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Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure that the waiting time for the Money Advice and Budgeting Service is significantly reduced. [23285/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the flexibility available to a community welfare officer not to impose an 8% reduction in rent supplement to tenants in existing tenancies. [23284/09]

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: None of these people can get a mortgage over a 20-year period because they are too old. They have grown old waiting for this legislation. A person of 50 years of age cannot avail of incremental purchase because he or she will be unable to clear a mortgage before the age of 65. I was hoping the Minister of State would see the sense of my amendment. I regret the way in which this matter has...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 109: In page 70, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "(3) The Minister may by directive provide for a discount on the sale price of an apartment under this section where the sale is to a tenant who has been recorded by the council concerned as having requested the option of purchasing the apartment prior to the commencement of this section but who has been...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Hear, hear.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: That is correct.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I listened to the Minister of State's response and he has missed the point. Legislation has been introduced for the sale of flats and I give credit to him for this. However, for more than ten years parliamentary questions have been put asking when this legislation would be delivered. The implication of all those parliamentary questions was that an inherent injustice was being done which...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister of State seems to be very confused-----

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: There are two entirely separate issues which the Minister of State is combining in his responses-----

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: There is the structure in which he is allowing the sale to take place and this is a radical change. The existing tenant purchase scheme of the 3% over a ten-year period, maximising to 30%, will not be available to those who buy flats, regardless of whether they have been trying to buy for the past ten years or are trying to buy it next week. This scheme is now gone and what is being...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, but the Minister of State should not claim the credit. I give his Department the credit for putting the Bill together but the motivation, rationale and instigation did not come from the Minister of State - far from it. It came from those people who live in Blackpool, Ballyphehane and the other parishes referred to in earlier contributions this evening. That is the reason the Bill is...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister of State's management of the issue is at question. This has been a core question related to the Bill since it came before the House. The question was when would there be a legislative framework for the sale of flats. Every Deputy who raised this question was informed that the legislative framework would be in place when the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill was dealt...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 59: In page 38, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following subsection: "(5) Where exceptional circumstances arise such that arrangements under section 34(2) cannot be put in place without causing undue hardship, a housing authority may cancel the obligation of a household to pay part or all of the moneys referred to in that section.".

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I wish to press the amendment.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 62: In page 39, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: "(a) the taking of rapid and effective action to terminate the tenancy of any household where a member or members of that household have engaged in anti-social behaviour,". Anti-social behaviour in society generally, and in local authority housing estates, has become a plague of modern living to such an...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 63: In page 39, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: "(a) procedures for the rapid termination of the tenancy of any household where a member or members of that household have engaged in anti-social behaviour;".

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 67: In page 40, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: "(6) For the purposes of this section domestic violence is included within the term anti-social behaviour, and guidelines under this section shall ensure that victims of domestic violence are not disadvantaged or put at increased risk as a result of the operation of anti-social behaviour powers.".

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 68: In page 40, to delete lines 11 to 16 and substitute the following: "(7) A person against whom steps are taken to prevent or address anti-social behaviour shall not have any right of action against the housing authority in respect of any allegation that the housing authority has not complied with the anti-social behaviour strategy.".

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 16: In page 16, to delete lines 4 and 5 and substitute the following: "(b) the demand for social housing a outlined in the assessment of need in its administrative area conducted in accordance with section 21;". Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 17: In page 16, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: "(c) the homeless action plan in its administrative area;".