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Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's involvement with the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability relates primarily to the recoupment of a proportion of local authority expenditure on the payment of individual grants. The grant schemes, introduced in November 2007, are funded by 80% recoupment available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the resources...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department does not hold information on the number of households on local authorities' waiting lists. This figure continuously fluctuates as households are allocated housing and new households apply for housing support. Detailed information on the latest statutory assessment of housing need carried out in March 2011, including a breakdown by housing authority, is available on my...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The draft Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Retail Planning which issued for public consultation on 21 November 2011 are aimed at: · ensuring that the planning system plays a key role in supporting competitiveness in the retail sector; · advancing choice for the consumer while promoting and supporting the vitality and viability of city and town centres; and, · contributing to...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (9 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is open to any person or household to apply to a housing authority for an assessment of their housing need. It is a matter solely for the housing authority concerned to determine whether an applicant for social housing support is eligible for and in need of that support. Regulation 22 of Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 provides that an applicant household for long-term social...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (9 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under section 126 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010, it is a statutory objective of An Bord Pleanála to determine appeals and certain other matters within 18 weeks. The statutory objective period was achieved in 81% of all cases in 2011, a significant increase on the figure of 63% achieved for 2010.

Written Answers — Local Authority Services: Local Authority Services (8 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 11 (5) of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 authorises a local authority that has served a notice on an owner or occupier of a site, and the terms of the notice have not been complied with, to enter the site and carry out such steps as they consider reasonable and necessary to give effect to the terms of the notice and to recover the expense incurred from the person on whom the notice was...

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (8 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Wicklow County Council has raised certain issues with my Department in regard to the scope of the order, including in regard to the inclusion of private dwellings, working farms and a golf course. These matters are now the subject of consultation with the Council.

Written Answers — Co-operative Sector: Co-operative Sector (8 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's involvement with the co-operative sector relates to the provision of funding under the Capital Assistance Scheme to certain Approved Housing Bodies, registered as co-operatives, for the provision of housing for low income families and persons with specific categories of housing need. My Department also contributes towards the administrative costs of the National Association...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 28 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 amended Section 42 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to provide that the duration of a planning permission may be extended where substantial works have not been done, or where the development has not even commenced, in cases where the planning authority is satisfied that there were considerations of a commercial, economic...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I assume the question refers to clawback provisions which apply as conditions of the sale of houses to first time buyers under the various affordable housing schemes at a significant discount from market value in order to prevent short-term profit taking on the resale of the house to the detriment of the objectives of the schemes. Where a person is selling and the claw-back amount payable...

Written Answers — Mortgage to Rent Scheme: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the implementation of the recommendations in the Keane Report my Department is developing a mortgage to rent scheme on a pilot basis. This work has been assisted by Clúid Housing Association, a number of local authorities, the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency, AIB, and more recently, New Beginning and another lender. The Keane reported recommended 2 such schemes or...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 309, 310, 323 and 351 together. 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...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Kilkenny County Council has submitted this project for inclusion in the Social Housing Investment Programme for the period 2012 – 2014. I hope to be in a position to make announcements in relation to budgets or allocations for the various housing supply programmes in early March.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) is a collaborative project between my Department, local authorities and the Department of Social Protection, including its community welfare service. Under the scheme local authorities assume primary responsibility for meeting the accommodation needs of Rent Supplement (RS) recipients with a long-term housing need. The local authority administers the...

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL) and Dublin City Council are continuing to explore all options to further the economic objectives of the Ballymun Masterplan, including the redevelopment of the privately owned Ballymun Shopping Centre and the adjoining lands owned by the City Council. Planning permission for the redevelopment of the centre and adjoining lands was granted in September 2009....

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Sections of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009 dealing with social housing support, and related Social Housing Assessment Regulations, 2011, were commenced on 1 April 2011. The Regulations contain national eligibility criteria, including maximum income limits. These mandatory criteria must be applied by all housing authorities in assessing a household's eligibility for social...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's involvement with voluntary and co-operative housing schemes relates primarily to the provision of funds for individual projects. The detailed administration of the schemes, and the certification that projects comply with the terms and conditions of the funding schemes, are the responsibility of the relevant local authority. Monaghan County Council recently submitted revised...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: In line with overall national policy which promotes a reduction in energy use, the enhancement of energy efficiency standards remains a priority within my Department's overall strategy for the improvement of local authority housing. My Department does not operate a grant scheme in this regard for individual local authority tenants but under the Department's Social Housing Investment...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The current tenant purchase scheme, known as the 1995 Tenant Purchase Scheme, is provided for in section 90 of the Housing Act, 1966. The details of the scheme are set out in the legislation and in the associated regulations. Housing authorities have adopted Purchase Schemes to implement the scheme in their areas. The criteria for a tenant purchasing a home under the tenant purchase scheme...

Social and Affordable Housing (2 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: The housing agency is working with NAMA to determine the social housing demand for individual properties identified by NAMA. In that context, the agency is contacting the relevant local authorities to consider existing demand in terms of numbers, types and locations of properties required to meet social housing needs in the relevant authorities. The agency will provide a co-ordinated...