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Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1036 and 1038 together. The Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability Scheme assists in the provision/adaptation of accommodation to meet the needs of people with a disability. The types of works grant aided under the Scheme are varied and may include the provision of access ramps, grab rails, downstairs toilet facilities, stair-lifts, accessible...

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1043, 1103, 1114 and 1116 together. The Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability are funded by 80% recoupment available from my Department together with 20% contribution from the resources of the local authority. In the case of the Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes, my Department recoups two thirds of...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1044 and 1105 together. In general, following consideration by the Board, the rates charged to local authority borrowers are normally adjusted by the Board of the Housing Finance Agency (HFA) in line with movements in European Central Bank (ECB) rates. The Agency recently notified local authorities of its decision to pass on, in full, the 0.75% decrease...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I intend to announce details of the next tranche of schemes to be approved under the Capital Assistance Scheme very shortly.

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1051, 1066 and 1120 together. The number of households on a local authority's waiting list continuously fluctuates as households on the list are allocated housing and new households apply for housing support. My Department does not hold information in relation to the numbers currently on waiting lists in local authorities. A statutory assessment of housing...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1055 and 1056 together. Funding proposals by Leitrim County Council under the Remedial Works Scheme in respect of Treanmore, Mohill, Dristernan and Drumshanbo were received in my Department in December 2006. Following a technical examination of the proposals, the works were deemed to be outside the remit of the Remedial Work Scheme and approval was given to...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: My Department is considering all proposals submitted for inclusion in the Social Housing Investment Programme, in the light of available resources and competing demands. Housing authorities have been provided with provisional allocations for their main social housing supply and improvement works programmes for 2009. However, these provisional allocations may be subject to further possible...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1058 and 1096 together. Further to the reply to Question No 400 of 16 December, 2008, the proposal is currently under consideration in my Department in the context of a number of applications received under the Remedial Works Scheme.

Written Answers — Voluntary Housing: Voluntary Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: A project brief for this scheme was received from Carlow County Council, which is the responsible authority for the administration of the voluntary housing capital funding schemes in the county, on 16 December 2008 and it is currently under consideration in my Department.

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1079, 1080 and 1081 together. My Department is considering all proposals submitted for inclusion in the Social Housing Investment Programme, in the light of available resources and competing demands. Housing authorities have been provided with provisional allocations for their main social housing supply and improvement works programmes for 2009. However,...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: In 1999, housing associations put forward a proposal that they be given direct access to capital funding from the HFA for the purposes of acquiring land/sites or to construct houses with the objective of streamlining the arrangements for the drawdown of capital funding and to speed up the implementation of the voluntary and co-operative housing programme. The Housing Finance Agency Act 1981...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: Detailed information on the number of tenant purchase sales by housing authorities since 1994 is available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie and in my Department's Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. The average price of a tenant purchased house is set out in the table: Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Average Price €83,426...

Written Answers — Voluntary Housing: Voluntary Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1089, 1091 and 1092 together. Details of the funding provided under my Department's Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) and Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 are set out in the following table. Year Scheme CAS CLSS €m €m 2006 99.4 83.5 2007 113.8 160.0 2008 156.3 239.8 The levels of funding to be provided under...

Written Answers — Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: Details of the 1,262 new units of Traveller accommodation provided by local authorities over the period 2003 to 2007 are set out in the table below. Accommodation Type 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 TOTAL Halting Sites Permanent Bays 35 11 18 14 35 113 Transient Bays 12 2 0 8 0 22 Emergency/Temporary Bays 29 26 33 19 40 147 Group Houses 58 59 42 48 48 255 Single Instance...

Written Answers — Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I assume that the question is referring to notices served in accordance with Section 10 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992, as amended, where a housing authority may serve notice on a person requiring them to remove temporary dwellings from a public place. Information on the numbers of such notices served by housing authorities on individuals, including the number of notices...

Written Answers — Rental Accommodation Scheme: Rental Accommodation Scheme (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: I have been informed by Kildare County Council that the Rental Accommodation Scheme is not suspended. The Council is at present reviewing the administration of the scheme within the authority with a view to better integrating its operation within its Housing Section. Kildare County Council has transferred 242 recipients from Rent Supplement to RAS since its inception in January 2007 and has...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: My Department has not received formal proposals from Dublin City Council for a social housing project at Castleforbes Road or a pumping station at Spencer Dock.

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: On foot of a Government Decision, taken in February 2006, to transfer the administration of the Special Housing Aid for the Elderly Scheme from the Health Service Executive to my Department, that Scheme was discontinued from 1 August 2008, with all applications on hand at that date to be processed by the Health Service Executive. All new applications for home repairs and improvements with...

Written Answers — Rental Accommodation Scheme: Rental Accommodation Scheme (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: Since the commencement of transfers in September 2005, the pace of delivery of RAS has steadily increased. By the end of 2008, over 18,000 households with long term housing need had transferred from rent supplement — over 9,400 directly under RAS in private rented or voluntary accommodation and the remainder using other social housing options. In 2008 alone, over 6,900 households have...

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Finneran: The administration and processing of applications under the Housing Aid for Older People Scheme is a matter for individual local authorities, and one in which my Department has no direct function. The most recent information provided to my Department by the local authorities, which relates to the number of applications on hand at 31 December 2008, is set out in the table. Local Authorities...