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- Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (18 Apr 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...
- Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (18 Apr 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: While planning authorities are making progress in securing the co-operation of developers, financial institutions and/or bond holders, thereby obviating the need to use Exchequer resources to fund such work the ongoing work of the Committee includes an assessment of the framework for the operation of bonds. This is taking account of existing legislative provisions, statutory guidance and...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (18 Apr 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the process by which the anticipated effects on the environment of a proposed development or project are examined. The document produced to facilitate this process is known as an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). EIA requirements derive from Directive 85/337/EEC (EIA Directive) on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private...
- Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (18 Apr 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 — Private Residential Tenancies Board: Private Residential Tenancies Board (18 Apr 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. While the PRTB received Exchequer funding for a number of years, it has operated on a self-financing basis since 2010. The Table outlines the Exchequer funding received by the PRTB from 2004 -2009. Year...
- Written Answers — Private Residential Tenancies Board: Private Residential Tenancies Board (18 Apr 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I have no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board, an independent statutory body established under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. Accordingly, it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the specifics of any individual case.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I recently announced details of the 2012 housing capital allocations to local authorities, totalling some â¬251.5 million. In excess of â¬62 million has been made available for the various housing programmes in the Dublin City Council area. Of this, â¬660,000 has been allocated for necessary adaptations and extensions to meet the needs of tenants of local authority houses. The...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Apr 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: There is no provision at present in the voluntary housing schemes for the purchase of individual houses by tenants. My Department is currently in consultation with the voluntary housing sector, through the Irish Council for Social Housing, with regard to the development of an enabling regulatory framework that will support the expanded role for the sector foreseen in the Government's housing...
- Written Answers — Alternative Energy: Alternative Energy (18 Apr 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: The planning system supports the use of domestic renewable energy including domestic wind turbines through specific exemptions or technologies, subject to certain conditions. The possible introduction of grant support for domestic wind turbines through, for example, an expansion of the existing grant scheme, Better Energy Homes, administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, is...
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (18 Apr 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: The very extensive provisions referred to in the reply to Question No. 379 of 21 March 2012 in relation to public participation and notification of proposed development pertain to all planning applications and not specifically to large-scale wind farm developments. I am satisfied that these provisions, supplemented by the specific and detailed guidance to planning authorities on wind energy...
- Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (18 Apr 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: Where any borrower, either from a local authority or from a private financial institution, is facing difficulties in meeting mortgage repayments, they should engage proactively and constructively with the lender to seek to achieve an agreed solution. The services of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service are also available to such borrowers and support is available through the Supplementary...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: There is no provision at present in the voluntary housing schemes for the purchase of individual houses by tenants. My Department is currently in consultation with the voluntary housing sector, through the Irish Council for Social Housing, with regard to the development of an enabling regulatory framework that will support the expanded role for the sector foreseen in the Government's housing...
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: t no stage did I cancel or stand down the investigations concerned. My predecessor as Minister for Housing and Planning decided that, instead of incurring significant costs to the Exchequer by securing outsourced expertise, the Department would carry out an examination of the cases involved in the first instance. This examination would then inform the public statement which I will be making...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: There are two types of local authority mortgages. Home Choice Loan, which is available to credit worthy households earning in excess of â¬35,000 as a single applicant and over â¬45,000 combined income as joint applicants, and a standard annuity mortgage. This is the only loan type made available to prospective purchasers under any of the affordable housing schemes and any other paths to...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: The review of Part V of the Planning and Development Acts, announced in the context of the standing down of affordable housing schemes as part of the Government's housing policy statement, will include an examination of the operational aspects of the shared ownership scheme. Any future changes to legislation governing affordable housing schemes will be informed by that review which will...
- Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: He was kicked out of the party in 1993.
- Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: It has started.
- Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: They are not suppressed, they are ongoing.
- Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: They have started.
- Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)
Jan O'Sullivan: I will address the issues raised by Deputy McConalogue at the conclusion of my contribution. I assure the House that those investigations are ongoing. It is important and good that the House is finally debating the final report of the Mahon planning tribunal. This is a significant debate which will be the historical point of departure in responding to the analysis, findings and...