Results 11,841-11,860 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: They cannot consistently put misinformation on the record of the House.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: That is not true. The record of the House should be corrected.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy is telling untruths in the Chamber.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Say it often enough and people will believe it.
- Written Answers — Mortgage Arrears: Mortgage Arrears (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: My Department issued comprehensive guidance to local authorities on the treatment of mortgage arrears, including local authority mortgages for shared ownership transactions, in March 2010. That guidance was closely based on the Central Bank's first statutory Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears to ensure that cases of local authority mortgage arrears are handled in a manner that is...
- Written Answers — Private Residential Tenancies Board: Private Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I have no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), an independent statutory body established under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, and cannot therefore comment on the specifics of any individual case.
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the reply to Question Nos. 556 and 557 of 6 June 2012 which sets out the position in this matter.
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Section 146 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010 provides that files on appeals can be inspected by members of the public 3 days after the appeals are determined by the Board. These files can be inspected free of charge at the Board's offices on weekdays between 10 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m., except on public holidays and other days on which the offices are closed....
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I published, on 31 January 2012, Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Spatial Planning and National Roads aimed at ensuring that roads planning and policy, and development planning and management processes are appropriately and effectively aligned; and encouraging a collaborative approach and early engagement between planning authorities and the National Roads Authority (NRA) so that...
- Written Answers — Regeneration Projects: Regeneration Projects (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 436 to 438, inclusive, together. Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL) is a company limited by guarantee, and not having a share capital, established by Dublin City Council under the Companies' Acts. It was incorporated in June 1997 and is wholly owned by Dublin City Council. BRL's principal objects are, inter alia, to prepare plans for the redevelopment and...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme, local authorities are allocated capital funding each year in respect of a range of measures to improve the standard and overall quality of their social housing stock. The programme includes a regeneration measure for large social housing estates and flat complexes, an estate-wide remedial works scheme, a retrofitting measure aimed at...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Leasing proposals from local authorities or approved housing bodies must demonstrate that, having regard to the concentration of other social housing in a particular development or in the general area, the leasing proposal does not conflict with the mixed income, mixed tenure dimension of the overall sustainable communities objective. Local authorities have been encouraged to improve social...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme, local authorities are allocated capital funding each year in respect of a range of measures to improve the standard and overall quality of their social housing stock. The programme includes a retrofitting measure aimed at improving the energy efficiency of older apartments and houses by reducing heat loss through the fabric of the...
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Under section 34 (9) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 â 2004 an applicant, within 8 weeks of receipt of the application by the planning authority, may consent in writing to an extension of the period for the planning authority to make its decision. In such a case the period for making the decision is extended for the period consented to by the applicant. I am not aware of any...
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 452 and 453 together. Section 14 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides for a process for the inclusion by planning authorities of public rights of way in development plans. The process provides for the referral to the Circuit Court, by the landowner affected, of a proposal to include a right of way and where the court is satisfied that no right...
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is providing pro rata funding to support the project concerned until end June 2012, in order to allow the project and other bodies to explore alternative funding mechanisms and identify resources to deliver on the project's overall objectives beyond that date. No additional funding is being provided by my Department in respect of any mainstreamed drugs project. I understand...
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: At lunchtime. It was published at 2 p.m.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: There was no malfeasance.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: There was no reluctance.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: They were never appointed in the first place.