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Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: Data in relation to social housing starts and completions are published in my Department's Quarterly and Annual Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas library and on my Department's website, www.environ.ie.

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: My Department has no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), which is an independent statutory body established under the terms of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. The PRTB may be contacted at their offices at O'Connell Bridge House, Dublin 2 or by telephone or email. Contact details and details of tenancy registrations are available on the...

Written Answers — Rented Dwellings Register: Rented Dwellings Register (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: My Department has no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), which is an independent statutory body established under the terms of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. The PRTB may be contacted at their offices at O'Connell Bridge House, Dublin 2 or by telephone or email. Contact details and details of tenancy registrations are available on the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: The Government's Housing Policy Statement, Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities, reflects the commitment in Towards 2016 to develop a national housing strategy for people with a disability. Work on the strategy commenced in October 2007 under the aegis of a National Advisory Group, headed by my Department and involving the Department of Health and Children, the Health Service Executive,...

Housing: Motion (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: Citing repossession cases before the courts recently, they neglected to mention the fact that repossession is always a last resort for lenders and borrowers or that all members of the Irish Banking Federation subscribe to the code of practice on mortgage arrears, and are required to do so under the terms of the bank guarantee scheme. The proposers of the motion also neglected to mention, as...

Housing: Motion (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: That is not a matter for this Department but rather for the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.

Housing: Motion (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "welcomes: the comprehensive and ambitious modern housing policy framework set out in Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities, and the continuing substantial progress made in implementing its programme of policy reforms and improvements in housing services and their delivery, to be underpinned by...

Housing: Motion (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: The commitment entered into by the Government under the social partnership agreement, Towards 2016, was to achieve 27,000 social housing starts in the period 2007-09. In terms of delivery, we set out to reach the first one third of this target in 2007. By the end of 2007, we had exceeded this target with a total of 9,061 starts across the local authority, voluntary and co-operative housing...

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (11 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: The recommendations arising from the Comptroller and Auditor General's Special Report on Ballymun Regeneration cover a broad range of issues, from relatively minor changes in administrative practices, which are now being implemented, to major recommendations that relate to the social and economic fundamentals of the regeneration programme over the medium to long term. My Department is...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: Under section 164 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) may appoint adjudicators and mediators for the purposes of its dispute resolution functions. Section 164 also provides that the fees and expenses paid to adjudicators and mediators are such as the PRTB may determine, with the consent of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (11 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: Under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, one of the functions assigned to the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) is to review the operation of the Act and to make recommendations to the Minister for its amendment, where necessary. The PRTB has recently completed an examination of the Act and, informed by four years of experience, has made a number of recommendations for legislative...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (11 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: I understand that the agency concerned is at an advanced stage of preparing its Corporate Plan for the 2009 to 2011 period and this will be finalised shortly.

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (11 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: My Department has no function in the operational matters of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), which is an independent statutory body established under the terms of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. The PRTB may be contacted at their offices at O'Connell Bridge House, Dublin 2 or by telephone or email. Contact details and details of tenancy registrations are available on the...

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: The allocations to the Health Service Executive under the Special Housing Aid for the Elderly (SHAE) Scheme are determined by a Task Force, which operates under the aegis of my Department. While the scheme has been closed to new applications since 1 August 2008, having been replaced by the Housing Aid for Older People Scheme, the HSE is continuing to process applications on hands at that...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 provides for the supply, by the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), of tenancy registration details to the Revenue Commissioners, on a case by case basis. The Public Accounts Committee 2nd Interim Report on the Taxation of Rental Income Receipts, published in September 2008, recommended that the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 should be amended to...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: No meeting was scheduled between my Department and representatives from Liberty House. However, my Department recently had a meeting with officials from Dublin City Council at which proposals for the redevelopment of Liberty House were formally submitted. My Department will now consider these proposals and will respond to the Council in due course.

Written Answers — Public Private Partnerships: Public Private Partnerships (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: Since the announcement in May 2008 that a number of housing regeneration Public-Private Partnership projects would not be proceeding as planned, my Department has worked closely with Dublin City Council to ensure that all possible avenues for moving these projects forward are examined. Although I am aware that the multi-disciplinary team, established within the Council to identify the next...

Written Answers — Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: 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, covering the four-year period 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...

Written Answers — Local Authority Mortgages: Local Authority Mortgages (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: As stated in the reply to Question No 220 of 26 November, 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. However, given that the correlation between ECB rates and interbank rates (i.e. the rates at which the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Finneran: I refer to the reply to Question No. 359 of 9 December 2008.