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- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 116 and 195 together. The programme of investment and the policy priorities reflected in Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities underpin the approach to increased housing investment set out in the National Development Plan 2007-2013. The NDP envelope provides for an investment programme of some â¬21 billion, including the provision of â¬3 billion for SWA...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Earlier this month, I published a new housing policy statement, Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities, the central objective of which is the creation of sustainable communities â places where people want to live and work, now and in the future. A key element of the sustainable communities agenda is the achievement of integrated housing developments meeting the needs of people from a...
- Written Answers — Housing Schemes: Housing Schemes (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: There is no provision at present in the voluntary housing schemes for the purchase of individual houses by tenants. However, it was agreed under Housing Policy Framework â Building Sustainable Communities that consideration would be given, in consultation with the voluntary and co-operative sector, to pilot a tenant purchase scheme for some new voluntary homes under the scheme. The...
- Written Answers — Strategy on Homelessness: Strategy on Homelessness (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Work is underway on the preparation of a revised and updated Government Strategy on Homelessness, having regard to the Independent Review of Implementation of Homeless Strategies, which was published last year. As part of the process of preparing the new Strategy, a National Homeless Consultative Committee is being established under the aegis of the Housing Forum which was set up under the...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126, 133, 134, 137, 151, 154 and 166 together. The housing policy statement Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities sets out a range of actions to ensure that housing is delivered in a way that builds sustainable communities and encourages continuing improvements in quality. A range of guidance documents to support the building of sustainable communities...
- Written Answers — Property Management: Property Management (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: The Irish Home Builders Association has responded positively to my Department's approach on this matter and we have worked together to develop practical short-term measures to address issues involving developers. I am confident that early and useful progress can be made in this regard, without prejudice to the work of the inter-Departmental Committee being convened by the Department of...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Information to end September 2006 on the number of social and affordable homes acquired under Part V of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2006 is published in my Department's Quarterly Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and also on my Department's website at www.environ.ie. Provisional annual data for 2006 indicate that some 2,180...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Details of the number of social houses completed in each local authority for the 9 months to end September 2006 have been published in my Department's Housing Statistics Bulletins, which are available in the Oireachtas library, or on the Department's website at www.environ.ie. My Department is currently collating the data for the whole of 2006 and will make this available to the Deputy when...
- Written Answers — Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Since the enactment of the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, each local authority has adopted two successive Traveller Accommodation Programmes. In the course of the first programmes, 2000 to 2004, some 1,371 additional Traveller families were provided with permanent, secure accommodation. Over the same period there was a 50% reduction in the number of families living on...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Lead responsibility for planning and developing this project on State land provided under the Affordable Housing Initiative rests with Cork County Council. My Department is in regular contact with the Council with a view to ensuring that the project is advanced as quickly as possible. The latest information available indicates that following interviews on 23 March next, the Council expect to...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 164 and 175 together. The Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) is designed to cater for the accommodation needs of persons in receipt of rent supplement who have a long-term housing need. Since transfers commenced in September 2005, 3,000 households have been provided with RAS accommodation and a further 2,300 rent supplement households have been allocated...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 169, 574 and 575 together. In Towards 2016 and the National Development Plan 2007-2013, the Government have committed to the delivery of 17,000 affordable homes over the three years 2007 to 2009. In line with this, my Department, acting on a proposal made to the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Housing, Infrastructure and PPPs, requested the Affordable Homes...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Earlier this month, I published a new housing policy statement, Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities, the central objective of which is the creation of sustainable communities â places where people want to live and work, now and in the future. A key element of the sustainable communities agenda is the achievement of a better housing mix, particularly in terms of the mix of different...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: The management and maintenance of their rented dwellings, including the control of vacant dwellings, is the responsibility of the housing authority concerned. The most recent data available to my Department, based on housing authority returns, indicate that a total of 5,539 dwellings were vacant at the 31 December 2005. Of this figure, 2,927 were vacated for planned maintenance or...
- Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: The Government's statement on housing policy, Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities, was published at an estimated cost of â¬37,528 excluding VAT. This price includes design, translation, printing, CDs and launch material.
- Written Answers — Strategy on Homelessness: Strategy on Homelessness (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: The Independent Review of the Implementation of Homeless Strategies, which I published last year and copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library, examined the implementation of the Government's Integrated and Preventative Homeless Strategies and concluded that the Integrated and Preventative Strategies should be amalgamated and revised. The Review specifically recommended that the...
- Written Answers — House Sizes: House Sizes (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: The information requested in not available in my Department.
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Information to end September 2006 on the number of affordable homes completed under the various affordable housing schemes is published in my Department's Quarterly Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and also on my Department's website at www.environ.ie. Provisional annual data for 2006 indicate that some 3,200 affordable homes were completed...
- Written Answers — Voluntary Sector Funding: Voluntary Sector Funding (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: My Department recoups to local authorities 90% of their approved current expenditure on the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Much of this expenditure is operated through projects managed by voluntary bodies. My Department has not to date received specific proposals from any of the...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2007)
Noel Ahern: Information to end September 2006 on the number of transactions completed under the various affordable housing schemes in each local authority area is published in my Department's Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and also on my Department's website at www.environ.ie. Provisional annual data for 2006 indicate that 12 affordable houses were...