved for social housing as an alternative to the provision of social housing. Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme for 2012 , funding of €6 million was allocated to housing...

Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy has described a payment of €3,000 per month as "lousy".

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (7 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Statistics compiled by my Department show that one warrant under section 62 of the Housing Act 1966 was sought by Waterford City Council in each of 2010 and 2011, with no resultant evictions. No warrants were sought by Waterford County Council during that period. As stated in the reply to Question No. 427 of 23 October 2012, my Department does not collect statistics on the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (7 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The extent of homelessness in the Dublin region, where numbers are most pronounced, was reviewed and updated using the now fully operational Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS) and crosschecked against each of the Dublin local authorities’ housing management data systems to give an accurate figure of the known homeless population in Dublin. Following extensive cross...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (7 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The circumstances referred to relate to a private transaction in which my Department has no remit.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Nov 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The adoption of development contribution schemes is a reserved function of the elected members of local authorities. My Department provides a policy guidance framework for development contributions which is designed to draw the attention of planning authorities to their obligations under the legislation, and provide for consistency between planning authority areas in the drawing up of...