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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 310: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the schedule including deliverables and timeframes for 2006, 2007 and 2008 for the completion of the RAS scheme; the number of recipients of rent supplement he expects to be accommodated by the RAS scheme for each of the years 2006, 2007 and 2008; and the number of rent supplement recipients who have been...

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 311: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount which the capital funding limits for voluntary and co-operative sector housing will be raised under the new housing strategy; the extent of consultation with the sector in determining these new limits; if the limits are reflective of the real cost of building currently and the expected costs in the...

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 312: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding arrangements planned to support increased delivery by the voluntary and co-operative sector; the arrangements and measures which have been developed to date; the arrangements, which have been put into place and are operational; and when he hopes to have the completed suite of arrangements...

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 313: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures to be introduced in respect of housing for those with special needs, including travellers, to improve inter-agency co-operation where there is a care dimension additional to accommodation needs; and when he expects these measures to be introduced. [18669/06]

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 316: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the new Housing Strategy Framework will include energy efficiency systems and installations, such as the provision of double glazing for all social housing stock, both existing and planned, under the commitment to better quality social housing in the framework. [18672/06]

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 317: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the provisions which are laid down in the new Housing Strategy Framework to prioritise the management and maintenance of social housing estates; the timeframe for the rejuvenation of all run-down social housing estates and remedial works to improve local authority housing; the estimated cost of the proposed...

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 318: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the role that public private partnerships are expected to play in regenerating areas as laid down under the new Housing Strategy Framework. [18674/06]

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 319: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the supports, including resources, guidelines and other measures, that will be available to local authorities under the new Housing Strategy Framework in their attempts to tackle anti-social behaviour. [18675/06]

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 320: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reforms that will be brought into force in respect of the new Housing Strategy Framework indicating which ones will require the bringing forward of legislation and when such legislation will be expected to be drafted and to come before Dáil Éireann in respect of improvements in the provision of housing...

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 321: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the new proposals for improvements in the governance of the voluntary and co-operative housing sector under the new Housing Strategy Framework. [18677/06]

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 322: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the operation of and the conditions for qualification under the new tenant purchase scheme proposed in the new Housing Strategy Framework; when he expects this scheme to be piloted; and when he expects it to be fully operational. [18678/06]

Written Answers — Disability Support Service: Disability Support Service (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 314: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reforms which will be applied to the disabled person grant and the essential repairs grant following the review of these grants. [18670/06]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 315: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his strategy for ensuring that housing development includes an appropriate social mix and provides necessary social infrastructure; if he intends to repeal the Planning and Development Amendment Act 2002 to ensure that developers are bound to create an appropriate social mix in housing developments rather...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 323: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the date in summer 2006 on which he expects to introduce a new, simpler and streamlined affordable housing scheme; and the way in which this scheme will operate. [18679/06]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 324: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the date in summer 2006 on which he expects to commence a pilot project on affordable homes for renting; the length of time the project will run for; and if and when it is planned to roll such a strategy out nationwide. [18680/06]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 332: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Government intends to ban management companies in housing estates. [18854/06]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed). (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I compliment my colleague, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, on tabling the motion which I support. Ireland takes a rather unusual approach to the integration of education planning with physical and social planning. In most countries the planning of schools is at the centre, if not the start, of the entire planning process. The reverse is the case here. We tend to plan housing development and address...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed). (17 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: He is not going back anyway.

Written Answers — An Ghaeilge: An Ghaeilge (16 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 97: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén t-agallamh a bhí aige leis an gComisinéir Teanga i leith na 415 chás nua a cuireadh i láthair Oifig an Choimisinéara in 2005; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina leith. [18148/06]

Written Answers — An Ghaeilge: An Ghaeilge (16 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 106: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad iad na deacrachtaí is mó dar leis i leith chur i bhfeidhm Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina leith. [18147/06]