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Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations Compliance (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: As I said, I am extremely aware of the difficult and distressing circumstances in which the homeowners and families in question find themselves. I have visited their homes and spoken to them. I reiterate, however, that building defects are generally matters for resolution between the relevant contracting partners, namely, the homeowner, the builder and the materials provider and-or their...

Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations Compliance (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. At the outset, I wish to acknowledge the extremely distressing and difficult situations that certain homeowners in Donegal are facing on account of damage to the structural integrity of their homes. I also add that I firmly believe that the parties responsible for poor workmanship and-or the supply of defective materials should face up to...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am pleased to have the opportunity to introduce Second Stage of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015 to the Seanad. We have had considerable and lively debates in the Dáil on this Bill. The primary background to this Bill is the housing supply shortage situation, which is one of the most pressing and important challenges faced by, and priority of, the Government and by...

Seanad: Visit of German Delegation (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I would like to be associated with the welcome to the President and delegation. I hope they enjoy their time in Ireland. They are very welcome.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Rather than go through the remaining sections of the vacant site levy provisions individually - sections 6 to 26, inclusive, for example, are quite complex and detailed - I will, so that Senators can obtain a better understanding of how the proposed scheme will operate, instead give a summary of the provisions as follows. Beginning on 1 January 201, a planning authority shall establish and...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank all Senators for their valued contributions to the debate on Second Stage. Many of them were very interesting. While I may not agree with all of the comments, I listened to them and I know they were made in a genuine and constructive spirit. I acknowledge the experience of many Senators through the work they have done over many years on local authorities, to which Senator Walsh...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: -----and private housing over ten or 15 years. The previous Government left us in the lurch, but this Government is adamant about addressing the problem, and it will do so.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Efficiency (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: General responsibility for the promotion of energyefficiency rests with the Minister for Communications, Energyand Natural Resources, who has published Ireland’s National Energy Efficiency Action Plan 2014which is available at the following weblink – . The plan details the broad range of measures in place or being planned by a range of departments and agencies with a view to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 844 and 887 together. Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines, similar to the schemes currently operating for local authority apartments and certain new local authority houses. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 854, 861 and 883 together. The review of the following the first twelve months of their operation is now well advanced. The impact of the regulations on the cost of single dwellings (including self builds) forms an important element of this review. Some 170 submissions were received during the public consultation process which concluded on 15 May 2015. A...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: My Department is currently awaiting a response to a letter of 10 April 2015 from my Department to Rosscarbery Rowing Club. The application will be progressed as soon as a response is received.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Estates (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am not aware of any legal provisions in relation to this issue, which may be a matter in relation to which legal advice should be sought. It is open to the residents of an estate to request the local authority to take in charge the roads and open spaces under section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015, which is currently progressing through the Oireachtas, provides for a measure to encourage the development of vacant, underutilised sites in urban areas. The Bill will introduce a vacant site levy, aimed at incentivising the development of empty and underutilised sites in central urban areas for residential or regeneration development. Under the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Derelict Sites Act 1990 provides that local authorities are required to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not become, or continue to be, a derelict site. To this end, local authorities have been given substantial powers under the Act in relation to any such sites, including powers...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (14 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Increasing housing supply is at the heart of addressing the range of housing issues we face today, not least in relation to homelessness. It is in this context that Minister Kelly and I jointly wrote to the Chief Executives of each of the four Dublin local authorities on 10 June 2015 urging that the process for making development plans, underway in each authority at present, should focus...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Press the button, Dessie. He likes pressing buttons.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Now.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: It is not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (9 Jul 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines, similar to the schemes currently operating for local authority apartments and certain new local authority houses. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020 includes a commitment to make the Regulations...