Results 11,701-11,720 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Byrne for raising this important issue. In accordance with the provisions of the Housing Act 1966, the management and maintenance of the social housing stock, including the carrying out of planned maintenance programmes and pre-letting repairs, is the responsibility of the relevant housing authority, in this case, Dublin City Council. Housing maintenance works, including...

Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: To reply directly to Deputy Byrne on this issue, the Minister, Deputy Hogan, and I met NAMA recently and we are engaging with it on an ongoing basis. Originally it committed to more than 2,000 units, some of which are suitable and some are not. We will continue to engage with it until we have approximately this number of units for social housing. I take the point that we must continuously...

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: On 12 June 2012 , I published the planning review report assessing the application of planning legislation, policy and guidance within the development plan and development management systems at local level and to inform further policy development in this area. Seven planning authorities, representing a broad geographical spread of both urban and rural areas as well as both large and small...

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I completely reject Deputy Collins's allegations. He knows perfectly well that what we were doing in this particular case was completing a review, and the word was "review", that the previous Minister intended to initiate.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Waterford has nothing to do with it. It is not one of the seven local authorities selected by the former Minister, Mr. Gormley.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are completing the job Mr. Gormley intended to start but did not. This is all the review is, and Deputy Collins should not make it out to be something it is not.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: There were no allegations of corruption in the seven issues raised with Mr. Gormley. The review is completely separate from the type of corruption pointed to in the Mahon report. We will have a whole of Government response to the Mahon report in due course very shortly. The issue in Waterford is entirely separate and shows the court system works. Somebody was taken to court and found...

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: No, I am not.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Of course it does.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy is a complete disgrace.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is in the public interest.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Can we please have an honest debate on this?

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: What I have completed is related to seven issues in seven local authorities selected by the former Minister of the last Government, of which the Deputy was a member.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Waterford was not one of them. I could not complete a review of Waterford if it had not been started.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is untrue.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is not true. The Deputy is deliberately distorting what the reviews were about.

Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Why do we have a courts system? The courts have found out what happened in Waterford.

Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jun 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, NAMA...

Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have no disagreement with the Deputy on this issue. We have to continue to drive the process forward Thus far, 782 developers have given us site resolution plans and 136 of those have been completed, while others are in process. There are different kinds of works. Some are in NAMA, which will then have responsibility for the issue, while receivers are in charge of others and some...

Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jun 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Apart from our meetings with NAMA officials on the issue of unfinished estates, we are also meeting them about the 2,000 properties. They have also identified a further 1,000 properties, so we will pursue that issue to ensure that we get the promised amount of properties.