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Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: My understanding is the former. It is from the last time a review took place because it is about the calculation of the rent. If someone took out a tenancy four years ago and had a review two years ago, it is the calculation from the last time the rent was reviewed. That is my understanding. With regard to Deputy Shortall's question, once a rent pressure zone is designated, it is the...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: -----annualised. If that is six months, it is 2%. If it is 18 months, it is 6%, but it is annualised after that, depending on when the review takes place versus when the last review took place. That is how we get over the issue raised last night by one or two Deputies about incentivising change in tenants. Can I respond to some of the comments made? A number of Deputies raised this issue...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Deputy John Curran raised it and I think Deputy Ruth Coppinger raised it as well. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan also raised concerns. A number of people raised concerns and we met those Members this morning to go through the reasoning behind the change in numbers. The point Deputy Boyd Barrett made is right. The normal person looking at this equation, given the complexity of it, will not easily...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: That is fine.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: To be clear, there was not a written presentation per se. I asked the people I had remembered raising this issue last night if they wanted an informal briefing this morning before we resumed the debate. There was nothing beyond that. They just got the amendment and a verbal explanation from me, but I can arrange that for Deputy Shortall afterwards. There is no problem with that.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Even though it is not common to revert to Committee Stage from Report Stage, it does sometimes happen to tease through the detail of an issue and to make sure we are not making a mistake on a key issue such as the one we were discussing last night. Our team worked late into the night last night and we got advice from the Attorney General's office this morning to make sure that what we are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: The allocation of social housing support is a matter for housing authorities under their allocation schemes made under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. An allocation scheme is required to specify, amongst other things, the order of priority for the allocation of dwellings to households and classes of households on the waiting list. The making of an allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: The EU Nitrates Directive and Ireland's National Nitrates Action Programme limit the amount of nitrogen from livestock manure which may be applied to land each year, including by the animals themselves, to 170 kg of nitrogen per hectare per annum. On 27 February 2014, after lengthy negotiation, the EU Nitrates Management Committee renewed Ireland’s derogation which enables farmers who...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I refer to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 13 December 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 prescribe maximum net income limits for each housing authority, in different bands according to the area, with income being defined and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy. The income bands and the authority area assigned to each band were based on an assessment of the income needed to provide for a household's basic needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenancy Protection Scheme (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the landlord-tenant relationship in the private rented residential sector and sets out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Act to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I refer to the reply to Question No. 179 of 6 December 2016. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose taking Question Nos. 198 and 199 together. With regard to the National Taking in Charge Initiative (NTICI), funding was provided in 2016. There is no further funding targeted under this initiative for 2017. The Deputy may wish to note that, in 2016, Cavan was allocated funding for 23 developments, totalling €151,354. Monaghan was allocated a total of €111,170 towards...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme came into operation on 1 January 2016 and allows eligible local authority tenants to buy their homes. The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 20 15 governing the Scheme provide for a number of specified classes of house to be excluded from sale, including units provided to Local Authorities under Part V of the Planning and Development...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Up to the end of Quarter 3 2016, a total of 187 households have remained in their home having availed of the Mortgage to Rent Scheme which was introduced in 2012 for borrowers of private commercial lending institutions. A further 669 were being actively progressed through the process. Further statistical information relating to the Mortgage to Rent Scheme since its inception, including a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Travel (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 202 and 203 together. My Department made use of the government jet on eight occasions during the period March 2011 to February 2016, details of which are as follows: Outbound Inbound Destination Event 13/03/2011 14/03/2011 Brussels Meeting of EU Environment al Council of Ministers 08/03/2012 09/03/2012 Brussels Meeting of EU Environment al Council...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Details in relation to the membership of State Boards under the aegis of my Department are available on the Department’s website at the following link:. In the case of certain appointments to State Boards, statutory selection procedures must be followed or nominations must be sought from independent nominating panels before appointments are made by the Minister or the Government, as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: All local authorities, including Cavan and Monaghan were notified in April 2015 of social housing delivery targets and provisional funding allocations out to end-2017. These are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Together, these two local authorities have a target to deliver 445 social housing units for the period out to 2017, supported by an allocation of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Inspections (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Census 2011, published by the Central Statistics Office, indicates that there were 437,652 septic tanks and 50,259 individual treatment systems in Ireland in 2011. Census 2016 figures are not yet published. The Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012 assigns responsibility to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make a National Inspection Plan (NIP) for domestic wastewater treatment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: During 2015, my Department established a working group involving key stakeholders in the rural water sector, which includes group water schemes, to address the development of the sector within the overall water reform programme to ensure that the programme responds effectively to current and future needs. Local authorities, the Water Services Transition Office, Irish Water, the National...